Yoga mats

Jun 16, 2015

Yoga mats

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Yoga mats are a very important piece of yoga merchandise, but not an essential one. Anything would do, including a rug or a bedsheet. However, it must have enough strength, cushioning, space etc to support your weight and movements.

We have published this page on yoga mats today as a one-stop guide on the subject. Hope, it helps you in making an informed decision while buying yoga mat for yourself or your dear ones.

Links

A lot of stuff is available on the net on yoga. However, I could not find standard material except in some sites. In those sites too, the subject matter has been made complicated by introducing Sanskrit and mystic/ spiritual content. Many sites are selling yoga in all possible forms, some even going to the extent of mingling yoga with vulgarity.
I will keep adding links here, links that I find standard and dependable.

1. Videos of bhastrika, kapal bhati and anulom vilom pranayamas as taught by Swami Ramdev
2. Research papers by SVYASA University
3. Yoga, relaxation alter stress gene response
4. Research papers on Art of Living yoga
5. Project meditation [not essentially yoga, but meditaion]

6. Lists of research papers: one, two

7. Lists of articles on yoga: one, two

About me

I am a yoga practitioner for life, having learned it when I was 19, some 45 years back.

All these years, I have tried to understand how various yogic practices work on different parts of the body, body as a whole, the mind and the spirit. I have talked to gurus and medicos, read ancient yoga scriptures, used modern medical knowledge and shared experiences of others so that what I tell here is not pseudo-science or mysticism.

Whenever I have not been able to substantiate benefits of some yogic exercises etc (I like to call them procedures), I mention about that. Whenever others' knowledge has been used, I have cared to source / credit them.

Do talk to me through my email account, yogaadvice@gmail.com.

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I stay near Haridwar, about 250 km from New Delhi, the capital of India.