Open-cell tree rubber, grips harder as you sweat
The mat our studio is built around. Natural tree rubber from a cooperative of small growers near Kottayam is calendered into an open-cell surface that drinks a little sweat and grips harder as a practice warms up, over a closed-cell underside that does not creep on tiled or wooden floors. There is no PVC, no TPE and no foam anywhere in it.
Choose 4 mm if you travel or like to feel the floor in standing balances, 6 mm for an everyday practice, and 8 mm if your knees and wrists need cushioning in kneeling and restorative work. Natural rubber has a faint earthy smell for the first week; leave it unrolled in the shade and it fades.
Rolled, tied with a cotton strap and shipped in a kraft tube - never folded, never shrink-wrapped. Free delivery across India; 3-6 working days from Rishikesh. Practise on it for 30 days: if the grip or the thickness is wrong for you, we collect it and refund in full. Cash on Delivery and GST invoice available.
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I teach four vinyasa classes a week and have worn through cheaper mats in months. The 6 mm Ganga mat has had a year of heated classes and my hands have not slipped once. The rubber smell was gone in a week of leaving it unrolled.
I wrote in asking for the thickest mat because of my knees. The studio replied the same afternoon and suggested the 6 mm plus a folded blanket for kneeling, so I would not wobble in balances. Exactly right. Paid on delivery, arrived in four days.
The starter kit arrived in a kraft tube and a jute bag - not a scrap of plastic. The card with the beginner poses is lovely and my mother follows it every morning with the strap and blocks.
The buckwheat zafu felt hard at first; after a week of sitting it shaped itself and now my back stays straight for twenty minutes. Four stars only because I would like a darker colour option.
