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.
- 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.
- 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.
- It teaches our students the value of that little space between no longer and not yet (the present moment)
- 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: I wanted to just share
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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: 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: Then you’ve probably heard me talk about how, or even when I spoke to Paul and his interview about how part way through, when I started teaching in to teachers that I
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I just felt like as I took my Yoga therapy training, some of the words that I was sort of brought up with in my in community in my in circles
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Nyk Danu Yoga: didn’t either feel accurate to what I was, just what I was feeling and what I was witnessing.
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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: So
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Nyk Danu Yoga: it’s not that I think the word rebound isn’t trauma sensitive? I think it’s fairly neutral, although you know any word could
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Nyk Danu Yoga: be a trigger for anybody at any time. We just never know.
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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: So tomato tomata.
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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: to this is because
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I’ve said this in other episodes. Sometimes when we were originally trained in a different style of yoga than Yen. So if Yen wasn’t the first style of yoga that you were trained in.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: then you probably came into Yen with what I call some of your little suitcases
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Nyk Danu Yoga: or your little baggage. So some of the stuff that you learned in your first training.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: or the attitudes even, or the culture even of your first trainings.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you just bring those into your yin teaching.
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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: and analyze for yourself
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Nyk Danu Yoga: where some of those things that you brought into your yin training
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Nyk Danu Yoga: from your more young styles of Yoga
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Nyk Danu Yoga: aren’t actually helpful, and maybe not serving
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Nyk Danu Yoga: the practice.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that we could let them go.
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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: So here’s a metaphor that we could use. Imagine if we were all in a room together.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: wouldn’t that be nice?
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I had a big gong in the room.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I asked you all to close your eyes, and then I gave that gong a good hard wallop.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: When I do that the sound would be
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Nyk Danu Yoga: big and loud, and it would fill the space
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Nyk Danu Yoga: it would be almost impossible to ignore.
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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: and let the sound
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Nyk Danu Yoga: start to fade.
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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: yin teachers
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Nyk Danu Yoga: teaching yin.
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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: or
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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: coming into a yin yin class to teach with the attitude of
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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: And some of these
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Nyk Danu Yoga: things
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Nyk Danu Yoga: are
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Nyk Danu Yoga: crucial, in my opinion.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: to this practice.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So, leaving out time
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Nyk Danu Yoga: for your student or yourself in your own practice.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: to just pause
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and notice
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Nyk Danu Yoga: the resonance, the linger of that shape, or, in Paul’s language, the rebound
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Nyk Danu Yoga: in your body
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Nyk Danu Yoga: to allow for an opportunity to begin to feel like you’re familiar self again
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Nyk Danu Yoga: before you move into something else, in my opinion, is a big mistake.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: because this well, there’s lots of reasons which I’ll go into.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: but one of which is being that the end is so unique and so different. And what you’re doing here is you’re taking one of the most magical things about this practice.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and sort of shoving it off to the side like it’s less important than just hurrying up and getting into another pose.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And again, sometimes this comes just from habit.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Sometimes it comes from the teachers discomfort again holding space for
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Nyk Danu Yoga: still and quiet. Right? So I’ve had a few episodes where I’ve talked about that, so we can go back and listen to the mind in yin emotions in Yen.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: or how to hold brave space
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Nyk Danu Yoga: with grace if you want to.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Not grace as in the attribute, but the actual person, Grace. I did an episode with her, so I’ll put those in the show notes, listening to either of those. If you want a little bit more on that. If you are a teacher that has this discomfort with the still and the quiet.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Those would be helpful for you.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the rest and the resonance
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Nyk Danu Yoga: is super important, because not only does it again begin to allow our body to feel like it’s familiar
