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Yoga Mat floor, first in Seattle!

Leave your mat at home and experience Yogi Ways unique and specially designed mat-floor, a built-in reinforced padding providing the firmness and cushioning equivalent to two yoga mats.

Our deep purple mat-floor covers approx 1100 square feet in a sunlit and spacious studio with broad windows overlooking the Fremont canal and Downtown Seattle. With your mind and body a little less burdened from carting your mat around town, your practice can unfold more creatively on Yogi Ways distinctive mat-floor. Just bring yourself and your Jai.

FAQs about Yogi Ways mat-floor

Q: Why did you choose the mat-floor over individual mats on hard wood?
Over the years, I have taken and taught yoga classes, workshops, and retreat across the US continent and abroad. Every space has its own charm and beauty, but a few concerns of mine were never really answered, until we examined and re-examined the possibility of a single mat-floor

Hygiene
Travel light!
Earth friendly
Effective, spatial dynamic practice
Freedom

If a mind/body connection does exist as in the alternative medicine and ancient spiritual tradition, then why do we agree to confine our practice within a size of a single mat? What is the deeper effect of our mind and spirit if we are always facing one direction when we practice?

Q: I take my personal mat to classes. How hygienic is Yogi Ways mat- floor?
Our yoga mat floor is made from a poreless material that does not absorb sweat or germs. Our yoga mat floor is easier to clean than your own personal mat is is MUCH more hygenic than the studio-loaned mats at other studios. Simplify your life, create less waste and trust in knowing that the Yogi Way studio provides a clean and germ free yoga mat floor. Our precious yoga mat floor is cleaned before & after every class (approximately 5 to 7 times every day) with an environmentally safe pure alcohol & tea tree extract cleanser. Additinally, we "deep clean" the mat & seams with anti-bacterial solution once per day. We also provide eco-wipes for students to wipe their feet prior to entering the space.

Hygienically, using a personal mat is preferable then a public, studio loned mat. However, it is really not ideal unless the studio floor is sanitized after each class. When you roll up your personal yoga mat at the end of class, you are picking up germs that have previously existed on the floor. Unless you sanitize and dry your personal mat both the top and bottom surfaces, you are saving and brewing the germs on your mat every single time.

Come in and practice on our mat floor and experience the liberation of a mat-less yoga class!

Benefits of our Yoga Mat Floor

On Yogi Ways mat-floor, you will no longer be limited by the spatial confident of a single mat. Instead, youll experience more ease of movement across a wider, multi-dimensional space, a lucid circular passage, facing North, East, South, West, through your asanas and vinyasas.

Our cushined floor provides extra firmness and cushioning for headstands and shoulder stands, for bony backs in rolling, for floating from uttanasana to plank, as well as shock absorption and comfort for joints and knees.

Students feel safe to practice new inversions and arm balances, plus innovative vinyasa, since the fear of falling is no longer an issue.

Reinforcing ones inner stability and harmony with practicing and mastering the bandha engagements, or muscular locks. This mat encourages practitioner to articulate the firming of the joints in arm and one legged balance poses. This process allow one to perfect a sense of lightness while mastering ones grounding force

Yoga Teaching Style and Pedagogy

Multi-Dimensional, Mandala Vinyasa, Yantra Vinyasa are some of Yogi Way specialtes. These dynamic yoga practices challenge the students comfort zone in their spatial orientation. This method aims to reunites the practitioners innate longing for a deeper balance. It also allows one to rotate and turn on the physical level like the movement of prana or the flow of the ocean waves. In a way, all things in nature grow and flow on a multi-dimensional level. This type of practice is ideal to stimulate ones inner growth and freedom in fashion that resembles the inclination of nature.

A precisely designed multi-dimensional sequence (known as digital balancing) creates an overall experience that stimulates the practitioner to reconfigurate a sense of equilibrium, both on the mental and energetic levels. Practing complex sequence, maximizes the artistry of teaching and provides great support for the inventive yogi to explore more flexible space in the creation of new asanas.

Less waste for earth

Most of yoga mats contain polyvinyl choloride (PVC) that are destructive to the environment, and potentially to the health of chemically sensitive practitioners. The yoga mat floor at Yogi Way will last for years, and does not contain PVCs. It eliminates the need to replace worn out mats thereby doubly helping the environment by reducing the need for new products, as well as producing less waste for landfills.

What is Yogi Ways mat floor made of?

The polyurethane foam padding is a Healthier Choice brand floor mat and is hypo-allergenic, sealed with a waterproof, sunproof, no-slip and quick-dry vinyl covering and set upon a hardwood surface. The health friendly material does not emit fumes or unpleasant smell. It is ideal for people with environmental / chemical sensitivities. The quick drying surface is poreless, waterproof, therefore it does not absorb any sweat or germs.

How can you help

We ask our yoga students to take a moment to wipe their feet (eco-wipe provided) before entering the practice space. Please help us keep our yoga mat-floor in perfect condition for years to come by removing sharp jewelry, rings, dangly earrings and any metal objects that might puncture the top layer. In general, your yoga practice will be safer and more fluid without sharp and/or dangling jewelry.

Reap the subtle nectar of a multidimensional balance that can ultimately be realized in daily life and enjoy your boundless practice!

~Om Shanti~

Yogi Way strives to continually bring you the best!

Yoga mat floor designed by TS is the best yoga mat ever! It is favorable for yogis who are beyond the limitations of a single mat, loved by Acro Yogis, and children (we can't get them off the mat!) We are happy with the durability of our beautiful mat!

~ Katerina Wen, Yogi Way studio director

For installation inquires, please contact Teresa Sedlacek: tjsedlacek@southslope

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