Yoga for Small Spaces (and a Giveaway!)
November 18, 2011 by Erin
No matter how many years I work out and how many exercises I’ve done, I still like to be told what to do when I work out, whether it’s by a DVD or an old-fashioned paper list. If it’s just me and an empty room, I swear the only exercises I can remember are push-ups, lunges and downward dog. If you’re like me (surely I’m not the only one!), I’ve got the perfect way to remember yoga moves when you’re away from your DVD collection or trainer!
Similar to the ABC Yoga Cards for Kids that we reviewed early this year, Yoga for Small Spaces is a deck of 52 cards, each featuring a different yoga posture. Even better? The poses were specifically chosen because they can be done with minimal space and equipment. Because not a lot of space is required, these moves are perfect for classrooms, offices, cars and airplanes. So whether you can take a mid-day yoga break in your office, or you do a lot of traveling and need some moves to try on the plane, this deck is the perfect, compact companion to keep you on the fitness track.
The cards ($19.99) couldn’t make it easier to start a yoga practice or get kids involved in yoga. Each card features a cartoon illustration of the pose, with how-tos, benefits, modifications and a positive affirmation on the flip side. With so many cards to mix and match, you can keep the yoga routine interesting. With descriptive kid-friendly poses like Cow Face, Eagle Arms and Washing Machine, youngsters will also have fun if they get to pick from the deck!
Want a deck of cards for yourself? Comment below telling us why to enter to win! Winners will be notified by email in about a week. U.S. residents only, please! —Erin
I would love a set of Yoga for Small Spaces cards! My home is small and between my 2 dogs and ever growing collection of baby gear (I’m due in January) there’s not much room left for a spacious yoga practice. Thank you!
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for these! We live in a small home and I can only get to a yoga class about every other week now.
i have a small place-this would be very handy
I would love to win a set of Yoga for Small Spaces cards. I sit all day at work, and often wish I could do something to bring myself back to center during a rough day. This would be perfect!
i totally could use this! my home is a postage stamp with three kids and not much room for anything to get done! when i do my yoga videos i always end up ‘modifying’ positions so i don’t run into furniture or people, so small spaces and standard yoga practice do not mix well. would love to try this out, though!
What an awesome idea. Have 2 small children and we are always trying to find ways to exercise and play together. And it looks ideal to even take to work! Again, awesome idea!
I commute 2 hours a day so I only make it to yoga class on the weekends, and, I spend my week days often seated in a small office! Using these cards would be great motivation to get a good stretch in with a couple of poses a day and of course it would be fun.
I have a small space in my bedroom and I would love to start practicing yoga each morning. This deck would be fantastic! Thanks for the chance!
This sounds great! I could take them with me when I visit the grandchildren. I have taught them some yoga using Dvds but often times it would be easier not to have to count on having a television and dvd player available. I could also use them to practice my skills. Here’s hoping.
I would love to win these. I have to workout with a DVD. Even using the same DVD for years I cannot remember what to do next. This would be great for traveling so that I can practice some yoga without figuring out how to use a DVD player if there is even one available.
I would love to have and review these. It sounds perfect for my office cubical, traveling. I’m moving, the exercise equipments packed. This would be excellent. Fingers crossed.
With a 5 and a 3 year old, I would love to get a little family yoga time and I could get fit with my kids too! Plus, we could con’t our yoga every time we visit grandparents. (we live 2-4 hours away from all grandparents)
I would love to use these when I have to travel to visit the in-laws. Nothing stresses me out more than going over there with all the relatives during the holidays. We stay in a motel with little space so it would be perfect. It would also be great for at home too. Hoping.
what a clever & invented idea! in nyc the room here are small so this deck would get a good workout as well as i
Boy can I relate Erin! I purchased a foldable mat with stretches printed on it and when I’m braindead in the am, it really gets me to do every one! I’m now waiting on a roll up mat with pilates exercises on it, but also wanted the yoga mat (and couldn’t get both) but this is even better! I will have to check these out since cards take up even less space than a mat.
My living room is tiny. Like, I can roll out my mat, but my feet touch the couch tiny. So while I’d use these cards while traveling, I’d also use them at home!
I’d love to win these because I love yoga and I live in an apartment, so this is perfect for me to use at home!
I live in a tiny studio apartment and am gearing up for a string of business trips that will have me living out of hotel rooms for nearly 2 weeks. These cards sound absolutely brilliant to me, as I’m tight on both space to practice yoga in and luggage space to carry yoga paraphernalia in!
I would like to win these for my daughter in law who is a new mom of two weeks. She has a small living room and these would be perfect for her and my son.
Would love to win a pack of cards! I live in a very small apartment with 2 other people. I’m also on a strict budget so I can’t always afford to go to a studio.
I love doing yoga and need to do some poses at my desk. This would help me do a few poses in my tiny cubicle!
