Improve Your Yoga Practice with Yoga Blocks

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You’ll make sure to drop your yoga blocks in your yoga bag once you’ve discovered their many benefits to your practice. Yoga blocks have a whole variety of uses, but before we talk about what they can do for you, plus the many types that are on the market, let’s discuss Yoga, itself.

The Benefits of Yoga

Yoga helps you in awakening your inner body and enlivening your outer body! Yoga practice involves unburdening your mind and becoming fully aware of each pose. This improves inner awareness. Proper yoga practice awakens, energizes, and strengthens the structure and flow of the body. The goal of yoga practice is to create a union between the body, mind and spirit.

You’ll need time and commitment, as well as a whole lot of patience, to master a yoga pose. A beginner should not give up if they don’t do a pose flawlessly on the first try. But, slowly over time, as you practice and try to perform each pose perfectly, without pushing yourself too far physically or beating yourself up mentally, you will notice that you are developing flexibility, strength, and energy physically and feeling more peaceful and clear mentally.

Choose a clean, quiet space for your practice area, and if you can, one with a bare floor and an accessible wall. Avoid distractions, such as cell phones, during your yoga practice. For optimum function, you should not eat for at least 2 hours before practicing. If this is not possible, then try to eat something light, such as a piece of fruit, but no more than 1 hour before you start your yoga practice.

Remember to be mindful of how your body feels, and stop or pause if you experience any pain or discomfort while trying out a pose. Then try again.

Yoga props and accessories, such as yoga mats, yoga bolsters, yoga straps, yoga blocks, yoga mat bags, and even yoga towels are made with the intention to aid you in moving deeper into a pose, in performing a perfect pose, and in practicing in a wholesome way.

Here are some of the many benefits to using yoga props:

Pain relief and body comfort

Prevent injury

Release tension and provide support

Encourage appropriate alignment

Enhance movement

Open up the joints

Develop awareness and understanding

Yoga Blocks

Comfort, or rather the nonexistence of it, can more often than not make yoga newbies end their routine before they’ve barely begun! Yoga blocks can assist anyone, but particularly those just starting out, to feel less strained during yoga practice because yoga blocks aid to improve alignment. Some standing yoga poses include one hand being on the floor. For a beginner, the floor can seem a long way down. A yoga block can make up the difference. Think of a yoga block as an extra extension to your arm. By positioning your hand on the block, you will be able to do the standing poses accurately while you are in the process of developing your flexibility. A yoga block is a wonderful transitional aid. Also, some sitting poses specifically require a yoga block. A yoga block assists you in going a lot farther in your practice, and maybe even in your life. Who could ask for more from something so “square.”

Yoga blocks come in a fairly wide range of materials. Here are three: Foam blocks are durable and lightweight, an easy add to your yoga bag! Wooden blocks are also lightweight and hollow, yet basically indestructible (even Fido would find one hard to destroy!). And, then there is the ever-so-green cork block. An extra bonus is that the natural texture of the cork gives some extra traction.

Yoga blocks are more often than not sold individually but, for utility, you’ll probably want to buy a few.

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