Need more balance? Discover my tips to enjoy a balanced life
Balance: your key to a fulfilling and peaceful life for the long run
You juggle a thousand things—sports, work, family, and friends—but you feel like your balance is off. Your energy is low, or you’re often on edge, with recurring aches and pains.
Good news: this article will show you how to easily incorporate yoga, myofascial release, and acupressure so you can go through your days feeling energized and at ease.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
Why balance is essential for a long and fulfilling life.
How yoga improves your physical and mental balance.
How to enhance your yoga practice with myofascial release to relieve muscle tension.
How to boost the benefits of your yoga practice with acupressure.
Simple tips to restore your balance in your daily routine.
Ready? Let’s go!
1. Why balance is essential for an active, pain-free life
Balance isn’t just about not falling over or managing to hold a yoga pose—although that’s important for feeling confident and independent!
Balance is a combination of different aspects that allow your body and mind to function optimally.
It includes:
Physical and muscular balance, which not only helps you stay steady—whether on two feet or one—but also ensures your muscles work efficiently. This prevents pain from overusing surface muscles by strengthening deep stabilizing muscles.
Emotional balance, which helps you stay confident and quickly regain stability after strong emotions.
Energy balance, which keeps you from burning out and helps maintain steady energy levels.
These aspects are all interconnected, so taking care of each one is key to preventing stress, fatigue, tension, and pain.
To help you maintain balance in all these areas, I recommend using yoga, myofascial release, and acupressure—powerful tools to keep you feeling good.
2. Use Yoga to Maintain Physical and Mental Balance
When you practice yoga, you engage your body, breath, and attention. This strengthens your physical and mental balance while optimizing your energy levels.
How? Simple: when you practice yoga, especially balance poses, you enhance:
Proprioception—your ability to sense your body’s position in space without looking.
Coordination
Muscle function, by activating deep muscles correctly, relieving tension in overworked surface muscles.
Energy efficiency, by learning to use only the necessary effort and allowing proper recovery.
Mental resilience, by managing emotions that arise in a pose through breath and focus.
Concentration and focus
But the best way to understand this is to try it!
A Simple Exercise to Test and Strengthen Your Balance
Stand near a wall if needed for support. Shift your weight onto one leg. Bend the other leg, keeping your big toe on the floor, and open your hip. You’re now in tree pose with the support of your toe.
Feel the strength of your standing foot and press your hip down to engage deep stabilizing muscles. Then slide your raised foot up along your standing leg, stopping at your calf or above your knee.
Once in position, observe your body’s reactions. Keep pressing your foot and hip down. Notice your emotions and thoughts. Stay focused on your breath.
3. Add myofascial release for better muscle balance and less pain
Yoga is already a great way to build balance, but deep muscle tension can sometimes throw off your proprioception and natural alignment.
That’s where myofascial release can give your yoga practice a boost.
Why Massage Your Fascia?
Myofascial release involves applying pressure to fascia (the connective tissues surrounding muscles and organs) using massage tools or self-massage techniques.
By releasing deep tension, you:
Boost proprioception and balance.
Help muscles work more smoothly and efficiently, relieving overworked surface muscles.
Reduce pain and stiffness that can disrupt alignment.
Restore natural balance without unnecessary compensation.
3 Easy Exercises to Relax Your Fascia
Roll a massage or tennis ball under your feet. This increases foot awareness, improving proprioception, while releasing tension throughout the body.
Use a foam roller (or a rolling pin—it works great!) on your calves and thighs. This relaxes tight surface muscles, especially overactive quads, improving mobility and allowing deep stabilizing muscles to engage.
Massage your shoulders, back, and glutes with a ball against a wall. This helps release tight surface muscles like the upper traps and deep glutes while reducing pain and stress.
4. Boost your vitality and calm your mind with acupressure
In both Chinese medicine and yoga, balance also depends on the smooth circulation of energy. When energy is blocked, your body and mind either tense up or feel exhausted.
Yoga poses and breathing techniques help energy flow, but you can amplify their effects with acupressure.
This technique is like acupuncture without needles—you press specific points with your fingers to encourage energy circulation.
By stimulating the right points, you can:
Improve grounding and emotional balance.
Reduce stress and mental agitation that disrupt concentration.
Support overall energy levels to avoid fatigue.
Try This: Stimulate the Yong Quan Point
Yong Quan is located on the sole of your foot, just below the pads of your first and second toes.
To activate it:
Sit comfortably and take one foot in your hands.
Find a small dip in the sole, just below the ball of the foot.
Massage this point with circular pressure using your thumb for 1-2 minutes.
Repeat on the other foot.
This point helps calm a restless mind while maintaining long-lasting vitality. You’ll feel more grounded and stable afterward. It’s also great to massage before bed after a busy day.
5. 3 easy ways to integrate yoga, myofascial release, and acupressure into your day
I get it—there’s never enough time in the day for self-care. So here’s how to sneak these techniques into your routine effortlessly:
Work on your balance without losing time: Stand on one leg while brushing your teeth. If needed, use the sink for support! I also have a student who practices tree pose in the shower—the sound of water helps him focus (just be careful not to slip!).
Improve proprioception and relax your body without leaving your desk: Keep a tennis ball in a drawer and use it to massage your feet during the day. Just 2 minutes per foot can make a big difference.
Fight fatigue or mental overload in seconds: Press the Yong Quan point for 30 seconds.
Conclusion: yoga is your ally for lasting balance
Finding and maintaining balance isn’t just about muscles or coordination. It’s about moving fluidly without unnecessary tension, managing daily stress effectively, and sustaining steady energy levels.
Yoga helps strengthen your physical stability, mental well-being, and energy. When combined with myofascial release and acupressure, it quickly releases tension and pain while keeping your daily vitality high—so you can enjoy every moment with ease.
Even a few minutes a day can make a noticeable difference.