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Bala Parsva Bhuja Dandasana - Baby Grasshopper Pose

Ania at Eco Fitness

Open the windows wide and allow the crickets to lull you to sleep 🦗 

 

Life Preserver 🛟

 

🛟 How to survive Pool Party Season in four (with Sanskrit) easy steps!!

1. Ekam. Inhale for a count of four.

2. Dve. Hold for a count of four. 

3. Treeni. Exhale for a count of four. 

4. Catvari. Hold for a count of four. 

Pete and Repeat sat in a boat, Pete fell off, who was left? Yes - REPEAT this breathing technique.

Also known as square or BOX breathing. & Good enough for the navy SEALS. 

1. “Eh-kam” 2. “Dvay” 3. “Tree-nee” 4. “Cha-tvaa-ree”

And again :)

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Summer is Yang

 

Ardha Uttanasana - Half Forward Fold hands on floor

(Always one to bend the knees and take the gentler approach) - It’s time to YANG the yoga!! : Ardha Uttanasana with hands on floor rather than shins or thighs. STRAIGHT as-I-can-get legs during the entire sequence…

Thank you, me

 Adho Mulkha Svanasana - Downward Facing Dog Pose

The fundamentals are there (for you, thanks to you). 💕

Yoga skills are applicable abound !! Enjoy relative ease when perusing novel activities or when finding yourself in foreign situations. You - yogi! - bring expertise in focus, breath, flexibility and strength as well as the universal advantage of an open heart and free spirit. 💖🥰💫

Summer Routine ; it’s not an oxymoron

Pincha Mayurasana- Feathered Peacock Pose 🪶 

Forearm Balance 

It’s not yet summer!! - as we are reminded habitually here in Colorado with erratic temps and afternoon storms. ⛈️ But, it is after Labor Day and, for many of us, Summer Break. GRANT yourself at least week or two of consideration before anchoring your (and your family’s) Daily Summer Routine. 🎏

ComparisonAsana

 

Padmasana - Lotus variation

Unlimited options abound 💜

What’s the most fatiguing pose in yoga? Comparison-asana! Be sure to wear yourself out when spying on fellow yogis around the studio; as in life, nothing shall run thee more ragged than measuring oneself against anyone other than oneself. 

Tabula Rasa

 

Strip down to the bare minimum.

Discard! Desert! Abandon! Forsake yesterday’s self!!

Half full

Tadasana - Mountain Pose

How much of yoga class is spent in this pose? How often in life are we standing still in the commonplace? More or less half of our time/life energy? So, how serene and stoic of a mountain can we be?  ⛰️  

6th grade WALDORF Medieval Games

Sopris Mountain 🏔️ Roaring Fork Valley

Dream

Eka Pada Rajakapotasana- One Footed King Pigeon Pose

 

Mission? Purpose? Make lists freely. Write your dreams. Write your goals. Write write write until something pops out.

 

Luvin

 

Urdhva Dhanurasana -  Wheel Pose (her) 

Ardha Purvottanasana - Reverse Table Top (him)

Couples are yoga 🤎

Summer is next, my sweet friends!!

Easy

 

Parivrtta Sukhasana - Easy Twist, Seated Twist, Simple Cross-legged Twist

Couples are yoga 💕

Yes, the answer is kindness. 

After you

Phalakasana, Kumbhakasana, Utthita Chaturanga Dandasana - High Plank Pose

Couples are yoga 💙

Kumbhakasana - breath retention. Hold your breath BRIEFLY before lowering into push-up position, Chaturanga Dandasana. Outside the studio, pause only temporarily before committing to a decision. And TAKE TURNS with your other half, arbitrating according to your particular strengths. This is what partnership is for. 
 

Mast

 

Dandasana- Staff Pose (him) / Sirsasana - Handstand (Her)

Couples are yoga 🧡

Note to self - learning a handstand means actually practicing a handstand. The grass is greener and softer in Summer - enlist your partner and get to practicing al fresco. 

Fantastic

 

Balasana - Child’s Pose (him) / Supta Utthita Tadasana - Reclined Mountain (her)

Couples are yoga.

Small hints are big messages. Catch wind of a minor suggestion (from your beloved) and take it seriously; act expeditiously and then revel in real life as it becomes better than fantasy. 🏔️ 

Primary

 

Couples are yoga. 

Marriage - spirits dance, souls melt. 

Lâcher Prise

Supta Matsyendrasana - Supine Spinal Twist

Why not release it for once and for all ??

Substitute Teacher

Curtsy Lunge 👑 

By structuring our days as routine and regular as viable, variations become happy surprises and enhancements. Like the substitute yogi teacher who shares her barre skills. 

👖 pairing down

Salamba Sarvangasana - Supported Shoulder Stand

So, if a city girl in a temperate climate should own 3-4 pairs of jeans that means a country girl in a four-seasons-in-one-day location can own 12? 😜 

Asana

Asana - Sitting Down

‘Asana’ - ‘Posture’? ‘Pose’? Yes, BUTT…

ASANA - from Sanskrit ‘Sitting down’. SEAT.  

Equilibrium. Stability. Equipoise of rest and effort. 

Happy Mother’s Day

 

🌪️💛🧡❤️🌊MOMS🌊❤️🧡💛🪐

🌺🌸🌼🍀Eight🍀🌼🌸🌺

 

Astavakrasana - Eight Angle Pose

As its shape conveys, the karmic balance of 8 is ‘so above, so below’, and ‘you reap what you sow’. 

8’s express themselves in ambition, endurance, focus, hard-work, intelligence, loyalty, organization and stability. 8’s manifest abundance, karmic balance, eternal life, influence, power, prosperity and wealth. Caution ⚠️ 8’s are susceptible towards materialism, entitlement and over-control. 

Know your #

Yours Truly - 11.21.1983 

1+1+2+1+1+9+8+3=26 

2+6=8

Do you nap??

Do I nap??

I laughed with my husband - “I can’t sit down without falling asleep!” It’s sincerely a very powerful thing The Catnap. I am able to stay extremely productive any time of day (or night?) and not tire by counterbalancing with these short, albeit deeply restful, nod offs (often taken in the sun, but anywhere is fair game). 👼 

Svadhyaya

 

Parivrrta Utkatasana - Revolved Chair Pose 

Non-judgment. A concept I thought myself incapable of, and not one I would touch with even a ten-foot pole. But (with age) we surprise ourselves, and in vinyasa this morning ‘NON-JUDGMENT’ practically mantra’d itself.

Then when weightily discussing cynical natures with a yogi friend, (who’s known me since birth), she kindly and earnestly propounded “You? You’re just fake judgmental!” 🤯🧐 Always, always room for more and more Svadhyaya - SELF STUDY. 

Stop Fidgeting

Muktasana - Liberation Pose

Burmese style Seated Meditation 

Dhyana Mudra

To fidget is to be nervous, restless, impatient, EAGER. Unless these are qualities you wish to embody - finish with the fidgeting. 

“Be STILL and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10

🎱 oracle

 

Ashtangasana - Ashtanga Namaskara - Eight Point Pose - Eight Limb Pose

Clarity is CLEAR!!! Wait for it. Until the insight is unmistakable INACTION is the best policy. 

Mayday

Mayday paper cone bouquet.

Forswearing my cynical, uncooperative grousing for one (May) day and instead articulating nothing but light, hope and faith. Then one more day of solely optimistic speech … and then …🌈☀️

PS: Silence is also Golden and a noble option 🕊️