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As you progress and get stronger, Chen also recommends tree pose for a beginner balancing yoga pose. Zink's approach includes the full range of Taoist yoga, focusing on animalistic movements and the balancing of Yin and Yang energies. In the late 1970s, Zink began to teach a synthesis of hatha yoga with Taoist yoga, as well as postures, movements and insights that he had developed himself. Long-held postures have been used both in India's Hatha yoga and in China's daoyin. In his first years of teaching, many of Zink's students were martial arts practitioners who had developed strong but tight muscles, and he taught them only beginner level Taoist Yoga, focusing on long-held yin poses to alleviate their lack of flexibility. As taught by Grilley, Powers and Clark, it is not intended as a complete practice in itself, but as a complement to more active forms of yoga and exercise. Yin Yoga is taught across the world, encouraged by its teachers Paul Grilley, Sarah Powers and Bernie Clark. Yin Yoga was inspired by martial arts expert and Taoist yoga teacher Paulie Zink in the late 1970s, and officially named as such by Sarah Powers. One of Grilley's students, the yoga teacher Sarah Powers, began teaching yoga in his style.

However, as more students came he began to teach more advanced levels. Grilley began to teach a fusion of the Yin poses he had learned from Zink with hatha yoga and anatomy, and the teachings of Motoyama. In answer to the question, with which this chapter is headed: "What is Hatha Yoga?", we say to you: Read this book to the end, and you will understand some little about what it really is-to find out all it is put into practice the precepts of this book, and you will get a good fair start on the road to that knowledge you seek. The sequences of postures are meant to stimulate the channels of the subtle body - known as meridians in Chinese medicine and as nadis in Hatha yoga. Yin Yoga is slow-paced style of yoga (as exercise), incorporating principles of traditional Chinese medicine, with asanas (postures) that are held for longer periods of time than in other yoga styles. He explained that in order to develop full flexibility, the student must restore his own primal nature, through several Taoist yoga practices, as follows: yin asanas-mostly sitting or lying postures; yang asanas-more active, strenuous postures; Taoist Flow yoga-both yin and yang yoga postures practiced in continuous, smooth and circular motions; qigong-involving simple and gentle movement and breathing techniques; and Taoist alchemy-based, supposedly, upon the Taoist theory of the five elements used in Chinese medicine.

Yang is understood to be changing, mobile, masculine, active, hot, and upward moving. He later called this synthesis "Yin and Yang yoga". Grilley had at first called his approach Taoist Yoga, in deference to Zink's term. He related these to the parallel concepts of the nadi pathways and chakras of Indian yoga, yoga lying down and the prana said to be carried within them. "Mudras are an advanced yogic practice that leads to the awakening of the prana, chakras (or energy centers), and Kundalini shakti," Chopra says. Motoyama was interested in the physiology of the meridians, or subtle pathways and vessels, and the qi or subtle energy hypothesized to flow through or get stored in them. At each exhalation will that the prana or vital energy shall be distributed all over the body, to every organ and part; to every muscle, cell and atom; to nerve, artery and vein; from the top of your head to the soles of your feet; invigorating, strengthening and stimulating every nerve; recharging every nerve center; sending energy, force and strength all over the system. For instance, if they are asked to believe that they are in danger of losing their "magnetism," by coming in contact with the earth, and are advised to wear rubber soles and heels upon their shoes, and to sleep in beds "insulated" with glass feet, to prevent nature (mother Earth) from sucking and drawing out of them the magnetism which she has just given them, let the students ask themselves "What does Nature say about this?" Then, in order to find out what nature says, let them see whether nature's plans could have contemplated the manufacture and wearing of rubber soles, and glass feet for beds.

Yin Yoga is based on the Taoist concepts of yin and yang, opposite and complementary principles in nature. Taoist priests taught long-held poses, along with breathing techniques, to Kung Fu practitioners beginning 2000 years ago, to help them fully develop their martial arts skills. Taoist alchemy purports to embody the energetic attributes of various animals and to enliven the five alchemical elements believed to be contained in the body's energetic field, namely Earth, Metal, Water, Wood, and Fire. Advanced practitioners may stay in one asana for five minutes or more. The yoga teacher Cyndi Lee suggests a short sequence of six asanas, all with the use of supports: reclining bound angle pose (Supta Baddha Konasana), legs up the wall (Viparita Karani), a prone twist with both knees to one side (Jathara Parivartanasana), a sitting forward bend (Paschimottanasana), child's pose (Balasana), and corpse pose (Shavasana, with or without supports). And this room was the one in which Dr. Silence interviewed the majority of his "queer" cases, and the one into which he had directed Barker to show his present caller. Gradually increase the time you can hold the pose with ease, and slowly lower your legs.