Yin yoga is a meditative yoga practice that promotes mindful movement. Through the attentive perception of one’s breath and focusing attention on it, and on one’s body, mental training begins which in yoga is the practice of concentration; meditation techniques will result in a natural path that involves the human being in its entirety as a “mind-body unit”.
The positions proposed by the practice of Yin yoga are functional to individual peculiarities: there is no perfect position that must be won. Each person finds his or her ideal position, as achieved by listening to and knowing the capabilities and possibilities of one’s body at a given moment: the present moment.