Is Yin Yoga For Beginners?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Welcome

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and for those of you who didn’t know. Because you’re listening to this, you can always watch these also on Youtube,

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and those are uploaded as the completely unedited version, like, I literally just upload the zoom recording

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and for those of you on spotify. You can also again get on the the main

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Nyk Danu Yoga: page for my. So, not in your feed. You actually want to click on my episode. Make sure that you’re following or subscribing, and then click the 5 stars.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that will give me a review there.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: One of the reasons that you’ll hear Podcasters often talk about this is because, especially with a fairly new podcast and this one is, it’s not even a year old yet. It’s just a baby. Still

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the more likes and

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Nyk Danu Yoga: sort of listens of course, downloads and follows, and stars and written reviews, that a podcast gets the more likely apple or spotify, which I mean. There are other apps as well, but those are the 2 biggies. Right now.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it’s more likely that they will show them to people that are searching out in the search, Yin Yoga podcast. Or Yoga podcast etc, or just searching Yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: one of my friends and colleagues told me that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: she was actually on spotify, just searching yin, looking for music, and my podcast popped up. So the reason that that happens is because of awesome, generous folks like you, who take about 2 min out of their time to do this.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so if you wouldn’t mind, pause right now, I’ll wait. It’s okay. Go for it

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and offer a review. That’s for those of you who have been here before. If you’re new.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: don’t worry about it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Gotta wait and see. First.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: thank you. I appreciate you very, very much.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And before we get into today’s topic. I also just want to share a little bit of a testimonial or praise that I’ve gotten on my therapeutic Yinda Yoga teacher training program.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: this one is from Gillian Green.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Nick’s passion and knowledge for Yin Yoga helped to keep me engaged. It has made me realize how influential it can be to include yin practice in your yoga repertoire.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m so happy. I took this training with Nick.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I did another training

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Nyk Danu Yoga: with a teacher who was teaching yin, but it was more like Hatha than yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I feel much more knowledgeable in Yen Yoga now, and also it’s great to know where it originated.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: She was very professional and knowledgeable, I felt supported through the training.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Nick was amazing, and brought a huge depth of information to the topic, and did a great job of keeping the conversations on track.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: This training was amazing, and it went by really fast. I can’t wait to learn more.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s from Gillian Green. Thank you, Gillian.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you are a Yoga teacher who is either not yet trained in Yen Yoga, or is wanting to add more additionally in training, because most Yan teachers don’t just stop at one training.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then you can check out

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Nyk Danu Yoga: by clicking the link in my bio. There’s a link there that says, get on the wait list that will take you to the page where you can read more about my training.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then you can get on the wait list and how you get on the wait list is if you look way up in my photograph, there’s a button there that you can push and enter your name and email or way down on the very bottom of the page. Also an opportunity to add your email. And if you’re there long enough, a little polite, pop up, will slide on over and say, Hey.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: do you want to get on the waitlist? And you could enter your name and email there

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Nyk Danu Yoga: when you get on the waitlist. Here’s what you get.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: First of all, you get a free Pdf sequence

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Nyk Danu Yoga: head to toe yan practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then you’re going to get a few days later a video of the same practice so that you can practice it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then you’re going to get little snippets and nuggets from me along the way. So you’ll get these podcast episodes delivered in your inbox.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You will get little sort of samplers of my training, little video snippets of my training so that you can kind of see behind the curtain.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You will also get early registration notice. So before I post it everywhere on the social medias. I always go to the waitlist first and let you all know registration is open.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so you’ll get that first.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then the other thing that you get when you’re on the waitlist is the first 5 that sign up can use a 25% off discount code, and that is only available on the waitlist. We do not share that anywhere else.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, so those are all the reasons why you might want to get on the wait list of my training. So if you’ve been around here a few times, and you’ve

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Nyk Danu Yoga: been liking my point of view, if you’ve been

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Nyk Danu Yoga: learning from me, if you’ve been getting some Ahas, and you’re like, Hmm! Maybe I need some more yin training, or maybe I need a yin training, and I would encourage you to check that out. The link again is in the episode. Notes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: All right, my friends, let’s

