Thank you for your interest in SmartMat. As a trusted studio in your community, we want to offer you the chance to be part of the next innovative edge in Yoga by becoming one of a first "Certified SmartAssist Fitness” Partners in our pilot program and join our thriving community.
With your SmartMat studio pack, you will receive
21 SmartMats in assorted colors (twenty in Classic colors of ice, forrest, and river, and one in Premium colors of dusk or heart) at a steeply discounted wholesale price of $240/SmartMat.
Certified SmartAssist Fitness” certification & class instruction to incorporate SmartMat classes unique to any other studio in your city
Preferred partner referral for your studio from over 20,000 participants in the SmartMat family
An official SmartMat retailer certificate to post in your studio and let students know they can purchase SmartMat directly from you at a retail price of $447.
The "Private Practice" series and "Alignment and Integration" series on best practices and strategies for developing a tech friendly studio with SmartMat.
A premium listing in the exclusive SmartStudio directory
Access to our "Certified SmartAssist Fitness” community online to receive guidance and help shape the next revolution of Yoga classes
Why SmartMat?
It was only a matter of time before the internet of things was applied to Yoga. With SmartMat, the inevitable is here, and more importantly we're doing it in a way that respects the ancient practice of Yoga. It is our core mission at SmartMat to strike a healthy and respectful balance between honoring this rich and complex tradition while simultaneously embracing the innovative edge to find ways to use modern technology to enhance and revolutionize the Yoga experience.
What Your Students Want
In less than 24 hours, the SmartMat crowdfunding campaign easily surpassed its goal of $110,000 and is still going strong. Yoga enthusiasts the world over jumped on board to be some of the first users and supporters of this revolutionary one-of-a-kind Yoga product. The demand and desire for SmartMat is clearly here, and it is only going to get bigger.
In the last six months of 2013 alone, there was a 62% increase in the usage of health and fitness apps, and consumer interest in purchasing dedicated wearable and usabale fitness technology and equipment has quadrupled in the last year.
Watch what happens when we go to a Yoga studio and ask 5 people about Smartmat
The Faces of SmartMat
The Future of Yoga Technology
We understand that first Yoga is your practice, but we also know it is your business. As Yogis and entrepreneurs ourselves, we want to invite you to get on board with this technology trend at the beginning of its boom and create a sustainable way to promote the long-term success of your studio and your students’ practices.
Benefits to Your Studio
Increased income for your business. Some studios supplement their income by as much as 25% with retail purchases, like SmartMat. Each mat is individually wrapped and arrives unbranded, allowing you to resell them to your own customers at $447 a piece.
Positioning your studio as a leader in the Yoga community both locally and beyond. As one of the limited retailers of SmartMat, your studio will become known as a leader in innovation, a place where student can go to learn how to evolve their practice and be provided with the resources and support needed to take their practice to the next level with SmartMat.
Become part of a larger Smartmat community. As a SmartStudio, not only will you receive a premium listing in our SmartStudio online directory, but you will also be invited to participate in the behind-the-scenes development and research department at SmartMat providing us with feedback on all our latest offerings and providing valuable insight into how to keep improving our product to best serve the community. In many cases, you’ll get early release on new versions of SmartMat software at no additional cost and be included in on special deals only available to SmartStudios.
Become partners in innovation. SmartStudios will be among the first studios we reach out to for our “Yogrammers” program. After the initial release, SmartMat will invite a number of recognized teachers and studios to develop individual SmartMat sequences in their own art and style to be sold in the SmartMat Marketplace. Not only will these select “Yogrammers” lay out the SmartClass sequencing, but they will also record the class visual, audio and corrections so it is like they are right there in the room with the students. This is an exceptional opportunity to get your studio “on the map” and in the minds of Yoga practitioners worldwide.
Benefits to Your students
SmartMat is designed to be user-friendly and intuitive to use, even for the techno-phobe, and can be an excellent tool for any practitioner, whether advance or beginner, to take their practice to the next level. Here area few of the benefits your students will receive:
Better Alignment. With SmartMat, one has a whole new level of alignment metrics to work with that can greatly enhance your practice and performance. Namely, you are given very specific feedback with great precision on things like your weight distribution and micro-points of balance that help you refine your positioning and energetic holding in poses. With SmartMat’s help, you can more accurately establish equilibrium and achieve your “Perfect Pose.” (a term relative to your specific body and its needs).
An ever-increasing library of SmartClasses from the SmartMat Marketplace. From a beginners Morning Wake Up Flow or a gentle Yin Hip Openers class, to more advanced practices such as the Ashtanga Series, or Backbends and Spinal Twists, SmartMat has classes for all levels and needs of practice including some non-Yoga programs such as Tibetan Bowl Meditation and a few other surprises.
• Measured Accountability. In addition to helping you make your practice more precise, SmartMat also measures your time on the mat, and your overall improvement in the poses. As creatures of habit, the longer we practice, the easier it is for us to fall into routine and “check out.” With the personalized tracking of SmartMat, students avoid this common pitfall and stay true to a practice of presence, discipline, and commitment.
Fantastic Supplement to Studio Teaching. Let’s face it. Your students can’t always make it to class at the studio, and their practice usually suffers. With SmartMat, your students will be able to keep up their practice at home (or while traveling) while still getting the personalized guidance they’re used to receiving from you. Granted, no mat could ever replace the careful guidance of a qualified real, live teacher. Nonetheless, SmartMat will be an exceptional resource for students on those days when the studio is not an option, and they still want to keep their practice active.
As we mentioned, with our first release, we are limiting SmartMat retailers to only 12 studios wanting to be part of the SmartMat family from the beginning. The studios that decide to take advantage of this offer while it lasts will receive their SmartMats at less than half the retail price they can then sell them for. The time to act is now.
Your Satisfaction is Our Guarantee
Estimated delivery for your SmartMat studio pack is August 2015. In the unlikely event you receive a defective or damaged SmartMat please notify us within 72 hours of receipt. If it was damaged in transit or is defective, you may return your item(s) within 30 days from the date of purchase for a refund of the purchase price minus shipping charges. We cannot accept returns for items that have been damaged in any way, unless the damage is due to a defect in the product or as a result of damage during shipping by us. Shipping charges will not be refunded.
Thank You!
We whole-heartedly believe that there is a place for SmartMat in the continued evolution of Yoga, and its potential to bring so many more, perhaps reluctant souls, to the practice deeply inspires us. We’d love for you to be part of our ongoing journey to bring innovation to Yogis worldwide.
As we move forward, we will continue to treat the work we do for SmartMat as an extension of our own practice and aim to give back to a community and a tradition that has given so much to each of us over the years. Won’t you join us?
WE realize that this may be a big decision you are excited about so if you wish to discuss the possibilities with us further, please get in touch with me via email neyma@smartmat.com
In service,
Neyma Jahan, CEO of SmartMat