Winky

Merudandasana - Upward Seated Straddle Pose

Long weekend 🌟

 

Wall Upavistha Konasana - Wall Straddle Pose

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. 

Kvetching

🔥 🙄 🔥 

WHAT do I even WANT ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

How do we discover our true heart’s desires? The genuine magic begins after we manifest all those ‘ought, should, need, musts…’

💚💛Dog Days of Summer💛💚

I speak French fries

 

Le Weekend

I did not cross the Atlantic this Summer, as I regularly do, but, nonetheless, I endeavor to channel la fille Francaise.

Anonymous

 

Shop (even for household items,) more than once a week and you may be a shopaholique. 

Course of inaction

 

Wake-up-got-nowhere-to-be-but-here is my 💛 preferred vibe. & what I am ⚡️ currently choosing. 

Bolognese with 🍰 & photos

Marjaryasana - Cat pose / Adho Mukha Svanasana - Downward Facing Dog Pose

 “I KNOW we didn’t have dinner! Because I DON’T remember sitting down together !”  

The family sit-down dinner is steadily back in fashion as baby gets increasingly older. And the children very much rely on this ritual. 

You can find us at home cooking (and eating). Alfresco. 

Schweet

Sukhasana - Easy Pose, Sirsasana II - Tripod Headstand 

Homemaking is love - giving the gift of beauty, comfort, fun, happiness, health, hope, joy, magic, safety, security, success to those in your home. And this life-styling is modeling a concrete methodology for your kith and kin to recreate inner peace and outer beauty for themselves and others anywhere, anytime. 

Home schweet home. 

Fuel gauge

My heart is still in no-business mode.

40 days away from a home, schedule and phone full of trappings — it’s not easy returning to all that I must SUPERINTEND. The separation will fuel me in ejecting more, mas, encore !!! And sooner not later. 

While away the hours

 

Returning from a 40 day hiatus, I had 3 (mostly) uninterrupted hours to reflect. 

While in LIMBO - (and perchance even alone,) on a long drive, airplane ride or other commute - we are proffered an ideal time for introspection and reflection; if we don’t kill the opportunity with distraction📱!

Housedressy

 

I ❤️💛💜 Housedress 

Not sheer, past the knees, poitrine concealed. 

Natural in fiber, of course.

The best Housedress is the one you can answer the door, grab the mail, chat with neighbor, and maybe even walk the dog in (if you live in the sticks like me). 

24/7

 

Cool summer rain shower while in the hot tub. When full-time stay-at-home parenting, it is essential to find pockets of (sensory) pleasure.

Tan Lines 🖊️

 

I 💛 Tan Lines, (Highlighters & Sharpies).

Celestial zenith

 

Sukhasana - Easy Pose

Mothering (fathering, teaching, nannying, mentoring,) children is the ultimate sacrifice, but the equally zenith reward is never wondering if your life has purpose or meaning. 

She’s so misty

Standing Squat Pose on Tip Toes

It was a bustling, clamorous day at the pool with nary a place to unwind, but I lay myself on the one-and-only empty chaise longue and somehow the extra ‘static’ helped a Message come in sunny. As the other adults sympathized and the children splashed — HUSH — I experienced an UNVEILing amidst the MIST. An aha in the hubbub. 
 

Swedish

 

Utkata Konasana - Goddess Pose with forward bend

Hands on ankles, arms follow leg shape

Lighten your hair in Summer by swimming (in salt water) often, often, often and - no rinsing - allow to sun-dry. Also, concentrated Chamomile Tea, Lemon Juice, raw Honey with Cinnamon, Olive Oil, diluted Hydrogen Peroxide 😉 (aka Sun-In) and … SUN SUN SUN.

Tried and True

 

Utkata Konasana - Goddess with side stretch

LOST ?? Well, it’s no doubt when the outside influences are more rampant than ever and now inside our homes (phones). FIND yourself by returning to PERSONAL CLASSICS - YOUR tried and trues. Similar to the influencers you are compelled towards, who present their own (one or two) areas of mastery. 

Bug out

 

Mandukasana - Frog Pose

The refuge will be there waiting until next time. 

Bittersweet

 

Eka Pada Raja Kapotasana - One-legged King Pigeon Pose

All of a sudden, out of nowhere it feels like the beginning of the the end (of Summer break). The reclusive weeks in the chic bug-out are dwindling down to mere days. 

Open

 

OPEN up your energy. 

Less zealous

Taking NOTES from the MEN (who have fewer options and less zealous marketing). 

1. Pockets! - Perhaps even forgo a purse. 😱

2. Dresses and skirts (while they so contentedly stick with pants and shorts). 

3. Fewer colors. 

4. SMALLER CLOSETS. 

5. Denim.

 

Peppy steppy

Walk about the neighborhood. 

Clothing as KOSHA - SHEATH 

More PEP in my STEP this AM thanks to the husband who scooped up and brought back with him a small assemblage of attire from my main closet at home whilst there on a work day (I am on a month-long uninterrupted ‘reclusive’ vaycay). I didn’t realize how fatigued I was of my pathetic selection of duds (it is ASPEN, after all,) until I donned a neon swimsuit, gingham dress, silky cardi, pink suede sneakers and got a NEW LEASE ON LIFE!

Unfortunately? But powerfully! Clothing acts as a sheath - energetic layer - which can be used to our advantage (or disadvantage). 

P.S. The procuring of such items was made possible by strategic, color-coded closet organization (and periodic paring down,) allowing myself to plainly explain and my husband to effortlessly locate the 10 or so sought-after items in mere minutes via FaceTime. 🛍️ 

Purchase less, create more ✌️