Yin Yoga For Athletes: & everyone else!

About This Class

This 84-minute Yin Yoga class with Travis Eliot is framed as a restorative antidote to the demands of athletic training and the busyness of daily life. The practice moves methodically through the entire body — opening the neck, inner thighs, groin, wrists, forearms, shoulders, hamstrings, quads, lower back, and spine — with poses held for several minutes each to penetrate the deepest layers of connective tissue, ligaments, and joint capsules. Travis weaves in themes of surrender, parasympathetic activation, and shifting from "doing" to "feeling," inviting practitioners to treat the session as a mental and physical vacation. The class progresses from seated and floor-based openers through tabletop wrist and shoulder work, standing side bends and forward folds, Sphinx and quad stretches on the belly, reclining twists, and finishes in Savasana. A block is offered as an optional prop throughout. The tone is deeply meditative, inward-focused, and calming — ideal for athletes seeking recovery, or anyone dealing with tightness, stress, or fatigue from sitting or repetitive movement.