Journal

This weekend we’re down in Mankato, Minnesota, at the civic center arena showing our yoga/workout/exercise/pilates/fitness/recovery mats in association with Game Day Mankato. If you’re in the area, it’s a rare opportunity to check out our mats live and in person, and to watch some really impressive athletes compete! (And in addition, we’re running a 10% off show special for the mats we’ve brought to the show with us!)

To bookend our our big Earth Week celebration, it seemed only fitting that this week’s Freebie Friday quote be about Earth’s overshadowed twin sister. The song Fly Me to the Moon — originally titled “In Other Words" — was written by Bart Howard in 1954. Notable versions of this much-recorded song include ones by Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Connie Francis and Westlife. However, the most famous version is Frank Sinatra’s 1964 recording that was played on the Apollo 10 mission while it orbited the Moon. (It’s also the first music heard on the Moon when it was played on a portable...

This is the third in our ongoing series celebrating our happy customers. In our continuing celebration of Earth Day, we’re profiling Debbie Pulone, the first to receive this week’s Design Highlight, Water, Wind, Fire & Earth (10% off this week only using the promo code WWFE10!) Debbie received her mat this past Christmas as a surprise from her amazing photographer husband, Joey. She’s a highly dedicated teacher, but when she’s not teaching she’s practicing yoga, and when she’s not practicing yoga, she’s running and raising money to cure blood cancers like leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma. It’s fitting that a yogi with...

In our continuing celebration of Earth Day, we’ve decided to run a contest! Want to win amazing prizes?! Simply follow the steps below to enter: Take a photo of yourself outdoors in your favorite yoga pose on your Big Raven yoga mat Post it on Instagram and/or Facebook (Post on both for TWO entries!) Tag us in the photo AND in the caption with @bigravenyoga (We know you might not want to get your beautiful and pristinely clean yoga mat dirty in the great outdoors — even though it’s 100% machine-washable! — so we’ll also accept nature-y indoor settings as...

In our continuing celebration of Earth Day, this week’s Design Highlight (née “Mat of the Week”) is Water, Wind, Fire & Earth by one of our most prolific and talented designers, Karla. The stunning design of our “Water, Wind, Fire & Earth” yoga mat represents the four classical elements of ancient Greece swirling together, revealing creation in all its organic beauty. This vivid design has proven to be one of our all-time favorites with its rich and vibrant blend of greens and purples, oranges and browns. (The image on your screen really doesn’t begin to do this yoga mat justice —...