Yin Yoga Super Powers- Honouring The Rebound

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Yin Yoga Super Powers- Honouring The Rebound

What we are talking about in this episode is what in Yin Yoga is known as the Rebound.

Due to Yin Yoga’s ability to affect the fascia of the body, coming out of a Yin shape can be quite a different feeling than a more movement-based practice.

Therefore, the urge to moan and groan, to move slowly and mindfully, is normal and, in fact, a good sign.

Some teachers tend to skip over the rest between Yin Shapes when they teach Yin. Or they coach movement in between poses or another pose in between yin shapes. Which—in my opinion—is a mistake for a few reasons.

  1. The rests in a Yin practice are where Yin yoga’s quiet superpowers become the most apparent (effects on the fascia). When we move too quickly from one pose to the next, we can miss the feeling of the resonance of the Yin shapes.
  2. Also, culturally in our daily lives, we are always rushing from one thing to the next, so taking the time to notice and honour the space between no longer and not yet, and the effect that slowing down has on the nervous system, is a much-needed gift.
  3. It teaches our students the value of that little space between no longer and not yet (the present moment)
  4. As Yoga teachers, allowing time and space for the rebound is an important part of holding brave space for our students.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Yennies, and welcome back to a yin yoga, podcast

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you’re new around here, welcome.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: my name is Nick Daniel, and I’m your host.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and for those of you who are return listeners. If you’ve listened to a couple or more of these episodes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you’ve had some. Ahas! If you’ve had some insights or some helpful things to help guide you in your in journey or in your teaching, I would be so grateful if you would take a moment right now, you could even pause this

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Nyk Danu Yoga: on Spotify. It’s just stars on Apple. You can do 5 stars, or you could also leave a written review which would be amazing as well.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I know that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: probably every time you listen to a podcast you hear a podcast or saying this and that’s because these little things actually go a long way in growing the podcast

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the more likely apple or spotify is to show this, when people search out Yoga podcasts, or when people search out yen Yoga, or when people search out yen Yoga podcasts, you get the idea.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: break through the algorithm and just take a moment. Right now you can just pause this, go into your app

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So click on the Yin Yoga

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Nyk Danu Yoga: podcast page, and then just scroll down and there’s an opportunity there for you to add some stars or written review, I would be so grateful.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And again, if you are on Youtube, you could like the video

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Nyk Danu Yoga: subscribe and then just drop me a comment part way through or near the end with any Aha! Moments that you’ve had about this particular episode. I would love that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: all right.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: one more thing to remind you of for those of you that are new around these parts.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: although I have the soul of a mermaid, I also have the mouth of a sailor. And so you can expect some adult language. And always in these episodes, adult subject matter.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you have small ones around, take a moment to just pause and grab some headphones. Now.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: before we dive right into today’s episode.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I wanted to just share

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Nyk Danu Yoga: some testimonial or review that I got on my

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Nyk Danu Yoga: 60 plus hour therapeutic yin training.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and this is from Snaha of connect and grow yoga on Instagram. So at connect and grow. Yoga.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: these are her words 10 out of 10. Everything in the training was new for me, and I totally soaked it. All in

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Nyk Danu Yoga: my biggest takeaway is that everyone should be doing Yin yoga at least a few times a month.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Personally for me, I’m also going to continue learning more about fascia and sineu channels and the 5 elements.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I have a great appreciation

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for the qualities and benefits of Yen Yoga for one’s wellness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I also like the foundations of Yin Yang theory, the Tcm. And the 5 elements that you wove into our training.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: All of this made the learning comprehensive for me. Thank you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: What I loved most about the course is that it created a high quality user experience the way it was structured, extremely organized, very easy to access the information in regards to reading and homework, etc.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that was from a former student

