This holiday shopping season, we decided to help you find that perfect yoga gift. This will be a series of articles on yoga mat shopping geared towards different price categories. This article will discuss the most expensive yoga mat that are guaranteed to please even the pickiest yoga practitioners.
What Makes A Superior Yoga Mat
What do you look for in a great yoga mat? You can’t seriously expect it do help you do your poses, or can you? The fact is, most premium mats are almost there. Specifically engineered to enhance your practice, these mats are nothing short of excellent in their cushioning and support capabilities. When practicing on these mats, you literally feel the mat’s gentle yet firm support in most difficult poses. Your head, knees and joints are always well protected and perfectly cushioned. Your body is always balanced, and you never, ever slip on these mats. Also, you can’t get these mats to bunch up or slide under you (a common problem with most mats).
Also, your perfect quality yoga mat must be made from natural, sustainable and degradable material. You don’t want to practice on a mat that is harmful to the environment, do you?
Just regular people doing yoga
Finally, you want your mat to truly stand out from the crowd, it must be noticed, have a nice logo on it, and radiate success… we’re getting carried away.
Anyway, having dealt with countless yoga mats in our blog, we’ve selected only the best and most expensive mats that will please anyone from beginner to super advanced level. These amazing products will last a significant amount of time, paying for themselves by saving you from buying a new mat every year. The downside – these babies need care. You must regularly wash your premium mat and let dry out after each class. This is not a big deal, because you will simply fall in love with your mat and would want to take care of it every minute. Some people sleep on their expensive mats.
Our choices
Go to any yoga mat review site and you will see that Manduka mats are considered the best mats all around. We agree, and here’s why.
Manduka Yoga Mats are the Bentleys of the yoga world. These are heavyweight champions of the industry, leaving no one behind. No company has so far been able to copy Manduka. These mats are made of natural rubber, and are the most durable and resilient of all mats on the market.
We place Jade yoga mats into the second place, simply because their product are made of material that is similar to Manduka’s but a lot less dense and more porous, greatly reducing the weight and the price, though reliability is also reduced slightly. If you can’t afford our first choice, go for Jade.
If you want to be different, take a look at prAna the Revolution, Tapas, and Hugger Mugger Sattva yoga mats. These are super eco-friendly all natural products that perform just as well but also feature very attractive and unique designs and color combinations. These are usually our third choice due to the fact that these all natural mats are higher priced, simply because they are made from sustainable material, without any added benefit in performance or reliability. We’re waiting for the price to go down on this group of mats.
To browse our selection of hand-picked mats, head over to the Yoga Mat Reviews (http://yogamatreview.org)
