Are You Teaching/ Practicing Yin Yoga with Your Yang Attitude?

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Are You Teaching/ Practicing Yin Yoga with Your Yang Attitude?

 

I wanted to talk about today’s topic, because not only do I see it come up in my classes with my students, and I see it come up with teachers that I’ve taught in my teacher training.

But also, in the yogaverse in general on Facebook groups, etc.

 

I also think it’s sort of rampant in our world in general.

So today’s topic is: Are You Practicing/Teaching Yin Yoga with your Yang attitude?

 

Now, if Yin and Yang are new concepts to you I did a whole episode on that which I’ll which you can check out here so that you can listen to this in more depth. But I want to go over a little bit of an overview of Yin Yang as far as how it relates to Yoga and just kind of to our world.

And how we, as teachers can notice when we are teaching our Yin Yoga with a Yang attitude, and then also notice it in our students. And what do we even do about that?

Discussing all of these things, in theory, isn’t super helpful if we don’t have a solution or a plan of what we can do to change that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Jennie’s

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Nyk Danu Yoga: welcome back to a yen Yoga, podcast. If you are a familiar, if you’re new around these parts, welcome welcome to a Yen Yoga podcast

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in the last few weeks I’ve been getting a lot of feedback from y’all.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the listeners who’ve been listening.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I must say it just really warms my heart.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ve been getting messages on Instagram, on Facebook, via email, etc, etc, letting me know how much you’re benefiting from these episodes and how much they’re helping. You’re teaching and the Ahas that you’ve had.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And it really warms my heart. Because

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that was my reason for creating this podcast

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is that I knew I had a wealth of information and tips that I could give out for teachers.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I wanted to have a way to get them out into the world. So here we are.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So thank you very much for letting me know that the podcast has been of benefit for you thank you for letting me know your specific. Haas, for those of you that have reached out

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Nyk Danu Yoga: super grateful for that!

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Keep them coming.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s always good to know when you’re spending hours of your life creating something. And it is hours of your life. Anyone who has a podcast knows that it’s actually, it’s working out that people are benefiting. So thank you so much for that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You’re listening. And you’re like, Wow! I haven’t reached out. But I have been listening, and I have been benefiting.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then would you do me a solid?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Just take a moment right now to pause this recording

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and go into whatever app you’re listening or watching this on. So if you’re watching on Youtube, if you could make sure you’ve subscribed to the channel.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: put a little thumbs up like under the video and then partway through the episode. Let me know what your Haas are. Let me know in the comments, what’s what are your takeaways?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you are listening to this on apple or spotify, you could leave a 5 star review, and I would be uber grateful for that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then on apple. You also have the option to leave a written review. So if you’d like to do that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you don’t mind, just pause this right now.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If this has been a benefit to you, and just take a moment to do that, and I will be so grateful.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Seriously, I’ll wait.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, thank you very much

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you’ve already done that if you’re already like. I’ve already given a rating and a review and done all the things. Then you could take a screenshot of this episode, or your favorite, and share it in your Instagram stories and tag me at Nick Daniel Yoga, or at Yen Yoga, podcast so that I can share the love.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: All right, my friends.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I wanted to also share before we get into today’s topic.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: A little testimonial about

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Nyk Danu Yoga: A little feedback that I’ve gotten.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: This is by Julie Chapman.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The quality and the caliber of Nick as an instructor did not disappoint.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I like that. She offers a variety of ways to learn, and that she herself

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Nyk Danu Yoga: has been

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The amount of information and resources was fantastic.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I was on the edge of my seat the entire time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I have much enjoyed this training and all of the learning I am geeking out and searching out Yin Yang theory. It has inspired me to learn more

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and apply it to my own life on a personal level

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Nyk Danu Yoga: as well as my role as a teacher.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Yin was new to me, but I’m hooked big time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I love not only being a student and learning, but also as a teacher. How would I put this into practice with my students?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m already creatively thinking about how to incorporate and create new offerings.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I wouldn’t change a thing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I also enjoyed that Nick is not only very informed and articulate teacher, but she adds humor to her presentation and instruction.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Thank you, Julie.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Yes, where would we be without humor?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s a little bit about my 60 h from somebody who’s been through it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you can do that by clicking the link in the episodes notes that says, Get on the wait list, just click that. And then once you’re there, look way up to the top of the page. You’re gonna see a photo of me with some words and a button that you can push, and when you push that button, enter your name and email, you will not only get a free and Yoga sequence and a video.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but you’re also going to get little sneak peeks behind the scenes of my teacher training. I’ll send out little snippets of lessons that I’ve done in the past, so you can get a little sampling of what we might be learning.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And you’re going to get

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Nyk Danu Yoga: access to some practice videos

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and also an invitation to my quarterly free Class. That happens. You’ll get all of that when you’re on the waitlist.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I send you lots of goodies along the way to when registration opens.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then when registration does open.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: then you’re going to get first access, because I let the waitlist know first before I open it up on social media or anywhere else.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you’ll also get an

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Nyk Danu Yoga: early registration discount, which is good for the first 5 people that sign up.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So all of that is only available when you’re on the waitlist.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So again, if you’re interested in joining the waitlist, just look into the episode notes wherever you’re watching this or listening to it, and there will be a link that says, Get on the waitlist, and if you click that link

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then look way up to the top of the page. In the photograph of myself you will see a button that you can push

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and enter your name and email and Butta. Bing, butta boom.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: now. You should also check your you’ll have to confirm, so make sure you check your spam filter or your you know promotions folder. If you’re on

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Gmail to make sure that you actually confirm your registry, your

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Nyk Danu Yoga: confirm that you’ve been added to the list.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So with all of that in mind. Just a reminder for those of you that are new around here, or just need the reminder, although I have the soul of a mermaid. I also have the mouth of a sailor, so you can expect that there may be some adult language in this episode, and that we will be discussing adult subject matter.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you have small people around, please take a moment to grab headphones. Now.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So today’s topic is

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Nyk Danu Yoga: one that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ve seen come up a lot in my classroom.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so I see it a lot when I’m teaching.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I see it a lot with yoga teachers yen Yoga teachers.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: especially teachers that are teaching yin, that haven’t really taken any yin training or very much in training like if you took like a 20 h or 30 h training. That’s not really enough to be, in my opinion.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: comfortable and qualified, teaching Yin