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Nyk Danu Yoga: get into today’s topic.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: This

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Nyk Danu Yoga: topic came up as often. Some of my ideas for topics come up when I’m in one of those Yin Facebook groups.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I’m you know, scrolling around, seeing what everyone’s got to say, and and trying to be helpful. If someone’s got a question I can answer, or just, you know, seeing what everyone’s doing, what’s going on.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And sometimes I’ll see questions in those groups. And usually I will then take that question, and I will type it out in my magic. Iphone.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in my list of podcast ideas, because that’s where I keep track of podcast ideas.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you’re listening to this, and you have an idea

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for a Yin, Yoga

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Nyk Danu Yoga: subject. Or if you have a question specific to yen Yoga, that you want me to cover in the podcast

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Nyk Danu Yoga: send me a DM on Instagram or on Facebook. Just let me know, hey, I’d like to. I’d like to have you cover this, so I’m always willing to add extra episodes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to my list. They have to be yin related, though this is a yin. Podcast so somehow connected to the Yin experience.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I was scrolling through, and I found

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a question

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and somebody. It wasn’t the question itself that struck me. It was actually somebody’s answer in the comment, feed

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Nyk Danu Yoga: somebody in the comment. Feed said, Yin, Yoga is not suitable for beginners.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I remember thinking.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: say what?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Well, that’s news to me.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I have no idea

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Nyk Danu Yoga: why that person thinks that I did actually ask, why do you say that? Didn’t get a response?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s what we’re going to break down today.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is Yan Yoga suitable for beginners?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Maybe. Yes, maybe no.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the answer is in yin, as it always is in yen, or often is, well.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: yes, no, and it depends.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So let’s break this down a little bit more.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If somebody comes to

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Yoga.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: they’re brand new Yogi. They come to Yoga. They’re a beginner because they want to get their yoga, but or they want to get their you know yoga body in time for swimsuit season, or detox, or do Yoga air quotes exercises or get a yoga workout?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If that’s why they’re coming to Yoga. If they have fallen under this misconception

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Yoga is fitness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and it’s another way to work out when you’re not at the gym.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If that’s why they’re coming.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: then Yin Yoga is probably not for that beginner.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because they’re going to show up in class, and they’re going to be still and quiet and not move, and they’re not going to be getting

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Nyk Danu Yoga: their needs met as far as what they thought they were coming to Yin for.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And this is one of the reasons why, if you’re a studio owner and you’re listening to this, you really want to make sure that your class descriptions are very

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Nyk Danu Yoga: clear. I know that sometimes people don’t read them anyway.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that’s a whole other thing, but at least for those who do read it. Make sure that you say, still quiet, meditative, etc, so that when someone’s reading your

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Nyk Danu Yoga: classes they know which one is going to fit their needs.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s 1 one type of beginner, right? We could say, that’s 1 one style of student, somebody who

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Nyk Danu Yoga: has misunderstood what Yoga really is, and thinks that it’s another way to air, quotes, get a workout.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: something else to do to air quotes, get a workout when they’re not at the gym, and so they’ve come to Yoga for that reason.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Well, then.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that for that particular beginner, yen’s not going to be a good fit.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They’re just going to find it frustrating, and they’re going to feel disappointed.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: What if, however.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: somebody comes to Yoga when they’re new, either first time or still fairly new student, because actually, they’re looking to learn to meditate.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Maybe they’ve heard meditation and yogurt kind of connected, even though unfortunately rarely are both in the same class. But that’s a rant for a whole other time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Let’s say that student comes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and they’re like, Oh, I’ve heard that Yoga is really good for you, for your mind. It helps to calm you down kind of like meditation. I’d like to work with my mind more. I’d like to learn how to meditate. Okay, I’ll go to yoga.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that beginner

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Nyk Danu Yoga: ding, ding, ding, ding! Oh, my God! Yen is going to be amazing for that particular beginner.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because they’re looking for some of these kind of quieter, deeper practices.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So for that beginner.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Yin Yoga would be the perfect choice, because the whole time they’re in these poses they’re going to be getting these little 5 min meditations or 2 min meditations, or however long you’re holding your poses, for

