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Best Ways to Use Candles for Yoga at Home
Candles for yoga can deepen your mind-body connection. So whether you’re looking to emulate the ambiance from your favorite candlelight yoga class or enrich your yoga session at home with scent, scented yoga candles can help.
Here are the best ways to use candles for yoga at home. Plus, learn what Yoga Journal says about Spoken Flames candles.
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Choosing the Best Candles for Yoga
Selecting the best candles for yoga involves finding calming scents and ensuring the candles are made from non-toxic ingredients like coconut wax or wooden wicks.
These candles burn longer and are ideal for creating a peaceful home atmosphere during your yoga practice.
Plus, wooden wick candles offer a soft, crackling sound that adds an audible texture to deepen your yoga experience.
RELATED: This “intention candle offers a multisensory experience,” says Yoga Journal
Enhance Relaxation and Focus with Scented Candles
When choosing candles for yoga, consider scents that promote calmness and concentration. Fragrances with key notes like eucalyptus, sandalwood, and lavender are the perfect concentration-enhancing aromas.
Try our lavender, rose, and spice-scented Light It Into Existence® Candle.
The Power of Scent in Your Yoga Practice
Scented and wooded wick candles offer a sensory candle experience that can improve your mind-body connection during your at-home yoga session.
It’s easy to get distracted by a doorbell or a phone notification, so consider setting up a particular, quiet corner in your home to get the full mindful benefits.
Try this mind-over-matter No One Mentally Breaks Me Candle—infused with notes of bergamot, sage, and white woods.
Setting Up Your At-Home Yoga Corner With Candles
Set up a comfortable space with soft lighting from your favorite scented intention candles nearby while exploring poses best suited to your needs and preferences.
Always listen to your body, respect its limits, and journey towards greater flexibility, muscle strength, happiness, and overall well-being.
Tips for Creating a Cozy At-Home Yoga Corner
- Pick a quiet spot: Choose an area in your home free from distractions and noise.
- Add comfortable flooring: Use a high-quality yoga mat, rug, or cushion for added comfort during practice.
- Create an ambiance with scented candles: Arrange scented candles around your space. Choose fragrances like sandalwood or rose petals to enhance your yoga session.
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Yoga Candles and Meditation
Candle meditation is an ancient yoga technique that involves focusing on the candle flame to achieve a meditative state. Candle gazing is a popular ritual in yoga sessions and meditation practices.
Using candles during your yoga practice can enhance the overall experience by providing stress relief, promoting relaxation, and a focus for your gaze or meditation.
Candles as Yoga Gifts
Candles make great yoga gifts because they are multipurpose in yoga practice. Enjoy its scent, ambiance, and flame, and if you have a wooden wick candle, enjoy the calming, crackling sound of the wooden wick.
Scented candles can relieve stress and promote relaxation, making them a popular ritual for many yoga enthusiasts. It’s a no-brainer for a yoga gift!
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FAQs About Candles for Yoga
What candles are good for yoga?
Non-toxic, scented candles are good for yoga. They offer a clean burn and sensory experience. Consider Spoken Flames’ wooden wick candles for the sound experience (it’s like yoga by a tiny campfire!).
Are candles good for yoga?
Candles are good for yoga as they provide a soft, calming light that can help create a relaxing atmosphere, which is essential for a yoga practice.
Additionally, focusing on the flickering flame of a candle can bring a sense of mindfulness and concentration to the present moment, aiding in the meditative aspects of yoga practice. And the power of scent can strengthen the mind-body connection during your yoga session.
When is National Yoga Month?
National Yoga Month is celebrated in September. The month is the perfect time to enrich your practice with scented candles for yoga at home.
Explore new scents, gift a candle set, or find a local candlelight yoga class. Or, do all three to celebrate National Yoga Month!
Conclusion: Cue the Calm with Candles for Yoga
Bring the luxe yoga studio vibes home when adding candles for yoga at home. Scented candles in your at-home yoga practice can help improve concentration during yoga and enhance your overall experience.
Choose non-toxic and scented candles based on an intention to create a distraction-free environment. So, light up your candles, take a deep breath, and enjoy your yoga practice in the comfort of your own home.
6. Candles can help increase focus in a work from home environment
The rise in WFH and remote work means our workspaces are full of comforts—and distractions. But why would anyone light a candle at their work desk? To keep those distractions at bay. From chatty co-workers (albeit via Slack) to social media, candles are a thoughtful corporate gift that can help us focus and create space for us to do our best work.
Consider it a productivity hack. 💡
The presence of a candle flame can set a calming mood. Wooden wick candles in particular have a unique soft-crackling sound, which can serve as natural and relaxing ambient sound in one’s space. Plus, select scent profiles, like citrus, woody or a floral scent of a scented candle can influence physiological responses that help keep the mind on track.
7. Candles can be an environmentally responsible gift choice
First, it‘s a candle, next it’s their favorite whiskey glass. 🥃
Depending on the candle’s vessel, most candle jars can be upcycled after the burn cycle of the candle. It can be used as storage, glassware and more, so you can feel good knowing that your gift will keep on giving! And your candle gift (once upcycled) can be a pleasant reminder, if not a conversation piece in their home, of your thoughtfulness.
A candle gift set solves my gifting needs—but wait! I don’t know what candle scent they may like 😟
Bonus tip: How to pick a candle scent for a gift
So a candle gift set meets your needs, but you’re not sure what scents they like 😟 Pro tip: consider an unscented candle or a gift set that offers a variety of scents.
The unique thing about Spoken Flames’ Trio Sets is that each candle gift set has a variety of scents with great range—from woody, citrus and floral in our F, Yes Collection, for example.
Your gift recipient would never get bored, and it increases your chances for satisfaction with a broad range of scents in their hands.
Because Spoken Flames candles are message-driven, our motivating candle statements (even without scent) mean that you’ll still win big with this meaningful gifting choice!
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