Zen Studio

🌟 DO YOU KNOW WHY YIN TRAINING...
is much more than asanas & anatomy?

🔹️ We study 
- the heart of gentle Yin
- the wisdom of Five Elements
- Chinese Medicine & Tao
- Yin & Yang balance
- Qi - life energy
- Seasonal Living
- Holistic health
- Pranayama
- Mindfulness

We practice a lot of asanas BUT the students show them to others

🔹️ WHY? WHY NOT THE TEACHER??

🔹️ Because it helps to understand
- the idea of Functional Yin
- different body structures
- the use of probs
- what is body awareness
- the respect of each body

🔹️ BUT IT OFFERS MUCH MORE:

🔹️It offers an option to
- Pause & Reflect & Change
- Know your body & mind better
- Learn new things
- Find a new direction to life
- Learn to relax & calm down

🔹️ AND MORE THAN THIS YOU ALSO
- Meet like-mind souls
- Learn & Study & Laugh & Share 
- May get good friends for life!

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Thank you yinsters & Málaga!
Thank you for your help and welcoming us to 🙏🏼
It was a heartwarming weekend! 💛

Warmly welcome next year to Málaga! 🌞

Next Yin Training in Helsinki in August!

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🍏 Green Smoothie for Detox & Spring 💚

🥒 Here's a simple recipe for a refreshing Green Detox Spring Smoothie.

🌿 Ingredients:
- spinach / kale / green
- celery
- green apple
- banana
- cucumber
- green powder
- mint leaves (or hierbabuena in Spain)
- chia seed and linseed
- nuts
- curcuma
- ginger!
- fresh lemon juice
- plain water

🍀 Feel free to customize this recipe by adding any other greens, or boosting the nutrition with a scoop of protein powder. I add a lot of mint (hierbabuena) leaves, which gives very lovely flavor. 🌱

🫛 So tasty, so delicious! Drink daily in the morning during 2-3 weeks.

🥑 Enjoy your refreshing and nutritious Green Smoothie! Especially during the spring it gives you a lot of boost, as also all dark green, leafy vegetables and fresh herbs.

🫛 Green smoothie also supports Seasonal Living, Wood Element for spring, and its organs liver & gallbladder, which profit a lot of cleansing and detoxing in springtime.
 

🌞 Enjoy spring & new energy! 🌿🥒🍏

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❎️ Wanna learn more of Seasonal living & Five Elements Wisdom? Join Yin Training! Next Yin Training in Helsinki in August.

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🍀 Spring & the Wood Element & Lifestyle
PART 5 FIVE

Spring is the perfect season to refresh your body, mind, and home.
Here some lifestyle tips for spring.

It is time for the Wood Element, growth, renewal and expansion, when vibrant Yang & Qi energy grow.
So respect and follow the seasonal rhythms of the nature.

🧩 LIVER IN TCM. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the Wood Element is associated with the liver and gallbladder organs. The liver governs the smooth flow of Qi-energy, blood, digestion and detoxification.

Here lifestyle tips to live in harmony with spring and the Wood Element.

✅️ LIFESTYLE TIPS FOR SPRING
- Do physical & mental spring cleansing
- Move your body to move your Qi-life energy
- Eat seasonal, fresh, green, light, sour to nourish your body
- Adjust your sleep and daily routines - wake up with sun
- Refresh & declutter your environment
- Cultivate emotional flow
- Release frustration & anger
- Manage stress
- Set new intentions & goals, spring is for planning & visioning
- Take steps towards your dreams
- Practice seasonal yin for the Wood Element

🍀 How does this sound to you?

❎️ JOIN Seasonal Yin teachings weekly!

Life mindfully in the present moment.
Enjoy vibrant spring season! 💚

Warmly welcome to the world of healing Yin!
Laura 💚🙏🏼💚

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✅️ Do you want to learn more? Join Yin Training in Málaga, Helsinki, Online. 🙏🏼

❎️ LINK in Bio

🟢 Spring Yin Detox Masterclass, Friday the 8th of May at 18-20 - Yoga Centre Flow

➡️ YIN 30h Training Málaga the 22-24. of May, Yoga Centre Flow

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🌞 JOIN US & ENJOY! SPRING YIN DETOX
⏩️ Málaga the 8th May at 18-20

Spring brings light, new growth and energy. Welcome to the Spring Yin Detox to cleanse the body and mind and raise energy for the summer.

