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Props help practitioners at all levels gain the sensitivity of a pose while receiving the benefits over time without overextending themselves. It allows students to practice asanas (postures) and pranayama (breath control) with greater effectiveness, ease, and stability. Still, some may be resistant to receiving support from yoga props because relying on props somehow diminishes their sense of success. If you have a negative attitude toward prop support, you may feel as though you are “cheating” in your practice and may generally oppose support in other areas of your life. Or perhaps requiring additional support shines a light on a shadow that you would prefer not to reveal. This I know for sure: if yoga instructors do not value using props, their students won’t either. My experience over decades of teaching is that those instructors only lack the knowledge of how to intelligently and creatively use props. I wrote this book to help students and educate yoga instructors in how to use yoga props, to demystify them, and to inspire yoga enthusiasts everywhere to play and soften their edges on the mat with strategic and creative prop support.