阴瑜伽---“学会痛并快乐着”？

阴瑜伽---“学会痛并快乐着”？

说“人生并不是一直期盼着暴风雨结束后的美好，而是学会伴着风雨起舞，在苦中作乐，痛并快乐着。”转念，因为无力转境；念转心变，心变境变，这是一种人生境界。但是“痛并快乐着”这种思想，用在阴瑜伽的教学和训练中是不合时宜的。

痛苦的根源是压力，不管是身体上的还是心灵上的；只要能够给 压力找个通口疏解，就不痛了。

阴瑜伽通过拉伸体位，来打开身体的空间以感受能量的流动；在停留中，通过呼吸去觉知身体在这股能量运作下的变化。能量永远都是从高向低流动，不耗不费，始终如一，不生不灭，无为而无不为。阴瑜伽，是修炼无为的智慧。这股能量若能够在体内畅行无阻，则幻化为气，为生命之力，带引物质交换，推陈纳新；若其不能在体内畅行无阻，则转为压力，造成气滞血瘀，形成身体伤痛。

前者使人在体位中舒适放松，能够毫不躁动的在体位中去感悟身心；后者使人在体位中痛苦紧绷，心浮气躁度日如年，在停留中费劲心力而形劳神倦。而这二者的反差并不是我们“无力扭转的境遇”，而是我们自己的选择，所以用不着为“苦行”而转念，也就谈不上“痛并快乐着”，而是简单的“通则不痛，通则不痛”。

在自己可控的体位中习练，痛了，就退一些，做不到，就不做；知难而退，以退为进，以柔克刚，大道至简，悟在天成！

Yin Yoga

Finding Happiness Through Pain

Seriously?

Indeed, there is a saying, life is not all about expecting the calmness after the storm, rather we should learn to dance with the storm, to find happiness through pain. This philosophy meant to tell us how to convert our thought pattern to survive when we cannot do anything to change our situation. However, this philosophy is not suitable in teaching or practicing Yin yoga.

The source of pain is pressure, both physical and psychological. As long as we can find a way to let the pressure go, the pain will disappear.

The aim of Yin yoga is to enlarge the space of your body through stretching in order to let the energy (Qi) and nutrients (Blood) flow freely. By doing so, we heal your body. The philosophy of Yin yoga is not to experience pain, but to learn letting it go.

When you are staying in one pose, stretching, try to focus on your breath and feel the body parts which is being stretched. The reason you can feel it is that the energy has reached that point (feeling is a signal which is a form of energy that is generated by stimulus and then responded by the brain). Right now, what you need to do is to let it go, just to follow your body in to a position that you feel comfortable. When you are comfortable, you can breathe and relax; when you can breathe and relax, the energy can flow through your energy pathways (meridians in Chinese medicine term) leading nutrients to heal you. However, if you push yourself too far to show others or yourself that you can do a certain pose or simply look for pain, your body will be uncomfortable which only results in nervousness and tiredness, or even worse, body damage.

The previous way, by letting it go, you can feel and heal your body with enjoyment and calmness; the other way, by pushing it, the pain will damage and exhaust you.