Welcome to YINYOGA.NZ Community Centre Mosgiel
A safe place for all walks of life to come ground, stretch and breathe.
We recognise that life particularly contemporary urban life has become fragmented and supersaturated with time pressures and performance demands. We all seem to be going at a hundred miles an hour, flitting from one activity or responsibility to the next.
This deep holistic relaxation that is Yin Yoga brings us face to face with our bodies, our minds & spirit, in this stillness we find our ‘inner teacher’.
Guiding with ‘eyes wide shut’
We believe in the intuitive approach to guiding Yin, our eyes are closed but our awareness is open. Guiding with ‘eyes wide shut’ helps towards an inner focus, awareness and intuition. Many beginners find the prospect of judgement and being stared at a barrier to their practice.
Our approach goes deep
Our approach goes deeper than simply abandoning forceful ‘correction’ or adjustment – we try to abandon all those objectifying habits and thought processes which set us against ourselves. When we compare ourselves to an image we are breaking ourselves in two - an ideal image on the one hand and a reality failing to meet the demands of that ideal on the other. We aim to provide an absolutely non-objectifying and non-judgemental space.
We want you to feel integrated, to feel and be whole, so you can be comfortable and find your inner teacher without the anxieties of self-consciousness.
“You are best to practice your own form of yoga, however imperfect that may be, than to practice the yoga of another perfectly”
— Bhagavad Gita