The benefits of massage therapy and body work are great. These modalities can relax muscles, sooth aches and pains, release energy bockages, and rejuvenate the mind and body. While a regular yoga practice often also addresses these same issues, massage and bodywork can help by creating freedom in those stuck places you just can't reach.

Explore how the Rule of 4 Bodywork can complement your existing yoga practice. Then use the awareness gained through your practice what B.K.S. Iyengar called "awakening intelligence in the body," to get the most out of your bodywork sessions. 

Here are several important helpful tips on how to use your yogic awareness during bodywork to make each session profound.

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Have you ever become emotional while practicing yoga
 or during an intense workout? Most likely you uncovered an emotion that was stored deep within the tissues of your body. The body often stores emotions related to situations we have not fully resolved and some unfinished business remains.

The links between the body and the emotions are not always obvious but the physical discipline of yoga can help us tune into emotional aspects as well as physical blockages. And when negative, painful emotions arise on the mat, rather than ignoring them, we have another opportunity to release them by exploring the questions:

"What are our emotions telling us?" and "What do we do about them?"

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