Sandbags are often used in both yoga and pilates to deepen stretches by placing the sandbag on your knees during seated poses, on your thigh in a kneeling pose, or to stretch your arms behind your back. You give yourself a lift in seated poses or seated meditation. There are many uses for this essential classic yoga prop. A sandbag on each thigh in bound angle pose helps the hips open so always consider a pair!
Our bags contain a unique, double-zippered, leak-proof system so that you can easily fill the sandbags with any dry item such as sand, beans, wheat, corn, or rice and adjust to your desired weight. Having both a zippered inner liner and a zippered outer cover prevents leakage. The inner bag is strong enough to hold up to 10 lbs. of sand. The outer cover can easily be removed and washed.
OMsutra Yoga Sandbags comes unfilled, which saves the cost of shipping sand, and also allows the freedom to adjust the weight of the bag. Our sandbags come with an additional separate Nylon fabric bag to avoid leakage and for easy filling and easily slips through the outer cover, which is made of heavy-duty twill fabric.
The beautiful colors, high quality and unique Om design embroidered on the outer cover all combine to make this an exceptional product. The sandbags come in many different colors, which many yogis have used to differentiate varying weights. They are easy to use, and are definitely a welcome addition to any yogi’s set of props, also great for studios and health clubs. The dimensions of the unfilled sandbag are 7.5'' wide by 17'' long.