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Nyk Danu Yoga: effectively and skillfully.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so I wanted to talk about this idea, because not only do I see it come up in my classes with my students, and do I see it come up with teachers both that I’ve taught in my teacher training. And then, just, you know, in the yogaverse on Facebook groups, etc.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I also think it’s sort of rampant in our world in general.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So today’s topic is.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: are you teaching Yin Yoga with your young attitude?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Are you teaching Yin Yoga with your young attitude?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now, if yin and yong are kind of new concepts to you. I did a whole episode on that which I’ll link so that you can listen to this in more in depth.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I want to just go over a little bit

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Nyk Danu Yoga: about Yin Yang as far as how it relates to Yoga, and just kind of to our world.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and how we, as teachers.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: can notice when we, as teachers, are teaching our Yin Yoga with a young attitude, and then also notice it in our students. And what do we even do about that? Because discussing all of these things

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in theory isn’t super helpful. If we don’t have sort of like a plan

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Nyk Danu Yoga: of what we can do to change that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s today’s topic.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Are you teaching Yen Yoga, with your young attitude?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So as we get into it. I’m just going to briefly talk a little bit about some of the qualities of Yin

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and some of the qualities of yong in general, and then kind of how they relate to Yoga.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then I’ll talk about some of the signs and symptoms that I see coming up in classes that may be familiar to you as well.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so if we’re talking about yen, we could say.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And remember, if you’ve listened to the other episode on Yin and Yang, I want to be really clear that nothing is a hundred percent yin, nothing is 100% yong that they rely on each other for their very definition.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so, even though I’m about to give you lists of yin and yong qualities, please know these are philosophical concepts that vary, depending on what you’re comparing them to.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay. So let’s get that out of the way.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So yin like qualities.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: dark.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: quiet.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: yielding.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: being introverted into reception, which I did another whole episode on and

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Nyk Danu Yoga: loosely translated or briefly translated introception is an awareness of what is happening inside of you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: going inward.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: being still

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the earth.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the water element, the metal element.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the moon, nighttime, winter and fall.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: heavy

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Nyk Danu Yoga: downward.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: passive.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So those are yin qualities.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: young qualities.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: bright.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: boisterous, advancing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: extroverted, outward.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: active.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The sky.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the fire element, the wood element, the sun.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: light upward, dynamic hot.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So those are just some of the qualities of Yin and Yang.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then let’s put this in the framework of Yoga.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So young forms of Yoga have these common characteristics, whether they are

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Nyk Danu Yoga: as gentle as a hafa, or whether they’re as strong as Nishanga or a hot practice, they do have these things in common

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Nyk Danu Yoga: movement.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: repetition.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: There’s a feeling of striving or efforting.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: strengthening

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Nyk Danu Yoga: effort, the sun, and in fact, they often include sun salutations.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: flow, an increase in heart rate. They’re more structured.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: There’s more of a focus on aesthetics. Meaning. What does it look like?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They’re achievement-based and goal-orientated.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They’re bright, expansive. There’s more of a focus on evolution

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Nyk Danu Yoga: of progressing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: There’s warmth

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and heat.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: whereas the qualities of Yin yoga are stillness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: quiet.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: surrender.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: involution. So going inside.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: opening

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Nyk Danu Yoga: softness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: introception. Again, awareness of what’s happening inside of you

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Nyk Danu Yoga: function.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: they’re more free, form less structured.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They’re connected to the moon.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: dark and singular. So we’re not repeating the same movement over and over. We don’t have that repetition.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So those are just kind of a little bit of a review for those of you who are familiar with this, and for those of you that haven’t

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Nyk Danu Yoga: checked out the Yin Yang episode again. You can do that later. I’ll put it in the show notes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I wanted to re review that because I think that sometimes what happens is that people bring their young attitude into their yin practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: In fact, I know they do.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And sometimes this is because they’re brand new to the practice of yin. But sometimes it’s actually just that they

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Nyk Danu Yoga: really have trouble letting go. Or maybe they’re a real, a type personality.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So what you can see sometimes in a yin class. So I’ll talk about the students first. Then I’m going to talk about how teachers encourage this

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in their practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So you might see a student, you know, sort of really pushing themselves physically in the pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: trying to do like 100 of what they can. They’re sort of white knuckling it. You know they’re

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Nyk Danu Yoga: they’re treating their yin yoga class like it’s a gym workout.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They’re pushing, they’re efforting. They’re striving their veins are bulging, their face is turning red, they’re white knuckling it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I see this the most often in seated forward folds.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: whether it’s butterfly or half butterfly, or any of the the seated forward bends caterpillar

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So it shows up in class a lot. Now, I mentioned forward folds. Not because that’s the only time it’ll show up. It’ll show up sometimes in backbends to where people push themselves up into seal when really they’re still better served down

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Funny story, even when even with teachers. So one of the studios that I teach at we were doing a photo shoot for the studio, and when it came up time for me to come up to the front of the room and teach I I I taught a pose for the photo shoot. It wasn’t a real class. I taught Sphinx. And then

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this is the water we’re swimming in as Yoga teachers, and as Yoga practitioners. This is what we’ve been told and taught to believe, that if we just keep practicing these shapes, the Asana with our body, that one day we, too, will do that version of the pose that is in the Yoga book.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because part of the reason people enter the yin space and are white, knuckling it and sweating bullets, and their veins are bulging, and they’re furrowing their eyebrows and their faces turning red. And they’re doing all of that in Yin is because they were encouraged somewhere else to do that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so now, as a teacher, I’m having to undo that habit, I’m having to explain to them. Why, that’s actually not skillful.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you can start to shift all of your teaching over to the reason I’m putting this pose in the sequence. Here is for this reason you have to know it yourself first of all.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so that’s why I’ve sequenced it here. So if you’re not feeling relaxed in this pose, you’re kind of missing the point.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: where we are constantly encouraged to push, to strive to evolve to crime the corporate ladder, to break through a glass ceiling, to make more, do more, earn, more be more etc, etc, over and over and over again on repeat.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but that’s you know, Sidebar.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But when we’re brought up in this culture, then it’s no wonder that of course, we bring this attitude. Into our Yoga practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: We’re trying to practice introception, noticing what is happening inside of me.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so really, we need to leave all of that other bullshit at the door.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: all of the

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Nyk Danu Yoga: dominance

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that we have in our culture.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: We need to leave that at the door for yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m not saying that’s easy to do for students. I’ll give you some tips on that. Of course

