Crescent Moon - Yoga Supplies Series - A Guide to Pilates and Yoga Mats

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A Guide to Pilates and Yoga Mats

The right tools are absolutely essential to a successful and rewarding Yoga or Pilates practice. Although all Pilates and Yoga accessories provide some enhancement to your experience, by far, your most important yoga tool is your mat.

Even if you are just learning the basics of Yoga or Pilates, a high quality yoga mat will do more to enhance your practice than any other accessory you can buy.

The Thickness of Your Pilates / Yoga Mat

A Yoga or Pilates mat should be comfortable - and comfort is based on a mat's thickness and firmness. Most Yoga and Pilates mats are too thin and provide little if any cushion. These mats should not even be considered unless all you want to think about during your practice is how hard the floor is. Other mats are thick - yet often too soft to provide enough support. A good Pilates or Yoga mat should be thick enough and soft enough to provide grip, yet firm enough to provide enough support and cushion.

Your Pilates or Yoga Mat Should Provide Grip

A high quality Yoga or Pilates mat will conform around your hands and feet to provide a secure grip. It should provide the same amount of grip even when you sweat and should not slide around on the floor as you move. Your mat should also remain flat on the floor. Mats with square corners will tend to curl up after awhile.

Ease of Maintenance

Maintenance of your yoga mat should consist of nothing more than occasionally wiping it down with clean cloth dampened with warm water. Any mat that is machine washable is probably too thin and therefore, won't meet the cushion or grip criteria which are essential in a good yoga mat.

The SteadyGrip™ Yoga Mats

At Crescent Moon we realize that your yoga mat is your single most important yoga and pilates accessory. Our goal was to design a more functional and stylish product than the yoga mats currently available. We succeeded by developing our two SteadyGrip™ Yoga mats. Each mat is made up of a special two-ply material consisting of two proprietary materials that feature two different densities. This unique combination of 'firmness' and 'cushion' provides the optimal amount of grip and comfort. Also each of these Pilates and Yoga mats are individually manufactured in specially designed molds. These mats are not mass-produced on rolls and then merely cut to size, as is common today.

The SteadyGrip™ mats are 1/4 inch thick, twice as thick as most common Yoga or Pilates mats and features ‘heat-sealed’ edges for greater durability and enhanced anti-bacterial properties. The additional thickness provides more cushion and allows the Yoga and/or Pilates mat to conform around your hands and feet for a more secure grip.

The SteadyGrip™ mats are available in two different lengths - 68 inches long or 76 inches long. Each mat has a unique non-slip bottom surface for added stability and features rounded corners that will stay flat in use. Click here to see it.

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