Yin yoga targets fascia and connective tissue around joints, which need cool conditions because ligaments permanently hold whatever length you stretch them to. Hot rooms are for Yang styles like Ashtanga and Bikram. Yin in heat risks injury.
We're also working with our fascia and the tissue that connects the different joints together. And so that's something that we always want to work out in a cold room because once you stretch a ligament, you stretch that forever. It's not like a muscle, it doesn't just snap back. That's how you injure yourself by doing yin in a hot room. So yin would never really be done in a hot room. Yang yogas are done in hot rooms like Ashtanga or Bhikram. Yogas that have a lot of energy in them, those are yang yogas. Yin yoga is actually a pretty hard type of yoga. Go ahead and light up that follow button for more yoga teacher training tips.
