Yoga, Meditation & Wellness Blog
Self Care for your Mind and Body This Holiday Season
Meditation benefits the mind and body, which is much needed this holiday season. Read about our favourite ways practice self care while nourishing our mind, body & community.
The Best Pose for Insomnia & Back Pain
How Legs Up The Wall can help combat insomnia and relieve back pain. Read Shelley's experience dealing with the most commonly asked about aliments.
Immune Supporting Foods
Kim from Picky Diet Wellness shares the best foods for supporting your immune system over the colder seasons and holidays. Plus two delicious, healthy, plant-based recipes!
Why You Need an Extra Large Yoga Prop Bag
Our extra large Yoga Prop Bags are one of our most loved products! Especially for post-Covid yoga studio life because they hold all your yoga props and meditation accessories.
Using Props to Elevate the Meditation Experience by Lara Wharton
Lara Wharton, of Listen Lightly, explains why posture is so important to your meditation practice and how the use of meditation props can elevate your experience.
Sustainability On and Off the Mat
Alicia Giannetti reflects on how her yoga practice has changed her relationship with sustainability. Read how she integrates sustainability on and off of her yoga mat.
Plastic Free July Roundup
For Plastic Free July, we've shone the spotlight on our personal lives and accessible swaps we can make in our day-to-day lives. Read our roundup on changes you can incorproate into your intentional and mindful living in reducing plastic consumption and the amount of plastics that end up in our environment.
Growing a Mindfulness Practice in the Garden
Kelsi shares how you can turn your time in the garden into a mindfulness practice through sensory awareness.
Self Care in Times of High Stress
Cara-Lea Suttie breaks down the different elements of self-care, so you can effectively integrate into your life for times of high stress.
Yoga Props Alternative Guide Part 2
Part two of creatively supporting your yoga practice at home. With the current influx of online yoga classes, and the need to stay home and stay safe, Kelsi Salisbury has put together another guide on making use of what you have at home to support you through your yoga practice.
Yoga Prop Alternatives Guide
Yoga instructor, Kelsi Salisbury has teamed up with Love My Mat to demonstrate how you can get creative at home to support your yoga practice by making props with household items.
Building a Restorative Yoga Practice at Home
Love My Mat customer, Sarah Rogers, shares her experience using our products to help her develop and expand her personal yoga practice.
"I share all this because my practice evolved so much in 2019, and it’s this evolution that led me to Love My Mat... as time passed, I found myself needing to hone more of the quieter practices of yoga and I began taking more restorative classes"
