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We made top NYC yoga instructor and author Sadie Nardini your personal shopper! Shop online with her picks for the om-arvelous on your list — a guide to the 10 most usable and inspiring gifts for yoga-lovers of all levels and styles. These are presents your yoga loving friends will actually use, and even cherish.
Thoughtful Tees give three times
Give a wearable mantra your yogi can relate to — and do good at the same time. Gaiam's super-soft 100% organic cotton Thoughtful Tees are better for the planet than conventional cotton tees, and they support world-changing organizations such as Heifer International and Partners Relief & Development. So you’re giving three gifts in one. How yogic of you!
Gaiam Yoga Club brings expert teachers home
For the cost of a venti chai latte each week, you can give the gift of a complete yoga practice, privately taught by two renowned instructors! Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman created the Gaiam Yoga Club, a 12-week audio program that instructs students of all levels through 75 poses in all different categories, including emotional balance and meditation. It’s a must for anyone wanting to refine the alignment of their asanas. With VIP online access to Rodney and Colleen, a take-it-anywhere format, and access to the GYC community blog, in a few weeks, your yogi will progress in body, mind and heart, all for about half the price of one private yoga lesson! Now that’s money well spent.
Yoga DVDs to keep any yogi's home practice evolving
You can’t go wrong with yoga DVDs … until you do. Personal practice is, well, just that, and sometimes it’s hard to know what kind of program the yogi in your life will love. But Gaiam has a huge selection of yoga DVDs featuring America's premier instructors partnering to creating top-notch yoga how-to programs. With Gaiam you can be sure the teachings will be powerful, professional and transformative — with the best program-production quality in the business. Check out my picks below for seven different yogi-types, and be sure to view the whole list of Gaiam yoga DVD titles plus more that go far beyond yoga into fitness, dance, music CDs and more.
For beginners, Yoga for Beginners: This foundational DVD by master teacher Patricia Walden is everything the new yogi needs to get started. It’s a must-have in any library.
For yoga dudes, Power Yoga Total Body Workout: Many yoga DVDs feature women instructors, but this vigorous program taught by Rodney Yee will give a man in your life a way to see himself mirrored on the mat — and a kick-butt challenge of a workout.
For a great workout, Vinyasa Flow Yoga Session 1: Seane Corne’s live session keeps it moving, building strength and burning calories. When the yogi in your life prefers to keep their meditation moving, this is a thoughtful gift.
For relaxation, Yoga for Meditation: With 3 hours of instruction, a bonus workout and teachings on meditation by Rodney Yee, this DVD is an amazing value for the yogi seeking less mental clutter and more clarity.
For moms-to-be, Prenatal Yoga: Top yoga instructor Shiva Rea designed this bestseller especially for pregnancy, and with variations for each trimester, it grows as your yoga mama to be does!
For a morning wake-up: A.M. Yoga For Your Week: Accessible for all levels, Rodney Yee’s 5 20-minute practices start the day off right—all week long.
Premium Eco Yoga Mat is PVC-free
While some mats contain PVCs, harmful to breathe and destructive for the environment, the PVC-free Premium Eco Yoga Mat comes with a bonus. It’s made with rubber from a “tapped” tree, so the tree stays alive and well, so you can give the gift of both a great-smelling sticky mat, and a lighter conscience.
More earth-friendly yoga mats and props in Eco Yoga Tools
Everything Fits Gym Bag makes yoga on the go easy
For the busy yogi in your life, the Everything Fits Gym Bag has it all in one. A media darling (Self, Cooking Light, provides a self-contained way to tote yoga clothes, mat, and personal items so it’s easier to get to the gym or studio. A genius bottom-secured mat holder makes this eco-chic bag easier to carry and a space-saver too. It even has a vented outer pocket for post-workout clothes. Did we mention…it looks fabulous? For a price alternative, try the Beau Yoga Mat Tote, Gaiam's 100% cotton bag with mat straps and a roomy interior. It does double-duty as a supremely cute purse so your yogi can take it out on the town after class!
Gaia Illumination University: A degree in self-evolution
The most loving gift is the gift of realized potential. This incredible online community and webinar/teleseminar program was co-founded by renowned personal growth and relationships expert Gay Hendricks, and it provides eight courses in self-empowerment and personal growth on many levels. Whether those on your list want to improve their relationships with self and others, lose weight, become more outgoing, learn conscious parenting skills, stop smoking and more, over 75 transformational courses will teach them how.
Yogacise Body Lift: Upside-down detox
This ingenious tool does triple duty as a meditation seat; a muscle-building bench to help strengthen the arms hard-to-master poses like Headstand, Full Wheel and Crow; and a way to do full-body inversions that are so healing for the spine. For anyone who practices yoga or meditation, has neck or back pain or just plain-ol' stress, the Yogacise Lift is heaven. It decompresses discs by reversing gravity, and the traction created can release low back, neck and shoulder stress.
Experiential CD Set: Music for the soul
This bestselling compilation provides hours of music that makes a backdrop for yoga or meditation, entertaining or just hanging out at home. The set includes three distinct CDs: Exhale, Comfort and Serenity, that are great to soothe after-work stress or reset a mood when life feels off-key.
Zen Fountain: Shui your yoga friend's space
In Feng Shui, it’s thought that running water near an entrance to a home or room brings abundance to the resident. Give a water fountain (also wonderful as a meditation tool) to inspire the yogis you know to contemplate going with the flow of life.
Go Zero: Be tree times a yogi!
When you order from Gaiam it's super-easy to erase the carbon footprint created by shipping your order. Go Zero plants trees to offset those carbon emissions when you donate just $2 to the Conservation Fund via Gaiam's Go Zero CO2 offset program. Each tree absorbs more than a ton of harmful carbon dioxide gases — so you can feel good not only about your gifts, but also about the way you sent them. Look for Go Zero when you check out on Gaiam.com or ask for it when you order by phone. You’ll get an email thanking you for helping plant new forests.
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I especially recommend the 'everything fits' gym bag. It really helps my organization skills and is such a durable and wonderful tool. Well worth buying for anyone you know who needs a bit of organization.
jh
Dec 9, 2008 2:53:18 PM