The True Path of Serenity: Yoga Clothes
What’s worse than trying to get into a full lotus when you haven’t stretched in about a week? It is trying to get into a full lotus in a pair of jeans and a button up shirt. In fact, it’s just about impossible to get into the more advanced yoga poses in street clothes—the flexibility of the body must be matched by the flexibility of the clothes.
For both the casual and the veteran yoga practitioner alike, proper apparel is imperative to getting the most out of your yoga experiences. That is not to say that you need to have some “yoga-certified” pieces of clothing in order to be properly decked out. Rather, the propriety of the clothes has to do more with intent than any particular designation.
What is the Intent of Yoga Clothes?
Yoga clothes has one primary purpose: to provide comfort to a person in a myriad of positions, being supportive at some times, moving to fit the body, and most of all, adjust to a person’s body. It is these traits that set the intent for clothing, and in a sense designate something as a piece of yoga clothes.
That being said, no particular brand of yoga clothes is better than another, and in fact yoga clothes can actually entail a wide variety of clothing intended for other activities. The main goal is simply to provide a dynamic piece of clothing that changes and adjusts as you do. Barefeetyoga.com has a wide variety of clothing specifically designed for yoga, thus it contains all of these traits.
However, that should not be considered the only option for clothing for your yoga practice. In fact, aerobics pants work very well as yoga pants, as do polyester blend track pants. A variety of other athletic pants and shirts all work well, and the added technology of athletic clothing means you’ll stay dryer as at times your yoga practice can get intense and you will be glad for the added wicking technology.
Essentially, anything will do for yoga clothes as long as it is breathes and moves. But, finding the right clothing for you can be difficult. Barefootyoga.com is a great place to start looking for yoga specific clothing, but Nike, Reebok, Adidas, and essentially any other major sporting good company will always have yoga clothes for purchase, at prices that suit all budgets.