Yin Yoga at The Yoga Space in Hastings, 208 Heretaunga Street East, Hastings.
Tuesday evenings 5.30-7 pm, starting 5th August - 16th September 2025
7 session pass is $126
Casual session price is $20 if there is space and casual spots can be booked through 021-161 43 40.
I also offer Koha spots if the casual or regular price are not accessible. Please message me if you would like to join this way.
These sessions are mainly Yin Yoga with a few very gentle dynamic stretches interweaved and of course relaxation with Tibetan Singing Bowls throughout. The Yin practice is mainly floor based and for most people gentle and accessible. There is lots of time to experience the asanas / poses, plenty of variation to accommodate for our different bodies and skeletal structures, plenty of time to breathe consciously and deep and I am providing a space where the mind can become calm and settled and the body feel nourished.
A Yin practice is great anytime of the year, but particularly in winter when we draw energy inwards and focus on resting, restoring, cocooning, nourishing and adopting a slower pace. In our Yin Yoga practice we work mainly on facial and joint health and tuning in with the breath as well as grounding and balancing the nervous system. We are holding particular shapes for 2-10 minutes, to allow the facia to "unfelt", nourish and restore.
I strongly encourage building a deeper relationship with your own body and making your practice what suits you and what nourishes you on the day.
I don’t do many physical adjustment and prefer to guide my students verbally to learn to listen to their bodies and notice the adjustments that need to be done to suit your body. When I practice with other teachers and am a student myself I often adjust the guided practice to suit me – e.g. taking a child pose when I am tired, taking an easier version of a pose, e.g. low lunge instead of high lunge etc. I would like to to empower my students to intuitively know what is right for them in a safe container. We all have such different skeletal structures, different energy levels & emotional states depending on how our day was, what we are going through, different injuries and restrictions etc.. Our practice needs to reflect this. There is no one for all solution & I try to support that in my sessions.
Some physical benefits of Yin Yoga:
– Improve your range of motion and flexibility
– Passively lengthen your muscles through stressing the fascial bags that wrap the muscle fibers.
– Reduce adhesions, which restrict movement between the sliding surfaces of our muscles
– Stimulate growth of fibroblasts, which are the cells responsible for creating collagen, elastin, and the water-loving molecules that hydrate our tissues and joints.
– make your ligaments thicker and stronger through greater collagen production.
– improve lubrication through greater hydration of our tissues, which allows joints to move and fascia to slide more easily
– Keep your skin younger looking though hydration, which provides room for cells to migrate through the extracellular matrix.
– Compress the extracellular matrix to liquefy the ground substance, which is often in a gel-like state, allowing toxins to flow out of the tissues
– Stimulate the chondrocytes and osteoblasts, which create cartilage and bone, helping to reduce degeneration of these tissues.
– Reestablish the normal lordotic curves of the spine, specifically in the lumbar but also in the cervical spine.
– Prevent or reduce contracture, where the ligaments and the joint capsule shrink and reduce the joint’s mobility
– Reduce osteopenia and osteoporosis, which are dangerous reductions in bone density.
– Reduce fixation, a condition that limits the movement of our joints, and thus prevents fusion, a permanent loss of mobility in the joint.
Some energetic benefits of Yin Yoga:
– Awaken, enhance, and balance prana.
– Stimulate and awaken the kundalini serpent, lending towards eventual liberation and enlightenment.
– Stimulate the production and flow of Chi and Jing energies.
– Nourish the organs through acupressure via compression of the meridian lines.
– Replenish the store of Jing in your Kidneys, which in turn helps all your organs function properly.
– Create tiny piezoelectric currents that stimulate optimal cellular responses.
– Create internal pulsed magnetic fields that can restore cellular health.
– Turn off the sympathetic nervous system (fight-or-flight) and turn on the parasympathetic nervous system (rest-and-digest)
– Increase levels of the neurotransmitter GABA.
From Bernie Clarkes book, The complete Guide to Yin Yoga
This studio is fully stocked with props, such as mats, bolsters, straps, blocks, blankets. Feel free to bring your own props if you prefer.
The sessions are non-refundable, but you can transfer your ticket to a friend for certain nights when you can’t make it or come to my Wednesday night session in Havelock North to make up for it.
If you have any questions or are wondering if these sessions would suit you, please feel free to be in touch
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You may also like the following events from Heartspace:
- Next Wednesday, 6th August, 07:30 am, Gentle Yoga, 7 week series, Havelock North in Havelock North
- Next Saturday, 9th August, 05:30 am, Nourish - 2 hour Yin Yoga & Sound Healing Journey in Havelock North
- Next month, 23rd August, 04:30 am, Afternoon Retreat in Havelock North
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