Yoga-Mad Standard Cinch Strap

When you’re looking to try a more difficult yoga pose, or just to hold a pose for longer, pushing your body can be dangerous or painful. The Yoga-Mad Standard Cinch Strap helps you ease your way into new positions or deeper stretches. It can also help maintain correct, healthy yoga poses, so that when you eventually try the positions unassisted, you’ll already have the right form.

What’s Included?

1 x Standard-Length Strap

What is the Yoga-Mad Belt Cinch For?

A yoga strap is usually used to help people ease their way into more tricky poses. It can be used for binding around your body while posed to increase balance and strength. This can help the user practice poses with the correct alignment and positioning, without the risk of injury.

Key Features and Benefits

2-metre length is long enough for binding around most people
100% cotton construction for comfort and quality
Plastic cinch buckle to hold length securely
Adjustable length opens up a wider range of poses

How Do I Use the Yoga-Mad Strap?

See below for a few ways that you can maximise your use of the Yoga-Mad Standard Cinch Strap:

Lengthening: Taking the Bow Pose for example, you may find it tricky to reach your feet on your first tries. By holding one end of the strap, and wrapping the other around the dorsum of your foot, you can hold your feet without damaging your spine. This gives your legs a wider range of motion to reach higher.
Aligning: A yoga strap can help correct your alignment in poses such as Navasana. The strap allows you to feel how the poses should be properly performed. For the Navasana, you might have one end of the belt around the soles of your feet, and the other around your upper back to perfect the pose.
Building Strength: Once you get a feel of how a pose should be performed, this will help you build up strength to practise it as you will be working the correct muscles.

What are Yoga Binds?

Binding essentially refers to a pose in which a body part holds on to another when intertwined. This should allow you to deepen into the pose and hold it for a longer period of time. By looping the belt around the 2 body parts, this helps to hold the posture correctly and in place without straining the user.