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Nyk Danu Yoga: they’re going to get these little bite-sized doses of meditation

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so that they can experience some of the kind of mental and emotional aspects of a practice like this

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that’s assuming, of course, that the teacher is actually shutting up at some point, and not just talking incessantly.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And if your teacher, if you’re

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Nyk Danu Yoga: listening, and that kind of struck you, I have a whole episode

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Nyk Danu Yoga: on shutting up Indian

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in season one.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if a student comes looking for a physical workout

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and they’re a beginner, then Yen is not for that beginner.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If a student comes because they

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Nyk Danu Yoga: want to deal with their mind. They’re wanting to be more mindful. They’re wanting to.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know. Learn how to deal with their mind. They’re wanting that kind of grounding.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then yin would be ideal for that particular beginner.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: What if a beginner

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is actually just? Maybe they’re a I’ll use an example of a mom. Right? A mom of small kids. Let’s just say

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Nyk Danu Yoga: they don’t get any quiet time. They don’t get any time to themselves.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They’re always go go go doing things, doing things, doing things. They’re exhausted. They run off their feet and they’re constantly taking care of the needs of these little small humans

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that they are the mother to

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Nyk Danu Yoga: do. We think that for that particular beginner

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Yin would be ideal

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Nyk Danu Yoga: hell! Yes, it would

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Nyk Danu Yoga: dedicated time just for them where they can be still and quiet, and not have somebody pulling on their clothes and demanding things of them, and they can just rest in their nervous system and nourish their body, and probably even fall asleep at some point, if they’re a mom of little ones.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for that beginner

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Nyk Danu Yoga: would yin

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Nyk Danu Yoga: practice be good

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Nyk Danu Yoga: absolutely, it would be great for that beginner.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the reason that I’m pointing this out

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is and we I’m going to do a few more examples. Don’t worry

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is that when people make blanket statements about anything in life.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it’s

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a bit immature, and I don’t mean immature, as in in an in an insulting way. I mean, actually, just like your knowledge is not well formed, right? You haven’t studied

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or thought about it. Enough that you have a mature viewpoint on something.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or, in other words, you could use is ignorant. And again, I’m not meaning ignorant as an insult. I’m meaning. It is in the actual definition of the word meaning. You don’t have the knowledge, skill, or experience in an area.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if somebody is sort of ignorant to

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the many, many, many benefits of Yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: then they might not know that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it could be for a whole bunch of beginners.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and to do something good for their body, and to begin to again befriend their body, to see their body as an ally instead of this thing where things are going wrong

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you all want that, let me know. It’s not really Yen related. But okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that’s what I wanted to address first is Yen Yoga for beginners.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Yin Yoga is not for beginners. I have beginners in my I teach only 2 dropping classes at the time of this recording for one studio. Because I don’t love dropping classes, but I love this studio. I make an exception for them because they’re amazing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or they’re a beginner, and they’ve done a few classes, but they’ve been more active classes. So they’re a yin yoga beginner.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I’m going to remedy it now.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You cannot make that statement, because each person is individual, just like you cannot say the right way to do this pose is blank, blank, blank, because we are all individuals, and so what might be the right way for you to do. A pose might be different than the way I would need to do the pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Same thing goes with our students not all beginners. You can’t lump all beginners like one little category together like they’re all the same.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I want to just but dispel that myth

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Nyk Danu Yoga: depends on the beginner. Why are they coming to Yoga? What are their goals? How are they feeling physically, mentally, emotionally.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because their practice has been purely physical. Asana. They haven’t done meditation. They haven’t maybe even done a lot of kind of some of these quieter breath work or pranayams.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They’re the ones that want to leave before Shavasan, or they fidget during Shavasan.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So they’re not a beginner. They’ve got lots of yoga experience.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: like the the guy I was telling you about in the story who came into the studio. Strong Guy. Lots of physical practice, you know, can do all the the fancy poses, the strong ones, handstands, etc. Blah, blah blah

