Welcome to the Yoga Talk Show with Lucas Rockwood, your one-stop destination for insider information.

This show bridges the gap between students and teachers so you can learn the latest and greatest in

yoga and health.

Here's your host, Lucas Rockwood.

Hello and welcome, Lucas Rockwood here

with Yoga Body Naturals and the Yoga Talk Show.

We have some great questions from students this week.

Gina asks, can you tell me the key differences and similarities between yoga and

Pilates?

I've taken both classes and they actually seem a lot alike.

I'm entertaining the thought of becoming certified to teach one or the

other. Can you recommend any quality training programs for a beginning instructor?

Okay, so the difference between yoga and Pilates is yoga is, again, these are just stereotypes, and so, you know,

take them with a grain of salt, but yoga is typically

thought of as a more mind body-oriented practice,

whereas Pilates is much more fitness-based physiologically anatomically based practice.

Now that said there are some Pilates teachers who are very much teaching what I would consider a yoga class so again take that with a

great assault but the way Pilates started is Pilates was a big crazy

contraption machine that you do all kinds of very very much therapeutic

strength balance fitness oriented exercises

on so in that way it had a lot more to do with uh... it had a lot more similarities with

gym workouts than it did with yoga class. Now over the years

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