hi
can you pratice both? do one of each a week? i read somwhere it wasnt good to mix them up?
also which complements running? any ideas?
thanks
Lots of ideas.
Pilates was created by a fitness professional, Joseph Pilates around the time of the first World War (~1915). It was developed in an internment camp and used to help other internees with their physical ailments. Some of its principles are taken from yoga. While pilates authored a book on “contrology” which I am told has a body/mind/spirit approach I have not read the book and clearly there’s more physicality to the modern teaching of the pilates method.
Yoga on the other hand was given to humanity perhaps more than 9,000 years ago. We’re not sure who created it. It is a comprehensive set of tools for mindful human evolution. Within that vast body of wisdom, 1/1000 of it is asana, the physical postures. The practice is designed to develop a human consciousness through an awareness process. It is not, in and of itself, designed to make a lovely physical body.
Ergo these two “things” have very different purposes and very different tools for those purposes. If one is doing the physical practices of each AND doing so only for physical “benefit” then I can’t see any reason to not do them together - along with running, swimming, cycling, rowing, lifting, throwing, kicking, et al.
The term ?complement" would have to be defined. If you mean “make my running better” that is one definition. If you mean “make me whole and complete as a person in light of running”, that is another.
[QUOTE=InnerAthlete;16209]Lots of ideas.
Ergo these two “things” have very different purposes and very different tools for those purposes. If one is doing the physical practices of each AND doing so only for physical “benefit” then I can’t see any reason to not do them together - along with running, swimming, cycling, rowing, lifting, throwing, kicking, et al.
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Years ago, I took a course with a real Rishi . It was in a secluded camp, with many students.
He encouraged us to practice sports. We even played soccer with the Rishi.
He enjoyed it.
And … ?
Yoga is a form of exercise though it doesnt call for sweating and moving vigorously. But yoga is as beneficial as any other exercise, let it be running, swimming, etc.
Yoga is concerned with soul evolution and pilates is concerned with the physical body. Only you can to decide which one is most important to you.
shenez – you definitely don’t want to do yourself a mischief by overtiring your muscles, or not giving them a chance to rebuild. Thankfully yoga gives you space to cultivate self awareness and acceptance, so watch and listen.
You might just end up doing external Pilates formed work with internal Yoga formed intent. Not a bad result.