Two of the most popular and most beneficial health and wellness practices include detox yoga and massage. So, it makes sense that you’d want to use them together to help achieve your goals. Detox yoga and massage are actually more similar than you might imagine. Both practices detoxify and oxygenate your body by boosting blood flow, both can improve flexibility and your range of motion, and both are fantastic for dealing with stress. In fact, detox yoga is in part the moving act of self-massage in a lot of ways thanks to the positions associated with it. The twisting, bending, and folding that takes place during detox yoga help to massage the internal organs, making it a wonderful way to gently encourage their healthy function. And, our Hot Detox Yoga is a lot more than just twisting and stretching. It can be quite calorie torching due to it being done while inside the 125 degree HOTWORX infrared sauna.

Massage can aid in your detox yoga session in many ways, but it begins with muscle inflammation. The immune system creates some level of inflammation to repair an illness or injury. When it gets too high it can cause damage to healthy muscle tissue, which can in turn lead to additional aches and pains. Even worse, if you go back at it before your body has had time to heal it can cause more swelling, dramatically hindering your yoga efforts. So for your body to recover, you need a careful balance between recovery and exercise. As you develop your abilities in your yoga practice, the goal is typically to be able to accomplish more and more difficult positions and be able to achieve those positions for longer than a few seconds. In order to do so, you need to take time following your session to allow the body to heal itself and create the strength and flexibility needed to achieve those new positions. So, what can you do to aid in that?

Research into massage has shown that just ten minutes right after a yoga session can affect two genes in the muscle cells. One lessens the inflammation caused by exercising in a similar way to taking an anti-inflammatory medication. The other showed the creation of mitochondria, which are considered the powerhouses of cells. They use the broken down products of food and oxygen to produce energy that the cells require. As your muscles become used to your yoga routine, the number of these cells goes up, and a massage works to speed this process along.

Other studies have shown that a massage chair helps address sore muscles similar to the effects of anti-inflammatory medication or hot/cold therapy, working to minimize swelling. But unlike anti-inflammatory medication, a massage also speeds up the muscle tissue recovery process. Hopping in a massage chair right after a detox yoga session can be beneficial to not only the recovery process, but your progress as well.

So, let us help you get the best yoga & massage experience possible. At SOL SPA, The World’s First 24 Hour Day Spa, our members can enjoy a state of the art massage in our zero gravity massage chairs after every Hot Detox Yoga session, anytime day or night! So, get the best of both worlds at the spa that never closes.

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Written By: Paige Stuart, VP of Spa Operations