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Exploring the Six Joint Movements in the Shoulder in Yin Yoga

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Yin yoga is a slow-paced, passive style of yoga that focuses on bringing health to the deeper connective tissues of the body. Yin promotes healthy stress to build resilience in the body, while increasing flexibility, relaxation, and mindfulness.  The shoulder, a smaller but highly mobile joint, benefits immensely from targeted yin practices that enhance its […]

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How do you handle students with flexibility or hypermobility in yin yoga?

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Like the Daoist philosophy, how we treat ourselves and others is a balance between yin and yang. There aren’t any rules to follow and new information will change our perspective with time. Understanding who is hypermobile, (a lot of joint mobility), hypomobile (reduced joint mobility) and simply inflexible (muscular tensionality) will need to be determined.

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