Pilates Vs. Yoga

Yoga is a set of special set of physical stretches and postures to harmonize body, mind and spirit to attain flexibility, relaxation and comfort. Pilates are a combination of special exercises and special equipment to unite mind, body and spirit, and also the physical fitness to be active, alert and happy. While comparing both we would come to know, Yoga is quite old in age and as it originates from the ancient India. Whereas, Pilates is quite young as its age is not more than 100 years.

Yoga is actually based on the Yoga poses. Yoga poses are in fact, the physical postures of the body controlling the movements of the body along with the flow of the breathing. These are also known as yoga positions. There are eight Yoga positions which are as follows:

1. Hatha Yoga: Slow Paced Basic Physical Postures
2. Vinayas Yoga: More Vigorous Body Movements Synchronized With Breathing
3. Asthanga & Power Yoga: Fast Paced Intense Movements Of The Body
4. Lyngar: Deals With The Alignment Of The Body For Perfect Yoga Positions
5. Kundalini: To Synchronize The Body Movements And The Breath Flow
6. Bikram Yoga: To Loosen The Tight Muscles In Fairly High Temperature

Contrary to this, Pilates does not have any specific styles but have different set of exercises for mat and machines.

Another thing that is similar in Yoga and Pilates is the use of mats. Yoga mats are necessary requirement for Yoga. In Pilates, Pilate mats as well as Pilate machines are used, Whereas Yoga does not need any machines. This makes it more attractive for the masses in place of Pilates.

Pilates may not require some specific clothing and because of that no special clothing is designed for Pilates. Contrarily, Yoga clothing is in fashion on a large scale. There are huge no of dedicated Yoga clothes are available which includes Yoga pants and capris. But the huge variety in Yoga clothes comes in womens Yoga apparel. Woman Yoga apparels are actually Yoga tops and tanks. The major womens Yoga apparels are Peacock Cotton Top, Passion Velvet Hoddie, Om Tank Top, Glod Splash Top, Water Bitty Top, Saffron Fountain Cotton Top, Ocean Dove Tank, Golden Temple Bitty Tank, Coral Velvet Zip Eyelet Top and many more. These tops and tanks used to be pretty expensive earlier but with increased competition discount yoga apparels are easily available. One may deduce from this that Yoga is more popular in women and Pilates are more attractive to the men.

Three are some things in Yoga which have no complement in Pilates. Like, Yoga Booty Ballet and naked Yoga.
1. Yoga booty ballet is tremendous fusion of dance, yoga and booty sculpting. This results in strength, activeness, alertness and beautiful body. This is also known as physical fitness and beauty treatment. It is very popular with Hollywood Celebrities.
2. Naked Yoga. This type of Yoga is done nakedly. No type of clothes at all. It is said to be a cleansing method. The basic idea in naked yoga is freeness from any binds.

In Pilates an instructor evaluates and plans exercises for each individual suiting his/her body requirements. Although it is performed in groups bit it stills requires individual monitoring. On other side Yoga is done in groups and fully dedicated monitoring of individuals may not be required. Keeping this in view, free online yoga classes are more successful than online Pilates. A lot of free online Yoga classes are available nowadays benefiting the masses all over the world.

Here is short comparison of the both:

1. Yoga Is Ancient And Pilates Is Modern.
2. Yoga Is More Spiritual And Pilates Is More Physical.
3. Yoga Is General And Pilates Is Specific.

They may be different in many ways but the overall goal is same,”Mental, physical and spiritual harmony