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7 Reasons Why You Should Get to Yoga Class Early

Have you ever gotten to yoga class early and found a person snoozing on their mat in a pre-class savasana? We have. If that’s not you and you have you have a bit of anxiety about getting to class early and feeling uncomfortable, fear not, we’re here to help. We’ve put together a short list of 7 reasons why we actually recommend getting to your yoga class early

Too Old for Yoga?

From our professional opinion: you are never too old or to “out of shape,” (in quotations, because everyone is a shape...who decides what shape we should be “in?”) to start yoga. Period. Now that doesn’t mean that you should walk into an Advanced Level Power Vinyasa as your first class… but that does mean that yoga is accessible to everyone of any age or shape.

5 Ways to Use Yoga Blocks

1. Child’s pose (Balasana)- Setting the blocks under the elbows: I didn’t see this variation of child’s pose until years into my practice. I had used blocks in melted heart, but had never really felt comfortable there. To use your blocks in child’s pose begin by propping a block under each elbow near the front of your mat.