Yoga Accessories-Yoga Socks, Yoga Strap

If you are a keen Yoga enthusiast who practices your Yoga exercises regularly, you should be very familiar with yoga mats, something which you do your yoga poses on. But have you heard of or use.....

Yoga Accessories- Yoga Socks

If you are a keen Yoga enthusiast who practices your Yoga exercises regularly, you should be very familiar with yoga mat, something which you do your yoga poses on. But have you ever heard of or use other yoga accessories like yoga socks to do these exercises?

Yoga socks are a relatively new creation that seems to be a cross between a yoga mat and your common socks but offer an anti-skid tread with tiny rubber pads on the sole to provide grip on the floor during your exercises.

Yoga socks also provide good protection from possible foot fungi especially when the weather is hot and humid and as a result the wooded floors can become sweaty during yoga practices.

However no matter how good yoga socks may seem to be, they really cannot take the place of a yoga mat. The function of the yoga mat is to be able to provide a firm grip to the floor to prevent you slipping during practices. Yoga socks may provide good grip only for certain types of yoga postures but not all of them. For example if you are practicing certain types of asana-based yoga styles you should use a thick yoga mat instead for your exercises.

Yoga Accessories- Yoga Strap

These straps are long cotton straps usually about 6 to 8 feet long that have a loop at its end much like a belt. These yoga straps are used mostly by yoga beginners who used them to improve their yoga poses. These beginners are usually less flexible in their yoga postures and therefore find that these straps are a great help to stay in a particular yoga pose longer while providing them greater flexibility. An example how a yoga strap can help is that it quite easily connects your hand to feet movements when you put the strap over your feet. Using such yoga accessories help you slowly improve your flexibility until you are able to do this pose without the yoga strap.

Here is a video on how a yoga strap can be used in your yoga exercises.