Comments on: Green Yoga Mats http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/06/15/green-yoga-mats/ Reclaiming what style means and celebrating beauty that's healthy and fun! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:36:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gaiam Yoga Gear Goes Green :: Organic Clothing and Aromatherapy with Recycled and Rubber Mats : Feelgood Style http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/06/15/green-yoga-mats/comment-page-1/#comment-1655 Gaiam Yoga Gear Goes Green :: Organic Clothing and Aromatherapy with Recycled and Rubber Mats : Feelgood Style Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:19:08 +0000 http://feelgoodstyle.com/?p=376#comment-1655 [...] Lovers Yoga Mat ~ While I am in LOVE with my Harmony rubber mat, I like to keep my eyes open for new mat developments. The new Earth Lovers Yoga Mat from Gaiam [...] [...] Lovers Yoga Mat ~ While I am in LOVE with my Harmony rubber mat, I like to keep my eyes open for new mat developments. The new Earth Lovers Yoga Mat from Gaiam [...]

]]> By: Katie in Berkeley http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/06/15/green-yoga-mats/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Katie in Berkeley Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:48:22 +0000 http://feelgoodstyle.com/?p=376#comment-327 After reading this post, I tried the tatami mat listed here as #2, and was very disappointed. My hands are still raw from the rough grass, and it was too slippery to do backbend poses safely. I must recommend against it. I'll stick with my jute mat (#5). After reading this post, I tried the tatami mat listed here as #2, and was very disappointed. My hands are still raw from the rough grass, and it was too slippery to do backbend poses safely. I must recommend against it. I’ll stick with my jute mat (#5).

]]> By: Katie in Berkeley http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/06/15/green-yoga-mats/comment-page-1/#comment-56145 Katie in Berkeley Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:48:00 +0000 http://feelgoodstyle.com/?p=376#comment-56145 After reading this post, I tried the tatami mat listed here as #2, and was very disappointed. My hands are still raw from the rough grass, and it was too slippery to do backbend poses safely. I must recommend against it. I'll stick with my jute mat (#5). After reading this post, I tried the tatami mat listed here as #2, and was very disappointed. My hands are still raw from the rough grass, and it was too slippery to do backbend poses safely. I must recommend against it. I’ll stick with my jute mat (#5).

]]> By: Lucille http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/06/15/green-yoga-mats/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Lucille Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:43:28 +0000 http://feelgoodstyle.com/?p=376#comment-246 Selina, Thanks for the question. There is no one answer to that one :) For starters, Gaiam has an article out called 50 ways to reuse your mat: http://life.gaiam.com/gaiam/p/50WaystoReuseYourYogaFitnessMatBestidea.html and here is another creative recycling article fro UK based Recycle this: http://www.recyclethis.co.uk/20070314/how-can-i-reuse-or-recycle-a-pvc-yoga-mat Yet I realize these articles do not get to the PVC poison part. Green Yoga mentioned that http://www.greenyoga.org/matArticle.html "Greenpeace, Health Care Without Harm, the Center for Environmental Health, Green Sangha, the International Firefighters’ Association, and the Plastics Recycling Coalition are all working to phase out PVC or to minimize its use." These organizations may have more specifics. Perhaps see if you can find a "hard to recycle" center like this one: http://www.ecocycle.org/charm/index.cfm or maybe ask the area to start one? Selina,
Thanks for the question. There is no one answer to that one :) For starters,
Gaiam has an article out called 50 ways to reuse your mat: http://life.gaiam.com/gaiam/p/50WaystoReuseYourYogaFitnessMatBestidea.html
and here is another creative recycling article fro UK based Recycle this: http://www.recyclethis.co.uk/20070314/how-can-i-reuse-or-recycle-a-pvc-yoga-mat
Yet I realize these articles do not get to the PVC poison part. Green Yoga mentioned that http://www.greenyoga.org/matArticle.html “Greenpeace, Health Care Without Harm, the Center for Environmental Health, Green Sangha, the International Firefighters’ Association, and the Plastics Recycling Coalition are all working to phase out PVC or to minimize its use.” These organizations may have more specifics.

Perhaps see if you can find a “hard to recycle” center like this one: http://www.ecocycle.org/charm/index.cfm
or maybe ask the area to start one?

