All Our Yoga Stuff
Taking yoga classes all over the country over the years incites me. In each class, almost regardless of yoga style, one can locate several staples. You will always find some form of prop. Props were not always so important, but now the majority of Western yoga students would not be comfortable without them. I do not believe props a bad thing. However, I do contemplate: What makes us so in need of what has become many Westerns only way to touch their toes? Yoga is for every body and therefore should be accessible, but I also believe in working hard to create a quality yoga practice, so as not to be attached to our props like crutches that never go away. There is something magical about locating the full experience and magical moment when a challenging pose becomes one's own. In yoga classes or studios, yoga paraphernalia is profound: beads, pictures, incense, statues, gongs, cymbals, yoga mats or rugs, or yoga clothing (with cute “third eye” sayings) and the list goes on. And,