Journal

Maybe you’re just at the beginning of your yoga practice or your old yoga mat is coming to an end. We know that the search for a sustainable yoga mat can be very tiring and long. Our hejhej-mat wa...

One of the criteria that is often considered when buying a new yoga mat is slip resistance. If you have ever slipped on your yoga mat during a nice flow with wet hands or feet, you probably know w...

Let’s look at the yoga philosophy from a sustainability perspective. Beginning this article we need to add a little side note about what we refer to as the yoga philosophy – because the yoga philo...

The Yoga practice is all about the full breath and the physical strength should be able to be used up to your personal limits. Therefore it is very important that your body can concentrate on the ...

A yoga strap can be very helpful for your yoga practice. Not only beginners but also experienced yogis can dive deeper into the practice with the strap. For us, it often depends on the day how we ...

What do Yoga and Ayurveda have in common? Both are Vedic traditions. The vedic religion is the oldest religion of India that can be found in written documents. In India, Ayurveda and Yoga have bee...

Yoga mats – hardly any other piece of sports equipment needs to fulfill so many demands and that is why you can find a lot of yoga mat tests and reviews on the world wide web. The hejhej-mat&...

Nowadays, quite a lot of companies claim to be sustainable. For example, one of the largest fast-fashion companies in the world recently promoted its sustainable products. So sadly, we can’t just ...

Today is the 21st of March and it’s World Down Syndrome Day. Today should be about thinking about each other, acting for the community and the individuals. World Down Syndrome Day now exists for 1...

We rush through our everyday life – both corporate and private. It’s full of appointments and we sometimes just forget to take some time in between for ourselves. Then there are suddenly times, w...

It has never been more important to think about your own purchasing decisions. We all need to change our behaviour to save our planet from collapse. We want to showcase the power of consumers and t...

We did not reach gender equality in professional life yet and women are also underrepresented as entrepreneurs. Being a mum and and a founder: more and more mothers see entrepreneurship as an oppor...

Chakras are another component of the ancient Indian knowledge of yoga. The word chakra can be translated from Sanskrit as wheel or disk. Chakras are the centers of consciousness and life energy in ...

We want to give you the strategies of the circular economy to enable you to make holistic decisions about the material things in your life. That's why Circular Monday is the Monday before Black Fri...

Sustainability is simply unavoidable. The circular economy is the most responsible way to consume. For this reason, we have developed our sustainable yoga mat bag within the framework of the circul...

The most important reason why we decided to launch another crowdfunding campaign is that we want you to decide whether our new product is really needed. We don't want to simply push an additional p...

Why are there so few sustainable companies and products? Why isn't there a closed-loop yoga mat yet? These were precisely the questions that led us to take matters into our own hands and develop th...

It is a lingering movement but it is a movement. Luckily we are becoming more and more mindful and more aware of our planet. Just as we are more attentive to our environment, we should also cons...

3 sustainable travel tips and our top 7 reasons for traveling in nature. Traveling by van or camping is a very sustainable alternative for traveling. Of course, traveling is always associated with ...

The story of a hejhej-mat - the ethical production of yoga mats. We want to communicate transparently how our hejhej-mats are made and share insights into the production process with you. We have m...

Have you ever asked yourself the question: Who makes my yoga mat? Our goal when we founded hejhej-mats was to develop a fully sustainable yoga mat. For us, fully sustainable means doing justice to ...