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Nyk Danu Yoga: your hard work and your obsession is paying off in some ways that it’s actually translating to the students.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you want more information about my 60 h training, I get a combination of people who’ve already taken yin trainings, but feel like there were some holes in their training their previous trainings.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And Yen Yoga, whether either of those are for you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you can just take a moment in the show notes or below the video. If you’re on Instagram, and you will see a link that says to get on the waitlist when you click that link.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Of the training. So I’ll sometimes share little snippets of videos from the training other podcasts interviews. I’ve been on cool videos that I find, etc, etc.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, friends, let’s get into today’s topic. So we’ve got a solo episode today.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m not sure yet at the time of recording is what I’m going to call it. But what I want to talk about is what in Yen Yoga is known as the Rebound.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the rebound.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now, I’m not going to call it the rebound.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: basically, for most of the rest of this episode.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: simply because that’s not what I personally call it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So. If you’ve listened to the episode where I talked about what is therapeutic? Yin?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or they felt like they could be just a little bit more trauma sensitive.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so there’s many words that I did. I changed. We’ll just talk about the one today which is rebound.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but it didn’t feel accurate to me.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because when I come out of a yin pose I don’t feel like I rebound out of it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If anything, it’s a lot more slow and gradual.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the sensation just doesn’t feel like a rebound. So that’s why I started calling it the resonance.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or often the linger of the pose in your body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ve heard other teachers call it the echo, which is also, I think, quite nice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: instead of using the word rebound. I’m going to be saying resonance or linger.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Some people call it echo. It’s all the same thing. Just different words for different people.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And the reason that I wanted to dedicate a whole episode

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that’s natural. We all do that. But my hope is that as you begin teaching in, and you get more and more experienced with it, and you fall more and more in love with Yen.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That you start to really observe for yourself.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I’ve talked about that in other episodes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and what some of those things might be, and I’m sure I’ll bang on about this in many episodes to come. But today I want to talk about

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the rebound, as it’s called by my teacher.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or in my vernacular, the resonance or the linger of the pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So first let’s just talk about what it is right.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then I could talk a bit more about why it’s oh, so important.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So when you’ve been doing a yin practice, and you’ve done these longer holes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: This enables access to different tissues of the body in a different way than a more dynamic dynamic or movement based practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So in the Yin Yoga we access the deep fascia and large bands of connective tissue on the but of the body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and due to Yin’s effects on the fascia of the body coming out of a yin shape

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Nyk Danu Yoga: can be quite different, and quite a different feeling than when you come out of a more movement-based practice shape.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the urge to sort of moan and groan and to move slowly and mindfully is normal. In fact, it’s a good sign.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I sometimes joke that in some shapes I feel like yen yoga road kill like. I wish that somebody could just come and scrape me up and flip me over so I didn’t have to move myself.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so we want to do that. We want to come out slowly and mindfully.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and we want to take a moment to notice

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that feeling in the body

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Nyk Danu Yoga: what Paul would have called the rebound.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or what I’m going to call the resonance, or the linger of that shape in the

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in your body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I had a big gong in the room.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you’d likely feel the resonance of that on your skin, and even in your body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So even if you couldn’t hear, you would still know that I’d hit that gong because it would be tangible, the vibration of it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then, if we just sat there with our eyes closed for a minute or so

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The sound itself, and the sensation on or in our bodies would slowly begin to dissipate

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Nyk Danu Yoga: until it was no longer here with us.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or it’s off very faintly in the distance.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and this is similar to how it can feel when we come out of a yin pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: At first there’s that urge to moan and groan and come out slowly.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the resonance of the pose can feel quite strong

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that linger of the shape in your body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But over the course of a small rest period. And this is what we’re talking about here when we’re talking about.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The rebound or the resonance of the linger is taking this small opportunity for rest.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and over that rest period the sensation begins to soften

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to the point where eventually you feel like you’re familiar self again.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and better able to move into the next shape.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So when we first come out of the shape, there’s this moan and groan, this urge to move slowly and mindfully, and then, as we settle into something where we’re going to rest.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: we notice that sensation begin to fade and fade and fade and fade

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and fade

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Nyk Danu Yoga: until we feel like we are our familiar self again, or at least enough so that we can take the next shape.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Oftentimes one of the things that happens when we have

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Nyk Danu Yoga: bringing in all of their suitcases and their baggage and things from their huff of the classes or their flow classes, or whatever other style they were trained in.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: even more so when we have teachers teaching Yin yoga that actually don’t have any yin Yoga training.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this is what happens when we have teachers

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I mean, I could totally teach you in. It’s just like regular yoga with longer holds.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So when that happens, then some of the beauty

