5 Tips For Honoring Yin-Time Winter Solstice

5 Tips For Honoring Yin-Time Winter Solstice

This longest night of the year is a celebration of light and rebirth of the sun, as the days will now start to lengthen. In Chinese Medical theory, winter is a YIN time of year. Yin is cold, wet, and marked by stillness, introspection and rest. Winter solstice occurs this week on Friday 12/21; the point where Yin is at its peak and yang is just beginning with it’s tiny light. Ironically in our culture it is the typically time when we are called to be most YANG; outward, frenetic and social.