{"id":5769,"date":"2015-03-03T13:48:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theyogimovement.com\/?p=5769"},"modified":"2016-10-20T23:32:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T03:32:52","slug":"best-cork-yoga-mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theyogimovement.com\/best-cork-yoga-mat\/","title":{"rendered":"A Yoga Mat That’s Better for the Earth and Your Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look – I make a point to use deodorant (paraben free of course), wash my hair with sweet smellin’ lavender shampoo, and shave my legs and armpits.<\/em> Even so, I’m a hippie at heart<\/strong>. I have fantasies of zoning out at the original Woodstock (no, not that weird phase that happened in the 90s), and wearing bell bottoms and go go boots when they first came into style.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe I’m a wannabe hippie, but a girl can dream, right?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

What I’m saying is that I try to keep it as natural as possible without being gross, so when I heard about this environmentally friendly yoga mat made from cork and tires, that is also self cleaning<\/em> – I certainly had to find out more! <\/span><\/p>\n

I did some research through this thing on the internet called Google, and found Yoloha Yoga<\/a> – a company that creates cork yoga mats. I reached out to the founder, Chris Wiley, and was stoked when he agreed to work with me. <\/span><\/p>\n

What’s even cooler is that he took a trip to Florida, and dropped the mat off at my home! No, he didn’t come to Florida for me specifically. Ha! It was just pretty sweet that he happened to be in the area to meet up. <\/span><\/p>\n

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I loved the mat so much that I met up with Amanda from <\/span>Yoga in the park<\/a>, Jeff Welch<\/a> , and Laura Daniel (my first Ashtanga teacher) at the lovely <\/span>Harmony Yoga Studio<\/a> to have them test out the mat. <\/span><\/p>\n

We had such a fun time! You can see how it all went in the video below:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n