Huge Demand for Yoga Mat Industry

Yoga mats are specially made mats that prevent hands and feet from slipping during the asana practice in modern yoga as an exercise. An early variety of rubber carpet underlay developed by yoga teacher Angela Farmer in 1982 was known as the sticky mat.

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Some of the key players of Yoga Mat Industry:

Adidas, ALO, LLC., Aurorae Yoga, LLC, Eupromed, Hugger Mugger, Jade Yoga, Khataland, Liforme Ltd., Lululemon Athletica, Manduka

Before modern times, meditative yoga and hatha yoga were practiced on bare ground, sometimes with a deer or tiger skin rug. Modern mats, suitable for energetic forms of yoga, are made of plastic, rubber, and sometimes other materials such as hessian and cork, weighing cost, comfort, grip and weight against each other.

With the advent of yoga in the west, many practitioners used towels or cotton mats on wooden floors. The feet slipped on these surfaces and needed strength to stand still in a pose like Trikonasana. When Angela Farmer was teaching yoga in Germany in 1982, she used a carpet underlay that was cut to the size of a towel during yoga lessons. She returned to London with the material. Angela's father, Richard Farmer, contacted the German upholstery manufacturer and became the first "sticky mat" retailer.