Yoga is the age-old discipline has been the buzzword for a healthier lifestyle for quite some time now. But, having the right yoga accessories can help elevate your practice to the next level.
Make good health a habit with yoga mats and accessories and pack your perfect yoga bag with all the Yoga essentials! The best mats are not only attractive to look at, but well equipped with the latest yoga technology making it lightweight and durable.
We’ve picked our favorite 6 holistic lifestyle products that you are sure to love, whether you’re an advanced practitioner or just a beginner of yoga practitioner.
From handcrafted and eco-friendly water bottles to sustainable yoga mats, these favourites are guaranteed to help you flow like an expert.
- Yoga Bag
- Yoga Mat
- Bamboo Water Bottle
- Bamboo Straws
- Yoga Guide Book
- Meditation Mat
1. YOGA BAG
Use a hobo bag to carry your Yoga mat for your Yoga Workouts. The Hobo bag is a style of handbag or purse that is typically large and characterised by a crescent shape, a slouchy posture and a long strap designed to wear over the shoulder. Close to a Jhola bag popular in India! This wide-mouth shoulder bag is roomy enough to hold a yoga mat, yoga towel, water bottle, or other yoga essentials and light in weight too!
2. Yoga Mat
Enjoy yogasanas naturally with a Banana Fiber Yoga Mat! A yoga mat is the yoga practitioners favourite companion and what better way than to opt for a natural and an organic yoga mat in comparison with the synthetic rubber, PVC and chemical laden ones. Eco friendly yoga mats like Banana Fiber Yoga Mats are handmade in the region of India where yoga has its origins.
This yoga mat is hand loomed with banana fiber (using the stem waste). Comes with a cotton bag. Other special features of this yoga mat:
- Soft as cotton and more durable than cotton
- Hypo-allergenic
- Provides thermal comfort both in cold and warm climates
- Decomposes easily and completely when discarded
3. Bamboo Water Bottle
Try an eco-friendly water bottle made from bamboo by the artisans of Assam. . This is the right bottle for you to carry to your yoga class. It is completely organic and is made with durable bamboo – baluka (Bambusa balcooa). The caps of the bottle are air-tight and also made of bamboos.
One of the most frequently used daily products, plastic bottles have seen a meteorite rise in production, concerning the environmentalist across the world. According to a report published in the Guardian, more than 480 bn plastic drinking bottles were sold worldwide in 2016, a 300 bn rise from a decade ago. The plastic bottles are also very bad for health and in summer can not be used it become hot.
Being a natural product, the water remains cool and hygienic in these bamboo bottles. The bottles are easy to carry and mouths of the bottles are made of cork which does not allow the leakage of water. If you are concerned about the hygiene quotient of these air-tight water bottles, they are extensively treated during the manufacturing process to make them bacteria-free. Hence, these bamboo bottles are absolutely safe for storing water in them.
4. Bamboo Straws
Bamboo drinking straws are a fun and eco-friendly alternative to plastic that can be used with any beverage. They are washable and reusable.
Single use plastic straws are absurdly wasteful and are thrown away after minutes of use. Every year millions of straws end up clogging our landfills and polluting our oceans. Plastic products not only need hundreds of years to pose but also cause severe damage to the environment and threatens marine life. Our Bamboo Straws are biodegradable and 100 % organic, there’s no damage done to the environment. Free from chemical dyes and pounds found in plastic straws. Reusable: the bamboo straws can be washed in the dishwasher and reused many times. Finally, the straws are compostable. So, they will never ever end up polluting the environment.
During your work out session when you are thirsty you can use bamboo straws to drink both hot and cold beverages like tea, coffee, cocktails, smoothies and soda. Bamboo straws can be used to replace any plastic straws. As the straws are sturdier than plastic ones they can also be used as cocktail stirrers.
5. Yoga Guide Book
Light on Yoga: The Classic Guide to Yoga by the World’s Foremost Authority by B.K.S. Iyengar
The book, ‘Light on Yoga’ is classic guide-book for practicing yoga as described by the yoga legend B.K.S. Iyengar who was considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world. The book is the best to know about the correct techniques of practicing yoga at home. Every step of the yoga practice is described in this book in a very easy manner but detailed for a beginner or an advanced yogi. The book contains more than 600 photographs as illustrations of all the postures to give clear indications for positioning as it’s essential that you do yoga poses properly. The book also explains pranayama and meditation,
6. Meditation Mat
The meditation mat is made with jute threads in natural color form and cotton yarn dyed with blue, along with many other colors as per requirement. The grip provides a lot of traction giving you the extra stability during meditation. This Meditation mat is designed as compact as possible for carrying and convenient storage. To make these mats a hand peddled wheel mechanism (Charkha Wheel), used in unwinding the yarn from a larger lot to transfer to bobbins. A Handloom Machine- Hand and foot operated workbench which is used in weaving of fabric.