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I want this, of course, to be practical for you as well. I don’t want to just soap box and then leave you stranded with like no actual tangible things that you can do.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I will share those, of course.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But first, I think we need to understand the why before we can work on the how.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this is why we or our students both

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Nyk Danu Yoga: have these attitudes, and they’re so subconscious that you might not even notice

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that you’re bringing them into your teaching. Here is an example of it

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Nyk Danu Yoga: when you teach and demonstrate a pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you teach the air, quotes again advanced version, and you show that version first.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then you show how people can modify it with props.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And most teachers teach this way. Think about what you’re doing there.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You’re buying into this young dominance that the whole point is.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Oh, well, here’s the goal. Everybody. Here’s the air quotes full pose, the advance pose. But I mean, you know, you can’t do that today. Here’s some things you can do with prompts.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So it starts with something as simple as that. We are giving our students the idea that the point of this practice is to get to that goal.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and so they will do all kinds of funky shit with their body to get there. And this can lead to injuries.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s also not good for our nervous systems.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you’re not going to teach your more active classes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in a different way, which I really dream that most teachers will at some point. But if you aren’t.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: can we at least leave all that shit at the door when we’re teaching our yin classes, please.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because again, remember, yen is about

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Nyk Danu Yoga: softness, surrender, yielding

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Nyk Danu Yoga: introception.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: rest.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: stillness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: quiet.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Those are our yin qualities.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So we want to leave all of that young stuff kind of at the door.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now, of course, your students are gonna walk in the room with all this young stuff, right? Because they may never have done Ian, or they’re just I mean, we’re literally bathed in it from the time we pop out of the womb.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then, if they’ve got other styles of yoga where they’ve been told that there’s a goal pose and a complete pose, and that just if you keep practicing one day, you, too, will wrap your foot behind your head if they’ve been told that. Well, no wonder they come into the yin room with that attitude.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So then it’s our job as Yan teachers to start to tease that apart.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: start to knock some of the legs of of that table off

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so that they can settle.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and they can actually receive the true benefits of Yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So one way that I think is super important to do that. And one way that I do this, and I do this in all classes. By the way, not just yen.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So you’ll notice a little while ago I said, that most teachers teach the strongest version of a pose that they can do.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then they show some air, quotes modifications

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Nyk Danu Yoga: with props.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: What if you reverse that?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Especially in a Yen group? But I’d actually like to see it in all classes. I do it in all my classes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I actually start with the softest version of a pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or the air quotes easiest version.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I show them that, and then I show them how to add challenge if they need it, and most of them don’t.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for example, let’s use the same pose forwardbent. If I was teaching that in a yin way.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: here’s what I would do. I would get them to come into the shape

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Nyk Danu Yoga: one leg straight out in front of them, the other one bent.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If their bent knee doesn’t reach the earth naturally, comfortably, which it doesn’t for a lot of people, I would encourage them to stick a prop under that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so that they’re coming from a grounded place on both legs.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then I encourage them to reach their arms up and get really really long

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to keep their arms up, to hinge from their hips, to fold over their leg.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then just to let their arms fall wherever they are.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and gently let the spine round, if that’s appropriate for them.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for some people letting their spine round is is not appropriate, based on certain back conditions. So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know, if it’s not appropriate for them, I will encourage them to keep their spine a little flatter a little longer, just slightly more engaged. That’s a

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Nyk Danu Yoga: whole lesson in itself, so we’ll skip over that for now.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But you’ll notice I didn’t say anything about touching their foot.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I didn’t say anything about bringing their hands to their leg now they will still try, unless they’re brand new to Yoga, because somewhere in Gym class or some other Yoga class or somewhere. They’ve been taught that the point of this pose is to touch your foot.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and so I like to use humor.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ll often just say.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: did you know

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that the point of this pose is actually not to reach your foot?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The point of this pose is, and then I will tell them the function of the pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Here’s why I have put this pose in the sequence.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so that you can perhaps feel a stretch in your hamstring or your back.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that it’s down regulating nervous system-wise, that this is going to be a pose that helps

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Nyk Danu Yoga: helps to wind us down.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s why I put this pose in the sequence.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so reaching your foot is irrelevant.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And, in fact, unless you absolutely can’t feel a stretch in this at all without touching your foot. I highly recommend you. Don’t try to touch your foot.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that instead, you just let your spine gently round forward and let your arms fall wherever they are, under your shoulders, maybe even turning your palms up.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So there’s more sense of softness and surrender.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I address the elephant in the room.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Stop trying to reach your damn foot.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s not the point of this pose. I don’t say it like that. I don’t say stop when I reach your damn foot. You get my point.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I tell them what the point of the pose is.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I encourage them

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to let go.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now here’s the other thing that will happen, because in some styles of yoga in that pose, when you can’t reach your foot, you use a strap. There’s nothing wrong with that. If you’re doing more active practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but trying to hold on to a strap.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for, let’s say 5 min

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is going to cause tension in the body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And again, they’re going to be efforting and pulling themselves forward into the shape because they think the goal is to touch their foot.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So, although a strap can be a useful prop.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I do not use them in seated forward folds, because when students pick up that strap they start to do their yin yoga with their young attitude again.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They’re pulling on the strap. They’re holding the strap which is causing tension in their hands, forearms, upper arms, shoulders, upper back, and neck

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Nyk Danu Yoga: right, just because they’re efforting, and it might be subtle. But it is there.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So even with that I encourage them. You know what, since the goal is not to reach your foot here. What if we just let go of the strap?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: What if we just folded forward to whatever degree our body will allow us to do today. And then we just took a deep breath and softened into gravity.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Right? We just let gravity have us here.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that is a way to do that pose in a yin way.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and of course there’s all kinds of other prop variations I could include there to get people more comfortable

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that, you know, I won’t go into that in the podcast because those kinds of things don’t go over that. Well, in an audio format.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: yes, I could add bolsters and all the things. But

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Nyk Danu Yoga: my point is that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: my intention is to get them to understand that the point of this pose is not to air quotes, do the full pose one day

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that the point of the pose actually

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to feel this in your body or this in your body, or maybe you’re going for the energetic effects of the pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know, for example, in the forward folds.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: forward folds tend to bring the energy down. Good for the nervous system. Blah blah blah! You get the idea.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you may have to say something repeatedly.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because there are those a type students out there. You know, the ones I used to be one

