Incorporating principles of traditional Chinese medicine, with asanas (poses) that are held for longer periods of time than in other styles and more supported postures are used. Advanced practitioners may stay in one asana for five minutes or more.  Where more "yang" styles focus on stretching and stressing the muscles, yin yoga focuses on supporting the health of the connective tissues (tendons, ligaments, joints, fascia).   Yin yoga helps you stretch and lengthen those rarely-used tissues while also teaching you how to breathe through discomfort and sit with your thoughts.

Similar in some ways to guided meditation, Yoga Nidra invites
you to experience the complex phenomena of who and what you are.  As you do, you become less swayed by, or identified with, any thought, belief, emotion, sensation, image or experience. Instead, you witness these changing phenomena without judgement, and without grasping them or pushing them away. As a result, your habitual ways of reacting to things in life are then replaced by unshakable equanimity, even in the midst of change and uncertainty. At Journey Yoga we practice a form of Yoga Nidra called iRest Yoga Nidra.