About ecoYoga Ltd

About ecoYoga Ltd

About ecoYoga Ltd

About ecoYoga Ltd

About ecoYoga Ltd

If yoga holds the potential to transform our inner body/mind landscape, a natural progression is to embrace the health of our Earth. This was the sentiment when we initiated the ecoYoga jute mat into the commercial marketplace in 2003. For those waiting or searching it was a relief to finally have an alternative to the synthetic mat. At the Edinburgh Yoga Centre {1994-2006} we witnessed the increasing turnover of yoga students and the pile up, year on year, of worn, smelly plastic mats destined for landfill. By 1997 we came to know some city yoga centres were disposing used studio mats every 3 months. Everything was awry and it was time to step off our mats and do the research. ecoYoga, as practice, began. In 2000 we discovered almost all Yoga mats on sale around the “developed” world were made of PVC {polyvinyl chloride: commonly known as vinyl}. Originally a useless by-product of the oil industry, PVC applications were explored and exploited from the 1930s up until the health and environmental crises of the 1970s. Plastic products now litter and literally choke our planet. Simply put: a plastic Yoga mat is a paradox. The ecoYoga jute mat, in concept & aesthetic, pioneered a shift in yoga mat consumerism and subsequently production: a shift that falters back & forth but hopefully will keep evolving. Even if unaware of basic yoga principles, suppliers are faced with the fact that the demand and integrity for more natural yoga mats grows stronger. Does it not ?Read their story