This would be perfect for my office. We are always trying to think of simple, easy, exercises and stretches to do in the office.
I would love Yoga for Small Spaces, especially for after I have my baby! I am due in the next couple of weeks and sit at a desk all day at work. I try to find different ways to make myself comfortable and this could make it easier. I am sure Yoga for Small Spaces would be good for me both before and after I deliver!
I would love a set of Yoga for Small Spaces! I am constantly trying to yoga in my living room, just to have my dog lay on my mat during downward dog! Just not enough room for both of us….or maybe he wants to try too, not sure. I also forget all my exercises when I enter the gym, it’s like a mind eraser and I don’t know what to do. These would give me great help! Thanks!!
Yoga for small spaces is like answers to my prayers! I have been sharing my room with my sister. She has fallen on hard time I haven’t much space; but she needed my help. We have been sharing my room for 6 months now. You can imagine how cram we are..We both have soooo much stuff.
We are clearing the room to make space for an exercise section; at least a corner. If I can fit two mats in the room it would be great! I need this desperately since I haven’t much space. We both enjoy yoga and this will truly be a gift for the both of us.
I’ve been wanting to incorporate yoga with my students and this would be a useful tool to have.
love yoga and this sounds like a fun way to get a good workout in!
I would love to have a set of the yoga cards. I’m always forgetting yoga moves and don’t always feel like setting up a dvd.
I would love this for when I am travelling. When I stay at my sister’s house I never leave her house because we are watching her two babies. This would make sure I still get my workout in while hanging out in her small living room.
Would love to win this! I tried to do yoga as much as possible until I had my baby. Now I can barely remember the posesand our house has become a baby zone. Would love to use these in our bedroom which is the only place that hasn’t been taken over by baby stuff.
Would love to use these cards! I desperately need to exercise, love yoga but cannot afford classes now due to unemployment PLUS I have a terminal case of CRS and cannot remember any poses. My house is small and full of pets and grown kids living at home so the lack of personal space is stifling. These cards would be a real blessing in many ways (help physically and better my frame of mind).
I live in an itty bitty apartment and am always wanting to do yoga more than the 1 class a week I make it to, these cards would be great!
I am a visual person and would like to be able to look at the cards to see the pictures of the poses as I do them as reminders of what they should look like.
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Oh how I would love a set of Yoga Cards. My youngest son moved back home so I don’t feel right awaking him up at 6 am while I am working out about 10 feet from him. Something like this would be great. I could workout upstairs and not worry about disturbing him or the three dogs. (We have two and Matt brought his dog too.) Now that I am older I can feel my flexability changing. I just feel stiff alot more than I used too. Having a picture of the position would be great. Can see what to do and what not to do. I just thought of something…if I were to do this yoga on cards thing I would if I would wake Matt with the grunting I am sure I would be doing. Hey by then it would be time to get up already.
Grateful for my job, but stuck in a cubicle all day leaves me tired and stiff. These cards could help and maybe I could recruit some of my co-workers to participate.
I would love to win the Yoga cards because I could take this along with me to the gym to incorporate yoga into my workout and the space I workout in at the gym is small and this would complement it perfectly.
These yoga cards sound awesome! I just began practicing and would love to be able to do some at home in my tiny studio!
Such a great idea!!! We live in a small military issued house with 3 children and I run a daycare out of it! These cards are just what I’m looking for to squeeze in some Yoga everyday
Ah, I definitely *live* in a small space so this deck would be wonderful! I also work with kids so this could be a lot of fun!
We live in such a small house. I would love to use these with my twin boys. They are always in awe when I do yoga. These would be perfect to teach them poses!
I work with children with autism and many of these kids are in the mainstream classes for most of the day. If I win this deck, it will help me do yoga with the kids in the limited space in their general education classroom. The students will benefit from these exercises immensly.
I’d love to have this cards, I’m new to Yoga but I admire so much the graceful movements and i can’t wait to get started with my daughters (6 & 4). I hope I get them!!!!
I would love these cards to use with elementary school children in a life skills program. I do a weekly movement class with them in their classroom. Some of the children have limited mobility and these cards seem to offer modifications for all ability levels.
I have 2 reasons for wanting these cards:
1) I am an Orientation and Mobility Instructor (teach travel skills to blind students). I am doing yoga with several groups of students I teach to work on spatial awareness, motor skills and attention focus as these are important skills related to travel. One of my group classes is in a very small classroom so these cards would be great!!!
2) I have very little space at my condo, so these would also be great for me to use for myself!
Congrats to No. 26 Marlena and No. 41 Jugnu! I’ll be emailing you shortly for shipping info!
-FBM Erin
Happiness is: my husband, my four children, my 8 dogs, my six cats, and a deck of Yoga for Small Spaces cards (for a little peace for Mama).
What a great idea. I live in a small home with very little space.