Best Holiday Gifts for Yoga Enthusiasts

This holiday season forget getting your yoga enthusiast yet another yoga mat and try these unique gifts instead.

- Yoga Bag
These special bags are perfect for carrying everything to yoga class. Hugger Mugger makes a bag in an array of colors that will carry a yoga mat, water bottle, strap, and blocks. There is also a section for keys, Chap Stick, cash, drivers’ license and anything else that is small. These bags also have a strap to sling everything over the shoulder and head out the door. The internet has a wide variety of bags if you just run “yoga bag” in a search engine. Prices range from $10.00 to $140.00 for very high end bags. Unless the bags can roll out the mat and help you with your poses, the $10.00 one is just as good!

- Yoga Journal Subscription
Give the gift that gives all year long. Yoga Journal is delivered right to your yoga enthusiast’s mailbox and contains great features articles, events, profiles, pose help and product information just to name a few things. If Yoga Journal is not the right magazine, there are plenty others out there dedicated to the practice of yoga.

- Gift Certificate For Private Yoga Class
One of the wonderful things about yoga is that there is so much to learn that anyone can take classes for years and years without knowing everything there is to know or master every pose. Yoga is something to be engaged in for a lifetime for increased benefits. For real dedicated fanatics having a private class with a yoga instructor can be in invaluable tool to learning and mastering certain poses. If your yoga fan enjoys group lessons, you can also purchase those from most studios.

- Eye Pillow
Eye pillows are used for the most part in the final relaxation stage of yoga. Often filled with special scents and herbs, these little magical pillows help keep the light and distractions out while in final pose. These can be purchased online or at a yoga studio if they have a boutique with items to sell. Eye pillows are fairly inexpensive, come in a wide variety of colors and fabric patterns, and make a great stocking stuffer. These are sure to take the holiday stress right out of your yogi’s life.