If I were a landscape, right now, I would be this one; calm, serene, balanced, pretty much just blissed out. My regular Sunday evening habit is a Yin yoga class; it’s a nice way to wind down from the week and prepare for the one ahead.
A Yin yoga practice is basically a very, very slow series of stretches and poses that are held for long periods of time, and it’s meant to target the deeper connective tissues, joints, and bones, getting at those parts of the body that are not normally reached during a Yang yoga practice.
On Yin and Yang…
Yin and yang are relative terms: they describe the two facets of existence. Like two sides of one coin, yin cannot exist without yang; yang cannot exist without yin. (via.)
Yin and Yang help me wrap my head around life, in the realization that happiness cannot exist without sadness, that light cannot exist without dark. It is helpful to accept that sadness can be embraced rather than feared, because without it, we would not know happiness. Being sad is okay! Just as we should not fear the inevitability of death, we should not fear the inevitability of sadness or loneliness. Life is always in a constant dynamic state of change, and in accepting the bad we allow room for the good.
Want to Yin yourself? Some videos here and here and everywhere, if you search for them.
Love,
Amy
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