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Nyk Danu Yoga: self again before we take something else.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s one reason.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: But there’s there’s more reasons that this is a mistake.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: The rests in a yin practice are where Yin Yoga’s quiet superpowers become the most apparent.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: the effects on the fascia.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: so that urge to moan and groan that feeling of being a little vulnerable or fragile, or not quite put together.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: allowing that time in that space to notice the effects on the fascia.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and so, when we move too quickly from one post to the next, we can miss that feeling of resonance in the yin shapes.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s a big mistake.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And also culturally in our daily lives, most of us, myself included.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: are often rushing from one thing to the next to the next to the next.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and this can be hard on our nervous system
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Nyk Danu Yoga: a lot of times. We don’t realize it, but that we’re actually in our sort of fight flight and
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Nyk Danu Yoga: then freeze response
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Nyk Danu Yoga: more often than we should be
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Nyk Danu Yoga: to have a healthy nervous system.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so when we’re constantly moving from one thing right to the next thing, right to the next thing to the next thing, without giving ourselves any moments of pause
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Nyk Danu Yoga: or slowing down. This is really hard on the nervous system.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and this can lead us to feeling rushed and overwhelmed and sort of on edge, or like we’re on our last nerve. And
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Nyk Danu Yoga: that can be problematic.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Well, just for our own health, mental health, and physical health, but also for how we are in the world.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: If I’m constantly feeling rushed and stressed and panicked and kind of overwhelmed.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then, if anything’s kind of thrown at me from some other human near me or animal, for that matter.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: that I wasn’t prepared for that, I don’t feel like I have time, for I’m likely to be a bit snappish, a bit impatient, or maybe even a downright asshole.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: right? So, taking time to slow down in life
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Nyk Danu Yoga: is a good thing.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: This is why, when we go out for walks in nature.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: we feel so much better afterwards, or when we take a vacation. Once we get over the fact that we’re going to have to do less because we’re on vacation.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: that we come back and we feel better
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and culturally, we’re overwhelmed with this. It’s literally programmed in.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: We live in hustle culture.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: rushing from thing to thing.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: not taking the time to rest or to be observant or to notice.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: having this opportunity in your Yin class
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Nyk Danu Yoga: gives people this much needed time to sort of bathe in their parasympathetic nervous system in the relaxation response.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So culturally, we’re always rushing from one thing to the next.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So, taking this time
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Nyk Danu Yoga: to honor this little space between no longer and not yet.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the effect that slowing down has on the nervous system
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Nyk Danu Yoga: is a much needed gift.
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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: because we’re like this culturally rush, rush, rush, go, go, go, thing thing more and more, more, more do it, do it, do it right.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: All that stuff sometimes. This is the challenge for for students when they’re in a Yin class.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: is the slowing down is, the still is the quiet.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay?
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Nyk Danu Yoga: But just because something is challenging for somebody doesn’t mean it’s not damn good for them.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So you know.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I am challenged to remember to take my vitamins.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I gotta, you know, really put some systems in place to make sure that I remember to take my vitamins.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: But just because I find it challenging to remember to take them doesn’t mean it’s not worthwhile for me to take them right?
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So just because your students may be a little impatient, a little fidgety, a little irritated.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and they may kind of want to quickly move to. The next thing
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Nyk Danu Yoga: doesn’t mean that encouraging them to slow down
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and giving these deliberate.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: sacred little pauses
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Nyk Danu Yoga: in the Yin class isn’t good for them. It is so good for them.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Their nervous systems will really really appreciate that
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Nyk Danu Yoga: once their mind gets over
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Nyk Danu Yoga: the fact that this is happening.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: their body will appreciate it.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: their nervous system will appreciate it. Their Psyche will appreciate it
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Nyk Danu Yoga: so.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: because we don’t take much time
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Nyk Danu Yoga: in our daily lives
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Nyk Danu Yoga: to slow down and to honor that little space between no longer and not yet otherwise known as the present moment.
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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: You might also feel that pull within you to just hurry up and get to the other side, or hurry up and get to the next pose.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: That doesn’t mean that that’s what you should do.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: If it’s uncomfortable for you as a teacher. Pause, take a couple deep breaths.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’d be curious.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Why is this so uncomfortable for me?
