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Massage Therapists

If you are a massage therapist, you may already be stretching your clients. In my opinion, integrating massage with a few targeted BEING poses that address your clients’ habitual holding patterns is a perfect recipe for deep letting-go. Being supported in a passive yoga pose by both gravity and strategically placed yoga props is a unique experience. It always encourages a deep level of relaxation that may otherwise be difficult to access through assisted stretching. Here, there is nothing to do and nowhere to go. Your clients can be suspended in the experience of a yoga prop–supported stretch while breathing, feeling, sensing, and letting go. Sounds good, right?

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Each of the yoga props listed in this chapter (except for the eye pillow) can be used in practice in all classifications of yoga poses — standing, seated, back bending, twisting, inverting, and forward bending — whether they are DOING or BEING poses. I have my personal prop preferences in style, size, material, and manufacturer. If you are a budget-minded yogi, however, the expense of yoga props shouldn’t deter you from creating an ample prop inventory. When I first started teaching, I used books for blocks, towels for blankets, couch cushions for bolsters, dining room chairs for support, fabric remnants sewed together for belts (trust me, I am not a seamstress!), and a kitchen sink and door jams for leverage (yes, even a kitchen sink!). All is possible. All the time. Always. Think outside the box.