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This is the FIRST in our (upcoming) Guest Artist series. This week we’re profiling Pete Taboada! After finding that his previous work as a graphic designer wasn't satisfying his creative soul, Pete Taboada became Pete Taboada: Visionary Spiritual Artist. He now uses art and creativity to inspire, transform, and elevate both awareness and emotion. We couldn't have asked for a better artist to work with on our first collaboration! His design, Wings of Rebirth, was our Design Highlight this week, but we wanted to learn more about the artist himself.  Check out our Q&A session below!   QWhat should we call...

In honor of Father’s Day this coming Sunday, our Design Highlight(s) of the week are three of our more masculine designs (or at least more gender-neutral designs). One is an oldie-but-a-goodie that we’ve included in our June 2019 collection (Behold the Summit), one is a design from our Compassion Collection that we’ve actually highlighted before (Terry in His Heartland), and the last is absolutely brand-new and just days old (Inhale the Future). Behold the Summit is one of our earliest designs from our original collection of yoga mats that we released more than a year ago. (Hard to believe it’s...

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!