Create Space in Your Body

One of the beautiful benefits of yoga is that it helps to create space in your body.  Space to breathe more fully.  Space for prana to flow.  Space for you to open up to peace, calm and relaxation.

A yoga bolster is an invaluable tool for creating that space.  It provides support, alignment and comfort in your poses—and can be used in so many ways. Try lying back and draping your body over the bolster for a soothing, heart-opening backbend that supports and lengthens the spine.  This will create space for easy breathing.  And as you will feel supported by the bolster, you can let go and fully surrender to the pose.

The comfort and stability a bolster provides allow you to linger longer in each pose. When you can linger comfortably in a pose, you have the opportunity to expand your awareness to notice your breath, your energy, and the subtle sensations in your muscles and joints. Expanding and deepening your awareness also opens a window into your emotional, mental, and spiritual layers — that still and quiet place within where inner peace resides.

If you’d like to learn how to use your yoga bolster to create space in your body, click HERE.

One of the most unique things about HUM is the beautiful fabric we use to make our yoga bolsters and meditation cushions.  Not only is it 100% certified organic cotton to uphold our commitment to be as eco-responsible as possible, it’s also 100% custom designed.

The beautiful and meaningful patterns you see on the fabrics, and even all through the website, are the unique language of HUM. But they are not just pretty designs…it goes so much deeper.  They have been designed specifically to support your yoga and meditation journey, to resonate along with you while you practice.  Each pattern has meaning and purpose.  

It began with an idea to develop mandalas and incorporate the Sanskrit ‘hum’ mantra symbol.  It ventured into the world of sacred geometry.  And finally the patterns played out their story as a resonant layering of pattern on pattern, message inside message.  

Even the choice of each colour had meaning and purpose.  And the journey to get the colours just right when the fabrics were printed was a long one, with many trials and errors.

Once the hundreds of yards of fabrics were printed and delivered, they then needed to be cut following our own patterns before being sewn together.  At first, the pieces of each yoga bolster and meditation cushion were cut by a very large machine.  But despite careful plotting on the machine’s computer, fabric moves and shifts and the patterns ended up being off-centre — something that was very disharmonious to my perfectionist eye.  I spent a lot of time and fabric recutting the pieces to my satisfaction.  Now, I cut every single piece by hand to make sure the patterns and motifs are perfectly centred on the bolsters and cushions.  So much more harmonious!

Every bolster is locally sewn in Southwestern Ontario and hand-filled with 100% cotton batting. So much cotton goes into each bolster that it takes two of us to zip it up!

As you can see, HUM turned out to be a very personal, hands-on business!  (Not exactly what I had imagined at the beginning!)  And a lot of love and the highest intentions go into each yoga bolster.

So this week, I invite you to find your yoga bolster and any other props you will find useful to make your practice more spacious.