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The purpose of using a mat while taking Yoga classes or doing Yoga at home is to create traction (that’s why they are sometimes called sticky mats) and to put some cushioning between you and the hard floor. These two features of Yoga mats make them versatile and ideal for so many other uses. There are many household uses for them and a myriad of fun things to do with them to entertain the kids. Now let’s take a close look at the ways a new or used Yoga mat can be used outdoors.
1. If you are preparing to plant a vegetable or herb harden or start a colorful flowerbed, use an old mat as a way to smother weeds before you plant. Lay the mat in one section of your garden and leave it for a few days, allowing the heat of the sun to go to work killing the weeds and even their seeds. Keep moving the mat to different spots in your garden area until you’ve weeded a big enough area to begin planting.
2. Cut several pieces of an old mat to the same size, stack them on top of each other, and then tie them together. Now you’ve got a great kneeler to use while working in that garden.
3. After working in the muddy garden, leave your dirty shoes by the door on a piece of a Yoga mat.
4. Use a Yoga mat as padding on the bench at your kid’s soccer or baseball games. You can even make individual padded seats to use on hard, uncomfortable bleachers anywhere. Cut two equal sized pieces of mat about the size of a newspaper folded in half. Poke holes around the edges of both pieces and then put a stack of newspaper between them. Use some twine or yarn to lace through the holes and tie in knots to secure the papers inside. You can easily replace the padding when it gets tattered.
5. A Yoga mat is great for extra padding under your sleeping bag on a camping trip. If you like to do Yoga while camping, you’ve killed two birds with one stone.
6. Yoga mats are great to use poolside or at the beach. Buy a new, extra thick mat for extra padding on the hard surfaces around swimming pools. Get something colorful and fun.
7. You may want to use that mat to cover a lawn chair or chaise lounge outside while you are sunning. Not only is it more comfortable, but you won’t get that funny pattern of the chair on the backs of your legs.
8. Use them to sit on while picnicking or attending an outdoor concert.
9. How about laying a mat in the trunk of your car or in the back of the SUV to keep the grocery bags from sliding around?
10. Some vehicles, especially SUVs, have luggage racks on top. But that rack may not completely prevent your suitcases and boxes from scratching the roof. Put an extra wide Yoga mat between your luggage and the roof of the car to prevent damage.
11. If you have a wooden deck with attached steps or perhaps a boat dock accessed by wooden steps, you’re probably aware that water from the weather or the lake can make these wooden surfaces extremely slippery. Cut your old Yoga mat into strips just slightly smaller than the steps and glue them to attach them permanently to the steps. However, the natural stickiness of a Yoga mat may be enough to hold them in place. You could also throw down on old mat on the dock where passengers get in and out of the boat to keep wet feet from slipping.
12. Cut mats to fit the floor of your boat to keep them from being too slippery.
If you like some of these ideas and would rather have a new mat, Sunshine Yoga offers just about anything you could want. A variety of quality levels and thicknesses are available, not to mention just about every color in the rainbow. They even have brightly patterned Mexican blanket Yoga mats, too. You could throw one of those over your lawn chair or Yoga mat at the pool, as well.
As an afterthought, here are a couple very practical things to consider doing with your old mats that will make you feel good, too. Donate them to homeless shelters to be used as sleeping pads or to animal shelters to line crates.
