{"id":81863,"date":"2020-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yogapedia.com\/2020\/04\/22\/celebrate-earth-day-by-doing-nature-yoga"},"modified":"2020-04-17T18:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:06:16","slug":"celebrate-earth-day-by-doing-nature-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yogapedia.com\/celebrate-earth-day-by-doing-nature-yoga\/2\/12064","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Earth Day by Doing Nature Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

I met a yin yoga<\/a> teacher on February 12th, (my birthday.) I sat down next to him in the afternoon, at my favorite neighborhood coffee shop. I’d seen him walking and biking the neighborhood trolley trail before, often passing him on the trail, even in seven-degree weather in the heart of a cold Midwestern winter.<\/p>\n

As we exchanged pleasantries in the cafe that wet, cold afternoon, I learned we had much in common. Like me, Bill<\/a> had been living a car-free lifestyle for the past decade—not an easy feat in the breadbasket of America. We talked non-stop for over an hour and exchanged our contact information.<\/p>\n

Fast forward a couple weeks and he’s inviting me to his yin yoga classes in Kansas City’s beautiful Loose Park. This environmentally-minded man wooed me with his Nature Yoga classes, in which he taught a simple yin sequence he’d developed himself. This is how he describes it:<\/p>\n

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Yin, like all other forms of yoga can be made unnecessarily complicated. As a 56-year old man, with multiple sports injuries, and being an ultra endurance athlete, I wanted to have a simple sequence that would work for me, and people of all ages. I have clients in their teens, and clients in their late 70’s and early 80’s. I found that a simple core warmup, followed by just four or five main poses was sufficient.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A Simple Yin Sequence<\/h2>\n

In a nutshell, Bill’s yin yoga sequence looks like this:<\/p>\n