Yin Yoga is a physically and mentally therapeutic practice. Yin Yoga will help you obtain a healthy range of motion. Holding poses a little longer gently lengthens the muscles and the fascia helping break up adhesions and applying very mild stress on joints and connective tissues can increase flexibility. As you hold a yin pose, you will experience a subtle release that takes you deeper into the pose is the tissues lengthening, hydrating, and becoming more pliable. You will feel a heightened awareness of the physiological processes of the body ultimately moves us closer to santosha, or contentment and happiness. That’s Yin Yoga for you! Yin Yoga revitalizes the body’s tissues by stretching, squeezing, twisting, and compressing. A yin practice can leave you feeling as though you’ve had a massage. In Yin Yoga tissues are being stretched, squeezed, twisted, and compressed. A yin practice can leave you feeling as though you’ve had a massage. By surrendering emotions, thoughts, and giving up the need to control you will strengthen your emotional resilience. Diaphragmatic breathing, or belly breathing, triggers the parasympathetic regulates certain body functions. Activating the parasympathetic nervous system reduces stress, tension, lowers blood pressure, improves sleep, enhances digestion, strengthens immune function, balances hormones, and more. The Yin Yoga component to meditation prepares the body and mind to enter a heightened state of relaxation preparing you to benefit even more from your personal mind-body practice.