🔅 Give yourself this beautiful Friday evening moment to align with spring and invite fresh energy into your life!

▶️ YIN & WOOD ELEMENT. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, spring is time for the Wood Element which represents renewal, growth and new beginnings.
It is connected to liver and gallbladder.
It is associated with strong emotions like anger and frustration, and also compassion and kindness.

🔆 This 2-hour Seasonal Yin Masterclass is designed to gently cleanse, refresh and rejuvenate your whole body-mind-system and boost new energy.

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✴️ WHAT TO EXPECT:
- Short introduction to Wood Element & Seasonal Yin
- Opening & energizing Yin poses including side bends & twists
- Meridian activation to free the flow of Qi
- Breathing exercises & mindful relaxation
- Exploring how to dealing with emotions of Wood
- Practical spring diet tips
- A nurturing, peaceful space to reset and reconnect.
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🟡 INFO - Spring Yin Detox Masterclass
- TIME: Friday the 8th of May at 18-20
- PLACE: Yoga Centre Flow, Calle Hilera 15, Málaga
- TO WHOM: It is suitable for all from beginners to more experienced yogis. No previous experience of yin, yoga or flexibility is required. - - PRICE: 30 euros

✴️ REGISTRATION: WhatsUp: Ivana +34644028962 or Laura +358405659652 or
by email: [email protected]

✴️ READ THE BLOG: www.zenstudiomalaga.com/blog/

⏩️ YIN YOGA is a peaceful & mindful exercise that targets joints, vertebrae, connective tissues and fascia with long, passive postures and conscious breathing.

Reserve your spot and join us to celebrate vibrant energy of spring! 🌞

Warmly welcome! 💛🙏🏼💛
Laura
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⭐️ YIN 30h Training Málaga the 22-24. May

️✴️ TEACHER LAURA "I am an international Yin instructor and yoga teacher with extensive experience in yoga and meditation. I have already taught 20 yin trainings to hundreds of students."

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🟢 SEASONAL YIN 🍀 WOOD & SPRING 🌴 FROG

🍀 THE WOOD ELEMENT. In Chinese Medicine spring is the season of the Wood Element.

☘️ THE ORGANS for the Wood are liver & gallbladder. They do the cleansing of the body.

🌵 THE WOOD ELEMENT
▫️ Season: Spring
▫️ Element: Wood
▫️ Taste: Sour
▫️ Meridians & Organs: Liver and gallbladder
▫️ Emotion: Anger - Irritation - Frustration -> Kindness - Compassion - Planning

🌿 THE MERIDIANS of liver run on the inner legs, and gallbladder on the side of the body. These are the target area of the asanas for the Wood.
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🌳 FROG
▫️TIME: 2-3 minutes
▫️MERIDIAN: liver, gallbladder, spleen
▫️TARGET: groins, hips, inner & outer legs, lower back
▫️BENEFITS: Stimulates the liver meridian, improves hip mobility, stretches legs, opens the back
▫️PROPS: blanket, block, bolster
▫️VARIATIONS: Half Frog, Whole Frog

🍀 HOW: Start from child's pose and slide both hands forward, separating the knees but remaining sitting on the heels.
You may move their hips forward to avoid painful compression. For a whole Frog, separate feet as wide as the knees.
You may also do half frog with one leg. Don’t go deeper to advance in this posture but stay longer.
Relax the torso, shoulders, head, neck and the arms. Use probs if needed.
If there are any discomfort in the lower back, stay in a child's pose.
Stay few minutes with mindful breath.
Come out of the posture slowly and have a short rebound.

🌱 USE OF PROPS: a blanket under the knees. You can support your torso on a bolster or on a block.

🌿 SEASONAL YIN. With Seasonal Yin & living & diet we can harmonize ourselves with spring.

🪴 SPRING DIET: green, fresh, raw food, vegetarian, lemon

🍃 SEASONAL LIFE: deal with emotions, breathing exercises, diet, active outdoor life
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✅️ JOIN Seasonal Yin teaching weekly!

