Journal

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 —...

Just a little something to continue our celebration of Earth Day this week…

For this week’s Freebie Friday, we’re celebrating Monday’s annual Earth Day event with a quote from environmentalist Rachel Carson (most famous for her 1962 book Silent Spring and her fight against the use of the pesticide DDT). Earth Day is a global celebration that occurs every April 22 with a peaceful push for environmental reforms. With over 1 billion people in 193 countries rallying together, it’s the largest civic-focused day in the world. It’s a day of political action and civic participation. People sign petitions, participate in tree planting and cleanup activities, meet officials to urge corporations and the government to...