Mondays, 2025
6 - 7 PM
“When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.”
All Levels - Great for Beginners!
In our busy rhythm of modern life, finding tranquility & flexibility mentally & physically is a quest many try to undertake.
Enter Yin Yoga ~ a beacon of peace & body liberation.
This amazing class is for you if…
Flexibility and range of motion are a challenge
Your anxiety, and/or depression are through the roof
Sleep disturbances
Circulatory system is not effective
Having issues with your posture
Feeling fatigued
Paresthesia, the sensation of pins and needles
Difficulties with sexual health
Bladder dysfunction, and more!
A practice that contrasts yet compliments the more yang type of other yoga disciplines & other styles of exercise. In yin yoga the use of muscles are kept to a minimum, where in regular yoga they are used at the maximum. Instead, Yin Yoga targets the body’s connective tissue, ligaments, tendons, joints, bones & the facial tissue network.
If one only practices dynamic forms of exercise like Hatha Vinyasa, weight training, etc, you might gain muscle strength but not a wider range of motion. Muscles are Yang tissue: they are quick to warm & stretch but also quick to cool down & if you don’t practice for a few days there is a decline in flexibility & strength.
This is why it is so important to add a Yin practice to work deep into the connective tissue, and activate rejuvenation at a deeper level. As the quality of the connective tissue improves more flexibility & range of motion improves and last much longer.
Stress is also held deep in the body’s tissue, yin yoga stimulates the endocrine system, nervous systems, organs & the brain- & this can result in hormonal balance & more balanced emotions.
Yin yoga is for everyone and anyone, props are used as needed to help the body stay in yin postures and modifications are always shown. Breath is a big part of yin yoga and coming into stillness plus relaxing in the Yin Asanas for longer holds. At the end of the class leave feeling refreshed, more flexible, at peace with yourself and your inner and outer body. Yin is another holistic type of practice whether you are flexible or not.
Investment: 10 class card is $130 ($13/class), 5 class card is $75 ($15/class), drop in $17.
Meet Donna
Donna Grimwood’s interest in Yoga started 25 years ago when she started going to Power Yoga classes (Ashtanga) looking for a practice to calm the mind & tone the body. Then in 2004 she read about Kundalini Yoga & practiced on her own until she found a class in New Cumberland. After one class with a certified instructor she knew this was the Yoga practice to balance her life. Donna felt it was life changing. A practice that was and is a complete experience for the mind, body & spirit.
