You might know Yin yoga for benefits like: improves mobility, promotes better sleep, rest and relaxation. What i'm really interested in about Yin Yoga is that we can practice it for trauma release.
I was taught Yin Yoga with trauma-informed training, so it was great to understand how I could weave this work into my practices and help people go deeper, not just in the physical sense.
The practice of Yin Yoga offers us the space to go deeper physically yes, but also mentally and emotionally.
How?
In yin we work with the meridian lines in the body; TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine). Accessing the meridian lines is done through stimulating pressure points. We do this to shift energy flow, unblock energy flow and rebalance our systems. What we struggle with so much in the world we currently live in is balance, finding our balance and striking a balance between our input and output, what we give for others and what we get back in return. We people please, can’t say no and burn ourselves out, finding ourselves sick as a consequence.
When we take the time out to rest and reconnect, this practice can really help us to release the stuff we carry in our bodies, in our minds and in our hearts; trauma from life events and childhood.
What are you carrying?
We struggle with stillness too in this world. It’s exhausting. We’re uncomfortable with stillness, we don’t know how to rest or what rest even is. Our constant need to be busy is a trauma response usually from childhood, we need to explore, go back and understand.
Yin is the feminine, it’s the stillness, the nurturing element of the yoga practice. It’s necessary.
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Yin Yoga and Trauma Release| Wild Flow Co 2024
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