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if somebody doesn’t want to go intern into their inner landscape. If they don’t want to practice introception.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but that is not attached to whether or not they are a beginner.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You could have someone with years of experience who still isn’t willing to do that, and you could have somebody who walks into a yoga studio and signs up because they’re like, I want to learn to meditate.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you cannot say one is a beginner thing and one is not.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And if you are saying that you’re really kind of putting people in boxes and making statements and generalizations about people that just probably aren’t true.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that being said, now that I’ve kind of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: popped the balloon of you know, yen Yoga isn’t for beginner. What I think also might be helpful here, though, is to talk about.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: especially because I know a lot of teachers. Listen to this. Well, then what do we do when we have some beginners

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in our practice? Right?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Because

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Nyk Danu Yoga: let’s face it. Yen Yoga is different.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and it might be different than what they’ve seen on TV or in the magazines. If they’re brand new.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it might be different than if they’re still a beginner. But they’ve been to a few classes, the movement based classes that they’ve done.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so how do we

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Nyk Danu Yoga: make the Yin practice the most digestible

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for beginners

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that is worth exploring?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I said a few minutes ago that it’s actually kind of easier sometimes in some ways. If somebody’s brand brand new to Yoga, they’ve never done yoga, and you happen to be teaching a in class, and that’s their first introduction. So in some ways that’s easier because they don’t already have

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Nyk Danu Yoga: preconceived ideas about

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Nyk Danu Yoga: what Yoga practice is, I mean, they may have seen, you know, a DVD or a video, or, you know, like a a thing on Youtube or a magazine, or you know, so they may have kind of some idea, but they don’t really have like a felt embodied experience of Yoga yet so actually for that person. It’s a little easier to introduce them to yin, because you don’t have to kind of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: point out differences.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But for those that have done a few classes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: another, and maybe a yin beginner. They’ve never done yin yoga before.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I personally think

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that if you have beginners in the room it’s really helpful to break it down a little bit before you move into quiet.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So anyone who’s listened before knows I am a big fan of shutting the fuck up, dear teachers in your yin class quit talking so much.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: However.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you have beginners in the room, it can be helpful at the start

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to explain a few things, just so that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: they have a bit of a mental picture of how this practice is different. It will make it easier on them, mentally and emotionally to be in the practice if they kind of know what to expect

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Nyk Danu Yoga: right if they’re expecting a bunch of sun salutations in Chaturangas, and then you never get them off the floor.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Their mind is going to be telling them all kinds of stories about that while they’re trying to practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But if you can address that at the beginning, then it’s easier for people to settle into practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So how do we even know, though, if there are beginners in the room. That’s the tricky bit.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m not a big fan of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to raise their hand if they’re new, because anyone who is kind of shy or introverted

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it’s gonna feel really uncomfortable doing that. So they may not do it because they just don’t feel comfortable with it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or somebody might be like, Oh, yeah, I mean, I’m you know, I’m new to yoga, but I’m super fit. So whatever. So they don’t raise their hand because they think like whatever Yoga can throw at them, they can handle, so no need to

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Nyk Danu Yoga: bring themselves out as a beginner, so that can also happen.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I don’t. I’m not a big fan of like the raise your hand if you’ve never done yin before, will everyone sit seated at the start of class? But what I do instead is because I always get my students in constructive rest.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And they’re grounding. And so

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Nyk Danu Yoga: right before I get everybody to move into their next shape or their first technically in shape. I say, if you’ve done yin yoga before, let both hands rest at your sides. If you’ve never done yin before

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Nyk Danu Yoga: specifically the style of yin. Yoga

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Nyk Danu Yoga: put one hand on your belly so that I know.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So now people are a lot more willing to out themselves as a beginner, because I’m the only one looking at them.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I’ll look around. And sometimes you got to say this twice, especially if you’ve done a good job of kind of centering and relaxing them from the beginning, and they’ll look around and just see, like how many hands are on bellies

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if there’s a lot of hands on bellies more talking in the beginning. If there’s no hands on bellies, I’ll usually clarify, just to make sure. So nobody’s brand new to in.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: There’s no hands on bellies that’s different.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then, if there’s a few that might also affect how much I I’m going to talk.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: here’s what I do