]]> By: Lucille http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/06/15/green-yoga-mats/comment-page-1/#comment-56144 Lucille Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:43:00 +0000 http://feelgoodstyle.com/?p=376#comment-56144 Selina, Thanks for the question. There is no one answer to that one :) For starters, Gaiam has an article out called 50 ways to reuse your mat: http://life.gaiam.com/gaiam/p/50WaystoReuseYourYogaFitnessMatBestidea.html and here is another creative recycling article fro UK based Recycle this: http://www.recyclethis.co.uk/20070314/how-can-i-reuse-or-recycle-a-pvc-yoga-mat Yet I realize these articles do not get to the PVC poison part. Green Yoga mentioned that http://www.greenyoga.org/matArticle.html "Greenpeace, Health Care Without Harm, the Center for Environmental Health, Green Sangha, the International Firefighters’ Association, and the Plastics Recycling Coalition are all working to phase out PVC or to minimize its use." These organizations may have more specifics. Perhaps see if you can find a "hard to recycle" center like this one: http://www.ecocycle.org/charm/index.cfm or maybe ask the area to start one? Selina,
Thanks for the question. There is no one answer to that one :) For starters,
Gaiam has an article out called 50 ways to reuse your mat: http://life.gaiam.com/gaiam/p/50WaystoReuseYourYogaFitnessMatBestidea.html
and here is another creative recycling article fro UK based Recycle this: http://www.recyclethis.co.uk/20070314/how-can-i-reuse-or-recycle-a-pvc-yoga-mat
Yet I realize these articles do not get to the PVC poison part. Green Yoga mentioned that http://www.greenyoga.org/matArticle.html “Greenpeace, Health Care Without Harm, the Center for Environmental Health, Green Sangha, the International Firefighters’ Association, and the Plastics Recycling Coalition are all working to phase out PVC or to minimize its use.” These organizations may have more specifics.

Perhaps see if you can find a “hard to recycle” center like this one: http://www.ecocycle.org/charm/index.cfm
or maybe ask the area to start one?

]]> By: Aaron Dalton http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/06/15/green-yoga-mats/comment-page-1/#comment-243 Aaron Dalton Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:53:12 +0000 http://feelgoodstyle.com/?p=376#comment-243 Fantastic post. If yoga practitioners - among the most green-minded among us - have been accidentally using ecologically harmful mats, it shows just vigilant we need to be in examining our lives to see where toxic products lurk. I'm no yogi (!), but I hope we'll soon see the whola yoga-crowd toting PVC-free, organic cotton mats to the studio. - Aaron Dalton, 1GreenProduct.com Fantastic post.

If yoga practitioners – among the most green-minded among us – have been accidentally using ecologically harmful mats, it shows just vigilant we need to be in examining our lives to see where toxic products lurk.

I’m no yogi (!), but I hope we’ll soon see the whola yoga-crowd toting PVC-free, organic cotton mats to the studio.

- Aaron Dalton, 1GreenProduct.com

]]> By: Aaron Dalton http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/06/15/green-yoga-mats/comment-page-1/#comment-56143 Aaron Dalton Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:53:00 +0000 http://feelgoodstyle.com/?p=376#comment-56143 Fantastic post. If yoga practitioners - among the most green-minded among us - have been accidentally using ecologically harmful mats, it shows just vigilant we need to be in examining our lives to see where toxic products lurk. I'm no yogi (!), but I hope we'll soon see the whola yoga-crowd toting PVC-free, organic cotton mats to the studio. - Aaron Dalton, 1GreenProduct.com Fantastic post.

If yoga practitioners – among the most green-minded among us – have been accidentally using ecologically harmful mats, it shows just vigilant we need to be in examining our lives to see where toxic products lurk.

I’m no yogi (!), but I hope we’ll soon see the whola yoga-crowd toting PVC-free, organic cotton mats to the studio.

- Aaron Dalton, 1GreenProduct.com

]]> By: Selina http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/06/15/green-yoga-mats/comment-page-1/#comment-242 Selina Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:35:26 +0000 http://feelgoodstyle.com/?p=376#comment-242 Hi - I already have a 'regular' yoga mat I purchased before I learned about this post. Is there a good way to dispose of them without causing too much environmental damage? I definitely want to get a greener one, but just wondering if I'm still doing some harm if I get rid of the current one. Thanks! Hi – I already have a ‘regular’ yoga mat I purchased before I learned about this post. Is there a good way to dispose of them without causing too much environmental damage? I definitely want to get a greener one, but just wondering if I’m still doing some harm if I get rid of the current one. Thanks!

]]> By: Selina http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/06/15/green-yoga-mats/comment-page-1/#comment-56142 Selina Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:35:00 +0000 http://feelgoodstyle.com/?p=376#comment-56142 Hi - I already have a 'regular' yoga mat I purchased before I learned about this post. Is there a good way to dispose of them without causing too much environmental damage? I definitely want to get a greener one, but just wondering if I'm still doing some harm if I get rid of the current one. Thanks! Hi – I already have a ‘regular’ yoga mat I purchased before I learned about this post. Is there a good way to dispose of them without causing too much environmental damage? I definitely want to get a greener one, but just wondering if I’m still doing some harm if I get rid of the current one. Thanks!

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