What Is Yang Yoga?
Yin/Yang yoga is a practice that balances the slow-paced Yin yoga with the traditional Yang yoga (Ashtanga and Hatha). Yin/Yang yoga has its roots in China in the Taoist concepts of yin — a feminine, passive, cooling energy — and yang — a masculine, dynamic, warming energy.
Just as the Taoists believe that yin and yang complement each other and one cannot exist without the other, the Yin/Yang yoga practice uses both types of yoga to provide both physical and spiritual balance.
Yang yoga is what the Western world thinks of as yoga — Hatha and Ashtanga yoga asanas and vinyasas that warm the body and stretch and strengthen the muscles. Yin/Yang yoga typically includes the yang portion of practice in the second half of class.
By combining the two styles of yoga, Yin/Yang yoga improves energy and fitness while promoting relaxation and healing.
Benefits of Yang Yoga
- Strengthens and tones the body.
- Improves flexibility and circulation.
- Increases stamina.
- Calms the mind down by inviting us to synchronise movement with breath.
Yang Yoga Exercises to Try at Home
Hatha Yoga
Benefits:
- It helps in strengthening your core muscles
- Helps you get a better night’s sleep
- It improve depression symptoms
- It can help you manage stress
Vinyasa Yoga
Benefits:
- It helps in increasing endurance and strength
- Helps you in improving balance and stability.
- It lowers stress level.
- It can count a s cardio
- It increase your flexibility
Ashtanga Yoga
Benefits:
- It improves flexibility over.
- Increases strength.
- Increases muscle tone.
- Improves cardiovascular fitness.
- Reduces body fat.
- Helps in reducing stress and anxiety.
- It increases focus and creativity.
- It helps in lowering blood pressure.
Iyengar Yoga
Benefits:
- It improves physical and psychological health.
- alleviate postural problems.
- Helps in releasing emotional tension.
- increases focus and concentration.
- It increase your energy.
- It reconnects your body and breath.
Anusara yoga
Benefits:
- Increases their immunity power.
- Helps you in improving stamina.
- It increases one’s ability to express his/ her inner self freely.
- It also stretch out the tendons, ligaments, and muscles and this improves body strength and posture.
