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Top Yin Yoga Classes If you love yin yoga as much as I do, chances are you want to know about all the fantastic yin yoga teachers and classes available on YouTube. Hi, I´m Melissa from Yoga with Melissa, I teach yin yoga, restorative yoga, yin yang yoga and yoga nidra. Yin Yoga is one of the most watched and loved forms of yoga videos on my main channel Yoga with Melissa. But, I know there are a lot of days in the month that you can be practicing yin yoga and so I thought I would share with you the best yin yoga classes from May of 2019. You may wonder, what were my criteria for choosing these classes? There are a lot of yin yoga classes available on YouTube these days! When I looked at the classes available on YouTube I was making sure that this was a style of yoga that the yoga teacher was established in on their channel. In other words, this wasn't a fitness instructor trying out yin yoga. I also wanted to make sure that they understood and were teaching the principles of yin: choosing an appropriate edge, softening, being still and staying in the pose. Classes that did not make the list were clickbait classes. In other words, they said they were yin yoga classes, but then they didn't have long holds or the language was too yang and focused on doing more, being more, achieving more. I just thought that was antithetical to yin. Also if the title of the class did not match the content, in other words if it said it was a chakra yin class or a meridian class then the content of the class didn't actually teach about chakras or meridians. The other thing that had me turning classes off was not looking after knees and necks. Need I say more? I practiced a lot of yin yoga from YouTube this past month so let´s get into it! #10 Yin Yoga for Mornings Yin Yoga with Trishy link Trishy is also new to YouTube, she began her channel a year ago. She did her Yin Yoga training with Kassandra Reinhardt. What I appreciated about this class for mornings is that it opened up the body while still embodying the qualities of yin. That is it was meditative, receptive, quiet and slow. This was something that Trishy promised at the outset and she stayed true to her promise throughout the class. There was a good explanation of edge at the beginning, which I also appreciated. Trishy had some interesting yin poses that I had never seen before such as monkey and a variation on archer, that worked well in a morning class to open the body after sleep. I have done a couple of Trishy´s classes now and one thing I have found as a student, because she doesn't teach yin with integration between poses is that I find it challenging when she goes from same to same, for example: a posture with spinal extension to another in extension, or a posture with a deep knee bend to another posture with deep knee bends. I appreciate the way Trishy holds space in her yin classes with all the silence for us to be in our own experience. Looking forward to seeing how her yin yoga teaching develops. #9. Yoga Society Yin Yoga for Opening the Meridian Lines with Tahnee link Tahnee from Yoga Society embodies yin, time extends in her class and you can settle into each yin yoga pose. Her voice is perfect for yin yoga. Great cueing with lots of checking in and space between poses. She does a lot to encourage interoception and to feel the poses and come into the poses by feeling from the inside. There was a lot of permission to let go, to not strive and to be in the moment. She is a master of holding space so that you can just be with your experience. My one concern with this class is that it was about the meridians. I found myself wanting Tahnee to tell us which meridian she was intended to focus on in each pose. She did tell us in dragonfly, however in that pose I lost a little confidence in her because while she named the meridians on the inside of the legs correctly, and one of the meridians on the outside of the legs correctly,