Yin Yoga is a novel school which combines the advantages of medicine and the essence of Taoism and Wushu in China on the basis of yoga practice and experience. Yin yoga emphasizes the relaxation of the whole body, clearing all other thoughts and combining slow and natural breathing.
Persist in exercise for a long time, exercise bones and their connecting tissues, adjust the nervous system and enhance endurance in a state of complete muscle relaxation, so as to achieve the realm of physical and mental unity.
Introduction to Yin Yoga
Yin Yoga is a school founded by American yoga instructor Paul Grilley on 1979, with many practitioners. Combining his own yoga practice experience and medical advantages, he carefully studied the connective tissue of human body with several Japanese scholars, and combined the essence of China Taoism and martial arts with the essence of yoga, forming a novel school.
Yin yoga is not another branch or another name of yoga posture, but is recognized and accepted as a relatively new school.
Yin yoga emphasizes the relaxation of the whole body, the removal of all distractions and the combination of slow and natural breathing, maintaining long-term movements, exercising bones and their connective tissues, regulating the nervous system and enhancing endurance in a state of complete muscle relaxation, so as to achieve the realm of physical and mental unity.