Journal

This is the ninth in our ongoing series celebrating our happy customers. This week we’re profiling Maria Markman, a yogi and pastor-in-training from Minnesota and now living in southern California (not far from our daughter-designer Hannah, actually).A lot of non-yoga people assume that yogis are Buddhists or atheists, but Maria is proof positive that yoga and godliness not only aren't contradictory, but are in many ways complementary. Yoga, like prayer, is a form of meditation, a way of communing with your body, communing with those around you, communing with your surroundings, and simultaneously focusing both inward and outward.For many, yoga is...

This week’s Design Highlight also serves as an introduction to our brand-new Guest Artist collection! (Currently featuring only one design from one artist, but more collaborations are in the works! :-) Our very first guest artist is Pete Taboada of North Dallas, Texas. Our collaboration was born of serendipity, when his manager approached us at our booth at a bridal expo in St. Paul this past winter and said “You know what would look really great on a yoga mat…” Pete is an amazing artist and an amazing human being. He’s always been an artist, but he didn’t find that...

Joleen Emery talks with the amazing Maggie Dimmick of Ethel Studio about what you need to set up a home meditation yoga practice in this 35-minute video!

How Yoga Helps People Cope with Sorrow… Yoga allows you to probe your grief — to enter the pain, not run from it, and to emerge somehow more whole and free — by focusing on your immediate physical and emotional experience. We are honored that one of our Ravens, Jessica Riser, has been willing to share how her yoga practice has served her after the loss of her infant son, William Michael. As part of her healing process, Jessica asked us to personalize a Symbols of Remembrance yoga mat with William’s name. It has been an honor to help Jessica and others...

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...