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Practicing yoga in the park can be a very refreshing moment with thrilling environmental views and a peaceful experience. However, you should also be concerned about your privacy and safety. Park areas with green grasses can provide a better setting for adventurous yoga including hand balances, arm balances, standing poses, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, a sudden thunderstorm may put an end to your yoga session before completing the exercises like Shavasana, or noise from the surrounding in the park may disturb you in practicing yoga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although, the above statement doesn’t encourage you to practice yoga in the park. You can follow these simple tips<\/a> to avoid disturbance, privacy, and safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Practice Yoga in the Park?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Practicing yoga indoors has been a recent scenario as per the international yoga instructors. They believe that yogis do yoga in outdoor places like parks, beautiful landscapes, and open areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than practicing yoga in a confined room, yoga in the park can be very revitalizing and energizing while enjoying nature’s beauty, interconnecting with other lives, and enjoying refreshing air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no cost to practice yoga outdoors, no studio or gym membership fees. If you think you can practice easily, find your favorite park, put down the mat, and take some time to enjoy wonderful yoga exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 Tips while practicing yoga in the park<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Practically, there could be numerous tips you can follow while practicing yoga in the park. But, the following ones are our recommended tips and guides. Here is the list of tips:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Your privacy concern<\/li>
  2. Yoga mat or not<\/li>
  3. Dress for dirt<\/li>
  4. Safety should be your priority<\/li>
  5. Check weather conditions<\/li>
  6. Look for a shade with a good view<\/li>
  7. Use earphone and listen to music<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    1. Your privacy concern<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Practicing yoga in the park can be an intimate experience putting yourself in vulnerable positions. Even though you are enjoying the natural beauty of the yoga sessions, spectators roaming around can compromise your privacy and safety aspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Keeping this in mind, we would recommend practicing yoga in places within the park where you will not have regular spectators and you can fully concentrate on your yoga exercises. However, you should be focusing more on yoga rather than how people around you judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2. Yoga mat or Not<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Depending on your personal choice, you can opt for a thick and soft yoga mat<\/a> or opt for nature’s yoga mat: Grass<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    While you are practicing yoga in the park, it is not necessary to use a yoga mat. Take advantage of nature’s yoga mat that helps indirectly transferring electrical currents from the soil to your body. It is believed that electrical current from the soil can normalize the body’s circuitry system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Direct contact with soft grass by your hands and feet can be forgiving and playful with additional health benefits<\/a> like pain relief or optimizing vital energies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Moreover, as discussed in my earlier article (How can a food handler identify pathogens<\/a>), not all microbes and bacterias are bad. Many bacteria living in the soil are also helpful for soil nutrients as well as the human body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    On the other hand, a yoga mat is made of rubber that is a bad conductor of electrical current. However, we would recommend carrying one yoga mat for emergency purposes if you notice obstacles like sharp stones, prickly plants, or splinters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    3. Dress for dirt<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    First, you should decide whether you love getting dirty. If not, you should not practice yoga in the park or outdoors. It is obvious that while doing yoga outdoors, your yoga pants, hands, knees, feet, and mat will get dirty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We would recommend you take wear old yoga pants and use an old yoga mat while practicing yoga in the park. You can also follow few simple tips to avoid getting dirty as far as possible including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n