Stay calm at home with tips on setting up your home studio and where to buy supplies - as well as a selection of playlists and books to support your practice.
Playlists
We've curated home playlists with hours of our favourite songs to keep you flowing at home. Download Spotify, a free music streaming service that allows you to listen on any device. Then click on the links below. Enjoy!
home Studio
Set yourself up for a blissful yoga experience by creating a little oasis of calm at home. Find a quiet spot, keep your mat rolled out as a reminder to practice and perhaps light a candle to set the mood. A cosy blanket, a cushion or pillow, a herbal brew and you are ready to go!
If you want to invest in some props, our friends at Calm Buddhi are offering free shipping on their beautiful, ethically sourced bolsters. (For Melbourne metropolitan orders only.) This is significant, as yoga gear is expensive to post. Enter “Seed” at checkout. They are another Melbourne based small business, so they get a big virtual hug from us.
Our friends at https://restanddigest.com.au/ have blocks and props to enhance your practice. Enter SEEDWFH at checkout for free shipping on all orders.
Or get creative and make your own block with some books and elastic bands. Tupperware containers, even bricks of almond milk will work. Rolled towels and blankets make great pretend bolsters.
We stock Manduka Pro-lit yoga mats for $135: they are the best we can find and they have a lifetime guarantee. Contact us and we can arrange for you to pick on up from the studio. Check them out in the Seed Online Shop!
Yoga Reading List
What are YOU reading? Here's some bookish inspiration to take your practice off the mat and into life.
📖 The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
“I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them cats.” “If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place." Whether you’re just beginning, or well on your path, this book captivates your soul through speaking in simple truths.
📖 The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron
Are you using isolation to draw or paint, write or compose music? “Leap, and the net will appear.” “In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.” Discover how to unlock your latent creativity and make your dreams a reality. A classic!
📖 The Untethered Soul, Michael Singer
What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity? “Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.”.
📖 This is that, Anand Mehrotra
An inspiring interpretation of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras that reminds us that yoga is available in every breath we take. “Whose life are you living? Your life is meant to fulfil you. Life is calling to you in the very intimacy of your heart. You will keep fighting, hoping that somewhere in the future you will find yourself. Wait no more. Wherever you are is the starting point. You have come so far, go all the way.”
📖 Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic, Darren Main
Change the way you see the world and transform every experience and relationship into a yoga practice. “Life is like a sticky mat; each circumstance in which we find ourselves is like a pose. Some poses are hard to hold; others are pleasant. But it is how we hold the pose that determines whether or not we will suffer or grow, and whether or not we will listen to the drama of the ego or the wisdom of our Spirit.”
📖 Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
A story that will entirely shift and empower your perspective. “In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?” Yes!
📖 The Alchemist by Pablo Coelho
A story about a boy on his journey of self-realization. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure . . . And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
📖 The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
Nuggets of spiritual gold are woven throughout The Prophet in the form of a wise man sharing his teachings with the townspeople about life. “The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.”