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Nyk Danu Yoga: who are going to constantly push themselves, despite the fact that you have just said, the point of the pose isn’t to do this? Blah blah blah.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So what do we do about them?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: What do we do about those dar Diehard? You know, sort of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a type. People that just keep pushing, no matter what you say.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I have a few ideas on that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So one idea, for that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is what we just went over, explaining to them that that is not the point of the pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but the point of the pose is, and then give them the functional reasons that you’ve inserted the pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Another is to address it with humor.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: which is what I tend to do.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I always say something like.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Did you know that enlightenment is not attached to your foot.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I use myself as an example in that exact pose, half butterfly when I was, you know.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: quite a bit tighter, and I, you know, just could never touch my foot. And then finally I went to a yoga workshop, where we worked on a bunch of forward folds, and lo and behold! At the end I could fold forward, and I could actually touch my foot with my hands without it being painful.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I was immediately disappointed that nothing else changed.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I wasn’t enlightened. I wasn’t a nicer person. My stress levels hadn’t lowered. I wasn’t healthier.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Nothing changed.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So sometimes, using humor right?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Or I’ll say things like, by the way, there’s no trophy or no gold star for touching your foot in this pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then I’ll remind them

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so usually after a couple of those kinds of reminders.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: people will soften a bit.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but sometimes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it doesn’t happen.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Sometimes they just keep pushing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Another thing you can do is you can actually talk about how a yin practice is

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Nyk Danu Yoga: different, as far as what kinds of tissues in the body we’re trying to access.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that yin is especially good for fascia and large bands of connective tissues, particularly deep fascia.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And did you know that this kind of tissue actually doesn’t respond the same way as muscle would.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now, of course, we can’t totally separate fascia and muscle. That’s impossible, because fascia surrounds every muscle, every segment, every compartment, etc, etc. But for simplicity’s sake

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you can say, you know, that deep fascia actually doesn’t respond to strong amounts of effort.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that if you’re trying to strengthen a muscle.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You do want to push yourself a little right like. If you’re doing a bicep curl, you want to take enough weight

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and do enough of those reps that, like, you’re going to exhaust yourself because you’re trying to build strength.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But if we’re here we’re trying to address our fascia or increase our flexibility or just rest.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then none of those things apply.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that actually backing away.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: maybe into that. I always say 50 to 60% range

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then settling in there and waiting

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to see if the tissue starts to yield and soften, and if the sensation does go away, then maybe you go a little further.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It may not go away.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: these sturdy, denser tissues do not respond the same way.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that actually, when you’re pushing and striving and trying to do more. You’re going to get less benefit

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because the fascia will not respond that way. What’s going to happen instead is the nervous system is going to start to move into fight flight or freeze response, because it senses that you’re pushing it, and that an injury may happen.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so it’s going to tense up.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you’re pushing and striving to reach your foot in a seated forward fold.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: your body is actually going to start to tighten.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s the opposite of what we want.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: explain to them

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in with humor, and then also with the science like for those students that really need to know the logical reasons.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Give them a reason.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then it’s rare. But it’s happened a couple of times.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Sometimes I will say something like I usually tend to stay on my mat for most of the yin practice, because

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a I’m a trauma, informed Teacher and B. I’m not offering hands-on adjusts in yen. That wouldn’t be appropriate.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But what I will do sometimes if I see that somebody’s still really struggling with this idea, that, like, they need to do this version of the pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or they’re really uncomfortable. They’re sort of white knuckling it through their practices, I may say to the group, I’m just gonna move around the room to help some of your Yoga friends get more comfortable, and I’m gonna offer some ideas with props or different versions of poses.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and if these don’t make you more comfortable. Please ignore me and do what you were doing, and then I’ll walk to. I’ll walk over to people

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that are white knuckling it, and I’ll just say, Hey, what would happen if you actually let your hands go here.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or what would happen if maybe you grabbed a bolster or a block here

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Nyk Danu Yoga: instead of trying to reach for your foot. Maybe you could grab a prop and settle into that, or you could let your hands just go to the ground and turn your palms up. I’m using the same half butterfly example.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: What would happen if you tried that?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Try that. Let me know how it goes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I’m actually going to address it verbally to the whole group a few times. But then, if I still see that

520
00:43:59.190 –> 00:44:02.279
Nyk Danu Yoga: real pushing, I’m I’m going to go over and address it.

521
00:44:02.720 –> 00:44:05.910
Nyk Danu Yoga: but in a soft way, just going to say, Hey, I’m curious.

522
00:44:06.060 –> 00:44:07.480
Nyk Danu Yoga: Have you thought about this

523
00:44:09.510 –> 00:44:12.300
Nyk Danu Yoga: one time when teaching a class.

524
00:44:13.850 –> 00:44:17.109
Nyk Danu Yoga: and it took me a while to get to her, because it was a very full class.

525
00:44:20.590 –> 00:44:22.780
Nyk Danu Yoga: I had a student who was new to me.

526
00:44:22.980 –> 00:44:24.229
Nyk Danu Yoga: new to yen.

527
00:44:25.460 –> 00:44:30.929
Nyk Danu Yoga: and she just was again pushing, striving, grunting, efforting through everything.

528
00:44:31.060 –> 00:44:34.340
Nyk Danu Yoga: And so I did all of these verbal cues. All of these.

529
00:44:34.460 –> 00:44:45.650
Nyk Danu Yoga: you know. That’s not the point of the end. I often will even crack a joke and say, Hey, are you doing your yin yoga with your young attitude? And then I’ll describe some of the young qualities, pushing, striving, efforting, competing.

530
00:44:45.800 –> 00:44:47.230
Nyk Danu Yoga: more, more and more.

531
00:44:49.860 –> 00:44:52.650
Nyk Danu Yoga: and they’ll say things like more isn’t always better. It’s just more

532
00:44:53.590 –> 00:44:57.059
Nyk Danu Yoga: so. I had already done that, for example, with this this one woman.

533
00:44:57.950 –> 00:45:04.830
Nyk Danu Yoga: and she just was not gonna let go. She was so struggling and suffering, and it was all self-induced.

534
00:45:04.890 –> 00:45:09.470
Nyk Danu Yoga: all because she wouldn’t let herself soften or take a prop.

535
00:45:10.100 –> 00:45:11.240
Nyk Danu Yoga: And so

536
00:45:11.430 –> 00:45:13.490
Nyk Danu Yoga: with her. And this was just instinct.

