Mónica Piñuela Madrid
I like to guide students to use body weight and gravity to gently open their body on a very deep level. Easing bones away from bones so that the fascia, the tissue that binds the body together can be lengthened.
We sink into poses for periods of between 3 to 5 minutes. During this time, we can really be attentive to the pulse of the breath moving, the pulse of energy and the pulse of vitality.
I love this idea of yin yoga as a way to wake up. We tend to think of waking up like a morning ritual. The truth is we can wake up any moment of our life. To me, yoga is symbolic of awakening, of realization, of discovering the truth, the ultimate truth of what’s really going on.
So, I use the yin yoga to lengthen and open the deep tissues of our body but also to really capture the awareness, so we become ever more interested and curious about what’s occurring in the present moment.