Spring Grove

Pretty. Neat. Small Town. nicely sums up our adopted home of Spring Grove, Minnesota, a booming micropolisof 1330 people.

In the fall of 2020, amidst a global pandemic, we optimistically moved our global headquarters (such as they are!) from Minneapolis to a sprawling farm in the far southeastern corner of Minnesota almost as far southeast as you can live and still be in the state down where Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin meet. We named our newplace Big Raven Farm (naturally), installed our printing equipment down in the workshop below the barn, and turned the barn aboveinto a yoga studio, with the aim of hosting weekend yoga retreats that showcase our world-class yoga mats. Were within easy reach of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Rochester, Eau Claire, La Crosse, Decorah, Dubuque, Madison, Moline, and many other Midwestern cities in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois.

Spring Grove itself is nestled in the heart of the rugged Driftless Region, equidistanttoLanesboro, Minnesota and Decorah, Iowa. Its a small town with deep Norwegian roots (its big annual celebration is Syttende Mai!), and this yoga mat is based on the banners that line our towns main street. The banners in turn are abstracts based on Norwegian rosemling, a decorative folk art in which flowers are painted on wood a style youve almost certainly seen before even if you didnt know what it was called!