So What Is a Yoga Towel and
Good Reasons to Use One?
If you’ve visited a hot yoga studio you’ve encountered a yoga
towel being used. In fact, a lot of hot yoga studios request their usage and permit
the students to borrow them totally free. These towels aren’t the same as the
towels in your bathroom. They are generally made out of microfiber material and
often make use of a non-skid coating on the back that can keep them from
slipping around the mat. Yoga towels tend to be the size of a yoga mat and they
are put on the top of the mat to offer grip for sweaty hands and feet.
Consequently, enabling a lot more solidity and safety within your yoga
practice. Vinyasa flow, hot yoga, or comparable type sessions can create
considerable amounts of heat within the body and lead to excessive sweating
that leads to slipping.
A Yoga towel is generally useful when you are traveling. These
are generally compact, light weight allowing them to be easily packed in your
baggage. When traveling, and any instance you’re using a rental or loaned mat,
they give a hygienic layer between you and that mat. No one likes to worry
about hygiene when the time comes to place your face on the mat for spine
strengthening asanas. Additionally, some individuals think they are suitable
for a mat alternative, laying them right on the floor to become a platform for
his or her practice.
I personally use a yoga towel every single time I practice yoga
whether or not I’m in a heated studio or not primarily because I feel more
secure and solid. Possibly my palms just sweat much more than some others or
perhaps my towel has become a bit of a security blanket. Either way, it has
ended up being an integral part of my practice and is definitely worth the
cost. As a yoga teacher of both hot yoga and vinyasa yoga I notice most of my
hot yoga students and many of my other students making use of towels in their
classes. I do occasionally come across hot yoga students using beach or bath
towels on their mats to assist with soaking up the sweat. Most of those
students expend quite a lot of time moving the towel around to smooth it out
while it oftentimes gets bunched up from shifting between poses. This situation
breaks their focus and tends to make the towel just another thing to be
concerned about as opposed to a stable base for their practice. For this reason
alone I really don’t suggest using a regular towel for your practice.
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