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the magic of a Yin practice gets forgotten about.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now, sometimes you can hand people a gift, and they don’t see it as a gift. Right? So sometimes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: This can be uncomfortable, unfamiliar, awkward for the students, and again, sometimes for teachers, especially if you’re newer to leading these quieter practices.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And you know, as Yoga teachers, we don’t have, we have 0 control over whether or not our students are out in the world.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: being human doings instead of human beings, and rushing from one thing to the next thing to the next thing to the next thing we we can’t control that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But what we can do is in our Yoga spaces.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: We can explain why we might want to slow it down.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then I think maybe a helpful, especially if you’ve got a bunch of real fidgety people in your room to explain that sometimes slowing down is the hardest part of this practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: This is coming up for me. I want to hurry up and just go right to the other side of this shape, or I want to just go right into the next shape.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now that you’ve done the shape on one side, do you notice the difference between that side and the side you’ve yet to do?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And the answer might be. Yes, you do notice a difference.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The answer might be, no.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it might be quite subtle, it might be glaring.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: All of those are fine.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The important part is to slow down and notice

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Nyk Danu Yoga: sometimes all we notice. This is literally what I say, word for word. Sometimes all we notice is the urge to hurry up and get to the other side. That’s also worth noticing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: just because we have the urge to hurry up and go to the other side doesn’t mean we have to do that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: We can just go.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m feeling really impatient. I want to just hurry up and get to the next thing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: What’s up with that? I can observe that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if it’s in between sides, I usually go, for, you know, somewhere around 30 s.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I give them some things that they could tune into it that they could look at.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then, if we’ve done either, a couple of smaller, like smaller holded poses, smaller, holded smaller held poses.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know, like in the 2 2 and a half range. If we’ve done a couple of those, maybe back to back.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or if we’ve done a longer held pose. Sort of in that 3 to 5 min range. Then I’m going to allow a full minute

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the resonance

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or the linger for the rest time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that’s just always what Paul did

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in our trainings, and it’s on his old, old school. Original yin, DVD. And I know. I know a lot of people don’t even realize that Paul had a Yin. DVD. Now it’s streaming on pranamaya. You don’t have to buy the DVD. But that there’s a whole practice video there. Lots of people know about his anatomy one, but they don’t know about his practice video.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you want to see how he used to teach it back in the day. That’s a perfect way to check that out.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And when I did my training with him our rests were always a minute, so I don’t know if there’s any magic to a minute. It’s just what he did. It’s what I do. It does generally seem like.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Once the students have had a minute. Most of them will feel like they can move into their next shape with some moderate comfort.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but I also always give the invitation like, if this pose was particularly juicy for you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you’re still really feeling it. Please feel free to rest longer if we’re not in a rush.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you want to take an extra minute or

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Nyk Danu Yoga: 30 s, or whatever on top of what I’ve allowed, please do so.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: just to go over that again. If it’s one side to the other side, I take 30 s in between the sides.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I give them some things that they could tune into

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Nyk Danu Yoga: noticed? Does one side feel different than the other?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Does it not feel different than the other? Is it a subtle difference? Is it a strong difference? Notice if that impatient urge to hurry up and do the next thing is

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Nyk Danu Yoga: coming up. All of that’s worth noticing

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that there’s no right or wrong thing. To notice

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the important part is to pause and take the time to notice. That’s where the goal is.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And usually, when I say, you know, if you just notice the impatient urge to hurry up and do the next side, we get a few laughs right because it’s almost universal.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then, if we’ve done a longer held shape 3 to 5 min, or if we’ve done a couple 2 min back to back.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: then I’m going to give a full minute of rest.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so that they can notice the resonance or the linger

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Nyk Danu Yoga: of the pose in their body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now this feels like a really good time to address

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Nyk Danu Yoga: something that I will often see, and it usually comes from teachers that were previous Vinyasa teachers

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Nyk Danu Yoga: not always, but usually

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that they cue movement

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in these rests and resonance.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So, instead of just saying, Come out of the pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: come into something comfortable, pause, and take a moment or 2 to notice the rest.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or the linger, or the resonance of this pose in your body before we take the next shape. So instead of doing that, they coach them into movement. So come to your hands and knees and let’s do cat cow. And now we’ll move to the other side.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Yeah, well, you’re kind of missing the point then.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or come up to downward dog. And now we’ll do Swan on the other side.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Well, again, missing the point.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So am I, saying that your students can’t move in that minute of time. No, I’m certainly not saying that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I do not tell the students what to do in that minute of time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that is, for them