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this is one of the reasons why we really need this
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Nyk Danu Yoga: crack, this practice physically.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: having this resonance time, this rest time to lay there and notice the linger of the pose in our body allows our fascia and our body to begin to feel like it’s familiar self again before we move it into some other new shape
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Nyk Danu Yoga: mentally, where our nervous system and our mind
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Nyk Danu Yoga: slowing down.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: taking deliberate sacred pauses.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: is really good for helping us to get into our parasympathetic, nervous system, the relaxation response.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and away from our sympathetic nervous system. This rushed.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: panicked hurry, hurry, go overwhelmed state that many people are in all the time
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Nyk Danu Yoga: also.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Sometimes
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Nyk Danu Yoga: these little breasts
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Nyk Danu Yoga: allow us to access
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Nyk Danu Yoga: little messages that we might be getting.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: but not really paying attention to
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Nyk Danu Yoga: little messages in our minds or our hearts.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Right? So when we’re always rushing and moving and doing stuff, it’s hard to hear our hearts whispers
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Nyk Danu Yoga: little messages.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m your
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Nyk Danu Yoga: your bigger self, your higher self.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: that your body or your heart might be trying to tell you
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Nyk Danu Yoga: like
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Nyk Danu Yoga: you need more rest.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: This job isn’t right for you.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: You need to shift some things in your life. For example, these things can come up
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Nyk Danu Yoga: when we take the time to slow down
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Nyk Danu Yoga: when we take the time to slow down.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: We also notice little messages that our body is telling us.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I once heard this quote, and I do not know who it’s by, because it was not attributed, and I’ve seen it everywhere. So
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Nyk Danu Yoga: if anybody knows, please let me know who this quote is by.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: But then when we listen to our body, whisper.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: then we don’t have to hear it scream.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: When we listen to our body whisper.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: we don’t have to hear it scream
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Nyk Danu Yoga: so when we take the time to slow down.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: then we can get curious about oh, what’s that weird little ache there in my body? Hmm!
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Nyk Danu Yoga: What’s going on there. Maybe I should pay more attention to them. Maybe I should get that checked out.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: None of these things
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Nyk Danu Yoga: can happen if we’re constantly rushing and moving from thing to thing to thing to thing.
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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 encourage this slowing down.
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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: And so if you find that you’re sort of impatiently wanting to move the next thing, or you’re like, Oh.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m so bored in this 30 s or a minute, you know. Rest that I am here.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Just know that’s normal, right? So always normalize these things, especially if you see a lot of fidgeting in front of you. So if you’re a teacher and you’re trying to do this little rebound pause, and you just notice that people are immediately rushing to the next side, or they’re just super fidgety and impatient or irritated. You can address that right
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Nyk Danu Yoga: just by saying, You know, sometimes this is the hardest part of a yin practice, for some of us
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Nyk Danu Yoga: is just giving ourselves permission to slow down
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and to explore the value of being present in this moment.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: which is a really tricky place for us to be in culturally.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So you can address it with your students, you can address it with yourself.
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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: Okay, and notice that in yourself. And just ask yourself, what’s what’s up with that? Why?
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Why do I feel the need to hurry up?
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Hurry up and wait. Hurry up and wait right. What’s the point of hurrying to get to the next shape where you’re just going to be there for minutes at a time, anyway.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So
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Nyk Danu Yoga: this inability to slow it down. To be present, to be in the moment is sort of a cultural thing.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and when we can address that
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Nyk Danu Yoga: both with our words and just by actually leaving the space in our classes for these sacred pauses.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: then we help to cultivate
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Nyk Danu Yoga: a space where our students, nervous systems can shift from our fight, flight or freeze response
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Nyk Danu Yoga: into our sympath, our parasympathetic response of rest, digest, relax.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and most of us really need more time there
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Nyk Danu Yoga: because our culture is set up to keep us in a sympathetic dominance.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: This is why so many diseases chronic diseases can be linked to stress
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Nyk Danu Yoga: alright, so slowing down
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Nyk Danu Yoga: is essential for good health.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: physically, mentally, and emotionally.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and we don’t do it.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so sometimes it feels unfamiliar. And then we think, because it’s uncomfortable that we shouldn’t do it. And so we skip over it.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: But as often in a yin practice the magic is in the discomfort.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: This is where our Haas come to us.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, so I hope
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ve kind of sold you on the why.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: But now let’s
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Nyk Danu Yoga: let’s do a little who and what? And the rest of the elements of
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Nyk Danu Yoga: this resonance, or linger in the pose.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So when you’ve done a yin shape, let’s just say you’ve done an asymmetrical shape or a one-sided shape.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I like to leave about 30 s or so in between before they go to the next slide.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: You will have to remind your students repeatedly
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Nyk Danu Yoga: to pause.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: because they will just automatically go to the next slide.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I always just invite my students to come out
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Nyk Danu Yoga: to pause.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: take some stillness.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and to notice, does that first side of their body where they just did the shape
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Nyk Danu Yoga: feel different than the side where they have yet to have done the shape.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And what are those differences?
