Top Ten Gift Ideas for Your Favorite Yoga Instructor

Your yoga instructor helps you to relax, stretch, meditate, and maintain overall well-being. Perhaps you take yoga once a week, or three times a week. No matter how often you take yoga, your yoga instructor is probably someone you'd like to thank during the holiday season. Here are the top 10 gifts for yoga instructors.

1. Basket of Wellness Teas

Find a wicker or wire basket and line it with a pretty cloth placemat. Visit the tea section of your local grocery store or health food store. Select from any decaffeinated selection of the teas. Ideal choices include a box of Celestial Seasoning's Tension Tamer.

A flavored and caffeine-free green tea is also a must for the yoga teacher's basket of wellness teas. Also find one white tea selection, which is an exquisite tea. The other type of tea that should find its way into this top gift for a yoga teacher is any tea by Yogi Teas.

Pick about 5-10 varieties of boxes of teas, depending on the size of the basket. Add a honey bear, honey sticks, or a box of Sugar in the Raw. Find a pretty tea cup or mug at any dollar or discount store.

Use cellophane to wrap the basket and tie a bow at the top. Your yoga teacher will enjoy many relaxing and warming cups of tea with a basket of wellness teas. This top gift for the yoga instructor also has a nice personal touch, as it takes time and effort to make the tea selections and arrange the basket.

2. Book About Movement

Yoga instructors teach seamless flow from one movement into another. The yoga instructor can benefit from the book Anatomy of Movement by Blandine Calais-Germain and published by Eastland Press. This top gift for the yoga instructor covers the musculoskeletal system and how the human body moves. There are more than 1,000 illustrations to accompany the text.

3. Yoga Deck

Another useful learning tool for the yoga instructor, and a top gift is the Yoga: The Poetry of the Body: A 50-Card Practice Deck by Rodney Yee. Rodney Yee is himself one of the top yoga instructors, and describes even the simplest movements with visual imagery. His yoga deck instructors can practicedifferent combinations of yoga poses to create unique yoga classes.