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to go inward and to observe what is happening in their body, and to do what feels right for them.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I do not cue movement in a practice where the point is stillness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now that being said, if somebody comes out.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: maybe they’re in a shape, and they kind of hug their knees into their chest and kind of rock a little bit while they’re in their resin. Totally fine.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but I’m not telling them to do so.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So when you come from a tradition where you’re sort of micromanaging every single movement and every single breath

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Nyk Danu Yoga: of your students, like a Vinyasa or an asthana practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: where it’s like moving, moving, moving, moving, moving. If that’s your primary style that you teach, and then you try to teach a yin practice, you have to watch that you’re not pulling that in

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to your yin practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Is it okay to move

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a little bit when you’re in your little space between poses. Yes, but that is not an opportunity to take one more yoga pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if the student wants to move.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if they instinctively move.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for sure, they should listen to their body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If they want to be still, they should listen to their body. They should take physically whatever shape their body just asked them to do.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I know a lot of Yin teachers will say, lie on your back and straighten your legs for every single rest. What if that’s not

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the right thing for their body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So when my students come into a shape and they are ready to

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Nyk Danu Yoga: explore the the rest, pose the resonance, the linger.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I will say.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: maybe you explore this in stillness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Maybe it’s a little wiggly for you do what feels right for your body, and then I’ll give them a few ideas.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You could just bring your feet to the floor. Here

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you could lie on your back.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you could hug your knees into your chest.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you could, depending. What pose they’re in, you could, you know, come to laying on your belly.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: please do whatever your body just asked you to do

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Nyk Danu Yoga: right? So I’m giving them. Plenty of options.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but I’m asking them to do what their body asked them to do.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m not saying, Come to your hands and your knees. Now that we’ve just done that backbend or that forward fold. And now let’s do some cat cow

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Nyk Danu Yoga: right. We don’t. That’s unnecessary.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If they want to do that if they instinctively feel drawn to do that in their own body, let them by all means. That’s what they should do.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But there’s a couple of things. There’s well, there’s many things that former flow teachers do and bring into their yin practice

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that need to get left at the front door for a yin practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I’m not going to talk about them all in this episode, but one of them is

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Nyk Danu Yoga: coaching every single moment of their practice with your voice and your cues. Stop talking so much, and let them feel and explore their own dam body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So let’s just say

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Nyk Danu Yoga: they were doing

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Nyk Danu Yoga: swan pose, for example.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Sleeping Swan.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m not going to tell them

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Nyk Danu Yoga: as they come out to move to their hands and their knees and do a bunch of cat cows in between on the way to the other side. No, I’m not.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: In fact.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m also not going to tell them to come out to Downward dog to switch to the other side

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Nyk Danu Yoga: downward. Dog is not a yin pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now, I’m certainly not going to call the in police. If one of my students does a downward dog

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in their practice as a way to transition, because that’s what feels good for their body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I’m not going to coach coach it, because this is a yin practice that is not a yin pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So, for example, a simple transition which requires a lot less fussing and movement that nobody seems to teach is, imagine if your student is in Sleeping Swan, and they have their right leg forward or pigeon for those of you that do not yet speak in.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so they’ve got their right leg forward, and now it’s time to come out

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to pause to notice, and then eventually to transition to the other side.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so I’ll just tell them.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Roll over into your front leg, butt cheek, so if the right leg is forward.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: lean over, roll over into your right butt cheek until it comes to the ground.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and when you feel solid.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: stable grounded

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you can slowly bring the back leg around forward

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and pause for a few breaths.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and any shape that your body would like you to do to notice the difference from one side to the next.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ll do that for about 30 s. Give that a little break, and then I’ll cue them

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to go ahead and bring their left leg forward and extend their right leg back.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Notice how I just transitioned them out of Swan without having to do downward dog or cat, cow or anything.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now, if they want to do that, if they automatically do that I always let them just do. Which do it. Do with? Do they need to do? I will usually crack a joke and say, for those of you that think you can’t transition to the other side without downward dog

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Nyk Danu Yoga: downward dog technically, isn’t a yen pose. But don’t worry. I won’t call the Yin police if you want to do one, and that usually gets some giggles

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Nyk Danu Yoga: right. But if that’s how they want to move and transition great. But notice, I’m not telling them to do that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you are a flow teacher

