Yogi Highlights

This is the eighth in our ongoing series celebrating our happy customers. This week we’re profiling Jessica Riser, a yogi and mother from Maryland. Jessica is special to us because she was the first person for whom we created a personalized mat, in memory of her son, William Michael, who passed away after only 18 days. We’ll have more to say about her tomorrow and why this yoga mat is so important to her, but knowing just a little bit about her mat is the key to understanding her profile. Jessica’s personalized yoga mat began life as Symbols of Remembrance, which...

This is the seventh in our ongoing series celebrating our happy customers. This week we’re profiling our other beautiful teenage daughter, Georgie Denny.Her sister, Hannah, is one of our highly talented yoga mat designers and manages a large chunk of our social media properties — we really are a family business! — and GG has been incredibly helpful in the business as well. For example, last weekend we were at the Ragnar Great Midwest Relay, a 200-mile race through Wisconsin, and she spent 3 days helping me pack, load, unload, set up, vend, and break down our booth numerous times in cold mud,...

This is the sixth in our ongoing series celebrating our happy customers. This week we’re highlighting Debbie Beauchene, who’s both a yogi AND a Ragnar Relay runner AND she’s the first to own one of our new Ragnar mats! (In this case, the super-fun Ragnar I Can. I Will. End of Story. mat!) She’s also a personal friend of mine from my university days, and for the past three years has held the position of Volunteer Coordinator for the Ragnar Relay Series. When she first heard about our growing Big Raven Yoga mat business, she approached us to see whether...

This is the fifth in our ongoing series celebrating our happy customers. This week we’re profiling Jules Legut. It would have been ideal to profile Jules last week because she was the first to purchase our Audrey After Dinner yoga mat (a birthday gift for her daughter) but we’re glad we got her this week!So one snowy evening last December, when we were going to be in her part of town anyway, we thought it would be a nice gesture to drop it off in person at the store where she works, D. Copperfield Jewelers. She was so excited when we unrolled...

This is the fourth in our ongoing series celebrating our happy customers. This week we’re profiling Cristina Romagnoli of Orouboros Yoga. Cristina is special to us because she was the very first person to buy one of our microfiber suede yoga mats yoga mats who wasn’t already a friend or family member or who otherwise had some connection to us. She was a complete stranger who stumbled across our site, threw caution to the wind, and bought one of our microfiber suede yoga mats yoga mats. Our first sale to a complete stranger! That was a BIG day for us, because...