Doing Yoga On Carpet

For those looking to practice yoga on a mat on a carpet we reviewed top choices in the market.

Doing yoga on carpet.

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. Lifeboard hemingweigh gymenist and a couple others based on thickness non slip or not material weight price. If you workout on your carpet in shoes every time you exercise you are gradually wearing out your carpet by doing repetitive actions that dull the quality of your carpet in the same spot. 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.

Until now she had been doing it in our kitchen but it s not a great environment. It s difficult to do yoga on 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. So while the carpet may be more difficult once you find our balance there you will definitely have it on the hardwood floors.

It s much easier to do it with your mat on a firm surface like a wood or tile floor. To some doing yoga on the carpet only takes a few weeks of getting used to and then becomes a non issue. 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. 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.

Today s guest post is from jake a 27 year old ybc reader from salt lake city utah. 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. However most yogis recommend against it. Multiply this over multiple days a week and your carpet will quickly start to deteriorate in quality.

There are a variety of safe and effective tips for working out on carpet.