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you are used to a lot of movement, you can think that you need to coach movement

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in between the stillness and Yin. You do not need to do that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Can students move? Sure, if they feel called to.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or let them have the stillness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But let that little pause that little time in between the shapes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to notice the resonance.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the rebound, as Paul puts it, the linger of the pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: let that be their time

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to drop into their own body and notice what’s there.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Right?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I will call out a few options. If people seem really lost like you could do this, you could try this, but none of them are movement.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and none of them are another pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The point of the rest

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the resonance.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It is to be

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Nyk Danu Yoga: quiet as still as you can.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: maybe a tiny bit of movement.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but stillness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and to observe what’s you’re feeling in your body, and when you move right into

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Nyk Danu Yoga: another shape where you’re moving as a

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Nyk Danu Yoga: little link to get them to the next pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They miss it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: especially if they’ve been practicing in for a long time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: rather than coaching movement

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in between these poses, allow space for spontaneous organic movement that they might come up with.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but mostly

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Nyk Danu Yoga: give them the time to explore their body, the sensations of their body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: any impatient or irritation, or emotions that come up at the same time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: allow them to have that space, that individual space for themselves.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: To be curious to go inward, to notice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to practice interoception, and if you’re not familiar with that word.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I did a whole episode on that, too, which again, I’ll link.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But introception, very briefly stated, is an awareness of what is happening inside of them.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this is one of the reasons. I am not a fan of coaching people to come into another pose and do some movement or another. Pose is a way to transition into their next slide

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Nyk Danu Yoga: without allowing some resonance

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and some linger or rebound time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: These rests are an essential part of this practice, and downward dog is not a resting pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Coming into cat cow and moving is not taking the opportunity to be still and quiet and drop inward and notice what they’re feeling in their body. They can’t notice how that pose has affected them.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If they’re thinking about doing what it is that you’re telling them to do and move in the way that you’re telling them to move. You’ve missed your window

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Nyk Danu Yoga: right? This is not a movement practice. This is a stillness practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I get that sometimes when we’re new to teaching this style of Yoga

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Nyk Danu Yoga: old habits die hard, as they say so. It can be hard for you not to think that you need to micromanage and create a choreographed every little moment of the class. But you don’t.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You don’t need to choreograph a pose, for in between 2 sides of one shape

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you can just let them have that space.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: dear Yoga, teacher, if you’re listening to this.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: allow them the time for still and quiet. This is one of Yin Yoga’s superpowers.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They can get all the movement they want. They can get all the clever sequencing they want, all of the

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Nyk Danu Yoga: choreography that they want, where every single thing flows into something else, and you move in all of it

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in their Vinyasa classes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: doesn’t need to be in their in classes. They’re 2 different practices.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: soap box over

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Nyk Danu Yoga: at least on that point.

533
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And just, of course, know that sometimes students are a little bit confused or

534
00:44:37.250 –> 00:44:42.159
Nyk Danu Yoga: impatient when it comes to taking 30 s or a minute to rest. So just address, that

535
00:44:42.650 –> 00:44:54.219
Nyk Danu Yoga: sometimes the hardest part about this practice is giving ourselves permission to slow down and to be curious and to notice. So just know if you find that difficult. That’s not unusual. Right? Just normalize their experience.

536
00:44:54.810 –> 00:45:03.339
Nyk Danu Yoga: You don’t take it away just because someone’s uncomfortable with something doesn’t mean we’re like, Oh, well, you’re a little uncomfortable. Guess we gotta pull this essential part of the Yoga practice out.

537
00:45:03.730 –> 00:45:04.790
Nyk Danu Yoga: No, no, no.

538
00:45:08.500 –> 00:45:09.480
Nyk Danu Yoga: So

539
00:45:10.290 –> 00:45:12.580
Nyk Danu Yoga: when we can give our students

540
00:45:13.870 –> 00:45:15.070
Nyk Danu Yoga: a time.

541
00:45:15.410 –> 00:45:16.480
Nyk Danu Yoga: space

542
00:45:16.960 –> 00:45:18.060
Nyk Danu Yoga: to

543
00:45:18.200 –> 00:45:21.440
Nyk Danu Yoga: pause between sides or shapes.

544
00:45:21.970 –> 00:45:24.770
Nyk Danu Yoga: to practice introception.

