Back to School Means Back to You! - Love My Mat

Back to School Means Back to You!

Getting back on track this fall with yoga, meditation, intentions and routines.
A Guide to Using Hand Weights & Sandbags - Love My Mat

A Guide to Using Hand Weights & Sandbags

Up your home yoga practice with 10Lbs Sandbags and 2.5Lbs Hand Weights. It's like having someone adjust you and ground you. Or use them to help increase the intensity of your practice. Either way - you'll love our pre-filled sandbags.
Planting Seeds in Spring - Love My Mat

Planting Seeds in Spring

With spring in the air, it’s time to turn thoughts and actions towards planting seeds of change and looking at ways we can declutter the mind and the body to...
5 Ways to Adjust to Daylight Savings Time - Love My Mat

5 Ways to Adjust to Daylight Savings Time

Spring ahead! It is the time of year where we eagerly anticipate the return of green grass, warmer weather and a fresh outlook to months ahead.  It is also a...
Using an audible exhalation in standing forward fold will help release tension, physically and emotionally.

Release Using Pranayama

The Hindu god, Ganesha (depicted with the head of an elephant)  hangs above my doorway.  Lord Ganesha is often shown with one of his tusks broken or completely missing.  The tradition of...
How to be Mindful - Love My Mat

How to be Mindful

Your focus determines your reality. In times when it seems that everyone is feeling compressed, misunderstood and marginalized, the practice of mindfulness becomes even more crucial to slow the litany...

Love the Love My Mat Long & Lean Bolster

Our bolsters were born from a need I found while teaching Yoga based rehab at a physiotherapy clinic for a couple years. The majority of my clients had tight chests and...
Fall Yoga Routine with yoga props

Falling Back in Love with Yoga

Using yoga, props and routine to fall back in love with yoga and yourself this fall. Ideas and suggestions for making the most out of your "me time"

Summertime and the Yoga is Easy!

Summer has finally arrived in Southern Ontario and oh how lovely it is! Whether your summer months have just arrived or you've been enjoying them for a while, the summer...

how to avoid wrist pain in yoga

as a yoga instructor i hear this question frequently, especially from newer practitioners. because yoga can be difficult on the wrists if you haven't learnt how to use your hands...

A Home Yoga Practice

You don’t need a dedicated space. You don’t need incense or candles. You don’t need sitar music or a chanting soundtrack. You don’t even need a yoga mat. All you...
December 07, 2013 — Shelley Gordon
Eye Pillow to help you sleep in savasana

Final Resting Pose - Corpse Pose for Bedtime

Sleeping in savasana has many benefits for your body. Consider laying in corpse pose for bedtime to improve your sleep and overall health.