Yoga with my Gnomies Eco-Friendly, Washable, Personalized Custom Yoga Mat!

Sale Price: $137.00

The gnome is the unofficial mythical mascot of our adopted home of Spring Grove, Minnesota, site of Big Raven Yoga’s global headquarters (such as they are). Spring Grove has deep roots in Norwegian culture, and its biggest annual celebration is Syttende Mai (“Seventeenth May”, Norway’s Constitution Day — roughly equivalent to our own Fourth of July without all the jingoistic chest-thumping).

The inspiration for our mat stems from Spring Grove’s annual Running With My Gnomies 5K. Since Syttende Mai is such an important weekend in Spring Grove, we decided it would also become the official opening date for Big Raven Farm. We sprang into action and worked day and night (literally!) to make our new yoga studio presentable by cleaning, refinishing floors, cleaning, painting walls, cleaning, painting trim and — you guessed it! — cleaning. We conducted a free pre-race yoga stretch session at the park downtown, and then came home, threw open the doors to the studio, and ran free yoga classes and workshop tours all weekend long.

By all accounts, it was a resounding success and the rest, as they say, is history…

About Our Yoga Mats

Our beautiful and artistic yoga mats bond a velvety microfiber surface to an eco-friendly natural rubber base. This luxurious microfiber surface actually gets grippier as it gets wetter, making it perfect for all kinds of yoga, but especially for hot yoga!

Our mats are printed in our Minnesota studio using nontoxic water-based dyes.

We don’t plaster our logo on your yoga mat. Instead, we hide our name somewhere in every design. You can read more about why we do this here.

Specs

24" wide × 72" long (183cm × 61cm)
5 mm thick — thicker than most mats to provide extra support for knees, wrists, and hips!
Sturdy, portable, and easily packable at 6 pounds, 14 ounces.
Lays flat — the ends won’t curl after it’s been rolled!
Sustainably printed using nontoxic, water-based dyes.
The wetter it gets the grippier it gets.
Colorfast.
Luxuriously soft and thick for restorative practices.
Gorgeous, vibrant artwork that’s just as beautiful as anything you’d hang on your wall!
Unique — no one will have a mat as cool as yours!

Learn More

Great yoga mats start with great materials, and Big Raven Yoga mats are the highest quality yoga mats in the world. We’ve arrived at what we believe to be the ideal yoga mat.

It’s a well-balanced synthesis of size, weight and cushion made from premium, eco-friendly materials. Our brushed microfiber vegan suede top is a proprietary recycled polyester to help lessen our impact on the environment. By using recycled (and recyclable) materials, we’re reducing our use of energy, water, and greenhouse gases.

In addition, our base is made from biodegradable, recyclable, 100% natural tree rubber which provides both excellent cushion and great traction for wet floors. Our yoga mats are the perfect blend of art and engineering and function as both your yoga towel and your yoga mat.

We only make one yoga mat. Many designs, but only one mat, because it’s the best mat we know how to make.

Our yoga mats are nearly indestructible. No matter what you do to them they’ll continue to look and perform like new for years to come. (We know this from experience. We WANT to treat our yoga mats the way they deserve to be treated, but we never actually do.)

Our microfiber vegan suede surface provides more grip the wetter it gets, making it the perfect companion for sweatier practices and/or more intensive exercise regimes — you’ll never need a towel over your yoga mat again! It’s thick enough to keep your knees happy but light enough to take with you on the go.

For maximum grip, lightly spray with water before beginning your practice. The more you sweat, the more you’ll grip, and the more stable and balanced you’ll feel. Prefer a dry practice? Simply mist the surface of your mat with a spray bottle to activate the grip.

All of our unique artwork is created in-house by women with a feminist point of view or by guest artists. We don’t purchase designs from stock photo warehouses. You can be sure that every design is unique to us. And you can be sure you’ll have an eye-catching mat like no other!

Want to learn more? Check out our Our Mat, Our Story, and FAQ pages!