545
00:45:25.050 –> 00:45:26.559
Nyk Danu Yoga: to go inward.

546
00:45:26.640 –> 00:45:31.270
Nyk Danu Yoga: to notice. Oh, how does my right hip and butt area feel now

547
00:45:31.450 –> 00:45:32.909
Nyk Danu Yoga: compared to my left.

548
00:45:33.610 –> 00:45:39.730
Nyk Danu Yoga: Do I notice a difference? Is it a glaring, obvious difference? Is it a subtle difference? Do I not notice a difference?

549
00:45:39.860 –> 00:45:42.330
Nyk Danu Yoga: Oh, maybe I just noticed the urge to

550
00:45:42.740 –> 00:45:48.800
Nyk Danu Yoga: hurry up and get to the next side, or maybe my mind is already planning my pizza toppings for dinner. All of it’s fine.

551
00:45:49.280 –> 00:45:58.269
Nyk Danu Yoga: but give them an opportunity to notice it without you filling the space with more words, more movement, more action, more things to do.

552
00:45:58.840 –> 00:46:01.040
Nyk Danu Yoga: They do not need more things to do.

553
00:46:01.190 –> 00:46:05.679
Nyk Danu Yoga: They need to learn to experience doing less.

554
00:46:06.810 –> 00:46:10.430
Nyk Danu Yoga: so that hopefully, if they can master that in their in practice.

555
00:46:10.720 –> 00:46:17.500
Nyk Danu Yoga: this taking time and space, and slowing down and pausing to notice and being curious

556
00:46:17.960 –> 00:46:21.800
Nyk Danu Yoga: and not running away as soon as they feel bored or uncomfortable.

557
00:46:22.380 –> 00:46:23.550
Nyk Danu Yoga: This

558
00:46:23.710 –> 00:46:26.739
Nyk Danu Yoga: creates habits for real life

559
00:46:26.850 –> 00:46:30.580
Nyk Danu Yoga: when they’re not on their yoga mat, and they go out into the world.

560
00:46:31.410 –> 00:46:34.830
Nyk Danu Yoga: they’re more likely to slow down.

561
00:46:35.450 –> 00:46:37.680
Nyk Danu Yoga: to take space

562
00:46:38.230 –> 00:46:41.560
Nyk Danu Yoga: in their daily lives to rest more

563
00:46:41.690 –> 00:46:45.149
Nyk Danu Yoga: if they have already experienced it before.

564
00:46:45.630 –> 00:46:51.740
Nyk Danu Yoga: and your Yin Yoga class is a perfect time and place for them to experience that

565
00:46:53.000 –> 00:46:59.040
Nyk Danu Yoga: allow them to start to understand what it feels like to be a human being.

566
00:46:59.200 –> 00:47:01.400
Nyk Danu Yoga: not a human doing.

567
00:47:03.620 –> 00:47:06.099
Nyk Danu Yoga: and their nervous system will remember this.

568
00:47:06.570 –> 00:47:10.600
Nyk Danu Yoga: and their body will remember this, and their mind and their heart will remember this.

569
00:47:10.890 –> 00:47:13.670
Nyk Danu Yoga: maybe not consciously, but it will remember.

570
00:47:13.880 –> 00:47:16.619
Nyk Danu Yoga: and the more they do it the more it’ll remember.

571
00:47:17.310 –> 00:47:23.619
Nyk Danu Yoga: and then, before you know it, your students are actually feeling more calm and settled and grounded, even when they’re not in their Yoga practice.

572
00:47:23.990 –> 00:47:25.559
Nyk Danu Yoga: And isn’t that the point?

573
00:47:26.940 –> 00:47:36.850
Nyk Danu Yoga: Are we only wanting them to feel a certain way in Yoga? No, we’re hoping they take all of these beautiful gifts that a Yin Yoga practice can offer out with them.

574
00:47:36.970 –> 00:47:40.079
Nyk Danu Yoga: bundle them up, and take them out with them out into the world

575
00:47:40.990 –> 00:47:42.980
Nyk Danu Yoga: because they are of service to them.

576
00:47:43.360 –> 00:47:46.509
Nyk Danu Yoga: to their mental, emotional, and physical health and wellbeing.

