Service Description

This 60 minute Heated yin class is designed to help you sink into an internal state of awareness. This class differs to the 'Yin Yoga' class on offer at Inner Lifetime by introducing heat, to help the connective tissues relax, and a dimmed light environment, to help encourage your inner journey. It also reduces distraction and helps you sink into your own little world on your yoga mat. While this class is heated, since poses are held, primarily on the ground, this session does not get as hot as the 'Heated Yoga' classes, as you are staying still. Yin yoga is the opposite to the dynamic strength building yang classes, and as such it focuses on a calmer internal state. Yin is a more meditative style class that holds mainly floor poses usually between 3 and 6 minutes. This class embraces stillness while working with the connective tissues throughout the body (including ligaments, tendons, fascia, bones and cartilage) which requires a different kind of physical exertion. Yin poses do not require muscles to be activated whcih makes this class much less exerting, however perhaps not challenging. By holding the yin poses for longer, this class encourages interoception, bringing ones awareness inwards to observe physical and mental sensations/ emotions. Since the connective tissues play a bigger role in mobility and range of movement than muscles, this is an excellent class for those wishing to improve movement or increase flexibility. *Anybody suffering with hot flashes may be triggered by this class - please reach out if you have any questions* *Inner Lifetime blankets, cushions, straps and eye pillows are used in the winter, if this class becomes a 'sweatathon' in the summer, equipment will be reduced to help protect from sweat damage*