Yoga nidra

 

Waterfall with bolster

I practice yoga. Just kidding I take naps. 

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”

 

Halasana - Plow Pose

“But thy eternal summer shall not fade.” - William Shakespeare 

In the wake

 

Viparita Trikonasana- Reverse Triangle Pose

What comes after the precipice? The Hinge point from expansion to contraction. Anticipation to aftermath. 

Velocity

Dhanurasana - Bow Pose

It is an effortful task to reverse the momentum from intake to outtake when a decision has been made to disencumber yourself (of both your beliefs and your belongings). But once that tide has been turned - you are unstoppable. 🌊 🏹

Math

 

Eka Pada Raja Kapotasana II - One Legged King Pigeon Pose II

In the equation of life, adding is so much more entertaining (and prevailing) than subtracting. But to live free and true we must ask “what more can I DEDUCT? Discount? Live without?”

Mirror rorriM

Bhujangasana - Cobra Pose arms wide 🐍 

When we lessen our own material requirements, (persistently removing those pesky impulses and cravings one-at-a-time,) the incessant worldly demands of our children (and other household members) no longer vex us, as the mirror aspect is removed. 🪞 

XS enough to schlep XXL loads.

Make do 🍋🐑🥥

Weekends are for using it up or chucking it out! Clean out the fridge + actually clean the fridge = resourceful foods for the famille and a fit kitchen for the week ahead. 🛒

Lemon Mousse from lemon curd left-overs and on-hand whipping cream.

Remaining cup of sheep’s yogurt into Brownies 🐑

Coconut milk revives last week’s rice 🙀

💋It’s always the sweets that seem to get photographed. 🤷‍♀️

Dancing Shiva

 

Parivrtta Hasta Padangusthasana - Revolved Hand to Big Toe Pose

Except that I use my whole hand on the outside of my foot to crank at my bent leg 👽

Guru : Gu - darkness, Ru - dispeller 

Not mastering the pose is your spiritual teacher. 

Matriarchy

Parighasana - Gate Pose 

Open all sides.

 Using passion, pleasure and emotion to find our rhapsody. ❤️‍🔥

Stardust

Ustrasana - Camel Pose

Reinvent yourself again and again and again (on the mat and then off)…

 

with Pleasure - avec Plaisir

 Camatkarasana - Wild Thing

What do you DESIRE (to wear, eat, do, see, be) TODAY?

What’s in a nama?

 

Gomukhasana - Cow Face Pose

🐮 

Calm an elephant, prevent a flood

 

Abhaya Mudra 

Fearlessness. Reassurance. 

Tartlette

 

Have yourself a French-inspired little weekend.

Sweatpants

 

Eka Pada Adho Mukha Svanasana - Three Legged Downward Facing Dog Pose 

Move your body. Move your body. Move your body. 

Impeccable

Hanumanasana - Monkey pose, forward bend

Get crystal clear and impeccably detailed on your life’s vision. Now. Today. You can change it later. 🐒
 

Seek

Hanumanasana - Splits Pose

Not knowing what you’re looking for until you find it. 🙈 👀 

Keep It Daily 🌻

 

Ashwa Sanchalanasana - Crescent Low Lunge Pose variation knee on floor

Feeling somewhat desolate or in despair? Broken or tender hearted? Keep it daily, keep it simple, keep it sweet 💔.

Jobs

Ardha Hanumanasana - Half Splits Pose

Landing ‘the job’ is exciting, thrilling and fun. Doing the job on the other hand …. is a job. 

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 make it happen 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.