Mats, pants, blocks: Essentials needed for your daily yoga sessions

The right gear and clothes will make you comfortable as you carry out those tricky asanas

Chartered accountant Prateek Kedia was 22 when he got a job at a top consulting firm and “landed a handsome package”. In less than five years the stress of the job started hurting his health. 

Kedia, who is 26 now, joined a yoga studio – a “really challenging” task because he had not worked out in years. He searched on e- commerce websites to buy his first yoga mat “but sadly whatever I encountered was anaesthetic, boring and dull. I had to return three yoga mats because one had no grip, one was too hard and the