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for brand new Yin students, whether they’re brand new to Yoga, or just brand new to the style of yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I break down the yin practice guidelines, and you may have heard other teachers talk about these yin practice guidelines.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Mine’s a little bit more lengthy, a little more complex, because I’m a yoga therapist. I’m all about the subtlety and the nuance, and you know.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the first yin practice guideline. And this is what I say to them

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Nyk Danu Yoga: practicing yin. Yoga is a little bit different than movement forms of yoga.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I’m going to talk a little bit about those differences, and how we practice. Yin, so that you have an idea of what we’re going to get up to, which will make it easier for you to practice right simple statements.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Principle number one, take the shape.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: take the yin shape

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and take the version. That’s going to work for you, because I’ll usually give them several options. So take the in shape, find a version that’s going to work for you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s point number one

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Nyk Danu Yoga: find 50 to 60% of the most you could do in this shape.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Why am I pointing that out? Well, because

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Nyk Danu Yoga: we live in this culture of pushing, striving, efforting, etc, etc. And so I want them to know that what you can hold for 30 s is not the same as what you can hold for 5 min. So we want to find 50 to 60%

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Nyk Danu Yoga: of the most that you could do.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then I explained to them, too, that that 50 to 60% is a bit of a moving line in the sand, because your body won’t feel the same the first breath in this shape as it does in the last breath. So.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: although

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Nyk Danu Yoga: become relatively still.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So, although we’re becoming relatively still in yen, we’re not being stagnant.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if part way through your body opens.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you need to change your approach

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to get a little deeper.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or maybe you do the opposite. Maybe you were overly ambitious, and you now realize. Oh, I need to back out of this a little bit because

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Nyk Danu Yoga: 5 min does feel a lot longer than 30 s right? That this is kind of a moving line in the sand, and where 50 to 60% is of, for their body is in that shape will change

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Nyk Danu Yoga: within the time that they’re in the pose. It might change from last week to next week, etc.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I let them know. This may change. You may adapt your pose, but that we’re working into relative stillness, right stillness, but not stagnation. So it is a still practice. But

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Nyk Danu Yoga: please feel free to grab a prop if you need or to adjust the pose part way through.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, so so far we’ve got, take the shape.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Find a version that works for you. 50 to 60%

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Nyk Danu Yoga: become relatively still

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Nyk Danu Yoga: letting yourself be adaptable.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then number 4

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is that I tell them we’re going to be holding these shapes anywhere between 2 and 5 min

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Nyk Danu Yoga: now, I say 2 and 5 min, because for a general drop in class, that’s my range.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: When I’ve got a mixed group of different levels of Yogis.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Some that have been doing in a long time, some that maybe never have. I’m going to stick in the 2 to 5 min range. That’s certainly not a rule. I know lots of teachers in their own practice, or maybe with experienced students that do longer than 5 min holds.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s fine. But I say 2 to 5 min because it’s a general drop in class with a bunch of different experience levels.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay? So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I say, we’re going to hold these shapes anywhere from 2 to 5 min at a time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then I talk about coming out

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Nyk Danu Yoga: when you come out of oh, and I briefly explain that one of the reasons that we are

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Nyk Danu Yoga: doing this

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Nyk Danu Yoga: longer hold, and the stillness and the moderation of the practice, that these 3 things stillness. Moderation longer holds are the secret superpowers to helping you address your deep fascia and large bands of connective tissue which Yan Yoga is really good at.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then I explained to them, so that means, if when you come out of this shape.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you feel that urge to sort of moan and groan and move slowly. If you feel temporarily vulnerable or fragile, or like, you’re not quite all put together.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s a good sign. It’s a sign of a job well done, and so we do just that. And so then my next point would be.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: we come out slowly and mindfully.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then we pause

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to notice what my teacher Paul called the rebound, but I call the resonance or the linger of that pose in your body. So we take

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Nyk Danu Yoga: maybe 30 s between sides. If it’s an asymmetrical pose or a minute.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if we’re doing a longer held shape.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: We take that sacred, intentional pause again. I’ve done a whole episode on that called honoring the rebound

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Nyk Danu Yoga: we take that sacred pause, and that pause is to allow your body to begin to feel like it’s familiar self again

