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Running Shoes For The Soul – Choosing The Right Yoga Mat For Your Discipline
The Yoga mat is a simple object. Rectangular, cushioned, non-slip: comfortable for prone positions and capable of leaching sweat away from the working body. How hard can it be to choose one?
A Yoga mat is the only piece of kit a person needs to buy before they can get started (try doing Yoga without a Yoga mat: it will quickly become apparent that, spiritual discipline or no, some good hard cash ought to be spent on something that prevents the practitioner from slipping or rubbing his/her spine against the floor): unfortunately, that doesn’t necessarily mean that buying a Yoga mat is a simple operation. The practitioner needs to take certain things into consideration when deciding on a Yoga mat: where is he or she going to be practicing; what discipline of Yoga is involved; and how often is the Yoga mat going to be used? Obviously, a cheap Yoga mat is good enough to get an infrequently-practicing novice going, but it isn’t going to be good enough for the regular practitioner of hot Yoga, whose rapidly-changing poses and fast motion requires a particular balance of cushioning, responsiveness and stability. Imagine trying hot Yoga on a Yoga mat that slides all over the place – not a good idea.
The best way to think about a Yoga mat is to treat it like a new running shoe. Runners require different styles of shoe depending on a variety of factors – their distances, the frequency of their training, the terrain they run on and the objective of the shoe’s use. A race shoe, for example, is very different from a shoe used in daily training: it’s lighter, less cushioned and more responsive. Similarly, a Yoga mat will differ in thickness, cushioning and responsiveness of material according to its intended use. Practitioners of hot Yoga can’t use a “normal” PVC Yoga mat because they’ll be sweating too much (hot Yoga practitioners tend to use a cotton Yoga mat, which will absorb sweat and allow continued grip for wet hands and feet); practitioners of mixed styles can, like the cross-training runner in an all-round shoe, opt for a PVC (and so easy-clean) Yoga mat of intermediate thickness that grips the floor well and provides cushioning as well as response.
A practitioner’s reasons for doing Yoga ought also to be taken into consideration when purchasing a Yoga mat. If a person practises Yoga mainly for its relaxing or meditative effects, their perfect Yoga mat is likely to be thicker than the right Yoga mat for a person who wishes to get cardiovascular exercise from their discipline. Again like the runner: a gentle jogger isn’t going to get along with the hard feel of a pedigree race shoe any more than a marathon-mad fitness freak will like super-cushioned low-mileage dailies.
Fortunately, there’s advice aplenty for the aspiring Yogi at
http://www.crouchingtiger.co.uk/section.php?xSec=22&xPage=1. From fast-paced Bikram and Ashtanga to the gentler jogs represented by Hatha or mixed disciplines, there’s invaluable information on everything a person needs to know before they buy a Yoga mat. Check it out: it’s like a race-trained shoe-fit guide for the whole body.
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The best way to think about a Yoga mat is to treat it like a new running shoe. Runners require different styles of shoe depending on a variety of factors – their distances, the frequency of their training, the terrain they run on and the objective of the shoe’s use. For more information please visit http://www.crouchingtiger.co.uk/section.php?xSec=22&xPage=1.
How do you clean (not just dust) bird feathers on a mount.?
I just received my mounted Ostrich from my South African hunt. The long feathers on the wings and chest are matted and "greasy". I don't know if it's from the insecticide they have to dip it in or what. Has anyone got any experience with this sort of problem?
I'd look in the phone book and ask the experts. Find a good taxidermy shop nearby and ask the people there what they would charge you to clean it up. If they don't want to or won't, ask them if they can recommend the spray cleaner they use on mounts. I don't know the name of the spray, but I do know they have such a thing because I saw what it did to clean up an old moose head. Good stuff. G' luck!
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