7 Inspiring and Affordable Gifts for your Yoga Buddy

Don’t know what to buy for your yogi-fanatic friend? These 8 affordable ideas will inspire your dear yogi-friend to live yoga on and off the mat.

1. Qiyun Tibet Buddhist Sandalwood Prayer Mala Bead – $4.81

This mala bead is all handmade and can be a bracelet or a necklace. 6mm. Multicolor.

2. GoFit Yoga Mat With Yoga Posture Poster – $17.88

The GoFit Yoga Mat provides an excellent non-slip surface which is ideal for yoga practice and stretching routines. The top quality GoFit Yoga Mat is twice as thick as a regular yoga mat. This mat has an extra-cushioned, airy surface, providing comfort and protection during specific yoga poses or Pilates mat work. The mat easily rolls up for storage and wipes clean with a damp towel. 24 inches wide X 68 inches long.

3. Yoga Blocks by Bean Products – $8.95

High density studio quality pack of Yoga Blocks will aid your practice by bringing the floor closer to you to improve your asana and avoid over stretching and injury and help you achieve proper alignment.
These blocks allow you to modify and deepen poses, improve alignment and accommodate your level of flexibility which can be important for beginners and inflexible people as well as help advanced practitioners achieve higher quality form.

4. The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice – $12.18

This is the first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to the age-old principles of yoga. Desikachar discusses all the elements of yoga –poses and counter-poses, conscious breathing, meditation, and philosophy– and shows how the yoga student may develop a practice tailored to his or her current state of health, age, occupation, and lifestyle.

5. Scraf Caftan Tunic Poncho Cover-up – $15.99

This elegant cover-up features a V-Neckline and 3 coconut buttons at bust and back. The chiffon is wide, loose, sheer and exposed at the sides. It’s free size and fits all. Dimension 20″ x 62″ (2 pieces).

6. Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha – $4.49

Poet and Zen Priest Tai Sheridan’s ‘Buddha in Blue Jeans’ is an extremely short, simple, and straightforward universal guide to the practice of sitting quietly and being yourself, which is the same as being Buddha. Sitting quietly can teach many ways to accept life, meet pain, age gracefully, and die without regret. The book encourages sitting quietly every day.

7. A Philosopher’s Notes: On Optimal Living, Creating an Authentically Awesome Life and Other Such Goodness – $4.96

The Class We Never Had.
Isn’t it a bit odd that we went from Science to Math to History but somehow missed the class on how to live? For some wacky reason “Optimal Living 101” didn’t make the schedule… But imagine if that class did exist and the teachers included everyone from the old school philosophers like Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Emerson, Nietzsche and Buddha to modern sages like Joseph Campbell, Paulo Coelho, Dan Millman, Deepak Chopra, Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle and Wayne Dyer plus the world’s leading positive psychologists like Sonja Lyubomirsky, Tal Ben-Shahar and Martin Seligman who are *scientifically* establishing how we can live with more happiness, meaning and mojo.
Think of this book as a Philosopher’s notes on that awesome class. From “Spiritual Farts” and “110-Year Old You”s to “The Tolle Trap” and “Blissipline,” you’ll have fun getting your wisdom on in this inspiring, playful, wise and practical little book as Brian Johnson shares one hundred of his favorite Big Ideas on how to create a life brimming with a radiant enthusiasm only discovered when we align with the fundamentals of Optimal Living.