Why is Thai Yoga Massage So Beneficial for Your Health and Well-being?

Thai Yoga Massage is a kind of bodywork that applies light pressure and  facilitated stretching to your muscles. From a rehabilitation perspective, this is exactly what your tight and rigid tissue needs. The other component to this practice that must be mentioned is that it allows you to dip into a passive moving meditation, which opens up many channels that promote healing. This is similar to what happens in yoga, but Thai Yoga Massage goes a bit deeper because the yoga is being done to you.

In my work, I target three components of health: proper amount of rest, good flexibility throughout the whole body, and cardiovascular strength. Most people need more of all three of these. Thai Yoga Massage targets two of these components very well, and makes cardiovascular strength training not nearly as daunting.

Rest, Flexibility, and Cardio become very important because every day we are bombarded with things that do not serve us. For example, most people live with unreasonable work expectations, an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, and poor nutrition.

These situations cause stress on bodies, and as a response, we create tension in an associated area to protect ourselves. It can become a vicious cumulative cycle that can only be repaired through chemical shifts. Let’s face it: most people are medicated in some way to induce the molecular changes needed when they could have prevented the downward spiral of their health through enough rest, flexibility, and cardiovascular strength.

When we drive ourselves too hard mentally, physically, or emotionally, we absorb tension all over our body. Eventually, it afects our movement patterns, sleep cycles, and mood. Thai Massage is the perfect modality to ward of this tension, as you relax and let a good practitioner move, compress, and stretch you. It is an ancient healing art, originally created to support a god to many cultures: Buddha. If it helped him so long ago, it most certainly can help Americans today.

We have a lot to be thankful for as we live in a world where we can access necessities rather easily. However, we often don’t take enough time for our basic health needs. We should have enough rest to recharge the immune system, enough flexibility for tissue to maneuver around possible injuries, and enough cardiovascular strength to maintain good circulation. If you attain these three things, the cumulative cycle does not have the chance to begin. Thai Yoga Massage is a fantastic way to ensure that you are taking the time to recharge and protect your body. Try scheduling this practice into your life so that you can maintain a happy active lifestyle.

Guest Post By Joy Carey – MS Rehab Science & Certified in Thai Massage