Yoga Swings

Many types of yoga equipment have emerged to enhance our practice and one of the most interesting in the yoga swing. Here's your guide to this simple yet powerful device that can take your yoga practice to a higher level.

Yoga has become extremely popular over recent years and with good reason. It offers us a gentle way to tone up both body and mind. Through simple stretching routines we can tone up inner organs, and end up with a firm limber body and a revitalised system. One benefit of yoga is that you need so little in terms of equipment. Most of us are content with using a simple mat on the floor but a yoga swing offers much more.

A yoga swing is a simple harness made from lightweight microfibre nylon fabric. It features stirrups for your feet. You can either attach it to rope hooked over a ceiling beam or attach to a hook on the ceiling.

Once in place you sit on the swing and suddenly you're balanced in mid air, gravity is banished, and you're free to move fluidly in any direction. You can now practice all your regular asanas with many variations all the while suspended in the air.

Using a yoga swing brings you all the benefits of regular hatha yoga along with ways to strengthen your muscles and all this while having fun at the same time. Being more vigorous than regular yoga, it helps build stamina as well as balance.

Yoga swings are ideal for both novices and advanced practitioners, and as you can imagine, children love them. If you want to introduce your child to yoga at a young age, this is the perfect solution.

If you're a beginner it can help you get some benefits of advanced practice. For example, if you haven't mastered the headstand yet but want the therapeutic benefits, the yoga swing makes it easy to hang upside down.

Perhaps the main attraction of the yoga swing is the pure joy it brings to our daily yoga practice. The mere of thought of using the swing stimulates us and transports us back to our childhoods when play was natural and beneficial. It's something we've lost as adults and the yoga swing can help us regain it.

If you're ready to start on the natural way to wellness with yoga swings, call us at Shanti Village on 07 34659782