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I also normalize if they don’t really notice a difference. So I will literally say.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: let’s take a moment to notice. Is there a difference from one side to the other.
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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.
00:30:28.740 –> 00:30:32.159
Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m feeling really impatient. I want to just hurry up and get to the next thing.
00:30:32.350 –> 00:30:34.370
Nyk Danu Yoga: What’s up with that? I can observe that.
00:30:37.100 –> 00:30:42.669
Nyk Danu Yoga: So if it’s in between sides, I usually go, for, you know, somewhere around 30 s.
00:30:43.030 –> 00:30:46.980
Nyk Danu Yoga: and I give them some things that they could tune into it that they could look at.
00:30:49.250 –> 00:30:57.189
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.
00:31:04.260 –> 00:31:11.199
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
00:31:11.610 –> 00:31:12.610
Nyk Danu Yoga: for
00:31:12.770 –> 00:31:14.110
Nyk Danu Yoga: the resonance
00:31:14.260 –> 00:31:16.639
Nyk Danu Yoga: or the linger for the rest time.
00:31:17.000 –> 00:31:17.870
Nyk Danu Yoga: and
00:31:18.040 –> 00:31:19.899
Nyk Danu Yoga: that’s just always what Paul did
00:31:20.230 –> 00:31:40.210
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.
00:31:40.710 –> 00:31:46.400
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.
00:31:46.940 –> 00:31:57.729
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.
00:31:58.150 –> 00:32:04.820
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.
00:32:04.930 –> 00:32:09.760
Nyk Danu Yoga: but I also always give the invitation like, if this pose was particularly juicy for you.
00:32:09.830 –> 00:32:14.499
Nyk Danu Yoga: you’re still really feeling it. Please feel free to rest longer if we’re not in a rush.
00:32:14.510 –> 00:32:16.700
Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you want to take an extra minute or
00:32:16.760 –> 00:32:20.929
Nyk Danu Yoga: 30 s, or whatever on top of what I’ve allowed, please do so.
00:32:22.950 –> 00:32:23.690
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.
00:32:30.930 –> 00:32:33.690
Nyk Danu Yoga: and I give them some things that they could tune into
00:32:34.850 –> 00:32:37.450
Nyk Danu Yoga: noticed? Does one side feel different than the other?
00:32:37.630 –> 00:32:45.680
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
00:32:45.710 –> 00:32:47.979
Nyk Danu Yoga: coming up. All of that’s worth noticing
00:32:48.260 –> 00:32:50.880
Nyk Danu Yoga: that there’s no right or wrong thing. To notice
00:32:50.900 –> 00:32:56.169
Nyk Danu Yoga: the important part is to pause and take the time to notice. That’s where the goal is.
00:32:57.610 –> 00:33:05.569
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.
00:33:07.500 –> 00:33:13.880
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.
00:33:13.930 –> 00:33:17.070
Nyk Danu Yoga: then I’m going to give a full minute of rest.
00:33:18.140 –> 00:33:21.110
Nyk Danu Yoga: so that they can notice the resonance or the linger
00:33:21.690 –> 00:33:23.880
Nyk Danu Yoga: of the pose in their body.
00:33:26.400 –> 00:33:29.119
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
00:33:39.570 –> 00:33:42.309
Nyk Danu Yoga: that they cue movement
00:33:42.440 –> 00:33:45.310
Nyk Danu Yoga: in these rests and resonance.
