Episode 98 The Mental Health Benefits Of A Yin Yoga Practice: Interview with Addie deHilster

The Holistic Counseling Podcast

What is Yin Yoga? Can you integrate yoga, mindfulness, and meditation to improve your well-being?

MEET Addie deHilster

Addie deHilster is a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher and C-IAYT Yoga Therapist. Her passion is teaching movement practices that "unlock" mindfulness skills, and helping students gain traction in their meditation practice so they can be more present in their lives. Yin Yoga is one of the main modalities she practices and teaches, as it is an excellent doorway into embodied meditative stillness. Now based in Vancouver, Washington (USA), she previously owned and operated a community yoga studio in Los Angeles, California for over five years. A dedicated practitioner of Buddhist Insight Meditation, she has accumulated over four months of silent retreat practice over the years. She is a graduate of the Mindfulness Mentor Training with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, the InsightLA Mindfulness Facilitator Training, and the 2014-15 Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, which is a program dedicated to weaving together the wisdom traditions of Hatha Yoga and Buddhist meditation. She has studied Yin Yoga with Bernie Clark, Paul Grilley, and Sarah Powers. Addie is the founder of the Moved to Meditate Class Library, the host of the Moved To Meditate Podcast, and she offers online Yin Yoga Teacher Trainings with a mindful, therapeutic emphasis.

Find out more about Addie at Move To Meditate

IN THIS PODCAST:

• What is Yin Yoga? 4:31
• How is Yin yoga different from traditional yoga? 11:58
• What are the mental health benefits of Yin yoga? 13:52

What Is Yin Yoga?

• Connecting the mind with the body with embodied meditation
• Yin vs. Yang state
• Integrating props into Yin yoga
• The importance of finding an instructor that can adapt to each individual person

How Is Yin Yoga Different From Traditional Yoga?

• Preparing the body with active movement
• What is passive movement?
• Restorative yoga vs. Yin yoga
• Using Yin yoga as a mindfulness practice

What Are The Mental Health Benefits Of Yin Yoga?

• Becoming aware of our physical, mental & emotional state through mindfulness
• How Yin yoga helps build our stress resistance
• Down-regulating our nervous system
• What is the Window of Tolerance?

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Find out more about Addie at Move To Meditate