Block Tutorial (16-mins) How-To

Join Clara for a quick prop tutorial on how to use blocks to assist and enhance your practice to create more space and strength in the body.

How to Choose Your Yoga Blocks

• Purchase your yoga blocks in a pair if you can.
• Cork blocks are a lot harder, thicker, and more stable.
• Softer blocks are less intrusive in poses where the blocks are positioned along the back.

See how to benefit from yoga blocks in:

1. Seated poses (easy sitting pose, hip openers, hamstring openers, forward folds).
2. Standing poses (lunges, warriors, balancing poses).

Why use yoga blocks?

• Create stability in the joints.
• Support the alignment of each pose.
• Honor your body and your practice for where you are right now.
• Strengthen appropriate muscles.
• Lengthen with integrity.
• Accommodate injuries.
• Acknowledge that we are all shaped differently, and no two poses ever look the same.

In every practice, ask yourself: Where am I supposed to feel the stretch in this pose, and how can I best create the shape to facilitate that sensation?