What is Thai yoga stretching?
Thai Yoga Stretching Therapy consists of deep rhythmic pressure that stretches the entire body. A trained Thai Yoga therapist stretches a person with specific, assisted yoga poses. While Swedish massage permits the recipient to zone out and relax, Thai Yoga encourages the recipient to become more engaged and energized.
What is the difference between Thai massage and Thai yoga massage?
Essentially, Navina™ Thai Yoga Therapy uses many of the same techniques, postures and forms as Thai Massage, yet our philosophies of practice, the application of techniques and the underlying knowledge of the human body are different. I hope that helps with clarity.
Is Thai massage good for flexibility?
Thai massage incorporates yoga-like stretches to reduce stress and improve circulation. The gradual, gentle stretching will enhance the person’s flexibility over time, allowing a greater range of motion.
What are the benefits of Thai massage?
Traditional Thai massage comes with a number of proven health benefits:
- Aids deep relaxation. A Thai massage is incredibly relaxing.
- Improved cardiovascular health.
- Stress relief.
- Improved quality of sleep.
- Headache relief.
- Reduced muscle tension.
- Improved athletic performance.
What do you wear to a Thai yoga massage?
With Thai massage, you can wear your own loose-fitting clothes, or the practitioner may have you change into scrub-like garments — a loose cotton top and drawstring pants. You keep your clothes on throughout the massage. Typically, you’ll lie on a mat or massage mattress on the floor, not on a massage table.
Can Thai massage help lose weight?
This massage regenerates muscles and joints, reduces adipose tissue and helps with cellulite reduction and with skin firming. Also it removes pain from muscle and joint tension and relax whole body. Helps out to diet and physical activity with losing weight, but it`s not their substitute.