What is Yin Yoga and its benefit ?

I was happy to have a Yin Yoga teacher training with Victor Chng since last year June. I benefited a lot from the course, beside of theory of Yin Yoga, the training reminded me the skills to delivery a mindful posture sequencing to students, such as do not rush in and out into the pose, better do symmetrical pose at the beginning and closing the sequence, link related postures to enhance the effect of practice . Especially in Yin yoga, keeping deep and long breathing, slow and calmness into every poses are the keys to relax body.


I would like to share some of my understanding of Yin Yoga here.

What is Yin Yoga?


In principle, Yin yoga is focusing to work on the deep layer of body tissues. It does not encourage muscles to be engaged or contracted, but emphasizes softening the muscles and holding postures in long time of 3 to 5 minutes. The space and movement of the deep layer of connective tissues would be created by providing time and relaxation of the body.

The most important connective tissues for Yin yoga are ligaments, tendons and fascia. Ligaments connect bone to bone. Tendons connect muscles to bones. Fasciae are sheets of connective tissue that give architectural support for tissues and organs throughout the body, holding everything together and providing for a stable infrastructure.

What are the benefits of Yin Yoga?

As Yin works in calmness and stillness, it is good to re-energize the body in tired, lazy, and recovery from illness. Yin helps to stress joints to avoid degeneration of body tissues, against the fixation & contraction of muscle, and to maintain healthy meridian channels by increasing production of Hyaluronic acid.

Yin yoga trains us to have high level of patience, calmness, and stillness. As the result of that, we could get into the status of meditation easier to practice our spiritual mind.