00:33:45.570 –> 00:33:48.340
Nyk Danu Yoga: So, instead of just saying, Come out of the pose.
00:33:48.440 –> 00:33:53.600
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.
00:34:26.880 –> 00:34:31.989
Nyk Danu Yoga: But I do not tell the students what to do in that minute of time.
00:34:32.760 –> 00:34:34.899
Nyk Danu Yoga: that is, for them
00:34:35.010 –> 00:34:43.780
Nyk Danu Yoga: to go inward and to observe what is happening in their body, and to do what feels right for them.
00:34:45.320 –> 00:34:52.040
Nyk Danu Yoga: So I do not cue movement in a practice where the point is stillness.
00:34:53.100 –> 00:34:55.989
Nyk Danu Yoga: Now that being said, if somebody comes out.
00:34:56.139 –> 00:35:02.249
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.
00:35:02.330 –> 00:35:04.629
Nyk Danu Yoga: but I’m not telling them to do so.
00:35:06.100 –> 00:35:13.590
Nyk Danu Yoga: So when you come from a tradition where you’re sort of micromanaging every single movement and every single breath
00:35:13.620 –> 00:35:17.560
Nyk Danu Yoga: of your students, like a Vinyasa or an asthana practice.
00:35:17.630 –> 00:35:27.219
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
00:35:27.440 –> 00:35:29.430
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.
00:35:41.900 –> 00:35:44.539
Nyk Danu Yoga: So if the student wants to move.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: if they instinctively move.
00:35:47.980 –> 00:35:50.390
Nyk Danu Yoga: for sure, they should listen to their body.
00:35:50.830 –> 00:35:58.319
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
00:36:04.510 –> 00:36:06.139
Nyk Danu Yoga: the right thing for their body.
00:36:07.140 –> 00:36:11.999
Nyk Danu Yoga: So when my students come into a shape and they are ready to
00:36:13.640 –> 00:36:18.119
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.
00:36:23.420 –> 00:36:29.390
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
00:36:31.970 –> 00:36:33.610
Nyk Danu Yoga: you could lie on your back.
00:36:33.860 –> 00:36:35.979
Nyk Danu Yoga: you could hug your knees into your chest.
00:36:36.370 –> 00:36:41.279
Nyk Danu Yoga: you could, depending. What pose they’re in, you could, you know, come to laying on your belly.
00:36:41.460 –> 00:36:45.049
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.
00:36:48.110 –> 00:36:52.680
Nyk Danu Yoga: but I’m asking them to do what their body asked them to do.
00:36:53.740 –> 00:37:00.869
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
00:37:01.320 –> 00:37:03.540
Nyk Danu Yoga: right. We don’t. That’s unnecessary.
00:37:03.710 –> 00:37:11.179
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.
00:37:13.180 –> 00:37:21.330
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
00:37:21.360 –> 00:37:24.930
Nyk Danu Yoga: that need to get left at the front door for a yin practice.
00:37:25.050 –> 00:37:28.929
Nyk Danu Yoga: and I’m not going to talk about them all in this episode, but one of them is
00:37:29.060 –> 00:37:42.109
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
00:38:17.000 –> 00:38:21.260
Nyk Danu Yoga: in their practice as a way to transition, because that’s what feels good for their body.
00:38:21.810 –> 00:38:27.239
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.
00:38:42.830 –> 00:38:46.050
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.
00:38:58.460 –> 00:39:03.650
Nyk Danu Yoga: lean over, roll over into your right butt cheek until it comes to the ground.
00:39:04.030 –> 00:39:05.570
Nyk Danu Yoga: and when you feel solid.
00:39:05.770 –> 00:39:07.100
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.
00:39:33.910 –> 00:39:46.009
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
00:39:46.230 –> 00:39:52.629
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
00:39:53.080 –> 00:39:57.860
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
00:40:09.270 –> 00:40:14.029
Nyk Danu Yoga: in between the stillness and Yin. You do not need to do that.