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Nyk Danu Yoga: before you ask it to do something else, to allow your body and your nervous system to integrate what has happened.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and to embrace the space between no longer, and not yet

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to embrace the space between no longer and not yet otherwise known as the present moment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because this is one of the other huge benefits of a begin practice is coming back

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to the present moment again and again and again.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and so

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ll explain that we come out mindfully and slowly. You might feel like you want to moan and groan, and then we pause for noticing the resonance of the pose

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or the linger.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Again Paul uses the word rebound.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and these rests and resonance. I don’t tell them what position to take. I don’t boss them around.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I tell them I give them some ideas. You know you could lay here. You could hug your knees in. You could do this, I say. Sometimes our rests are quite still, sometimes our rests are a little wiggly

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you choose. Whatever your body just asked you to do is probably the right answer, and it might be different in the next pose or the next class.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: right? So we take that sacred minute

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or 30 s to notice the resonance of the pose in their body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then we take the next shape.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so that all sounded really long, because I’m breaking it down for you. Super super detailed. But basically the guidelines and the principles I’m talking are about. Take the shape and find the version that works for you

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Nyk Danu Yoga: find relative stillness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Hold.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for, you know, 2 to

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Nyk Danu Yoga: 5 min at a time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Come out slowly and mindfully.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Oh, I think I missed 50 to 60%. Let’s try that again.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So those principles again are, take the shape. Find the version that works for you

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Nyk Danu Yoga: find 50 to 60% of the most you could do.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: knowing that that’s a moving line in the sand, and you may adjust it part way through.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then we’re going to hold anywhere from 2 to 5 min at a time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: When you come out you might feel that urge to sort of moan and groan and move slowly and mindfully.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then the last one we rest, and we pause in the resonance before we take the next shape.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s 5 points that I discuss.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I just go over them sort of point form.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: after I tell them how they’re going to do the practice physically like that’s all the physical stuff. Right?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then I point out that at some point soon in the not too far off future, I’m gonna quit talking so much.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that what can happen

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Nyk Danu Yoga: when somebody, when the teacher stops talking

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the mind isn’t used to having still quiet time is, the mind can then use this as an opportunity to get some things done.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this is where I would discuss

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Nyk Danu Yoga: some of the mental aspects of yin, the thinking, the planning, the list, writing, the analyzing, etc, etc, etc.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I explained to them that this is normal, that this will happen with their mind, and that it’s common that every single person in this room has a busy brain.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then I give them some anchors

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for where they could if they’d like to. I give them some tools. I don’t just say.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, so I’m gonna shut up and go ahead and be present. And good luck with that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I give them tools

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that they can choose to use or not. And again I went over all of this in depth, in the episode about the mind in season one.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So you know, you can backtrack to season one and find Yen Yoga in the mind, and I’ll talk about more details about what I offer students

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to work with their mind.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s what I do. If I’ve checked in with the group, and there are beginners in the room. If people have put their hand on their belly.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it said that they’re new to yen. Then I’m going to go over that little speech a little quicker than what I just did with you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but because that allows those beginners to understand that. Oh, this practice is different.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then maybe, Yoga, I’ve seen in magazines or on Youtube, or the odd Yoga class that I’ve taken.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or the Yoga that my friend does, or whatever they understand, that yen is different. And here’s how it’s different, and they kind of have some guidelines to practice with, which will allow their mind to settle a little bit more, and then you can give them some tools on how to deal with the mind.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I would give those same

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Nyk Danu Yoga: those same points.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: whether somebody was brand new to Yoga period.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and they’re in my yin class, or whether they’ve been doing yoga for years. But they’ve never done yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s the same points.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I give them the same thing because they are now a beginner in Yin, even if they are not a beginner in Yoga.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I give them those points, and then I slowly start to move into more and more quiet.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I hope that that is helpful.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: First of all.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I hope that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ve pleaded my case for breaking this myth. That Yen Yoga is not for beginners. That’s not true. It all depends on the beginner

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and their needs and their mental state and their goals, and what they’re coming in with right

