The ROUSETTUS® Visually Impaired Yoga Mat.
Our mat contains unique tactile features that enable blind, low vision, limited-sight,
and physically challenged users to practice yoga safely and confidently..
hand station, Top of mat
Orients the user forward on the mat. The top center triangle is in line with the raised center line
helping the user keep head and spine aligned during yoga postures.
UPPER FOOT STATIONS
Foot stations permit a user’s feet to face forward and be correctly aligned with one another, as well as
maintain hip-width distance during poses or stretching while one foot is forward and one foot is back.
Raised center line
Travels almost the entire length of the mat, dividing the left side from the right to improve orientation.
Side hand-station: LEFT
Raised finger-bar for the user’s middle finger, with a raised letter L beside and Braille beneath.
There is also a raised center triangle at the edge of the mat.
Side hand-station: RIGHT
Raised finger-bar for the user’s middle finger, with a raised letter R beside and Braille beneath.
There is also a raised center triangle at the edge of the mat.
RAISED LETTERING & BRAILLE
Detail shots of some of our mat’s unique tactile features — designed specifically
to help sight-challenged users stay oriented during yoga practice.
The ROUSETTUS® Visually Impaired Yoga Mat
Our mat enables blind, limited-sight, and physically challenged
users to practice yoga safely and confidently.
BAGS, CARRYING STRAP & INSTRUCTIONAL DVDs
Rousettus supports your yoga practice with
quality accessories and yoga training products.
About The Visually Impaired Yoga Mat
VIYM® is designed to enable those who are blind, partially blind, or who may face physical challenges, to practice yoga safely and confidently.
- Clear raised markings help keep head and spine aligned during yoga postures
- Foot & hand stations for perfect placement
- Braille for blind and sight-challenged users
The mats can be used by young people and adults in physical education classes, rehabilitation facilities, community centers, homes or yoga studios.
YOGA MAT & YOGA TRAINING TESTIMONIALS
Our customers rave about the VIYM® because it provides real benefits and tremendous freedom for yoga students of all ages and ability.
Watch Our Yoga Mat Demo Video
Watch and listen to Tracy as she describes the mat’s surface features.
Video length 3:16
MORE YOGA VIDEOS
Triangle Pose
Video length 3:55
Half Locust
Video length 1:23
Knee Down Spinal Twist
Video length 2:37
Runner’s Stretch
Video length 1:27
Thread the Needle
Video length 1:35
Warrior One
Video length 2:03
Visually Impaired Yoga Mat News
- Testimonial: Gordon Gund As a blind person, VIYM with the training video from Rousettus made yoga really work for me, giving me much better orientation and stability on the mat with different positions. I recommend it to people with visual impairments.
- Testimonial: Cindy Rogers, Four Senses Yoga "I am in complete awe of Tracy & VIYM®. In working with VIYM® during the past few months, I have learned so much about the perception on 'the mat' of both sighted and vision-impaired students."
- Testimonial: Mary "I am a beginning yoga student with low vision and cataracts. The verbal instructions in the DVD series are clear and easy to follow whether you have no vision or low vision which enables me to move through the posture sequences with my eyes closed. I also really love the VIYM yoga mat. The quality is so much better than the mat I purchased at a local sporting good store and is much more comfortable."
- Rousettus at INPEX® (June 2011) The Rousettus® Visually Impaired Yoga Mat (VIYM®) will be at America's Largest Invention Show INPEX® 2011, June 14-17, in Pittsburgh, PA.
- AAHPERD National Convention - VIYM Prizes Rousettus® Visually Impaired Yoga Mat will be at the AAHPERD National Convention & Exposition at the San Diego Convention Center March 30-April 1, 2011.