00:40:14.850 –> 00:40:18.390
Nyk Danu Yoga: Can students move? Sure, if they feel called to.
00:40:18.940 –> 00:40:20.969
Nyk Danu Yoga: or let them have the stillness.
00:40:21.150 –> 00:40:27.599
Nyk Danu Yoga: But let that little pause that little time in between the shapes
00:40:28.460 –> 00:40:30.800
Nyk Danu Yoga: to notice the resonance.
00:40:31.470 –> 00:40:34.979
Nyk Danu Yoga: the rebound, as Paul puts it, the linger of the pose.
00:40:35.060 –> 00:40:37.299
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.
00:40:51.390 –> 00:40:54.170
Nyk Danu Yoga: and none of them are another pose.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: The point of the rest
00:40:57.180 –> 00:40:58.560
Nyk Danu Yoga: and the resonance.
00:40:59.190 –> 00:41:00.499
Nyk Danu Yoga: It is to be
00:41:01.000 –> 00:41:03.390
Nyk Danu Yoga: quiet as still as you can.
00:41:03.520 –> 00:41:05.410
Nyk Danu Yoga: maybe a tiny bit of movement.
00:41:05.590 –> 00:41:07.200
Nyk Danu Yoga: but stillness.
00:41:07.350 –> 00:41:13.250
Nyk Danu Yoga: and to observe what’s you’re feeling in your body, and when you move right into
00:41:13.420 –> 00:41:16.689
Nyk Danu Yoga: another shape where you’re moving as a
00:41:17.210 –> 00:41:20.039
Nyk Danu Yoga: little link to get them to the next pose.
00:41:20.310 –> 00:41:21.559
Nyk Danu Yoga: They miss it.
00:41:22.870 –> 00:41:26.560
Nyk Danu Yoga: especially if they’ve been practicing in for a long time.
00:41:29.460 –> 00:41:30.500
Nyk Danu Yoga: So
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Nyk Danu Yoga: rather than coaching movement
00:41:34.620 –> 00:41:41.050
Nyk Danu Yoga: in between these poses, allow space for spontaneous organic movement that they might come up with.
00:41:44.720 –> 00:41:46.360
Nyk Danu Yoga: but mostly
00:41:46.990 –> 00:41:53.429
Nyk Danu Yoga: give them the time to explore their body, the sensations of their body.
00:41:53.500 –> 00:41:57.889
Nyk Danu Yoga: any impatient or irritation, or emotions that come up at the same time.
00:41:58.670 –> 00:42:04.760
Nyk Danu Yoga: allow them to have that space, that individual space for themselves.
00:42:05.000 –> 00:42:09.389
Nyk Danu Yoga: To be curious to go inward, to notice.
00:42:09.660 –> 00:42:14.429
Nyk Danu Yoga: to practice interoception, and if you’re not familiar with that word.
00:42:14.780 –> 00:42:18.149
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.
00:42:25.470 –> 00:42:40.100
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
00:42:40.470 –> 00:42:43.060
Nyk Danu Yoga: without allowing some resonance
00:42:43.330 –> 00:42:45.819
Nyk Danu Yoga: and some linger or rebound time.
00:42:46.750 –> 00:42:53.550
Nyk Danu Yoga: These rests are an essential part of this practice, and downward dog is not a resting pose.
00:42:54.120 –> 00:43:08.040
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.
00:43:08.510 –> 00:43:16.969
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
00:43:18.190 –> 00:43:24.140
Nyk Danu Yoga: right? This is not a movement practice. This is a stillness practice.
00:43:24.790 –> 00:43:28.710
Nyk Danu Yoga: and I get that sometimes when we’re new to teaching this style of Yoga
00:43:28.880 –> 00:43:42.119
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.
00:43:42.620 –> 00:43:47.750
Nyk Danu Yoga: You don’t need to choreograph a pose, for in between 2 sides of one shape
00:43:47.920 –> 00:43:50.750
Nyk Danu Yoga: you can just let them have that space.
00:43:52.290 –> 00:43:53.150
Nyk Danu Yoga: So.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: dear Yoga, teacher, if you’re listening to this.
