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The Yin & Outs

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What is Yin Yoga?

The most frequently asked question is

Yin yoga is a more passive form of yoga that’s good for our minds as well as our bodies.  It gives us greater range of motion while lowering our blood pressure, giving us a greater feeling of well-being.


When we practice yin yoga, we use passive, longer held stretches or poses that allow us to get deeper into our bodies. We target our connective tissues – ligaments, joints, bones, and the fascia.


The result is improved flexibility, better circulation, and less tension.
Yin yoga is nothing new. 


It’s just a Western take on ideas about yoga and meditation that have been around for thousands of years. 

Why you should practice and what are the

The Benefits of Yin Yoga!

There are so many ways that Yin Yoga can help people over 50, from improving your mobility to lowering your blood pressure. Here are some of the major reasons you should practice yin yoga often.


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Fixes issues with your tissues

As we get older, our joints and connective tissues tend to fuse together. This can be from repetitive jobs, from sports, or even from sitting for long periods. Often this causes pain and limits your mobility. The gentle stretching of yin yoga strengthens your connective tissues, reducing pain and inflammation. It’s particularly good for conditions like arthritis.

Improves flexibility & restores your range of motion

By holding poses for a longer time in yin yoga you can promote a deep release of your connective tissues, encouraging them to stretch. This helps increase your range of motion, meaning things like cutting your toenails or sitting on your heels become possible once again – after many years of neglect.

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Gives you a flashier fascia

Fascia is connective tissue that holds every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve fiber, and muscle in place. It’s designed to stretch as you move but tightens up if you’re stressed or you haven’t used your muscles and joints. The result can be painful.


When we hold longer yin yoga poses, we promote elasticity and resilience in our fascia that could be lost through inactivity, strengthening our joints and increasing range of motion. That makes it easier to pick that golf ball out of the hole or swing your hips while doing that stylish carving turn when you’re skiing.

Reduces stress and anxiety

Yin stimulates your parasympathetic nervous system, the rest-and-digest system. It reduces your heart rate, relaxes your muscles, and lowers your blood pressure.

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Lets your body and mind become calm and still

Deep breathing, relaxation, and holding a yin yoga pose for a longer time means you relieve the stresses and strains of everyday life. It’s a great way to remember your body and forget your to-do list, helping you reach new levels of rest and renewal.

Gives you an acupressure massage

Stretching and compressing your tissues stimulates the meridian lines. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), these are the channels that enable our energy or “Qi” to run through our bodies. The theory is that this helps increase energy flows and restores balance in our bodies and minds. A large amount of re-search, such as that documented by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health(1) into acupuncture and acupressure shows that these practices do our bodies a lot of good.

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Improves Your Memory

According to The Harvard Medical School(2), yoga helps improve memory better than brain training. Apparently, yin yoga and other yoga styles positively impact the brain parts responsible for processing information and memory. As yin yoga relieves stress, it also helps the brain to function more clearly.

Helps You Sleep

As we age, we become light sleepers. This can increase the risk of depression. The focus on meditation in yin yoga helps you sleep better by increasing melatonin (3) which is responsible for helping us sleep. Also, the associated breathing exercises help us relax – and sleep better.

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Boosts your sex life

Yep. It’s true. Even for people our age. According to a study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine(4), yoga, and to some extent yin yoga, improves sexual function, particularly in women over 45. After 12 weeks of yoga, women participating in the study showed improvements in desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, and satisfaction. It’s believed that yoga poses (asanas) improve core abdominal muscles, aid digestion, strengthen the pelvic floor, and lighten your mood.


Another idea is that yin yoga poses stimulate the kidney meridian (more about meridians below), helping remove blockages that may be holding you back from optimal sexual health.


There’s some evidence it’s good for erectile dysfunction(5) too, even if you’re undergoing radiotherapy for prostate cancer. Patients who did yoga twice a week during a course of radiation therapy saw a significant reduction in sexual dysfunction as well as improvements in urinary incontinence and fatigue, compared with those who didn’t do yoga.


So. Hit the mat for a friskier life after fifty!

So what is

Yin yoga is the more passive form of yoga that’s good for your mind as well as your body.  Giving you a greater range of motion whilst lowering blood pressure and a greater feeling of well-being.

The Benefits of Yin Yoga

The point of this book is to help people “of an age” to live as full a life as possible and to offset the effects aging has on our bodies—and even our minds— by practicing yin yoga.


Your chronological age doesn’t have to be your biological age. We all know that by avoiding smoking, not drinking too much alcohol, eating lots of vegetables, and getting the right exercise, helps.


But maybe we need more? And maybe yin yoga is what provides that “more”?

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