Props and Gear for your Yoga practice – sew them up!

Props and Gear for your Yoga practice – sew them up!

Sew if you have any sewing ability, you can make these items for your Yoga practice.

• A Yoga Bag by Amy Butler  – Yoga Mat Bag 

• A Lavender Eye Pillow by Amy Butler – Lavender Eye Pillow

• A cool headband, to keep that hair out of the way …. at Headband for the hair!

Head Scarf 1 

Head Scarf 2

Head Scarf 3 

Head Scarf 4

Head Scarf 5

• A Zafu Meditation Pillow  – Zafu Meditation Pillow

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• Make your own bolsters. Now I found an article in one of my sewing books,
  “Sewing for the Outdoors”, but then I found this on the internet… the same concept.
  I used a roll of quilt batting, figured out how circle part on the bottom….well, kinda like the instructions for the yoga mat. Here are some links.

Stuff Sack Instruction #1

I used some cotton material that I had around the house. I used this same concept, to cover a neck roll that I had so that I could also use this in restorative yoga poses.

Here’s another link for making a stuff sack, or a cover for your cylinder shaped bolster…

Stuff Sack Instructions #2

and lastly here is another link for making the “stuffed bolster sack…”

Stuff Sack Instructions #3

Enjoy making your own yoga props!

Gail Pickens-Barger, International and Experience Certified and Registered Yoga Teacher

Additional sites for sewing up your yoga gear yoga props.

Fig and Plum’s Make a Yoga Mat Bag!

Threads 2003 Issue Make a Yoga Mat Carrier

Martha Stewart’s Yoga Mat Bag Instructions!

CraftBits Instructions on Making your own Yoga Mat Bag.

Making a yoga mat bag from an old pair of jeans!

A Yoga Mat “wrap”. A nice variation on transporting your yoga mat to and fro

Zafu’s – Zabutton’s or meditation seated cushions

Zafu