Enhance Your Yoga Practice With Essential Oils

enhance your yoga practice essential oils

Yoga practice improves our collective health. Our physical bodies become strong and flexible, our minds become calm and open, and our spirits become blissful. Aromatherapy offers many of these same benefits. By introducing essential oils into your yoga, you can bring even more balance, peace, and healing to your practice. Plus, they leave you smelling great!

Combining yoga and aromatherapy brings together two powerful, holistic traditions. There are a lot of ways to infuse your yoga practice with essential oils – we’ve shared a few of our favorites.

Essential Oils on the Skin Calm and Soothe

Essential oils applied directly to pulse points on the skin during yoga can relax you, help you breathe, and even soothe away pain or tension. You may choose one oil – such as chamomile for relaxation or juniper to relieve muscle pain – or create a combination specific to your yoga needs.  Remember, essential oils are incredibly potent, and should be diffused in a carrier oil before being applied directly to the skin.

Restore, Energize and Cleanse With a Yoga Mat Spray

The breath is sacred to yoga practice. Infuse every breath with the power of an essential oil sprayed onto your mat. Restore your spirit with lavender, energize your flow with citrus, and open yourself to enlightenment with sandalwood. You can also clean a yoga mat that’s seen one too many hot yoga sessions with a refreshing tea tree or eucalyptus spray.  

Aromatherapy yoga mat sprays are easy to make at home. Use 100% all-natural oils and distilled water for best results.

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Fill Your Yoga Room with Bliss Using a Diffuser

Imagine entering your yoga studio, and immediately experiencing feelings of relaxation and calm, peaceful focus fill you. Every breath grounds you to the experience, each pose heightened by a sense of awareness of your body and spirit working together to achieve balance. An essential oil diffuser in your yoga room can create this welcoming, blissful environment. You can share these sensations by using a diffuser in your yoga studio, or in your personal yoga space at home.  

Some yoga studios are already offering aromatherapy yoga sessions, including essential oils massaged into the skin, yoga mat sprays and diffusers. Whether you choose a custom workshop or practice at home, introducing essential oils to your yoga practice will leave you feeling balanced, uplifted and restored.