Take it to the Mats

In an extremely rare moment of concern for my  physical self, I signed up for an eight-week yoga class last fall. Two weeks in, the instructor suggested I try kick-boxing, “Something more physical,” she said. “You’re a bit high strung for yoga.”

Shamed, I never returned. Which was stupid for many reasons; the most important being how much I wanted to splurge on cute yoga accessories. Yoga pants! Yoga balls! Yoga bags! Yoga mats! Sure, I could buy them anyway, but I have a strong belief that it’s really lame to buy athletic apparel without actively participating in the sport. And even after two yoga classes, I wasn’t willing to bend that much.

Thus, I lust over yoga gear. The thing I’ve found most interesting is the varied cost of yoga mats. I found one for five bucks at Five Below, one for $14.50 at Old Navy and one for a whopping $72 at Barefoot Yoga.