Om Shanti: A Yoga Blog


Slippery Yoga Mats
June 19, 2008, 2:40 pm
Filed under: Yoga Musings, Yoga Stuff

A lot of people have been pointing out to me that their Manduka Eko mat gets very slippery when they practice Ashtanga or a sweaty Vinyasa Flow class. I’ve had students and readers of this blog say to me that they had high hopes for the Manduka Eko and were disappointed because they found it to be too slippery. Does this mean that the new Manduka mat is a bad mat? (more…)



High Gas Prices = No More Yoga Classes?
June 19, 2008, 2:19 pm
Filed under: Yoga Los Angeles, Yoga News

Here’s an interesting article in the LA Times about how some people are cutting out yoga classes (which can be really expensive) and gym memberships during these difficult economic times. As prices at the gas station and the grocery store keep going up, up up, people are finding that they have much less disposable income, and one result seems to be that yoga studios are losing quite a bit of business. (more…)