Yoga at home: basic accessories to improve your practice

One of the advantages of yoga, apart from the benefits it provides both physically and mentally and emotionally, is that You don’t really need much to practice it.. In fact, if you wanted to, you could start practicing yoga at home or in a park right now, without needing to equip yourself with anything. It would be enough for you to take off your shoes, wear slightly flexible or baggy clothes and have a minimal desire to practice.

However, some yoga accessories can help make the practice more comfortable and easieror more intense and precise depending on what is sought.

The most practical yoga accessories

There are some basic accessories, which we could surely reduce to two: mat and blanket. However, there are also other very common ones, such as yoga blocks, bolsters, tapes or meditation cushions, which can be very useful.

When you practice yoga, one of the maxims is not to force and some yoga accessories are ideal for this, especially at the beginning, when you still have little flexibility and it is difficult to get into certain positions. They can also be useful as practice progresses, to expand our limits, or on the contrary, in vital moments when we need to perform the postures in a softer way, such as during pregnancy. There are even yoga accessories that facilitate resting posturesas important as active postures and in which to be comfortable, in order to relax, is essential.

All yoga accessories have a function and can be of great help in some postures. Let’s see what each accessory is for, how they are used and what are the materials most recommended.