Yin Yoga · Flexibility · Full-body · Hips
The bigger shapes, each with a way in and a way back
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The bigger shapes, held two to three minutes, with a gentler version offered every single time. Katie puts it at advanced beginner to intermediate — but if you take the easier option in each pose, it’s a beginner class that happens to go somewhere.
Frog opens it, three minutes into the inner thighs and groin, built up in stages from Extended Child’s Pose so you can stop at whatever stage is enough. Pad the knees. Then a minute back in Child’s Pose to let it land.
Puppy takes the upper back, shoulders and chest for two minutes, released with a round of Cat.
Dragon is two minutes a side into the front of the hip, with Baby Dragon — front foot between the hands — as the lighter version, and a Downward Dog between sides.
Saddle is the one that asks the most: quads and the front of the hip, upright or leaning back on the hands or elbows or all the way down, whichever you reach honestly. Half Saddle, one leg at a time, is the version most people want, and Katie calls the halfway point so you can swap.
Happy Baby for two minutes, then Corpse, which she’s firm about — with flexibility work especially, the rest at the end is part of the practice rather than the end of it.
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Katie calls it advanced beginner to intermediate, and then offers a way out of every pose in it: Extended Child's Pose instead of Frog, Baby Dragon instead of the full lunge, half Saddle instead of Saddle, and holding the backs of the thighs in Happy Baby. If you take the gentler option each time, it's a beginner class.
Pad them — fold the mat over, or slide a blanket underneath. If it still hurts, that's the signal to come out, and Extended Child's Pose gives you most of the same opening through the inner thighs without loading the knees. Knee pain is never something to breathe through.
One leg folded back at a time, the other extended, so you're only asking one quad and one knee to do the work. Katie tells you when you're halfway through the hold so you can change sides. It's the version to take if full Saddle feels like too much, and most people should start there.
Her point in the class is that the final rest is where the body absorbs what you've just done rather than where the practice stops. Two minutes is the minimum here, and staying longer is encouraged.
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