I found that my hands were slipping a lot on the mat when practicing yoga in my living room, so I dropped about $50 on this towel. Pretty disappointed :( I have standard carpet, not the real fluffy stuff, but my hands still slide forward a lot in down-dog, so unfortunately I can't get very deep into the pose at all. I think I was better off before; maybe this would work on a very hard floor, but not on carpet as the description states.