Even eco-warriors sometimes need a helping hand perfecting their peaceful warrior. Sustainable yoga props, accessories, blocks, bolsters, and beyong can help yogis of all levels with flexibility, stability, and sustainability.
Whether you’re in the market for cork yoga blocks or a meditation cushion, these companies combine environmentally friendly materials and natural fibers that benefit your health while bolstering the planet’s defense against plastic pollution.
So roll out your eco-friendly yoga mat and get ready for a practice that’s prop-erly satisfying and sustainable.
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The Best Yoga Props Supporting Your Planet-Friendly Poses
If you’re looking for organic yoga bolsters, you’ll feel at unity with Complete Unity Yoga’s line of props made entirely of natural, non-toxic materials.
Bean Products partners with reputable organizations like the Hemp Foundation and Trees for the Future.
Index: Sustainable Yoga Accessories
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Scoria
About Scoria
Price Range: $13–$85
Canadian female-founded company Scoria believes in the importance of reconnecting with our childlike essence. Yoga is one way to rekindle this sense of playfulness. #UnleshTheChildWithin using the cork yoga mats and eco-friendly yoga gear from Scoria, which include blocks, support straps, aroma sprays, a yoga wheel, cork knee pads, and massage balls and rollers.
Looking for more challenging yoga block alternatives to level up?
Let the Illuminate Cork Yoga Wheel illuminate your yoga practice like it did ours. While we were completely humbled by it in the beginning, this alternative to yoga blocks has upped our core strength and balancing skills an incredible amount! It really is the perfect tool for play and learning about your body. Plus, its moon phase printed cork top and gorgeous recyclable ABS center form looks so lovely that it doubles as home decor when we’re not using it.
Scoria’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
Sustainably-harvested cork is the go-to material for Scoria. It’s found exclusively in their sustainable yoga blocks and massage tools, and blended with wood and recyclable, carcinogen-free ABS foam in the yoga wheel. The stretch strap is made with GOTS-certified organic cotton.
Not a prop, per se, but their glass-bottled yoga mat sprays are made from 100% pure therapeutic-grade essential oils.
Supply chain & labor practices:
In some cases, as with the aroma sprays, production takes place in Canada. Otherwise, SGS-certified Chinese factories are responsible for manufacturing, providing fair wages, safe working conditions, and no child labor.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Scoria ships plastic-free.
Community & charitable giving:
As a partner of Right to Play, a portion of each sale supports their Promoting Life-Skills In Aboriginal Youth (PLAY) program with safe play spaces, healthy food, and inclusive physical activities. Previously, they worked with Feeding Children Everywhere, providing a total of 151,880 vegan meals to those in need.
Shakti Warrior
About Shakti Warrior
Price Range: $14–$75
“Prop it up” (in a planet-friendly way) with mother-daughter venture Shakti Warrior, an India-based yoga brand fueled with female energy.
In addition to cork yoga mats, they offer eco-friendly yoga blocks, meditation cushions, yoga straps, and eye pillows. In fact, those like the Shakti Eye Pillow are filled with lavender and organic linseed for a truly calming and rejuvenating savasana.
Shakti Warrior’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
The meditation pillows are made with an Earth-friendly natural cork fabric and buckwheat fillers, making them 100% biodegradable. The blocks and straps are each made with a single, natural material— sustainable cork and organic cotton, respectively.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Partnering with the Institute of Learning, Culture and Art, Shakti Warrior provides jobs to socially disadvantaged women in India, who are paid high wages and given nutritious food and health care.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Shakti Warrior provides a 10% discount when old yoga mats are sent back to be upcycled into flip flops that are then distributed to underprivileged communities.
Community & charitable giving:
A tree is planted for every natural cork yoga mat sold, and they provide volunteer yoga coaches for underfunded schools.
Bean Products
About Bean Products
Prince Range: $8–$580
Chicago-based Bean Products has been manufacturing sustainable home goods and wellness products for decades.
Their sustainable yoga props include bolsters, blocks, meditation cushions, and, their most unique offering, the Whale Therapeutic Back Stretching Bench to keep your spine limber and properly aligned.
Bean Products’ Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
Organic cotton is the foundation fabric of their meditation cushions and each Bean yoga bolster features hemp fabric or cotton canvas. Some yoga blocks are made with 100% cork, while others are made from non-toxic EVA foam—though because these aren’t compostable, we recommended sticking with the former.
The Whale back stretching bench is made entirely from hardwoods.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Everything is made in the USA and some of their materials, like some of their hemp fabric, is sourced there, too.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
The brand uses exclusively natural or recycled materials. Customers have the option to make their order carbon-neutral—and we recommend you do.
Community & charitable giving:
Bean Products partners with the research-oriented Hemp Foundation, Indigenous cultivar conservation, and farming families in Uttarakhand. For every product made (not just purchased), a tree is planted by Trees for the Future.
Complete Unity Yoga ®
About Complete Unity Yoga
Price Range: $24–$232
Cheaply made, plastic, low quality materials that made up most of the yoga industry products didn’t vibe with yoga teachers and founders of Complete Unity Yoga.
Achieving complete unity in your yoga practice can be tough, but this eco-friendly yoga brand supplies you with every tool, prop, and yoga mat needed to help you on your journey.
