MandukaeKO Yoga Mat - For Women and Men, Strong, Durable, Non Slip Grip, 5mm Thick, 71 Inch

This is my second Manduka mat. I bought my frist one 15 years ago and while it wasn't 'worn out', it was a bit rough around the edges and my cat had thrown up on it a few times (LOL). So I splurged and bought a new one and I hadn't realized that over the years I had worn down the texture on the rubber a bit on my first one, and getting this new one and feeling how slip-proof it is, I'm so happy to have upgraded to new one. These are the BEST yoga mats and well worth the cost if you consider you can easily get 15 years of use out of it (and I do yoga multiple times a week).

I have one of these mats and when my husband starting doing Iyengar yoga with me, I got one for him, He absolutely loves it. 5mm 71", great sticky mat, so comfortable. thanks Manduka!!

After a year of using disgusting gym mats, I finally invested in this quality mat. I've been using it for almost 2 years now and it's just started to show signs of the top layer starting to flake off in a couple spots. I average 2-3 hot vinyasa classes and 2-3 yin classes per week.My concern doing research on mats was the slippery issue. So I guess this is closed cell so maybe it supposedly doesn't absorb sweat making it slippery right? I remember the first couple of uses thinking it was a little slippery during hot vinyasa, but it quickly broke in and I never gave any thought to sliding around after that short break-in period. Unless I'm really sweating an ocean, it does absorb dripping sweat (i.e. it's not going to puddle up or anything). I cleaned it faithfully with Manduka mat cleaner after every use and it has never stunk or felt gross. For the past couple months I got lazy and quit cleaning it because I'm about to replace it, but even after that it hasn't gotten funky at all.I've also seen some complaints about the new mat smell. In my experience that dissipated quickly and wasn't an issue at all.I'm 6' tall 195 lbs, and the length and thickness are ideal for me. I was afraid that it might have been discontinued, but happily I'm ordering a new one and I hope they make this mat forever.

This mat has great cushion and is excellent for the knees. I have had this mat for about 2 months and used it 3-4 times per week during that time. I sweat quite a bit though, and this mat gets really slippery when I sweat. It't like a slip and slide when I hop back from forward fold to plank and when I'm in an eka pada downward dog. It's kind of scary actually. I feel really disappointed actually and I've heard that wearing the mat in would make this problem go away, but it really hasn't improved over time so far. I wish that I had gone with the manduka black mat that so many of my classmates have and rave about.Update: I have tried several options that my teachers recommended to make the mat less slippery. I have tried lemon juice, laying it out in the sun, a salt scrub, and sandpaper. None of these solutions work. If anything the mat is more slippery now. So I contacted customer service and they told me that all of these things are recommended for the Manduka Pro mat but NOT for the eKo mat. They recommended a 50/50 spray of apple cider vinegar and water. I guess I'll try it as I really have no other choice, but I doubt it works. And due to how much I hate this mat and the completely unhelpful response of the customer service representative, I will probably NEVER buy ANYTHING made by Manduka again, bc I don't appreciate being swindled out of $80.Update 2: I have been emailing the customer service person at manduka for the past 2 weeks and it just gets worse and worse. I tried the apple cider vinegar and it left a faded spot on my mat. When I informed the customer service person of this he answer was to not really acknowledge the problem, repeat the advice that had already messed my mat up, and then tell me that no discoloring would happen. OK? So clearly I'm a liar despite having sent a picture of the damage. So I finally just told her that I wanted to them to replace the mat bc her advice messed it up. I also left a negative review of the mat on their website, similar to the first entry above, which they didn't publish. She told me they would be happy to send me a new mat as soon as I sent them my credit card information to pay them $30. I told them that I wasn't gambling $30 more when I had payed $80 already for this horrible mat. I told them that I was NEVER going to do business with them and that I would tell every yogi I come in contact with about this experience. Today they said that they would send me a new mat, they had some set aside to donate to charity and they'll send me one of those. So a $15+ billion company is unable to afford to fix their mistake without taking something away from the less fortunate, but they sure were gonna passive aggressively blame that on me bc I'm the person who is so unreasonable I would take a mat away from whatever charity needs yoga mats more than food, medicine, and clothing. I am horrified by this company's business practices and disgusted by the way I have been treated. I don't care if they send me $1 million worth of free yoga stuff I will still loathe this company and never buy from them again.

It's just about a week shy of 4 years since I've purchased this mat, and it's survived, a lot more than I expected. It went with me from indoor yoga studios to outdoor boot camp style workouts in public areas on hot concrete. The reason I'm even writing this review is because I've been noticing threads coming out of the edges of the mat and today just saw that the edges and bottom show some breakdown and was curious when I had bought it.4 years of abuse, poor storage (using a sling carrier and not worrying about exposing it to direct sunlight), literally tossing it around (nothing figurative about it) and all I have to show is a little breakdown on edges... plus if I remember right, these mats were made to be biodegradable, which was a selling point for me, so maybe a little disintegration is expected? I can't say enough about the eKO mat and the company.BTW, the mat did have an interesting smell to it when I first got it... not that synthetic smell otherwise I probably woulda returned it from the start... it smelled like... maybe cinnamon cookies? Don't know if that's changed with the newer ones over the years but to me, workouts on something that smells like dessert... the only way they could've improved this was to make it smell like coffee, bacon and a hint of maple syrup... but I'm guessing bacon scented mats wouldn't be a big selling point for those that use it strictly for yoga LOL.