Restorative Yoga and Yin Yoga Differnces/Similarities Flashcards
What is restorative yoga?
Restorative yoga has a great therapeutic impact during times of illness, injury, pain, stress and overscheduled lives. Restrorative yoga helps to cultivate a healing enviroment in the body by balancing the nervous system’s optimal energy flow resotring us at physical, physiological, energetic and emotional level.
What are some props that restorative yoga uses?
Blankets Bolsters Chairs Blocks Straps Eye Pillows
What are some benefits of restorative yoga?
Deep Relaxation Stress Reduction Restores Balance in Body and Mind Promotes a Healthy Spine Calms and Quiets the mind Balances the Nervous System Develops qualities of understanding and compassion towards others and ourselves Improves sleep quality
Is there muscular contraction involved with restorative yoga?
No. Restorative yoga uses no muscular contraction. We often achieve more opening in parts of the body that we percieve as tight by softening and relaxing than through an active asana practice.
What is Yin Yoga?
Yin yoga is a style of yoga that is characterized by its longer held static positions with a focus on increasing flexibility in myofascial tissues (muscles) and increased range of motion in the joints.
How long are yin yoga poses held?
It can be held approximately forty five seconds up to two or three minutes. Some cases yin yoga poses can be held to five minutes.
What kind of postures does yin yoga present and where is the focus on the body?
Yin yoga classes consist mainly of passively held floor postures with a stronger focus on the lower body.
What is similar about yin and restorative yoga?
Both styles of yoga will hold poses for a longer duration.
What is different about yin and restorative yoga?
The poses for each style of yoga are held to a different degree which will vary signifigantly. Yin yoga is a style of yoga wherein the poses are held in a challenging but comfortable space for a period of several minutes. The aim of yin yoga is to place an addtional stress on the tissues using gravity as a tool for allowing the tissues to release with time. However, restorative yoga’s primary goal is relaxation and the props keep the body from being stressed to the same degree that they would otherwise be in a yin style posture.
What kind of postures does restorative yoga use?
Static/Passive techniques with support for minimal stretch.
What kind of postures does yin use?
Yin uses a moderate amount of physical stress in the form of static/active or static/passive stretch techniques without additional supports that would minimize the release into the pose to achieve a desired opening of the myofasicial pathways in the body.
