Chrysalis

Buddha Konasana - Butterfly pose arms under legs; legs up and forward bend.

Please protect your vulnerable lower back.

Patience. Metamorphosis takes TIME. 

Sleek

Part Uttitha Parsvakonasana- Extended Side Angle Pose, Part Skandasana - Side Lunge

Touch the Earth, Cradle your head, Flow freely

How to become aerodynamic (for a SMOOTH efficient life)? Reduce drag and streamline your shape. As in - goodbye more and more things and hello more and more yoga; litheness and health :) 

The weather is quite bleak this week in Colorado, so I’m brainstorming Autumn’s sleek trim-down clean-up schematic. To excavate a layer deeper into the household’s gazillion items, I will ask “would I bring this in a move?” Not moving, but act as if. Aerodynamic. 

Uh oh

Seed Pose

That lay-low because you are about to GROW pose. 

Study in the studio

 

Vikasita Kamalasana - Flowering Lotus Pose 

When your world feels uncertain, when it’s all seemingly so nonsensical —  get thee to a YOGA class. 

Bhumisparsha Mudra

Bhumisparsha Mudra - Calling the earth to witness.

Left hand in lap, palm open. Right hand reaching over right knee to touch all five fingers to the earth.

Victory over temptation. Overcoming obstacles. Steady, calm mind. Grounding. Focus. 

If we let the world decide (e-mail, neighbors, colleagues), what is important, then we are slaves to the frivolous. When we take back authority, we complete our meaningful, valuable work and achieve greatness. 

Re-move

 

Chaturanga Dandasana - Low Plank Pose

When in transition, simplify and strengthen.

That feeling of not knowing what is coming around the corner. The future could be Status Quo or, alternatively, an upheaval of all that you ‘know’. Prepare by lightening and strengthening. Each day, REMOVE excess from your environment and MOVE to train your physical body. 

🪲👑🪲

 

Beetle - symbolic of the sun rising each day. 

Creation, rebirth, renewal.

& current beastie bestie for the blondies in the family.

(Japanese?) Beetles you keep flying into our golden tresses — and I take it as a compliment. You like roses, grapes, hops, hydrangeas and 👸 our hair. 💛

Aspen Summer Soundtrack

 

Vrksasana - Tree Pose, with Gomukhasana - Cow Face Pose, arms 

Let your End of Summer Soundtrack be the rustling of the leaves. 

Benefits all

 

Visvamitrasana - Sage Visvamitra’s Pose

Visva (all) Mitra (Friend)  - Benefits all.

Visvamitra embodies steadiness and spiritual focus, qualities I aspire to with the children back in school. Is powerful, nimble, light and capable around the corner?🤞 A stark contrast from the colorful, confusing, (a bit chubbier), mishmash mess (me) approaching the impending classroom comeback. Funny how we achieve it every year - la rentrée scolaire : back-to-school  - but it doesn’t seem to get any more facile. 

There is also the matter of this maman’s rentrée to the yoga studio after a few months intermission … but that is forthcoming and thus a prospective post. 

Twisted bow

 

Dhanurasana - Twisted Bow Pose

The real twisted bow is described below 🎀 

The children are not at school. And somehow I have to get them ready for the school year. But surely they must be out of the house for this to be possible. But they are all home. And there are so many of them 🐵🐵🐵🐵… 

It is absolute chaos-insanity-frenzy pressure-cooker-crazy and then POOF they are off.

Symbiosis

 

Relationships with our children can be mutualistically symbiotic (both parties benefiting from the interaction), in which case they are heavenly. Of course, much of the time we must accept as parents that the symbiosis will feel parasitical (children rule, we drool), or commensal (they thrive, we status quo), at best.

🌹Mutualistically Symbiotic, of course 😘 

Preparatory School

 

Dreamasana ☁️ 

Life is not a means to an end, luckily, the contrary seems to be true.