Yoga Mat Review: Manduka grp® Hot Yoga Mat
Score: 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Cost: $128
Size: 26” x 71” x 6mm
Weight: 5 lbs
Appropriate for: All vinyasa yoga, ESPECIALLY hot yoga.
Pros: Super sticky, insanely absorbent, lots of surface area
Cons: Heavy, but I don’t even care.
This mat is perfect.
No, I’m serious.
It’s huge. It’s like practicing yoga on a flying carpet. I’m 5’1” and have no business practicing on a mat this huge, but I roll this bad boy and lay claim to my space like I mean it.
It’s like when your partner leaves for a weekend and suddenly you can take up the whole bed.
My whole practice expanded because of this mat.
But it’s not just the size.
This thing is sticky. a. f.
I’ll be honest with y’all, I don’t sweat as much as the average bear.
So I had my boyfriend try this out. He, of the pitta metabolism, is dripping sweat before the first chaturanga in any heated class.
He loves it. He won’t give it back.
It weighs nearly 5 lbs on its own, so it gets heavier when you sweat your body weight into it. That’s the only con, but honestly, it’s not even a con for me at this point. It’s part of the workout.
Lay it out in the sunshine to dry.
I’ve sprayed it down with diluted tea tree oil, but I wouldn’t recommend you do that as it will degrade it over time (Manduka makes a cleaner for this stuff, which I’ve never used and also thus can’t officially recommend).
The sunshine cleans it well enough for me.