A wholesome yogalates, the fusion of yoga and Pilates, practice that includes mindful breathing and yoga and Pilates movement is super effective in helping to reduce pain and stiffness in muscles or joints.
Yogalates has countless benefits, including the effective yogalates helps relieve muscle pain and tension and stretches our muscles. Yogalates is a powerful practice that enables us to relieve pain,
remain confident and active, and manage stress,. Yoga and Pilates can help with pain management.
Yogalates helps calm and reset the nervous system.
Yoga and Pilates help because of its strong focus on breathing with the mindful movement. The breathwork in yogalates energises, calms and relaxes our nervous system.
Breathing is an automatic function of the body that is controlled by the respiratory centre of the brain. When we feel stressed, experience pain, or anxiety our breathing rate and pattern changes as part of the “fight-or-flight” response.
Fortunately, with the breathing patterns practice in yogalates we also have the power to deliberately deepen, slow down and calm our own breathing. Scientific studies have shown that controlling your breath can help to manage stress and stress-related conditions, reduce chronic pain and reduce muscle pain.
Practicing breathwork also shifts the body into a mode of restoration in which it can heal and repair tissues. By settling our parasympathetic nervous system we help reduce our cortisol ( stress hormone) levels which can help reduce inflammation. We also enhance our growth and repair hormones. This is fabulous when suffering with muscle pain, recovering from injury, suffering from chronic pain and to enhance performance and recovery in sport.
The practice of Yogalates has a powerful combination of the physical movement combined with the deep breathing, meditation and mindfulness. The mindful movement and connection to breath in yogalates has been shown to reduce cortisol ( the stress hormone) and relieve stress and reduce muscle aches and pains
Yogalates helps to relieve pain from poor posture.
In life we move in so many different ways, directions and planes of motion. For example sitting at a desk, using an iPhone, gardening, vacuuming, sporting activities and so much more. So, in a yogalates class that includes a variety of poses, sequences and stretches we allow a complete reset for our posture. We strengthen, align and stretch our muscles creating a bio mechanical balance and improved posture. An aligned posture means less stress on muscles and joints and less pain.
Yogalates helps muscle soreness and aids recovery after training and sport.
Many of us have felt this! — one day you may be feeling invigorated, strong and satisfied from a challenging game or workout, however, the next day your body and muscles feel extremely sore, stiff and fatigued. Painful and tight muscles after a workout is very common with beginners and even the most experienced athletes. Yoga and Pilates is the best way to help reduce muscle soreness and aid recovery.
Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS). Often occurs 1-2 days after your workout, DOMS is very normal and frequently felt in muscles you haven’t challenged or worked as intensely before. This may happen when you do a new workout or an activity that you haven’t done in a while.
Often, those who experience DOMS, May feel as if the best thing to do is to rest or to not move your body at all. However, gentle flowing movements yogalates poses and stretches can enhance circulation, reduce pain and stiffness and ease muscle soreness and promote healing in your body.
Tight hamstrings, sore gluteal muscles, stiff neck, shoulders and lower back, tight calf muscles… the mindful movement, muscle activation balance and stretching in yogalates can help.
Yogalates helps with Muscle and joint pain.
Muscle and joint aches and stiffness is also common for many women during menopause. One of estrogen’s main roles in the body is to control and reduce inflammation. When estrogen production declines during menopause so does the benefits of its work as a natural anti-inflammatory agent. There are estrogen receptors all over our body, as well as in the joints. So, during menopause, declining hormone levels can add to pain caused by inflammation, general wear and tear from life and the process of aging.
Even 10 minutes of yogalates a day can help improve mood, reduce muscle stiffness and pain,
improve mood, maintain strong bone and muscle, a healthy weight and allow us to enjoy life!
See you on the mat,
Lisa x
