Bernie Clark demonstrates some confusion regarding the history of Yin yoga. He claims, “Paul Grilley, not Paulie Zink, developed yin yoga as a style of yoga.” As for Grilley developing the style of Yin yoga, note that the Kripalu website bio of Paul Grilley (see photo) states: “Paul Grilley has been teaching yoga since 1980 in the style of Taoist master Paulie Zink.”
Paul Grilley falsely claimed “After a few months” of studying with Master Zink that he had “seen the whole repertoire.” One of Master Zink’s most senior and advanced students, who was there in the same classes with Grilley, tells a very different story.
“I was taught at a Yin Yoga workshop that the genetics of my bones would not allow me to ever develop flexibility in certain poses. They told me I will never do the splits, but it’s not my fault, it’s my bones.”
A real medical doctor weighs in on this theory that is being taught as though it is based in science.
Journal by Marie Stalder, Switzerland:
Yin posture movements made in the dance of a swimming frog leaping in the air, happy, joyful, and funny, stretching out a leg or turning into a drop of water that sways peacefully in search of her center.
If you are in a posture and are able to flow with the energetic quality of one of the elements or animals then you can understand its purpose.