The word every yin class uses: the point where you feel tension but can still breathe calmly – roughly 30 to 70 percent of your maximum depth.
\"Find your edge,\" says the teacher, and nobody explains where it is. The answer: not where you can just about stand it, but where you could stay for three to five minutes without fighting – on a scale of 1 to 10, usually a 4 to 6, never a 9. People coming from more active sports make the classic mistake and push deeper, because everywhere else deeper means more progress. Connective tissue, though, answers overstretching with protective tension rather than release. The second mistake is fidgeting: find the position once, then deliberately hold still. The red line stays hard – sharp pain, tingling or numbness means come out now, whatever the timer still says.