00:43:57.000 –> 00:44:03.789
Nyk Danu Yoga: allow them the time for still and quiet. This is one of Yin Yoga’s superpowers.
00:44:04.900 –> 00:44:10.810
Nyk Danu Yoga: They can get all the movement they want. They can get all the clever sequencing they want, all of the
00:44:10.870 –> 00:44:16.749
Nyk Danu Yoga: choreography that they want, where every single thing flows into something else, and you move in all of it
00:44:16.970 –> 00:44:18.920
Nyk Danu Yoga: in their Vinyasa classes
00:44:19.260 –> 00:44:23.410
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
00:44:29.280 –> 00:44:30.710
Nyk Danu Yoga: at least on that point.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And just, of course, know that sometimes students are a little bit confused or
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
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.
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.
00:45:03.730 –> 00:45:04.790
Nyk Danu Yoga: No, no, no.
00:45:08.500 –> 00:45:09.480
Nyk Danu Yoga: So
00:45:10.290 –> 00:45:12.580
Nyk Danu Yoga: when we can give our students
00:45:13.870 –> 00:45:15.070
Nyk Danu Yoga: a time.
00:45:15.410 –> 00:45:16.480
Nyk Danu Yoga: space
00:45:16.960 –> 00:45:18.060
Nyk Danu Yoga: to
00:45:18.200 –> 00:45:21.440
Nyk Danu Yoga: pause between sides or shapes.
00:45:21.970 –> 00:45:24.770
Nyk Danu Yoga: to practice introception.
00:45:25.050 –> 00:45:26.559
Nyk Danu Yoga: to go inward.
00:45:26.640 –> 00:45:31.270
Nyk Danu Yoga: to notice. Oh, how does my right hip and butt area feel now
00:45:31.450 –> 00:45:32.909
Nyk Danu Yoga: compared to my left.
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?
00:45:39.860 –> 00:45:42.330
Nyk Danu Yoga: Oh, maybe I just noticed the urge to
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.
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.
00:45:58.840 –> 00:46:01.040
Nyk Danu Yoga: They do not need more things to do.
00:46:01.190 –> 00:46:05.679
Nyk Danu Yoga: They need to learn to experience doing less.
00:46:06.810 –> 00:46:10.430
Nyk Danu Yoga: so that hopefully, if they can master that in their in practice.
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
00:46:17.960 –> 00:46:21.800
Nyk Danu Yoga: and not running away as soon as they feel bored or uncomfortable.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: This
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Nyk Danu Yoga: creates habits for real life
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Nyk Danu Yoga: when they’re not on their yoga mat, and they go out into the world.
00:46:31.410 –> 00:46:34.830
Nyk Danu Yoga: they’re more likely to slow down.
00:46:35.450 –> 00:46:37.680
Nyk Danu Yoga: to take space
00:46:38.230 –> 00:46:41.560
Nyk Danu Yoga: in their daily lives to rest more
00:46:41.690 –> 00:46:45.149
Nyk Danu Yoga: if they have already experienced it before.
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
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.
00:46:59.200 –> 00:47:01.400
Nyk Danu Yoga: not a human doing.
00:47:03.620 –> 00:47:06.099
Nyk Danu Yoga: and their nervous system will remember this.
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.
00:47:10.890 –> 00:47:13.670
Nyk Danu Yoga: maybe not consciously, but it will remember.
00:47:13.880 –> 00:47:16.619
Nyk Danu Yoga: and the more they do it the more it’ll remember.
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.
00:47:23.990 –> 00:47:25.559
Nyk Danu Yoga: And isn’t that the point?
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.
00:47:36.970 –> 00:47:40.079
Nyk Danu Yoga: bundle them up, and take them out with them out into the world
00:47:40.990 –> 00:47:42.980
Nyk Danu Yoga: because they are of service to them.
00:47:43.360 –> 00:47:46.509
Nyk Danu Yoga: to their mental, emotional, and physical health and wellbeing.
00:47:47.380 –> 00:47:49.590
Nyk Danu Yoga: Because we live in a culture
00:47:49.760 –> 00:47:51.859
Nyk Danu Yoga: where it is. Go, go, go.
