Yin and Full Moon Release
with Emily
Via Zoom
Wednesday 6:30-8:15pm
What is Yin?
Yin is a style of yoga which focuses on connective tissues: joints, ligaments, bones, fascia. Known for long-held, more passive poses, Yin yoga helps restore the body through joint mobility while nourishing the body at the cellular level. Yin yoga increases energy flow within the body, and can be a soothing, meditative practice.
Yin is adaptive and deeply individualized.
Yin allows the body to take the lead. Each shape is found through the lens of your own personal and functional alignment, not a pre-conceived notion about what the shape is supposed to be.
Yin cultivates balance.
Yin is also a powerful compliment to other movement modalities—it pairs especially well with yoga and exercises that stress the muscles, have dynamic movements, and might be more cardiovascular and heat-building in nature.
Much like meditation, Yin Yoga emphasizes inner-alignment.
Yin brings understanding and awareness of the present moment, the nature of change, and the concept of interdependence.
A Yin practice is a space for setting down the war with ourselves and developing the courage to encounter ourselves deeply.
When we are able to rest in flow in our experience, we are then better able to notice our own resilience and strength. We can create a deeper relationship with ourselves built upon compassion and self-knowledge.
We can learn to change our relationship to discomfort and reaction.
Yoga is a way to find a connection with ourselves. It builds our emotional intelligence and fortitude so that we have better tools to engage in dismantling our internalized biases. It gives us the rare opportunity to witness the habits of our minds and thoughts and to understand how they typically overrule the body.
It’s not just about feeling good; it’s about how can we exist in a more harmonious relationship with ourselves—our whole selves—by being comfortable with and caring about our limitations, rather than ignoring that which we do not like. That dissonance leads to disharmony and illness.
Balance is about more than the body, it’s our relationship to the body.
Emily has had the privilege of studying with extraordinary teachers and has learned to give herself the space to explore her practice in all its forms and meanings.
About Emily:
Emily’s approach to teaching embraces the power of somatic-based healing and creates the space for feeling, intuiting, reconnecting and transforming. Her classes are designed to support folx in embracing awareness of the present moment and relating to discomfort in ways that build capacity, foster the felt sense of innate wholeness, and transmute suffering into resiliency.
In her teaching, Emily draws on 20 plus years of interdisciplinary practice, training and private consultation in yoga, the science of trauma, traumatic stress and post traumatic growth and how our nervous systems have adapted and developed in response to myriad forces (such as our ancestry, circumstances of birth, primary relationships and our culture). As a quantum healer and Reiki Master Teacher, she also interweaves energy practices and meditations into class to support raising vibrational frequency and connecting to ourselves as fully human and fully divine.
Emily has experienced first-hand how yoga offers a contemplative practice that nurtures a safe connection to one's body. She turned to yoga over 20 years ago to manage chronic pain from her career as an elite competitive volleyball player—it taught her how to genuinely care for her body outside of performance. Yoga was integral to her recovery from an eating disorder, depression, drug-use, and trauma.
Emily is also the Program Director for The Mandela Yoga Project, Inc.