537
00:45:13.930 –> 00:45:17.559
Nyk Danu Yoga: I just went over to her, and I whispered in her ear.

538
00:45:18.380 –> 00:45:21.829
Nyk Danu Yoga: what would happen if you gave yourself permission to do less?

539
00:45:23.060 –> 00:45:25.249
Nyk Danu Yoga: What would that feel like in your practice?

540
00:45:27.040 –> 00:45:28.909
Nyk Danu Yoga: And she immediately softened

541
00:45:29.020 –> 00:45:31.200
Nyk Danu Yoga: and immediately started doing less.

542
00:45:31.500 –> 00:45:34.619
Nyk Danu Yoga: and immediately grabbed a prop that I had been mentioning.

543
00:45:35.520 –> 00:45:37.720
Nyk Danu Yoga: and then, after class, thanked me

544
00:45:38.490 –> 00:45:39.710
Nyk Danu Yoga: because

545
00:45:39.730 –> 00:45:43.339
Nyk Danu Yoga: she really enjoyed the class, and she felt so relaxed afterwards.

546
00:45:44.080 –> 00:45:51.280
Nyk Danu Yoga: So sometimes these habits that we maybe, as teachers have, if you are a real young, dominant person.

547
00:45:51.710 –> 00:45:53.759
Nyk Danu Yoga: or the students have are

548
00:45:53.770 –> 00:45:55.979
Nyk Danu Yoga: tricky to sort of leave at the door.

549
00:45:57.660 –> 00:46:00.859
Nyk Danu Yoga: but we need to leave them at the door when we’re in a yin class.

550
00:46:02.100 –> 00:46:11.220
Nyk Danu Yoga: If somebody is trying to do their full pose, and they’re white knuckling it, and they’re furrowing their eyebrows, and their breath isn’t smooth and calm and even, and they’re

551
00:46:11.690 –> 00:46:16.759
Nyk Danu Yoga: gritting their teeth, and all of this is happening, and then they’re holding that for minutes at a time.

552
00:46:17.640 –> 00:46:24.929
Nyk Danu Yoga: You are not creating a fan of the Yin Yoga. There, I’ll tell you that they are not going to enjoy that they are not going to one. Come back.

553
00:46:26.300 –> 00:46:34.470
Nyk Danu Yoga: So your job, if you’re a teacher, is to skillfully guide them into the knowledge that there is another way to practice this.

554
00:46:35.880 –> 00:46:38.469
Nyk Danu Yoga: that perhaps they could take some softness.

555
00:46:38.860 –> 00:46:40.140
Nyk Danu Yoga: some yielding.

556
00:46:40.600 –> 00:46:42.000
Nyk Danu Yoga: some surrendering.

557
00:46:44.250 –> 00:46:45.750
Nyk Danu Yoga: that maybe

558
00:46:46.060 –> 00:46:49.879
Nyk Danu Yoga: they could let gravity do the work for them in the pose.

559
00:46:52.750 –> 00:46:54.190
Nyk Danu Yoga: Maybe they could

560
00:46:54.270 –> 00:46:56.400
Nyk Danu Yoga: use props where appropriate.

561
00:46:56.450 –> 00:47:00.659
Nyk Danu Yoga: so that they could take a deep breath and sigh and soften into it.

562
00:47:00.860 –> 00:47:05.620
Nyk Danu Yoga: so that they’re not engaging all of their muscles to hold themselves into the shape.

563
00:47:06.650 –> 00:47:13.660
Nyk Danu Yoga: So in a yin practice, we want to do as little muscular effort as possible to to hold on to the shape, to maintain the pose.

564
00:47:13.830 –> 00:47:18.090
Nyk Danu Yoga: So sometimes we do have to use some of our muscles to make the shape.

565
00:47:18.300 –> 00:47:21.659
Nyk Danu Yoga: but we want to try to let everything else soften if possible.

566
00:47:24.100 –> 00:47:27.610
Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you were a Yoga teacher and you’re listening to this

567
00:47:28.210 –> 00:47:34.780
Nyk Danu Yoga: I would be curious, and you should do some reflection and let me know how it goes. Get at me at Instagram, or

568
00:47:35.140 –> 00:47:37.720
Nyk Danu Yoga: wherever, and let me know how it goes.

569
00:47:37.830 –> 00:47:47.099
Nyk Danu Yoga: If you know now that I’ve been mentioning this, that you have maybe not consciously. But maybe you’ve been teaching your Yoga classes, not just your Yin classes, but maybe all your classes

570
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Nyk Danu Yoga: with this young dominant attitude of like this is the full pose. This is the goal we must get to the full pose, and everybody can do the full pose, and you just have to keep practicing. And one day you, too, will be able to do this full version of the pose.

571
00:48:02.140 –> 00:48:04.320
Nyk Danu Yoga: If you actually believe that is true.

572
00:48:06.040 –> 00:48:09.580
Nyk Danu Yoga: you really need to educate yourself, and I would highly recommend

573
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Nyk Danu Yoga: anatomy for Yoga, by Paul Grilley. It is linked in the show notes, always so click on that.

574
00:48:15.850 –> 00:48:23.829
Nyk Danu Yoga: It was a DVD. Now it’s an online streaming presentation. Please watch that if you have not any teacher listening to this, if you have not watched that.

575
00:48:24.130 –> 00:48:33.640
Nyk Danu Yoga: it is the number. One thing that I recommend to all Yoga teachers Anatomy for Yoga, by Paul Grilley. It is linked in the episode notes.

576
00:48:34.280 –> 00:48:36.330
Nyk Danu Yoga: because your mind will be blown.

577
00:48:36.800 –> 00:48:40.730
Nyk Danu Yoga: and you will truly learn how to be of service to your students.

578
00:48:41.310 –> 00:48:46.060
Nyk Danu Yoga: There is no one. Size fits all here. So if you started listening to this episode

579
00:48:46.190 –> 00:48:50.750
Nyk Danu Yoga: and you’re like, Whoa, wait. This is news to me. Please seek out that resource. It is.

580
00:48:50.990 –> 00:48:53.670
Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ve watched it numerous times

581
00:48:54.160 –> 00:49:05.320
Nyk Danu Yoga: every time I have a new Aha! It’s it’s required watching for my teacher training. All of the people that sign up for my teacher training have to watch that and answer reflection questions. It’s their first assignment.