577
00:47:47.380 –> 00:47:49.590
Nyk Danu Yoga: Because we live in a culture

578
00:47:49.760 –> 00:47:51.859
Nyk Danu Yoga: where it is. Go, go, go.

579
00:47:52.050 –> 00:47:54.480
Nyk Danu Yoga: compete, compete, thrive, push.

580
00:47:54.620 –> 00:47:55.590
Nyk Danu Yoga: hustle.

581
00:47:56.650 –> 00:48:07.870
Nyk Danu Yoga: and there’s nothing wrong with some of that. We need some of that young energy in our world and in our life, otherwise we’d still all be living in caves. We never would have discovered fire or created spears, or anything else

582
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Nyk Danu Yoga: to help us to survive as humans. So yes, we need some young energy.

583
00:48:13.760 –> 00:48:17.199
Nyk Danu Yoga: but we live in a young dominant world.

584
00:48:18.990 –> 00:48:23.930
Nyk Danu Yoga: We live in a world where yong is praised more than anything else.

585
00:48:24.510 –> 00:48:31.259
Nyk Danu Yoga: and these still and quiet and receptive times, which are equally important and equally valid.

586
00:48:31.680 –> 00:48:33.459
Nyk Danu Yoga: These yin times

587
00:48:33.710 –> 00:48:37.109
Nyk Danu Yoga: don’t get much airplay. They don’t get much attention.

588
00:48:37.290 –> 00:48:40.149
Nyk Danu Yoga: They’re not as flashy. They’re not as sexy. They’re not, you know

589
00:48:40.970 –> 00:48:43.600
Nyk Danu Yoga: they’re not all over Instagram a little bit.

590
00:48:44.670 –> 00:48:47.849
Nyk Danu Yoga: but they’re super important and super essential

591
00:48:49.920 –> 00:49:03.649
Nyk Danu Yoga: when our students can take the time to be still in quiet and learn to listen to their own body, their thoughts, their mind, their heart, when they’re on the yoga mat. Then they learn how to do that when they’re not on the yoga mat, and they’re out in their regular life

592
00:49:05.230 –> 00:49:08.189
Nyk Danu Yoga: when they learn how to nourish their nervous system.

593
00:49:08.980 –> 00:49:13.100
Nyk Danu Yoga: and they’re better able to do that when they’re not on the yoga mat.

594
00:49:14.700 –> 00:49:19.080
Nyk Danu Yoga: when they have an opportunity to rest, to come to stillness.

595
00:49:19.100 –> 00:49:22.490
Nyk Danu Yoga: to move into that parasympathetic nervous system.

596
00:49:23.090 –> 00:49:27.399
Nyk Danu Yoga: then they are more loving and kind to the rest of humanity.

597
00:49:28.510 –> 00:49:30.520
Nyk Danu Yoga: because it’s very difficult

598
00:49:30.690 –> 00:49:32.939
Nyk Danu Yoga: to be a kind human

599
00:49:33.470 –> 00:49:36.850
Nyk Danu Yoga: when you’re constantly feeling rushed, overwhelmed and stressed.

600
00:49:38.560 –> 00:49:39.350
Nyk Danu Yoga: So

601
00:49:39.690 –> 00:49:46.050
Nyk Danu Yoga: this is why this is such an essential part of the practice. And again, for those of you that are looking for the how to nuts and bolts.

602
00:49:46.490 –> 00:49:50.279
Nyk Danu Yoga: Very simple between one side and the other. Just tell them.

603
00:49:50.370 –> 00:49:55.850
Nyk Danu Yoga: bring your, you know, bring your feet to the floor, or whatever it is, pause, say the word to them, pause.

604
00:49:56.810 –> 00:50:00.110
Nyk Danu Yoga: Notice. Does one side feel different than the other?

605
00:50:00.560 –> 00:50:03.329
Nyk Danu Yoga: And if so, is it strong? Is it subtle?

606
00:50:03.730 –> 00:50:06.520
Nyk Danu Yoga: Do you not notice that one side feels different than the other.

607
00:50:06.560 –> 00:50:09.650
Nyk Danu Yoga: Do you just notice the urge to hurry up and rush to the other side?

608
00:50:10.400 –> 00:50:15.739
Nyk Danu Yoga: You only have to coax them a couple times, and then they’ll get it. They’ll be like, Oh, okay, right?

