Transforming household objects into simple, effective, and cost-friendly equipment is one of the best things about taking part in yoga and movement classes online.

As a student, building an at-home yoga kit can boost your practice. You can start to move more frequently, more creatively, and more independently. You don’t need to invest in an image, or a lifestyle, that isn’t actually yours: realising you can start right now, exactly where you are (as you are), is pretty liberating.

As a teacher, incorporating equipment into online classes can be pretty liberating too. I can teach things online that it would be less possible for me to teach in-person. Finding a class venue with 12 chairs and enough wall space can be difficult enough, let alone 12 sets of steps, or stairs! I don’t need to stuff a range of resistance bands, straps, and tennis balls into my yoga mat-filled bike panniers. Cycling to class with blocks, dumbbells, kettlebells, and sandbags --whilst a challenge I would like to accept-- is not realistic when you have to make multiple trips across a city to teach multiple classes a day (although I would enjoy the kudos).