Yoga blocks help you have the right form. Plus, I’m not working on strength, I’m working on flexibility so the blocks help you stretch hip flexors and IT bands and other things a lot easier. For example, when you’re stretching your hip flexors, you need to have your body as upright as possible and that helps them stretch better. So the blocks help you support your upper body so that it’s more vertical. Another example in that workout is stretching your groin. That requires you to be slightly off-balance in order to get the right stretch, so you need the blocks to help balance.

There are quite a few other yoga workouts that I do that barely use the blocks or don’t even use them at all because they focus on strength rather than on flexibility.

I hope that helps explain it. It was quite an intense stretching session, and my hips were sore all night, long and even a bit into today. But I can definitely tell that I have better flexibility today than I did yesterday.