Warmly welcome to the world of healing Yin!
Laura 💚🙏🏼💚

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ℹ️ WANT TO LEARN MORE? Join YIN Teacher Training in Málaga, Helsinki, Online
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🍀 Spring & the Wood Element & Diet
PART 4 FOUR

Spring is time for the Wood Element, growth, renewal and expansion.
It is the season of fresh, green diet.

🧩 LIVER IN TCM. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the Wood Element is associated with the liver and gallbladder organs. The liver governs the smooth flow of Qi-energy, blood, digestion and detoxification.

🧩 WOOD & DIET. The taste for the Wood Element is sour. In spring we want to support liver health with special diet by consuming sour, green and fresh foods. It promotes smooth energy flow.
Also, avoiding alcohol, sugars and fatty and processed foods helps the liver to cleanse.

✅️ TIPS FOR WOOD DIET
- Sour tastes, limon, lime, grapefruit, fermented foods, apple cider vinegar
- Green foods, leafy vegetables, kale, spinach, chard, arugula, steamed broccoli
- Eat raw and fresh or light steaming
- Bitter foods, such as chicory, dandelion greens, artichokes
- Hydration, drink plenty of water to help flush toxins.

☘️ FOOD TO AVOID. Try to avoid alcohol and caffeine, fatty & processed foods, and refined sugars. Those can disrupt the liver's functions and stuck the free flow of Qi-energy.

✳️ LIFESTYLE & DIET
- Eat mindfully, sit down and enjoy meals to aid digestion.
- Regularity, eat small, frequent meals rather than large, heavy ones.
- Seasonality, align with the natural energy of growth and renewal.

These sour and green foods help cleanse the liver and promote smooth energy flow.
If you feel tense or irritable, adding these foods in moderation can support also emotional balance.

🍀 How does this sound to you?

❎️ Next week: Wood Element & Lifestyle Tips

❎️ JOIN Seasonal Yin teachings weekly!

Life mindfully in the present moment.
Enjoy vibrant spring season! 💚

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✅️ Do you want to learn more? Join Yin Training in Málaga, Helsinki, Online. 🙏🏼

❎️ LINK in Bio

Warmly welcome to the world of healing Yin!
Laura 💚🙏🏼💚

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🟢 SEASONAL YIN 🍀 WOOD & SPRING 🌴 DRAGONFLY

🍀 THE WOOD ELEMENT. In Chinese Medicine spring is the season of the Wood Element.

☘️ THE ORGANS for the Wood are liver & gallbladder. They do the cleansing of the body.

🌵 THE WOOD ELEMENT
▫️ Season: Spring
▫️ Element: Wood
▫️ Taste: Sour
▫️ Meridians & Organs: Liver and gallbladder
▫️ Emotion: Anger - Irritation - Frustration -> Kindness - Compassion - Planning

🌿 THE MERIDIANS of liver run on the inner legs, and gallbladder on the side of the body. These are the target area of the asanas for the Wood.
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🌳 DRAGONFLY
▫️TIME: 3 minutes
▫️MERIDIAN: liver, gallbladder, spleen
▫️TARGET: groins, inner & outer legs, hips, lower back
▫️BENEFITS: Stimulates the liver meridian, improves hip mobility, stretches legs, opens the back
▫️PROPS: blanket, pillow, block, bolster
▫️VARIATIONS: Side Dragonfly with variations, Half Dragonfly

🍀 HOW: Sit legs straight and opened on the floor rooted on both sitting bones. Straighten the spine and fold forward, supporting the upper body with the arms, then round the spine.
Relax the upper back, shoulders, neck and the arms. Use probs if needed.
If there are any discomfort in the lower back, stay in a more upright pose.
Stay few minutes with mindful breath.
Come out of the posture slowly and have a short rebound.

🌱 USE OF PROPS: a blanket or a pillow under the pelvis. You can support your forehead on a bolster or on a block.

🌿 SEASONAL YIN. With Seasonal Yin & living & diet we can harmonize ourselves with spring.

🪴 SPRING DIET: green, fresh, raw food, vegetarian, lemon

🍃 SEASONAL LIFE: deal with emotions, breathing exercises, diet, active outdoor life
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✅️ JOIN Seasonal Yin teaching!

Laura 💚🙏🏼💚

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