yin energy
Passive cosmic principle
Yin energy is the passive, receptive, cooling force in Chinese philosophy, contrasted with active yang energy.
The concept appears in traditional Chinese medicine, martial arts, and spiritual practices, where balance between yin and yang is considered essential to health and harmony.
Yin is associated with darkness, femininity, water, and stillness: yoga helps cultivate yin energy, the room had a calm, yin energy to it.
- sacred feminineRevered female spiritual principle
- femininePertaining to women
- moonNatural planetary satellite
- dark moonUnilluminated lunar phase
- waning moonMoon after full, before new
darkness · receptive · cool · water · still water · intuition · stillness · deep breath · passive · soft · quiet strength · night · shadow · soft light · earth · rest · inner peace · inward
- fox folklorekitsune, fox spirit, fox spirits, nine-tailed fox, Reynard
- Xuanwuturtle, tortoise, serpent, north, water element
yin, yang, energy, energies, energetic, energetically, energize, energized, energizing