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.
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A Yoga Bag by Amy Butler – Yoga Mat Bag
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A Lavender Eye Pillow by Amy Butler – Lavender Eye P
illow
- A cool headband, to keep that hair out of the way …. at Headband for the hair!
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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.
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…
and lastly here is another link for making the “stuffed bolster sack…”
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
2 replies on “Props and Gear for your Yoga practice – sew them up!”
Here are some additional links to making your own yoga mat bag, even a cool video, and a way to make a yoga mat wrap….plus some more on zafu’s!!
Gaileee, E-ryt
http://www.figandplum.com/archives/000016.html
http://www.taunton.com/threads/pages/t00167.asp
http://www.pinkofperfection.com/2006/05/look_ma_no_pattern_sewing_a_yo.php
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/lv_entertaining/article/0,2041,DIY_14108_3246500,00.html
http://www.orangebeautiful.com/blog/post.php?post_id=567
http://www.marthastewart.com/article/yoga-mat-tote-bag
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9940587
http://www.craftbits.com/viewProject.do?projectID=712
http://annascorneroftheworld.blogspot.com/2007/09/fo-yoga-mat-bag.html
http://handmade.loriz.ca/mt/archives/2006/08/yoga_mat_bag.html
http://tingaling.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/yoga-mat-wrap/
http://mang0.net/blog/2007/12/22/sewing-yoga-mat-bag/
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/525891/ video
http://readymademag.com/printarchive/article?id=1182 from old pants
zafu’s
http://zen.columbia.missouri.org/pics/zafu.jpg
http://zen.columbia.missouri.org/pics/zabuton.jpg
http://zen.columbia.missouri.org/pics/zafu1.jpg
http://zen.columbia.missouri.org/pics/zafu2.jpg
http://www.urbandecline.com/articles/2006/03/13/how-to-make-a-zafu-and-zabuton
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