582
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Nyk Danu Yoga: so cannot stress enough. How valuable that is, and it’s not just Yin related. In fact, some of the poses he shows aren’t in poses at all. They’re regular Yoga poses from Hatha, or whatever tradition.

583
00:49:17.750 –> 00:49:26.639
Nyk Danu Yoga: But you really need to broaden your horizons if you think that practice, practice and all is coming, or that eventually everybody will be able to do all these poses

584
00:49:26.710 –> 00:49:32.429
Nyk Danu Yoga: because you could be teaching your classes from a place of actually injuring your students or your own body.

585
00:49:32.790 –> 00:49:35.479
Nyk Danu Yoga: If you believe that you’re also going to be hurting your own body

586
00:49:36.080 –> 00:49:38.000
Nyk Danu Yoga: so that little soapbox aside?

587
00:49:38.280 –> 00:49:42.029
Nyk Danu Yoga: Can we, as teachers, raise the bar for ourselves?

588
00:49:42.690 –> 00:49:45.949
Nyk Danu Yoga: And can we start to practice functionally.

589
00:49:46.400 –> 00:49:51.770
Nyk Danu Yoga: Why am I putting this pose into the sequence? What are the benefits of this pose? Why did I put it here?

590
00:49:52.060 –> 00:49:56.730
Nyk Danu Yoga: And then it’s communicating that to your students. So if you can even start doing that in your more active classes.

591
00:49:56.790 –> 00:50:02.629
Nyk Danu Yoga: it’ll be much easier in your in classes. But if you’re not going to do it in your active classes, even though I’m strongly encouraging you to start

592
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Nyk Danu Yoga: then, at least, for God’s sake please do it in your yin classes.

593
00:50:09.670 –> 00:50:15.929
Nyk Danu Yoga: We have to encourage and teach our students that the point of our yin poses isn’t to get anywhere.

594
00:50:17.850 –> 00:50:23.280
Nyk Danu Yoga: The point of our yin poses isn’t to get to the full pose, the advanced pose.

595
00:50:23.570 –> 00:50:30.629
Nyk Danu Yoga: that we’re not all trying to do some idealized version in a picture of these shapes. That that is not the point at all.

596
00:50:30.790 –> 00:50:36.349
Nyk Danu Yoga: The point instead, is, I want to feel some sensation in my body in this pose to a tolerable degree.

597
00:50:37.210 –> 00:50:41.519
Nyk Danu Yoga: and if they don’t feel sensation in their body, because they’re maybe quite flexible, and they’ve

598
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Nyk Danu Yoga: come to the range of their bone structure. Well, then, there’s a whole bunch of other benefits for their nervous system, for their mind, etc. Etc.

599
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I’ve done lots of episodes on those, so

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I won’t get into that here.

601
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Nyk Danu Yoga: But this is how we.

602
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Nyk Danu Yoga: as Yoga teachers, can help our students

603
00:51:00.760 –> 00:51:05.210
Nyk Danu Yoga: so that they’re not practicing their yin yoga with their young attitude.

604
00:51:06.830 –> 00:51:13.130
Nyk Danu Yoga: where maybe we even as teachers can start practicing our yoga with a more yin-like attitude.

605
00:51:14.470 –> 00:51:19.869
Nyk Danu Yoga: We’re in a young dominant culture. We’re in a dysfunctionally young dominant culture.

606
00:51:20.650 –> 00:51:24.529
Nyk Danu Yoga: Because, again, there’s nothing wrong with yong energy. It’s necessary.

607
00:51:25.120 –> 00:51:26.520
Nyk Danu Yoga: but we are in a

608
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Nyk Danu Yoga: state of disharmony with it.

609
00:51:29.430 –> 00:51:31.569
Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s all young all the time.

610
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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s no wonder that people are suffering from so many stress related diseases, which is pretty much all of them.

611
00:51:40.180 –> 00:51:42.250
Nyk Danu Yoga: because our culture has set us up

612
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Nyk Danu Yoga: to push, to effort, to strive to compete, to be more, to do, more, to be better, to hustle.

613
00:51:48.120 –> 00:51:51.260
Nyk Danu Yoga: to keep up with the Joneses, to break through the glass ceiling.

614
00:51:51.840 –> 00:51:53.020
Nyk Danu Yoga: to crush it.

615
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Nyk Danu Yoga: etc, etc.

616
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and these yin-like qualities of being curious, being open.

617
00:52:01.370 –> 00:52:02.939
Nyk Danu Yoga: being receptive.

618
00:52:03.650 –> 00:52:04.890
Nyk Danu Yoga: being still

619
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Nyk Danu Yoga: practicing introception.

620
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Nyk Danu Yoga: meditating, listening to our hearts

621
00:52:12.390 –> 00:52:13.810
Nyk Danu Yoga: dropping inward.

622
00:52:13.960 –> 00:52:16.909
Nyk Danu Yoga: these are not prized and praised in our culture.

623
00:52:18.290 –> 00:52:19.990
Nyk Danu Yoga: and we are suffering for it.

624
00:52:21.590 –> 00:52:23.750
Nyk Danu Yoga: We personally, as humans

625
00:52:23.960 –> 00:52:27.060
Nyk Danu Yoga: and the whole planet are suffering because of this

626
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Nyk Danu Yoga: excess yang.

627
00:52:29.900 –> 00:52:35.470
Nyk Danu Yoga: So when there’s an excess of yong, what we need to bring in to harmonize, that is more yin.

628
00:52:38.170 –> 00:52:40.149
Nyk Danu Yoga: and we can do that in our classes.

629
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then hopefully our students, when they learn in our classes. Oh, wow!

630
00:52:45.240 –> 00:52:46.789
Nyk Danu Yoga: This feels really great.

631
00:52:47.210 –> 00:52:52.010
Nyk Danu Yoga: Maybe this Yin attitude will start to infiltrate the rest of their life.

632
00:52:53.960 –> 00:52:58.179
Nyk Danu Yoga: Maybe they’ll realize that actually a walk outside might be better than

633
00:52:58.520 –> 00:52:59.780
Nyk Danu Yoga: pushing myself

634
00:53:00.040 –> 00:53:03.880
Nyk Danu Yoga: through. One more thing that’s supposed to make me a better human.

