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Effects of Massage on Yoga Practice
Increases blood flow to the muscles.
Allows muscles to work harder and longer and regenerate faster.
Causes the parasympathetic nervous system to take over.
Decreases tension in the body, thereby making you less prone to injury.
Increases range of motion (ROM) with passive or active stretches facilitated by the therapist.
Allows you to go deeper into your poses. Decreases potential for injury.
Breaks down adhesions between two muscles as well as decreases scar tissue.
Increases ROM in that region allowing you to go deeper into your poses.
Prepares the mind for relaxation.
Frees your mind from distractions and allows you to go deeper into your practice.
Increases body awareness.
Helps avoid injury in addition to helping you go deeper into your asanas.
Removes toxins from muscles.
Decreases muscle soreness after a hard practice.
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Effects of Yoga on Massage Therapy
Relaxes the mind.
Allows the parasympathetic response to relax the body, allowing for a deeper state of relaxation
Increases muscle length.
Allows your therapist to do deeper work into areas that might not get released otherwise.
Builds new muscle.
Increases the progress made when scar tissue is broken down, allowing healthy tissue to
regenerate in its place.
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Massage/Yoga Integration
So you want to maximize the results from the time you spend in your yoga practice?
Or maybe you want to make the most out of your massage therapy session.
By integrating massage therapy sessions into your yoga practice, or vice versa,
you can do both!
Yoga and massage therapy are complementary styles of bodywork that can greatly
magnify the effects of the other. Whether you are doing massage therapy to maintain your health or as a
relaxation/stress relief practice, or to improve the way your body functions, you will greatly improve upon
these benefits by participating in a daily or weekly yoga practice.
Massage therapy deepens your yoga practice.
A therapy session before your yoga practice can prepare your body for the workout ahead, just as with
any sport like running or cycling. This type of massage is known as pre-event massage and used by
professional athletes in every sport to increase performance and reduce recovery time. The top box at
left describes many other effects massage therapy has and the benefit to your yoga practice.
Yoga affects your massage therapy sessions.
After one of our yoga classes, your body is stretched, de-stressed and ready for deepened relaxation.
See the bottom box at left for the effects of yoga that can benefit your massage therapy sessions.
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