What Is a Yoga Swing?

The familiar poses are performed either supported or in mid Air in order to remove physical barriers and allow the practitioner enhanced comfort and freedom of motion.

The yoga swing is a set of straps that may be hung easily in a tree, at a playground or on a porch. It can be placed anywhere there is a strong support beam. The device allows for advanced practice yoga poses and also can provide you with a very comprehensive full body strength and core workout. A set of instructions accompanies the device illustrating the many exercises possible while using the device.

The device can also be used to practice inversion therapy. This type of therapy allows you to suspend yourself in the upside down position. Inversion therapy has been shown to alleviate back pain, improve flexibility and improve your mood through passive stretching exercises. In contrast to the traditional inversion therapy table, the yoga sling allows you to hang freely suspended and adjust your position for personal comfort.

Since the yoga swing can support your full body weight it is also perfect for gentle stretching as well as free form yoga manoeuvres. This feature of gravity free yoga allows you to perform poses that you may never have attempted before. Gravity free yoga is performed using the supportive straps of the yoga swing, thus eliminating limitations caused by employing your body weight in the yoga poses. The straps may be adjusted to incorporate as much or as little of your body weight as you see necessary in the yoga position.

This device can also be used in conjunction with a partner. The partner may incorporate Massage and traction to your position or they may simply allow you more freedom of expression through alternate acrobatic manoeuvres. The beauty of the yoga sling is in its infinitive versatility as a form of exercise and recreation.

The actual yoga swing consists of very strong silky material that they also use to make parachutes with and comes in really nice colours and designs. There are simple instructions to get started and various ways to hang your yoga swing from trees, a frame or in the home.

If you have any kind of back problem and have tried inversion tables or inversion therapy, you will find a yoga swing much easier and more fun to use. The inversion table I had purchased previously hurt my ankles so much that I sold it within a few weeks. However the yoga swing is perfect for me now.

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