Mindfulness & Yin Yoga

S 1 | EP. 8

What is Mindfulness, and how can we use it in Yin Yoga?

Mindfulness has become a bit of a buzzword that seems to have lost its meaning.

Originally a Buddhist concept but sadly has been co-opted and is being used everywhere from wellness circles to advertising. It seems like most people have kind of a vague idea about what Mindfulness is but can't likely define it, let alone incorporate it into our lives.

Our Yin Yoga practice is an ideal time to add bite-sized Mindfulness practices into our lives.

In this episode, My Guest Addie deHilster and I talk about mindfulness and yin yoga (among many other great nuggets) Addie D. Hilster is a mindfulness meditation teacher. She's also certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists.

Her passion is teaching movement practices that unlock mindfulness skills and help students gain traction in their meditation practice so that they can be more present in their lives.

Yin Yoga is one of the main modalities that she practices and teaches. And it's an excellent doorway to an embodied meditative stillness. She's now based in Vancouver, Washington in the US, but she previously owned and operated a community yoga studio in Los Angeles, California for over five years.

She's a dedicated practitioner of Buddhist insight meditation, and she's accumulated over four months of silent retreat practice over the years.

She's also a graduate of the Mindfulness Mentor Training with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brock, the Insight LA Mindfulness Facilitator Training and the 2014/ 2015 Mindful Yoga and Meditation training program at the Spirit Rock Center.

She has studied Yin Yoga with Bernie Clark, Paul Grilley, and Sarah Powers. Addie is the founder of the Move to Meditate class library. And the host of the Move to Meditate podcast.

You can find Addie here: https://movedtomeditate.yoga

My interview on Addies Podcast: https://movedtomeditate.yoga/?s=nyk+danu

Addies' Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/addie_movedtomeditate/

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But what actually IS mindfulness and how can we add that to our Yin Yoga Practice?