Journal

I was cruising Pinterest recently and happened to notice there is not a lot of variety in what bridal couples can choose from when selecting gifts for their wedding party. Monogrammed robe? Um… that one has been done time and time and time again. While sweet, it’s probably safe to say it’s run its course. Matching necklace and earrings? A nice gesture — but jewelry to match one another isn’t the same as jewelry selected to say I care about you, right? A quick “personalized something” with free shipping from Amazon Prime? Oh boy. That solution screams, “I forgot and time...

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 week’s Design Highlight is my very own The Earth Laughs in Flowers yoga mat, whose title was taken from the poem Hamatreya by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The poem itself is…well, it’s a bit dark, being as it is about his Concord, New Hampshire neighbors who boast about their ownership of their beautiful farmland: …Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave… Like I said: dark. Nevertheless, I thought it was a beautiful title for this riotous...

Our brand-new Ragnar Relay Series microfiber suede yoga/recovery mats are hot off the press (literally!) and can watch me unroll them live! (There’s a little glitch with our video setup, so you may want to skip ahead a bit :-)

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...