Your yoga mat can really make or break your practice. Yoga teacher Emmalene takes you through the essentials and non-negotiables when it comes to choosing your own yoga mat. Choosing the right mat will give you many happy hours of practice I won't lie, I've had some awful experiences with yoga mats in my 25 years of yoga practice. From the cheap ones that crumble, to the thin ones that result in friction burns on my cocyx 😳 to the ones that don't provide grip for sweaty fing

Heard of the Yoga Sutras? Wondering what they have to do with the yoga you practice on the mat? Find out here- Yoga 101 with yoga teacher Emmalene. A copy of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, one of a few translations available I won't lie, I'd never really heard of the Yoga Sutras before I did my yoga teacher training. I'd read quite a lot about buddhism and "modern" spirituality but I was really unfamiliar with some of the roots of yoga and the origins of how we approach yoga o