Manduka EKO 2.0 5mm Yoga Mat

Very nice mat! Slow delivery (16days) and lots of hustle with submitting documents for clearance

Very Good Mat must have for Yoga practices

After 3 months of exploration and indecision about should I buy Jade, Liforme, Infinity by DesignLab or Calyana it was Manduka EKO that finally prevailed. Time will tell how good that decision was but for now I can only tell I am very happy with my purchase. Grip is amazing and only thing I’ve noticed that people use to downvote this mat is smell...Well, this is natural rubber so it smells like one when you receive it but not so terrible and it really reduces with each day. I would say it will be gone after week or two completely (I do spray it with 50/50 water/vinegar mixture so maybe that does the trick). Anyhow.. I am 174cm tall and this mat is perfect size for me. Weight also doesn’t bother me because I will not travel miles to my yoga studio and for that half an hour walk it’s fine. But that’s already personal preference...like everything else is, right?! :) At the end-I love mine <3

When my old mat started literally falling apart, I started researching for a new mat. I wanted a mat that would give me more stability (less slipping), especially when my hands and feet were sweaty. I settled on the Manduka Pro, but it was slippy. Luckily wonderful Amazon were able to sort out a return and I settled this time on the Manduka eKo. It is a revelation. Poses I have been doing in yoga for years are an entirely different experience where I can focus on the pose rather than an entire focus on keeping my hands and feet from slipping. Before I sent back the Pro, I was using grippy gloves and socks in an attempt to work with it. The freedom of being able to return to bare hands and feet is a great relief. I do use a small Manduka grippy towel with it just because I have it and have got used to using it when doing downward dog under my hands but it's not necessary. No extra padding is required for Pilates class roll ups and the beautiful colour makes me feel I am about to dive into a peaceful lagoon.Highly recommended.

Reviewing on behalf of a friend (who ordered through our account!) and she says it's brilliant! She did say lots of yoga specific things but all I can remember is that she said the other old ladies in her class were totally jealous of her swish mat! Sorry, not the most helpful review ever but she has now had it for several months so it's obviously wearing well as she yogas three times a week! (pretty sure yoga isn't a verb but you know what I mean)The only downsize apparently it's weight but as she drives to yoga sessions that's not a problem.

Not at all what I was expecting as the item that was delivered was a superlite (travel) mat rather than the standard ordered. As a travel mat - it is exactly as the name states - super light. As it was easier to keep than arrange to have it collected, I pop it on top of the mat supplied in the group but still not 'sticky' enough for me as still slipping.

When I use this mat I feel so confident during poses. It is a heavy mat, but it is well worth the effort carrying it to my class. I can sweat quite a lot during some classes, depending on the poses demonstrated.I can highly recommend this product to my fellow sweaters.