Everyday Sublime Podcast | Body, Mind + Beyond

When your mind is given permission to be receptive to the total spectrum of experience and to relax within that process -- and to not try and push unpleasant things away -- one of the things that rel...

14 Aug 201714min

The general "mental posture" within a Yin approach to meditation is for your mind to be receptive and open to the full range of your inner experience. But with such an open-ended approach, it's not un...

9 Aug 201711min

In a Yin approach to meditation, the main emphasis is to develop a relaxed and receptive attitude towards the experiences you have while meditating - you're not trying to control or overly manage thos...

7 Aug 201711min

When we look at different mental qualities, Yin qualities of mind tend to include traits like receptivity, allowance, yielding, tolerance, quiescence, reflection, passivity, or non-manipulation. Yang ...

2 Aug 201714min

Simply put, meditation is mental training, and a way to know yourself better. Meditation develops certain qualities of your mind. For thousands of years, this mental training was practiced within spir...

31 Jul 201711min

I often get the sense that when students come to a Yin Yoga class they want to feel good throughout the class, start to finish, particularly when it's a class that seems on the surface to be "gentle" ...

26 Jul 201710min

All too frequently, someone says to me: "I love how Yin Yoga makes me feel... BUT, I couldn't just do Yin Yoga." Based on their expression as they say this, I can only assume they think they've caught...

24 Jul 20179min

When it is time to come out of a Yin Posture, you may feel a pronounced disinclination to move quickly. Remember: the tissues in the area that you have targeted will be temporarily weakened as a resul...

19 Jul 201710min