Doing Yoga On Carpet

Yoga boards platforms for doing yoga on carpet my wife has been taking yoga classes for a few years but she has been doing more of it at home recently.

Doing yoga on carpet.

Today s guest post is from jake a 27 year old ybc reader from salt lake city utah. Until now she had been doing it in our kitchen but it s not a great environment. Lifeboard hemingweigh gymenist and a couple others based on thickness non slip or not material weight price. There are a variety of safe and effective tips for working out on carpet.

It s much easier to do it with your mat on a firm surface like a wood or tile floor. For those looking to practice yoga on a mat on a carpet we reviewed top choices in the market. I ve been doing yoga at home on carpet for almost 6 months now and actually find that when i move to hardwood floors my balance is more stable. A few weeks ago jake had posted on the ybc yoga forum that he had found a solution to doing yoga on carpeted floors his hard surface yoga platform has served him so well and was generating quite a little buzz on the forum that i thought i should ask if he d be willing to share his step by step process with.

However most yogis recommend against it. Multiply this over multiple days a week and your carpet will quickly start to deteriorate in quality. Our yoga room is carpeted so i made this board platform to act as a substitute floor. For one doing yoga poses against a carpeted floor might give your body friction burns or scratches caused by sliding your body against the carpet.

It s made of 5 8 thick bamboo flooring planks glued to a 1 4 sheet of birch plywood with 1 8 bamboo trim around the perimeter. Sometimes the best floor surface is not an option for home exercise. Balance issues hard floors ensure that you ll be able to maintain your balance because the surface is even and steady and won t give more in some areas than others. To some doing yoga on the carpet only takes a few weeks of getting used to and then becomes a non issue.

Carpet can make it a lot harder to do stepping exercises but that doesn t mean you have to give up on sticking with your routine outside of class hours.