Drishti – Santa Barbara Yoga Store: Yoga Clothing, Workout Clothes, & Yoga Supplies

Our owner Jenni Rawlings made a NEW video this morning – this one about vinyasa tips! Check it out if you feel like it – there might be a helpful tip or two in there that you can integrate into your own practice. Plus, you might notice a surprise appearance from Rajah the Cat… Heh heh.

Our owner Jenni Rawlings made a video about sun salutations the other day! It might be helpful for anyone interested in some clarification on the transitions of Suryanamaskar A. Check it out if you feel like it!

YogaDork has always been our favorite yoga blog.  We have regularly read their witty, informative, and insightful posts on the yoga world for years now – they’re the best!  And guess what – YogaDork recently went on a road trip from their home base of New York City to the West Coast of the U.S., and one of their stops was Santa Barbara!  They dropped in and visited Drishti (our store), and they also took a class with Drishti’s owner Jenni Rawlings at Yoga Soup.  We couldn’t believe it!

Check out their write-up about their time with us in SB!

Your healthy, energizing breakfast for the week! Mix 3 cups rolled oats, 1-2 cups nuts (we like walnuts, pistachios, pumpkin seeds), ¼ cup coconut flakes, 1 ½ tsp cinnamon, ½ tsp salt. Melt ¾ stick butter, ½ cup honey, and combine with the dry items. Spread on a baking sheet and bake at 250 for about 1hr 15 min (stir a few times). Serve over yogurt and enjoy!

P.S. It’s also nice to make a double batch and throw some extra into Mason jars to give to your friends as thoughtful and unexpected gifts.

P.P.S. The perfect morning: wake up, turn on your favorite music for practicing yoga to, spend an hour on the mat moving through your flow, and then reward yourself with a post-practice bowl of your homemade granola, topped with fresh fruit from the farmer’s market. Are we right that this would be the perfect morning?

Just in case you’re not on our email list: check out the awesome Drishti Newsletter that we just sent out the other day! We think you’ll liiiiike. (And remember that you can always add yourself to our email list via the link on our home page – look in the lower right-hand corner. Bye!)

This one is for our online shoppers: GUESS WHAT, guys! You’ve been asking, and we made it happen. We’ve created an “On SALE!” section of our website, and we threw a bunch of excellent products in there, all at about 30% off. Check it out when you have a sec!  And we hope your 2011 is lovely so far…

Can you believe it?  We walked outside the front door of our store yesterday around 5:00pm, and look what greeted us (and all of Santa Barbara!)

We haven’t posted any news or thoughts here in what seems like a very long time (have you noticed?), so we thought we’d check in today just to give a wave out there to our online peeps. We’ve been doing great over here at Drishti – business has been steady in both our physical Santa Barbara store and our online store, and our current group of awesome Drishti employees works together seamlessly and loves their jobs. Speaking of our current employees, have you seen the beautiful feather earrings that Rachel is making for the store? Check them out! They are only $29 each and they are goregous – don’t you want one?

Because these earrings are one-of-a-kind by nature, we can’t really add them to our online store. They are more suited for our Santa Barbara-based in-person customers to purchase. However, if you live afar and if you love these earrings, you could try calling our store (805-963-0222) and asking for Rachel – she would be happy to put together a special order and send it to you.

I guess that’s all that’s on our minds at the moment. If you haven’t seen our most recent newsletter (October 2010), why don’t you check it out to read about some more news and noteworthy products at our store? There just might be a nice coupon code hiding in there for you too…

We hope you’re having a wonderful, yoga-filled week, and we’ll talk to you soon!

Guess what!  We just launched an iPhone app called Yoga Quiz Cards!  Can you believe it?  We know, we know – there are an abundance of yoga apps on the market, so a new creation isn’t necessarily that exciting, but our yoga app is actually kind of cool.  It’s designed to test and expand your knowledge of yoga pose names – and that’s it.  It’s not a yoga class/practice app like all the others are.  It’s a great tool for anyone – yoga student or teacher – who might want to deepen their connection to the practice by learning the correct English and Sanskrit names of the poses.

We honestly think our app makes a great contribution to the yoga world by filling a need that’s not being met in the yoga app realm.  We’re pretty proud of our creation, and we think you’ll enjoy it too!

From today through next Friday, April 30th, if you download our app and then email us (email(at)drishtiyoga.com) to tell us a little something about it so we know you’ve truly downloaded it, we’ll email you back with a $20 gift code to our store!  Bye now!