bYo - The Development of a Yoga Mat - Part 1

There are yoga mats a dime a dozen—so why another one? It’s simple: not a single yoga mat we looked at managed to fully convince us in terms of true sustainability and design. In Part 1, we’ll explain the story behind our new yoga mat.

The project to create a new yoga mat was already on our agenda when treeletic was founded. The initial question, however, was how we could make a significant change to a product of which countless versions are already available on the market. After all, it is part of our brand’s core mission to offer our community something that is better than what is typically available on the market.

And so the key question was: what materials are actually used to make yoga mats? To our surprise, we discovered that all mats are, to a greater or lesser extent, made from synthetic materials—whether it’s latex, recycled PU, or even the supposedly eco-friendly TPE.

Wait a minute—yoga and synthetic materials? How do those go together? That’s impossible, right? Exactly—that’s what we think, too.