Staying Active & Healthy During Canadian Winter - Love My Mat

Staying Active & Healthy During Canadian Winter

We've shared 8 of our favourite tips for staying active & healthy during the cold winter months. Plus a 12 minute yoga routine centred around a warming breath you can practice outside in any weather. Whether you practice yoga, take cold showers or add vitamin D to your daily routine - one or all of these suggestions can help cure the winter blues.
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Earthology X Love My Mat

As part or our Sisterhood and Sustainability Features, Earthology Wraps are available to shop on our site. Beeswax wraps are an eco-friendly alternative to plastic wraps and bags in the kitchen.
Supporting Sisterhood & Sustainability - Love My Mat

Supporting Sisterhood & Sustainability

What is a Sustainable Business?According to wikipedia.org a sustainable business, or a green business, is an enterprise that has minimal negative impact, or potentially a positive effect, on the global or local environment,...
January 26, 2020 — Shelley Gordon
Creating a Bohemian Inspired Home - Love My Mat

Creating a Bohemian Inspired Home

We love bohemian decor and a boho lifestyle. A bohemian inspired space is globally inspired and embraces the carefree, the relaxed, and the unusual.  Mixing fabrics, colours & textures with natural & vintage elements is totally our jam. So we've gathered some tips on how to incorporate touches of boho into your home.
Floor Sitting: Give Your Body What It Needs - Love My Mat

Floor Sitting: Give Your Body What It Needs

Westerners spend most of our days sitting in chairs that aren't designed to support our bodies well. Get low and get grounded with cushions to support you sitting in a way that promotes health & wellness.
December 02, 2019 — Shelley Gordon
Yoga & Meditation Gift Guide

Love My Mat Holiday Gift Guide

Share your passion for all things yoga, meditation & sustainable living with your loved ones this season. Check out our Holiday Gift Guide for how to share our props and products with the non-yogis in your life.
Making Mindful Eating Accessible For Busy Lives - Love My Mat

Making Mindful Eating Accessible For Busy Lives

As a busy, working mom I'm using the rules & guidelines of Mindful Eating to create my own healthy habits around why, what, when, where & why we eat food.
October 28, 2019 — Shelley Gordon
October's Challenge Inspired by Greta Thunberg - Love My Mat

October's Challenge Inspired by Greta Thunberg

October's Challenge is all about appreciating & taking care of our precious earth. We'll be reducing our waste, enjoying the outdoors, cleaning up our community and planting more trees in partnership with One Tree Planted. Watch some of Greta Thunberg's videos to get further inspired to make positive changes to improve our environment.
Yoga Bolsters & Blankets for your Home Yoga Practice

The Harvest Home Collection is Coming

Shop our first ever collection of carefully curated pieces to enhance your home, your meditation space & your yoga practice. The Harvest Home Collection is reminiscent of the space between day & night. Where the sun still reflects a golden hue as the sky begins to turn black. This gold and black collection for fall reflects the crisp weather, the changing leaves and the shift into equal amounts of sunlight & darkness as we move into fall, the best season of all.

 

Home Meditation Space

Checking In With Yourself Before Everyone Else

Simple rules for self-care and social media consumption. Read Love My Mat owner, Shelley Gordon's experience on how one new habit can improve your daily life. 
How to Live in Virgo Season - Lunar & Astrological Influences - Love My Mat

How to Live in Virgo Season - Lunar & Astrological Influences

Fall and Back to School vibes are in the air! The Sun will journey through the zodiac sign of Virgo between August 23rd and September 22nd, 2019 and is a splendid time to revisit your post summer routines and habits. Grounded Virgo thrives on order, being organized and planning out the future making now an ideal time to goal set and line up the ways you will take care of yourself in the weeks and months ahead. Read the full post to find out how you can make the most of this year's Virgo Season!

Open Your Heart to August's Posture Challenge - Love My Mat

Open Your Heart to August's Posture Challenge

Join August's Posture Challenge with simple & effective exercises and poses you can do from home or anywhere. The rough plan is listed here and will be updated with new info at least once a week for the month of August.