That includes all your basic eco-friendly yoga blankets and bolsters—meditation zabuton, cushions, yoga blocks, eye pillows, and yoga straps—as well as more rare items like the RelaxFast™ acupressure mat.Perfect for a quick reset or a restful, relaxing acupressure session that delivers relief with 4800 points.
Complete Unity Yoga’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
In addition to jute and natural rubber mat, their lineup includes 100% cotton blankets, eye pillows stuffed with linseed or flaxseed, cork yoga blocks, and cotton meditation cushions stuffed with biodegradable buckwheat hulls.
While the medical grade acupuncture spikes on the RelaxFast™are synthetic, the fabric and coconut fiber fill is all-natural.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Some of their products are made in the UK, but we’re overall a little unclear on their supply chain, and will be reaching out to ask.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Complete Unity Yoga ships all products in brown paper, and the yoga mats made using a zero waste manufacturing process.
Community & charitable giving:
Complete Unity Yoga donates to Helping Hands For India, which delivers education to 250 underserved children in rural Uttar Pradesh, India.
Liforme
About Liforme
Price Range: $23–$70
Liforme’s mission hinges on developing eco-friendly yoga equipment that’s durable when in use and biodegradable at its end of life. Easier said than some of yoga’s top poses.
With a revolutionary top surface, visible alignment system and top-quality materials, this UK brand sells yoga mats (in XL down to kids size), water bottles, yoga mat sprays, and yoga pads to cushion your elbows and knees while at your favorite hardwood floor yoga studio.These cushy mats aren’t just kind on the joints, but on the senses, too, thanks to their bright and happy colorations—like Rainbow Hope Yellow.
Liforme’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
Tadasana on toxic chemicals? No, thanks.
To achieve a surface as non-slip as it is non-toxic, Liforme tried and tested various materials, finally landing on their current product. Their PVC-free yoga pads are made out of a natural rubber bottom layer, a thin felt pad, and printed with eco-friendly inks on a non-toxic polyurethane top.
Each water bottle is made of 100% stainless steel with a 100% silicone band, and 100% polypropylene grippy body that is BPA free.
Supply chain & labor practices
Sourcing quality materials from reputable sources can be a slippery slope (much like yoga mats themselves), but this Certified B Corp found ways to solve both with a traceable, ethical supply chain.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Plastic-free packaging paves the way for an eco-friendly yoga practice from the first roll up to the last. Speaking of shipping, 99% of Liforme’s products have been shipped via the sea instead of air.
Community & charitable giving:
Liforme supports charity partners such as Tree-Nation, the RSPCA, and Friends of the Earth, to which partial proceeds of sales of their “Purple Earth” yoga mat collection go directly. If purple isn’t your hue, their Tiger yoga mat supports the WWF.
They also support funds like Yoga Gives Back, which assists women and children in impoverished India, providing micro-loans and granting access to better education.
Manduka
About Manduka
Price Range: $16–$199
This next sustainable yoga brand has just (almost) everything to support healthy trees and tree poses alike. Manduka offers not just yoga mats, but sustainable yoga clothes and sustainable yoga equipment for yogis of all levels.
That includes everything from basic tools like yoga blocks, yoga straps, foam rollers, blankets, and bolsters to rare items like the Bamboo Root Board—so you can maintain a solid yoga foundation absolutely anywhere.
Manduka’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
Manduka offers either recycled yoga blocks made of 50-75% recycled EVA foam, or completely natural ones made of 100% cork. Their foam rollers are likewise recycled.
The bolster contains a 30% recycled fiber fill surrounded by a cotton filling and absorbent recycled microfiber fabric. Straps are made with 100% unbleached cotton or 100% recycled polyester.
Each yoga blanket is available in a blend of 75% recycled wool and 25% recycled synthetic fabrics, or a blend of recycled cotton and recycled acrylic.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Being bare for hot yoga is one thing, but being bare about manufacturing practices is another. They’ve yet to answer our queries seeking to learn more about their policies.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Through Manduka’s ‘Live On’ program, they’ve partnered with The Renewal Workshop to downcycle yoga mats into things like carpet padding and track surfaces.
For mats that just need a little TLC, they repair and donate to youth centers, schools, or senior programs.
Mukha Yoga
About Mukha Yoga
Price Range: $10–$68
Mukha Yoga, named after the Sanskrit word meaning ‘face’, wants to help you face your daily practice without worry of chemicals and waste. While some products are Mukha-made, the majority are carefully curated from other (mostly) eco-friendly yoga brands.
With a wide selection of yogi apparel, yoga mats, towels, blocks, straps, meditation cushions, eye pillows, neck wraps, and even smudge sticks, your yoga experience is bound to align all your chakras.
Mukha Yoga’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
While not everything in their collection belongs on our eco-friendly yoga accessories list, you’ll find items like cork yoga blocks, cork rollers, yoga wheels, cork massage balls, and cotton straps from various brands.
Mukha Yoga’s own Asana Hand Towel is made of recycled polyester with AZO-free natural dyes.
Supply chain & labor practices:
While Mukha encompasses many brands, they take pride in partnering with companies whose supply chains are as green as possible.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Intending to #ReshapePackaging, Mukha has partnered with prAna’s Responsible Packaging Movement to choose alternative eco-friendly shipping materials and ditch plastic wrap.
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