635
00:53:05.250 –> 00:53:08.520
Nyk Danu Yoga: Maybe they’ll take more time to sit and be quiet and listen.

636
00:53:09.310 –> 00:53:11.169
Nyk Danu Yoga: to be curious to be open.

637
00:53:13.130 –> 00:53:14.480
Nyk Danu Yoga: we can dream right?

638
00:53:15.700 –> 00:53:18.810
Nyk Danu Yoga: Actually, no, this happens because my students have told me

639
00:53:19.090 –> 00:53:24.919
Nyk Danu Yoga: that when we can skillfully teach these things in the Yin room or in the Yoga space

640
00:53:25.080 –> 00:53:34.589
Nyk Danu Yoga: that they leave with our students, and they go out into the world when they’re off their yoga mat. With these same qualities, these same Ahas and these same new skills.

641
00:53:37.610 –> 00:53:39.769
Nyk Danu Yoga: So I think to summarize.

642
00:53:40.120 –> 00:53:42.620
Nyk Danu Yoga: we’ll leave it there, and I’ll just summarize

643
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Nyk Danu Yoga: that because our students are coming into our yin classes with this young dominant attitude from the world that we live in from what we’ve all been taught

644
00:53:51.920 –> 00:53:55.140
Nyk Danu Yoga: to believe from day one, when we come out of the womb.

645
00:53:56.020 –> 00:53:59.119
Nyk Danu Yoga: that they come in with these unconscious

646
00:53:59.660 –> 00:54:00.690
Nyk Danu Yoga: beliefs.

647
00:54:00.830 –> 00:54:05.560
Nyk Danu Yoga: this efforting this striving right. This is natural, because we’ve all been reared in it.

648
00:54:07.070 –> 00:54:12.300
Nyk Danu Yoga: And so how we skillfully, as a teacher, can navigate that and negotiate that and

649
00:54:12.420 –> 00:54:20.269
Nyk Danu Yoga: encourage them to do something else something more yin like. Well, I’ve given you a bunch of tips here on how you can do that.

650
00:54:21.710 –> 00:54:29.250
Nyk Danu Yoga: both in how you can present the teachings, because you might be unconsciously reinforcing those stereotypes

651
00:54:29.420 –> 00:54:39.299
Nyk Danu Yoga: right not knowing because you, too, were raised and immersed in a culture where this was prized, but that you, too, might be actually encouraging this attitude without knowing it.

652
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Nyk Danu Yoga: The one example I gave of always showing the strongest version of a post. First.

653
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Nyk Danu Yoga: then, showing modifications air quotes for people who can’t do the air quotes full pose. That’s one example

654
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Nyk Danu Yoga: of how

655
00:54:54.490 –> 00:54:56.229
Nyk Danu Yoga: you are bringing this in

656
00:54:56.900 –> 00:54:58.269
Nyk Danu Yoga: to your rooms.

657
00:55:00.410 –> 00:55:06.549
Nyk Danu Yoga: Another example that I’ve seen yin teachers do. I’ll give you 2 more

658
00:55:06.830 –> 00:55:07.770
Nyk Danu Yoga: is

659
00:55:08.080 –> 00:55:09.319
Nyk Danu Yoga: that they

660
00:55:09.460 –> 00:55:11.490
Nyk Danu Yoga: encourage movement

661
00:55:11.860 –> 00:55:16.689
Nyk Danu Yoga: in between the poses, and I’ve already done a whole episode on the rebound.

662
00:55:17.070 –> 00:55:20.830
Nyk Danu Yoga: On honoring the rebound. You can listen to that if you want more on that. But

663
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Nyk Danu Yoga: when you’re encouraging your students that instead of gently and softly coming into a pose and kind of settling into a rest shape.

664
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Nyk Danu Yoga: when, instead of doing that, you’re telling them to come into another Yoga post like cat-cow or downward dog, or something like that, and move.

665
00:55:38.540 –> 00:55:41.580
Nyk Danu Yoga: You’re taking away that yin time.

666
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So you might be doing that

667
00:55:43.980 –> 00:55:47.820
Nyk Danu Yoga: and not realize that that, too, is yong dominant.

668
00:55:48.110 –> 00:55:50.130
Nyk Danu Yoga: Right? Movement is y’all.

669
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Nyk Danu Yoga: those are a couple of ways that we can

670
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Nyk Danu Yoga: accidentally bring these things in

671
00:55:58.140 –> 00:56:03.620
Nyk Danu Yoga: another way that I’ve heard teachers do, and this especially comes from teachers that were first trained in Vinyasa

672
00:56:04.040 –> 00:56:08.530
Nyk Danu Yoga: is they get people partway partway into the pose, and then they’ll say something like.

673
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Take a deep breath.

674
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and

675
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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you feel like you can now go a little further on your exhale. Go further.

676
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I think that is also problematic.

677
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Most students are gonna go further. If they feel like they can go further without you telling them to. But what happens when you do that is now, the students that actually probably shouldn’t be going further feel like they should be going further. Air quotes should be going further now, because they’re part way through the pose, and things should have opened. So oh, well, they didn’t. Okay, well, I’m just gonna go further, anyways.

678
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, so that’s another thing that I see in teachers bringing in

679
00:56:47.210 –> 00:56:49.610
Nyk Danu Yoga: bringing in active breath techniques

680
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Nyk Danu Yoga: from other styles of Yoga

681
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Nyk Danu Yoga: that are not down, regulating that are not soothing, nourishing breaths for the nervous system.

682
00:56:58.240 –> 00:57:03.070
Nyk Danu Yoga: So bringing in breathwork that’s designed to stimulate, to energize

683
00:57:03.190 –> 00:57:05.839
Nyk Danu Yoga: in a yin practice. Bad move

684
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Nyk Danu Yoga: big mistake.

685
00:57:08.080 –> 00:57:12.679
Nyk Danu Yoga: Leave those for your more active practices if you’re qualified to train

686
00:57:12.710 –> 00:57:14.030
Nyk Danu Yoga: teachers or to

687
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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you’re qualified to teach those forms of breath.

688
00:57:20.200 –> 00:57:28.419
Nyk Danu Yoga: So those are some of the ways that I’ve witnessed. Teachers bring their young attitude consciously or unconsciously, into their yin practice.

689
00:57:29.140 –> 00:57:32.610
Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s how we, as teachers, can raise the bar

690
00:57:32.810 –> 00:57:36.720
Nyk Danu Yoga: on these things, we can let those attitudes go at the door

691
00:57:36.750 –> 00:57:39.380
Nyk Danu Yoga: when we show up for a yin practice.