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for some beginners yin will be amazing for other beginners, maybe not.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that even somebody who has years and years and years of yoga experience in other styles of yoga, particularly the more kind of physically demanding styles of yoga, the hot, sweaty kinds.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if they’ve been doing a lot of that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but they’re not a beginner at all to Yoga.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They might still have a big challenge coming into a Yid class

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that we cannot use the foundation of experience level in Yoga as a way to decide whether or not somebody is going to be a good candidate for a Yind Yoga practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s not their experience level that determines whether or not Yoga Yan Yoga would be a good fit for them.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s who they are their goals, what they’re working through, what they’re dealing with and what they come into the door with.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s what decides whether or not Yin Yoga is suitable for that person.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I gave the beginning of this a boatload of examples of people who might all be absolute beginners, who yin yoga would be amazing, for

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the other thing that I just want to point out is that with beginners you are gonna have to repeatedly tell them to do less.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I said, 50 to 60%. I realize a lot of the books say 70%.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s because I’m a yoga therapist. And I’ve worked with a lot of a type people who, when you say 70, they’re going to do like 1 20.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that is why I say 50 to 60%.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But you’ll have to remind people because we walk in the door often with these, especially those people who’ve done a lot of like really physical kind of challenging Yoga. You know the the Vinyasa lovers and the the handstand people, and they will probably need reminders that actually, in a Yin practice less is more

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that if you’re trying to affect the deep fascia.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that pushing, efforting, and striving is actually cutting you off from dealing, from addressing the deep fascia.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because your body starts to move into fight, flight or freeze response. Everything starts to tighten up. And now you’re not relaxed enough

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in a moderate amount to get into that deep fashion. So you may have to point that out

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to all beginners, regardless of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know their experience in other styles of yoga.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I think that that’s probably enough

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to talk about whether or not in is appropriate for beginners.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Again.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: we have to watch as teachers our tendency to make these blanket statements about whole mass groups of people

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that’s ridiculous. We can’t say all beginners this, or you know, we could use genders, and we can’t say all women. This all men this all like? No, there’s there are shades of gray.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and what be might be a perfect fit

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for one beginner might not at all be a fit for another.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So let’s not make these blanket statements. Let’s not go out in the world telling people that beginners can’t do yen yoga.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Of course they can

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if they want to, if it fits their needs.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if it fits their goals.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Alright, my friends, I think that’s enough of that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I hope that you found this helpful.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: By all means, please continue. And I have been getting from a lot of you, you know, Dms, and you know

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Facebook messages. And, by the way, if you have the choice of Facebook or Instagram, please contact me via Instagram, I don’t spend a lot of time on Facebook.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I go into the groups, and I get the hell out of there because I don’t like it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I only like the groups. But you know, for those of you who’ve been sending me little love notes about the podcast and

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Nyk Danu Yoga: how it’s helped your teaching and given me some of your Ahas.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: thank you so much makes my heart squeal with glee.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Because you know my intention, when creating this podcast was to make it educational and to really help

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Nyk Danu Yoga: teachers

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Nyk Danu Yoga: teach

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and to have the skills and the tools to be able to do that more effectively. So the fact that I’ve been getting that feedback from you means that I’m on course. So thank you so much. So if you have any key takeaways from this episode, I would love it if you would write a written review. If you’re on apple or do a 5 star review on apple or spotify, or if you’re watching on Youtube, leave me some comments like, and like the video subscribe.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you want to send me a DM.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Letting me know your Haas, that would be awesome.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: On Instagram. And you know, if you’ve done all that already, if you’re like Nick, I subscribed right away from your first episode, Nick. I’ve already offered a review.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Nick. I’m already, you know I’m already following you all everywhere and listening to all the things. If that’s you. Thank you, Rockstar. If you don’t mind, maybe taking a Screenshot of this episode and sharing it in your Instagram stories and tag me at Nick Daniel, Yoga, or and or at your Yoga, podcast

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Nyk Danu Yoga: then I can share the love I’d be super grateful for that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That only works. By the way, if your account is public, so if your account is private.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I won’t see that you’ve shared it. So there’s that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: until we meet again, my friends.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Bye, for now.