Sewing your own yoga gear, yoga mat bag and meditation pillow
Here are some of the things I’ve used my Singer Featherweight 221 and my Pfaff Sewing Machine for yoga gear.
Using my Pfaff and Singer Featherweight Vintage sewing machines, I’ve made many items for my yoga practice. Yoga mat bags, bolsters, zafu meditation cushions and eye pillows. Yoga with Gail.
I used the tutorials listed on my site for making these #zafu #meditationpillows
Our generously-sized bag will hold your mat, towel, yoga chimes and more. We recommend choosing a heavier-weight fabric for the bag so it’s sturdier and wears well. Amy Butler’s Love collection has several home decor weights from which to choose. Your lining can be regular weight. I used upholstery fabric, and I didn’t have to use a liner fabric when I made this bag.
The Yoga Mat Bag Sewing Instructions. Brought to you by Yoga with Gail
Contributors Project Design: Alicia Thommas and Sample Creation: Jacqueline Smerek
Love this pattern. Had to find it off of Archive.org to get the instructions!
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Restoraflow Yoga Sequence for Easing back pain. Gentle Yoga for Low Back Care with Gail.
Sara Varona, of BuildYourYogaBusiness.com created this sequence to assist in easing your lower and upper back pain. She gave me permission to post it on my display at my recent Yoga Booth at a Health Fair.
She also shows on her website, the different things that she does in helping a client in their private yoga practice. Here is her video listed at the end of this specific ezine going through the poses pictured on the right.
I took lots of notes, taught these sequences to my various yoga classes, and people noticed how much better their backs felt after going through the sequences. It is a 40 minute google video, to get your pen an pencil ready, take notes, practice and come back and back to this wonderful sequence of yoga poses.
The model in the photos is one of my daughters. She is in the process of training to be a yoga teacher. She is already a wonderful Ballet teacher. She has also taught tap, modern, jazz and creative dance.
Getting a bit back into sewing these days. Need to get out the serger and cover stitch machine! Woo!
Sewing your own yoga gear. My nice long yoga mat bag from upholstery material, plus yoga straps for the handles. Zafu Meditation seat cushions (pillows) made from denim. I’ve had the mediation pillows for year, they have held up nicely! Yoga with Gail. 409-727-3177
The original “eye pod” eye pillow. A seam down the middle assists in lessen pressure on the bridge of the nose
I had retired from the IT department at DuPont, and continued to take computer classes at the University of Houston – Victoria, plus take all the PE classes at Victoria College.
I took the first offered yoga class at the university.
After my final exam in that class, which was a teach-back yoga class, along with my team, my yoga teacher told me that she liked my sequences and should become a yoga teacher.
The following month in my hometown at that time, YogaFit International Training Systems came to town and presented their Level 1 training. Soon afterwards I was teaching and taking additional training to get my 200 hours.
I was the first graduate of YogaFit’s 200-hour teacher training program (other than their trainers).
I remember one day, back in Victoria, I taught 5 classes in one day.
I soon racked up the teaching hours to get to the experienced level, then after moving to the Nederland/Port Neches, Texas area, took additional training from Lex Gillan at the Yoga Institute in Houston, to complete my 500-hour training.
I’ve enjoyed teaching for so many different places and studios and independently. Thank you.
Citizens HealthPlex
DeTar Healthcare System
GymX24 hour
Lotus Yoga Studio of Victoria
Victoria Ballet Theatre @ Debbe Busby School of Dance
Chandler Elementary School in Victoria, Texas
University of Houston-Victoria
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Christus HWC
YMCA of Southeast Texas, Port Arthur Branch
Nederland High School in Nederland, Texas
Exygon Health and Fitness Club
Golden Triangle Yoga
Yoga Vibe TX
Yoga at Wesley UMC in Nederland, Texas
Friday Gentle Yoga at the Lakeside Best Years Center Beaumont Texas
12NewsNow and more!
Now teaching online and in-person for the Veterans Yoga Project and No Longer Limited Duty
20 years of teaching yoga! Yoga with Gail Pickens-Barger
Gentle Yoga and Tai Chi with Gail 
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