OMG, how broad are your shoulders😂🤣? Most yoga mats are 61 cm wide. This should be enough as you always should place your palms exactly under your shoulders.
Have had a Manduka Pro for several years now and strongly recommend it, at least for something to have in your home. It's quite heavy so it's not great for taking with you to a lesson but it's got a nice thickness and it supports you but without feeling too soft and squishy, which really made a big difference to my knees not hurting when on all fours. It's also a lot easier to stand on something that feels sturdy. It really feels like it'll last me for the rest of my life too.
Stay away from the pop flex / blogilates ones, just a heads up! Super over priced and if you leave it in the sun it will shed material. My manduka pro can be left in the sun no worries. The blogilates also have a foul off gassing smell, my friend had to air hers out in the garage for 3 days!
@jamie6506 Manduka pro has a lifetime guarantee. So yeah its expensive but not over-priced. Incidentally not something I'd recommend for beginners since you need to be pretty committed to make the expense worth it (even though I absolutely adore both of mine)
Thisssss, a lot of mats claim grippy and non slip but they really mess up my practice. I'm tired of online mishaps so i only buy if i can touch ot before. Thank you Charlie for all your helpful videos
Yes. My practice greatly improved when I upgraded to a B Mat. My poses finally "stuck" made holding various asanas much more effective...not fussing with keeping my feet in place. Thanks for your channel and your advice!
But Manduka isn’t made of natural rubber. It’s made of an eco-certified PVC and their website claim that Mandukas are either 100% or 99% latex-free. On the other side, Lotuscrafts have a few natural rubber mats and a few PVC, but their cork mats have a natural rubber base. The same for jute ones. If you have latex allergy, it doesn’t have to be limited to contact dermatitis. You can also react to the smell and it can cause some breathing problem. Just something to be aware of.
Thanku mam. I followed your tips fir handstand. Now i can stand for 10 sec in JUST 5 days from zero sec. First day was disaster for soulder and back when i stand against wall, my whole body was shaking.
Thank you, thank you ! Charlie. I am in a dilemma at the moment because of these mats! 😂 They can be very expensive, if not too expensive. I am currently using a cork mat with alignment and good but I am really sweaty, dripping and 5'8", tall for an Filipina female. Still I slip a bit with a 5mm cork.
Thank you! I have a rubber/heshion mat. It was non-slip but became slippery after a few years. I decided to give it a good scrub with steel wool scourer. Tadah! Back to non-slip
Wait.. this sounds like a sales jingle.. “Get grippy not slippy!” Sorry… it’s been a long day… your videos are the best part of my day!! Keep ‘em going Charlie!
Don't go too thick or you'll feel unstable. Being able to feel the ground a bit is super helpful. Also I love wider mats because I have super wide shoulders.
I love my B Yoga BMAT which is rubber. It’s got a great thickness. It’s quite wide and long which I like even though I’m not super tall, I just like the extra space so my face is no where near the floor when I come to the ground on vinyasas 😂 It’s extremely sticky! Some might find it even too sticky. It forces me to pick up my foot and place it - it’s so firm that I can’t be lazy and just slide my feet around. I have another smoother cheaper mat though for gentler practices.
So helpful! I really love the popflex active mats. They won’t shed if you also use it with tennis shoes. I’ve had my first one for 7 years now and it still looks perfect!
As someone else said, dont buy one that's too cushiony, cause that makes keeping your balance harder in some positions. So what I do for my flatter mats is just to roll up a towel or use a pillow if I feel like my knees are complaining (although honestly, my knees got more used to the weight over the months)
I really should change my mat but I keep forgetting to 😅 one thing that's worked for me is doubling up my mat. The one on the bottom for me is literally a long, thin-ish carpet (thin for a carpet, that is) and is there to provide adequate cushioning and grip on the floor. Then the one on top is an actual yoga mat. The great thing is that the bottom mat likely won't need to be replaced, but the additional cushioning makes all the difference imo (plus I feel like it doesn't really matter what the top mat is, as long as it's not slippery)
I just had to invest in a new mat 😅 I was starting to get better with my splits, and I am way too tall for a normal length mat 😂 yay me on the split progress I guess 😂🙈
My mat has these raised bumps in a super-regular rectangular pattern. The downside: when I look down at them, my eyes can't focus because they force my vision into a Magic-Eye puzzle cross-eyed state that's very disorienting. I'm looking for a flat mat or one with a somewhat irregular pattern that my eyes can stare at without losing depth perception and focus
oh my god you are 5 ft....what! You look taller....I'm 5ft too but I am on a bit fatter side I appear to be lot shorter than my actual height.......Can you suggest some poses to increase height, I'm 23 could I be able to increase my height?
Hello honestly I don't think you can increase your height if you are 23, I say this because I've spent my life hating being small, doing everything I could to grow, but sometimes you just have to accept it.
That line up tip with the dots is genius! I'll have to get a mat like that. Also I'm 5'11 and when I finally got a mat that was long enough for me it was such a game changer.