00:47:52.050 –> 00:47:54.480
Nyk Danu Yoga: compete, compete, thrive, push.
00:47:54.620 –> 00:47:55.590
Nyk Danu Yoga: hustle.
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
00:48:08.010 –> 00:48:12.629
Nyk Danu Yoga: to help us to survive as humans. So yes, we need some young energy.
00:48:13.760 –> 00:48:17.199
Nyk Danu Yoga: but we live in a young dominant world.
00:48:18.990 –> 00:48:23.930
Nyk Danu Yoga: We live in a world where yong is praised more than anything else.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: and these still and quiet and receptive times, which are equally important and equally valid.
00:48:31.680 –> 00:48:33.459
Nyk Danu Yoga: These yin times
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Nyk Danu Yoga: don’t get much airplay. They don’t get much attention.
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
00:48:40.970 –> 00:48:43.600
Nyk Danu Yoga: they’re not all over Instagram a little bit.
00:48:44.670 –> 00:48:47.849
Nyk Danu Yoga: but they’re super important and super essential
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
00:49:05.230 –> 00:49:08.189
Nyk Danu Yoga: when they learn how to nourish their nervous system.
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.
00:49:14.700 –> 00:49:19.080
Nyk Danu Yoga: when they have an opportunity to rest, to come to stillness.
00:49:19.100 –> 00:49:22.490
Nyk Danu Yoga: to move into that parasympathetic nervous system.
00:49:23.090 –> 00:49:27.399
Nyk Danu Yoga: then they are more loving and kind to the rest of humanity.
00:49:28.510 –> 00:49:30.520
Nyk Danu Yoga: because it’s very difficult
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Nyk Danu Yoga: to be a kind human
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Nyk Danu Yoga: when you’re constantly feeling rushed, overwhelmed and stressed.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So
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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.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Very simple between one side and the other. Just tell them.
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.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Notice. Does one side feel different than the other?
00:50:00.560 –> 00:50:03.329
Nyk Danu Yoga: And if so, is it strong? Is it subtle?
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Do you not notice that one side feels different than the other.
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?
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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?
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Nyk Danu Yoga: So in this practice, we practice the pause.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: I hope that’s given you something to think about for those of you that maybe weren’t including this time.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: And it might mean you do slightly less poses
00:50:33.630 –> 00:50:35.499
Nyk Danu Yoga: because you’re allowing for the rest
00:50:35.720 –> 00:50:38.249
Nyk Danu Yoga: and the still and the quiet and the introception.
00:50:38.670 –> 00:50:39.890
Nyk Danu Yoga: And that’s fine
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Nyk Danu Yoga: again.
00:50:41.130 –> 00:50:43.050
Nyk Danu Yoga: this isn’t about being a human
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Nyk Danu Yoga: doing. It’s about being a human being.
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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.
00:50:52.910 –> 00:50:56.119
Nyk Danu Yoga: Allowing for these small opportunities for rest
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
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
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
00:51:17.280 –> 00:51:20.260
Nyk Danu Yoga: all of this super important part of this practice.
00:51:23.020 –> 00:51:23.910
Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.
00:51:24.840 –> 00:51:26.540
Nyk Danu Yoga: so just to wrap it up.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: just going to prove that I am once again a generation X kid.
00:51:31.130 –> 00:51:33.890
Nyk Danu Yoga: and do my best to embody.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: A little Irish singer.
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
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Nyk Danu Yoga: for the linger, for the resonance of the post.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, friends, that is all for this episode.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Thank you so much once again for listening.
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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.
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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
00:52:31.080 –> 00:52:34.399
Nyk Danu Yoga: your stillness class like a movement-based class.
00:52:34.890 –> 00:52:37.200
Nyk Danu Yoga: But just because something’s uncomfortable
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Nyk Danu Yoga: doesn’t mean it’s not valid. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: In fact, the only 2 growth
00:52:44.020 –> 00:52:46.579
Nyk Danu Yoga: is on the other side of discomfort.
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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, my friends.
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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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