692
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then, as students, we can encourage them again, sometimes with humor, by how we guide them into the pose.

693
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Notice what words you’re using.

694
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Nyk Danu Yoga: are you saying? And see if you can reach your foot.

695
00:57:55.700 –> 00:57:57.340
Nyk Danu Yoga: Do you need to say that, Nope.

696
00:57:57.420 –> 00:57:58.549
Nyk Danu Yoga: you certainly don’t.

697
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Nyk Danu Yoga: How can you say these things in a way that encourages softness and yielding and surrender?

698
00:58:07.130 –> 00:58:12.610
Nyk Danu Yoga: And then, when you notice the students are white knuckling in it as they’re struggling, that they’re suffering, etc, etc.

699
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then you can use humor.

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00:58:19.360 –> 00:58:32.000
Nyk Danu Yoga: You can guide them on what the point of the pose actually is like the point of doing this. This is a functional pose. This is why we’re doing it. So, you know, touching your foot in a forward pole. Irrelevant. Right? Because this is actually why we’re doing it.

701
00:58:33.370 –> 00:58:44.959
Nyk Danu Yoga: You can explain to them that in Yen we’re working with fascia, which doesn’t respond the same way that muscle is. So by actually pushing and striving, you’re actually not doing what you think you’re doing. You’re not getting more flexible

702
00:58:45.160 –> 00:58:46.970
Nyk Danu Yoga: because your body’s tightening up

703
00:58:47.020 –> 00:58:48.780
Nyk Danu Yoga: because it’s moving into

704
00:58:50.340 –> 00:58:54.949
Nyk Danu Yoga: our sympathetic nervous system, the fight flight or freeze response. So you can explain that

705
00:58:56.230 –> 00:58:59.160
Nyk Danu Yoga: you can encourage the use of props where appropriate.

706
00:59:00.160 –> 00:59:01.920
Nyk Danu Yoga: whether that be to the whole group.

707
00:59:02.690 –> 00:59:05.929
Nyk Danu Yoga: or whether that be to an individual student.

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00:59:08.370 –> 00:59:10.289
Nyk Danu Yoga: So those are just some of the ways

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that you as a teacher can leave your perhaps unconscious young dominant

710
00:59:15.800 –> 00:59:23.390
Nyk Danu Yoga: attitude. And again, none of us are doing this consciously, but now that you’ve heard me talk about them. You might be like, Oh, shit!

711
00:59:23.570 –> 00:59:26.610
Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ve done some of those alright. So now that you know.

712
00:59:26.740 –> 00:59:32.479
Nyk Danu Yoga: how can you alter? Maybe the way that you teach this practice so that it is a Yin dominant practice.

713
00:59:33.510 –> 00:59:39.850
Nyk Danu Yoga: What words can you use to help your students when they’re a typing it through their poses when they’re white, knuckling it and struggling.

714
00:59:40.860 –> 00:59:46.659
Nyk Danu Yoga: Can you offer prop solutions? Can you tell the why? It’s important to soften, to surrender, to yield?

715
00:59:46.980 –> 00:59:48.849
Nyk Danu Yoga: These are all things that you can do.

716
00:59:50.000 –> 00:59:51.980
Nyk Danu Yoga: So. Yang has its place.

717
00:59:52.370 –> 00:59:56.870
Nyk Danu Yoga: Yin has its place. They harmonize each other ideally.

718
00:59:57.440 –> 01:00:00.570
Nyk Danu Yoga: but because we are in a young dominant world

719
01:00:01.240 –> 01:00:03.670
Nyk Danu Yoga: where we do not get nearly enough. Yin.

720
01:00:03.790 –> 01:00:07.549
Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s even more important that when somebody shows up

721
01:00:07.630 –> 01:00:09.370
Nyk Danu Yoga: for some yin time

722
01:00:10.000 –> 01:00:13.620
Nyk Danu Yoga: that we really try to make it as yin like as possible

723
01:00:13.840 –> 01:00:15.750
Nyk Danu Yoga: as a way to harmonize

724
01:00:16.640 –> 01:00:20.000
Nyk Danu Yoga: the world out there outside of the Yoga room doors

725
01:00:20.380 –> 01:00:22.489
Nyk Danu Yoga: where everything is all about young.

726
01:00:24.310 –> 01:00:25.170
Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I will leave you with

728
01:00:27.270 –> 01:00:30.589
Nyk Danu Yoga: what I believe is that what the world needs now

729
01:00:31.020 –> 01:00:32.770
Nyk Danu Yoga: is yin sweet yin.

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01:00:33.250 –> 01:00:36.579
Nyk Danu Yoga: not just in our yin classes, but in the wide world

731
01:00:36.650 –> 01:00:37.940
Nyk Danu Yoga: out there as well.

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01:00:39.280 –> 01:00:41.359
Nyk Danu Yoga: I hope that you found this helpful

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01:00:41.970 –> 01:00:46.330
Nyk Danu Yoga: whether you’re a practice practitioner or a teacher. I hope you got some nuggets here.

734
01:00:46.650 –> 01:00:49.000
Nyk Danu Yoga: and with that I’ll let you go

735
01:00:49.340 –> 01:00:51.109
Nyk Danu Yoga: until we took until we

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01:00:55.060 –> 01:01:06.129
Nyk Danu Yoga: okay. I hope that you found this helpful, whether it’s for your own practice or for your teaching. Hope there were some nuggets here that you can use tangible things. Let me know if there is like, please reach out

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you can find me easily on Instagram, at Nikita, New Yoga or at Yan Yoga. Podcast I’m also on. Facebook. But I don’t tend to hang out there as much. So Instagram is probably better unless you don’t have Facebook.

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01:01:18.020 –> 01:01:23.020
Nyk Danu Yoga: or if you only have Facebook, then you can find me on inst on Facebook as Nick Danoo.

739
01:01:24.630 –> 01:01:35.989
Nyk Danu Yoga: So yeah, I hope that you found this helpful. Let me know if there was any little Ahas, any little nuggets of information that stood out to you let me know how this goes. If you start practicing some of these ideas, I would love to hear from you.

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01:01:36.130 –> 01:01:37.499
Nyk Danu Yoga: and until then.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: until we meet again.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Bye, for now.

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