Every yoga practice can be enhanced with the right yoga blocks. Kakaos Yoga Blocks, available in both foam and cork materials, are specifically designed to support and improve your yoga practice. Whether you are new to yoga or an experienced practitioner, we can help you find the right yoga block to meet your needs.
Best Practice
We recommend starting with a certified yoga instructor. Professional yoga instructors are trained to teach proper technique and safe alignment practices. Search your local community for a yoga studio, YMCA, or fitness center where certified instructors provide hands-on guidance, helping you learn and practice yoga safely and effectively.
Benefits & Uses of Yoga Blocks
Yoga blocks have become incredibly popular due to their versatility. While it’s impossible to cover every use, they provide an excellent starting point for improving balance, flexibility, and alignment.
Yoga blocks are commonly used as an extension of the hands, but they can also support the back, head, hips, and other areas of the body while helping deepen awareness of alignment.
Blocks help maintain proper anatomical alignment in poses. For example, placing your hand on a block during standing poses such as Triangle Pose or Side Angle Pose can transform an uncomfortable position into one that feels stable, supported, and natural.
The practice of yoga is about creating steadiness in both the mind and body. Yoga blocks are among the most valuable yoga props for improving posture, maintaining joint integrity, and building strength through proper alignment.
They are also essential tools for restorative yoga poses, including Baddha Konasana and Supta variations, helping provide support, comfort, and relaxation during practice.
EVA Foam:
3-Inch, 4-Inch, EVA foam is a non-toxic, recyclable material commonly used in the sports industry, art and crafts and children's costumes.
Recycled Foam: Recycled Foam Yoga Blocks. Recycled Foam is made from recycling the excess foam generated during the production of new blocks.
Cork:
Cork Yoga Blocks. Harvested from the bark of the Cork Oak tree, cork is solid, impermeable, stable and recyclable. Cork trees continue to grow even after their bark has been harvested. Cork trees can live up to 200 years. The cork oak grows only in seven Mediterranean countries. Portugal, Italy, Spain, France, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. Over 300,000 tons are harvested (stripped) each year and more than 100,000 people are employed in cork harvesting. The cork surface has natural friction. This makes it easy to remain stable when you use these blocks under your hands. These blocks are exceptionally popular!
Bamboo:
Bamboo Yoga Blocks. Bamboo is a fast-growing, easily replenished, exceptionally hard and sturdy type of wood.
3-Inch Foam Yoga Blocks:
At 3" x 6" x 9," these 3-Inch Yoga Blocks are great for practitioners with smaller frames. The 4-Inch Foam Blocks are too wide for some people's frames, especially when using them as a spacer between the thighs in Chair Pose and Mountain Pose. It's nice to have some of these at your studio as an option for smaller-framed practitioners. They're also useful in Restorative Yoga, where more height options are really helpful for customizing the practice. These blocks are the most economical choice available.
4-Inch Foam:
Recycled Foam, Cork, Bamboo, Wood Yoga Blocks: For general use, 4-Inch Yoga Blocks are the standard. The dimensions (4" x 6" x 9") have been found to be the most universally useful for average practitioners. These blocks are studio staples.
Yoga Blocks are also essential tools for Restorative Yoga practice. In Baddhakonasana, Supta , for example, blocks placed under the head end of the Yoga Bolster orients the bolster on a slant, allowing for a more neutral, relaxed spine.
Here's a rundown of the choices, based on qualities you might be looking for when you're buying blocks:
Stability
Not all Yoga Blocks are made from high-quality materials. With the growth of yoga, come the imitations and the poor quality knock-offs. These low cost alternatives can do more bad then good, made from low density squishy foam they can collapse to the side during certain poses, Especially standing poses.
Price
All blocks will give many years of use, some blocks like wood and Bamboo will give you the longest, Cork yoga blocks will give many years of service, but will eventually start to break down and crumble. Foam blocks which are used the most of all yoga blocks are a porous material and overtime will become dingy and un-cleanable.