How Yoga Props Can Elevate Your Life!
In the Therapeutic Yoga Method, props are essential tools for creating a practice that mindfully supports the body, making it easier to for you to release tension, improve circulation, restore balance, and feel your absolute best!
Yoga props can elevate your life by making your practice more accessible, supportive, and transformative. Props help to counteract the negative impact of a modern, sedentary lifestyle.
Long hours spent sitting, standing, or being in front of a screen create patterns of tension, misalignment, and restricted movement in the body. Props provide the necessary support to address these issues.
For example, if you spend long hours sitting at work or while traveling, props can help release tight hips, improve spinal alignment, open the chest and shoulders, and relieve back pain. Props also support the body in poses that stretch and lengthen muscles, which can become shortened and tense from inactivity.
Props can help you to relax into deeper dimensions of your yoga practice and allow your body to recover from the stresses of modern life.
Here’s everything you need to know about the props used in the Therapeutic Yoga Method, plus links to get your own if you’d like!
Support your body, deepen relaxation, and release tension with the help of a bolster.
Get grounded and ease tension with the added weight of sandbags. Note: fill with play sand from the hardware store. 7 pounds each.
Access a variety of angles and challenge your balance with a wedge.
Improve your grip strength, ease shoulder stiffness, and lengthen your muscles with the help of a strap.
Create height, support, and stability in every pose with yoga blocks.
So which prop is your favorite so far? Or do you love them all?
Book your next Therapeutic Yoga class with us—either in person or online—and give your body the care it deserves.
If you feel called to explore this work more deeply, I invite you to join me for the upcoming Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training. Click here to get all the details and take the next step in your journey.
