Cotton Yoga Mats

Cotton Yoga Mats - The excellent Choice

Cotton Yoga Mats are excellent for any sweat-producing yoga exercises like Bikram Method Yoga and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. These cotton mats are quite thick, adding extra cushioning for sitting and standing postures. Cotton is great at absorbing perspiration and moisture that would normally make your mat slippery. No more embarrassing sweat dripping all over the place. With the high absorbency of cotton mats, they give excellent grip when wet. This is particularly important to people who start slipping when perspiring. Cotton yoga mats are also very easy to clean. Also, most people agree that it is far more preferable to have the feel of cotton against the skin.

Cotton Yoga mats are especially effective on carpets, but they tend to slip on smooth surfaces like wood, tile, linoleum and cement floors. Luckily this can be easily remedied by placing a sticky mat under the cotton mat, or buying a mat that has an added thin latex bottom coating. This gives you the same excellent grip on smooth surfaces as sticky mats, but offers the absorbent and comfortable surface on the top.

Cotton Yoga Mats also have a great added bonus. The woven lines in some patterns are excellent guides to guide your hands and feet for that perfect alignment.   For those with Latex allergies, these cotton mats offer the best alternative.

Deciding which Yoga Mat is not always simple

Deciding if a cotton yoga mat is the perfect mat is not as simple. Choosing the ideal yoga mat may sound simple, but there is a wide range of yoga mats, some more preferable for different yoga styles than other. The importance of a good yoga mat cannot be overstated. A good yoga mat should be durable, comfortable and should protect you from slipping to avoid injury. Grip should be the very first thing to consider when buying a Yoga mat. In most cases a basic sticky mat is appropriate, but they are not always very comfortable. Some people prefer thicker yoga mats that are thick enough to protect their joints and give enough comfort. People looking for a nice thick mat, but not wanting a cotton yoga mat could always look at the Manduka Yoga mats.

Cotton Yoga Mats do offer tremendous comfort, and with a sticky mat underneath you are quite certain that you can safely tackle most poses without fear of slipping. Some even take spray bottles to damp it down for more traction.

Most yoga practioners swear by their cotton yoga mats. Cotton mats have been part of yoga from the beginning. It is part of its history. Sticky mats have only relatively recently become part of the yoga scene. The biggest advantage of cotton yoga mats is that they are completely enviromentally friendly. Something all yoga practioners should feel worried about.