609
00:50:15.790 –> 00:50:19.560
Nyk Danu Yoga: So in this practice, we practice the pause.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.

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00:50:25.150 –> 00:50:30.439
Nyk Danu Yoga: I hope that’s given you something to think about for those of you that maybe weren’t including this time.

612
00:50:30.730 –> 00:50:33.490
Nyk Danu Yoga: And it might mean you do slightly less poses

613
00:50:33.630 –> 00:50:35.499
Nyk Danu Yoga: because you’re allowing for the rest

614
00:50:35.720 –> 00:50:38.249
Nyk Danu Yoga: and the still and the quiet and the introception.

615
00:50:38.670 –> 00:50:39.890
Nyk Danu Yoga: And that’s fine

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00:50:40.010 –> 00:50:41.000
Nyk Danu Yoga: again.

617
00:50:41.130 –> 00:50:43.050
Nyk Danu Yoga: this isn’t about being a human

618
00:50:43.100 –> 00:50:45.409
Nyk Danu Yoga: doing. It’s about being a human being.

619
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this is a super important part of the practice. It’s a part of the practice that often gets left out.

620
00:50:52.910 –> 00:50:56.119
Nyk Danu Yoga: Allowing for these small opportunities for rest

621
00:50:56.800 –> 00:51:04.970
Nyk Danu Yoga: to notice the linger, the resonance of the pose in their body to begin to feel like they’re familiar self again before they take their next shape

622
00:51:05.760 –> 00:51:11.149
Nyk Danu Yoga: to pause to notice if their mind, their heart, or their body has little whispers to tell them

623
00:51:11.560 –> 00:51:16.600
Nyk Danu Yoga: little things they should know that they’re maybe not paying attention to, because they’re so busy

624
00:51:17.280 –> 00:51:20.260
Nyk Danu Yoga: all of this super important part of this practice.

625
00:51:23.020 –> 00:51:23.910
Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.

626
00:51:24.840 –> 00:51:26.540
Nyk Danu Yoga: so just to wrap it up.

627
00:51:26.600 –> 00:51:30.910
Nyk Danu Yoga: just going to prove that I am once again a generation X kid.

628
00:51:31.130 –> 00:51:33.890
Nyk Danu Yoga: and do my best to embody.

629
00:51:36.280 –> 00:51:38.100
Nyk Danu Yoga: A little Irish singer.

630
00:51:38.980 –> 00:51:51.469
Nyk Danu Yoga: do you have to do? You have to do? You have to do. You have to let it linger? The answer would be, yes, the answer would be, Yes, please allow the time

631
00:51:51.750 –> 00:51:54.479
Nyk Danu Yoga: for the linger, for the resonance of the post.

632
00:51:55.720 –> 00:51:58.859
Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, friends, that is all for this episode.

633
00:51:59.190 –> 00:52:01.719
Nyk Danu Yoga: Thank you so much once again for listening.

634
00:52:02.010 –> 00:52:23.509
Nyk Danu Yoga: and I hope that this is given you some food for thought for your classes, either. If you were including the rest and the linger, maybe you’ve got some talking points. Now, if students are struggling, you’ve got some ideas about why you can explain how important it is if you have not been including this. If you’ve been one of those teachers that’s been getting people to go right into cat, cow, move, move, move, move. Now do the next thing. Maybe you could stop doing that.

635
00:52:23.590 –> 00:52:30.949
Nyk Danu Yoga: Given you plenty of reasons to try it out, and yes, it will feel uncomfortable for you and for them, especially if you’ve been teaching

636
00:52:31.080 –> 00:52:34.399
Nyk Danu Yoga: your stillness class like a movement-based class.

637
00:52:34.890 –> 00:52:37.200
Nyk Danu Yoga: But just because something’s uncomfortable

638
00:52:37.260 –> 00:52:40.529
Nyk Danu Yoga: doesn’t mean it’s not valid. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it.

639
00:52:40.870 –> 00:52:43.510
Nyk Danu Yoga: In fact, the only 2 growth

640
00:52:44.020 –> 00:52:46.579
Nyk Danu Yoga: is on the other side of discomfort.

641
00:52:47.630 –> 00:52:48.939
Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, my friends.

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00:52:49.130 –> 00:52:51.700
Nyk Danu Yoga: Thank you for listening, and until we meet again.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: bye, for now.

 

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