No namasana

 

Standing Fire Hydrant Poses - it will feel like all of a sudden (but it’s in fact 1.5 years of regularity with your habit!) that you feel one level stronger.

Standing fire hydrant pose? Poses with no names welcome.  

Acknowledge and celebrate consistency and progress with more consistency and more progress. 

Or sell yourself short

 

Dandayama Janu Sirsasana - Standing Head to Knee Pose

Dandayama Janu Sirsasana is most common in HOT yoga practiced at 105 degrees Fahrenheit with 40% humidity. 

Progressing from where you currently are (yoga, life…) may require that you OVEREXTEND yourself. 

Show up

 

Viparita Virabhadrasa - Reverse Warrior Pose

Viparita Virabhadrasana - Reverse Warrior Pose

You reeeeeeally have to reeeeeeeach the back hand down the leg — and it is nooooot easy.

Groupie

 

Parivrtta Ashtachandrasana - Revolved High Lunge Pose

Parivrtta Ashtachandrasana - Revolved High Lunge Pose

Thank you, organized schedules of endless options for classes. 

When it comes to working out, I am a group gal. 🏋️‍♀️ 

Unshowy

Parivrtta Anjaneyasana - Revolved Crescent Lunge Pose

Parivrtta Anjaneyasana - Revolved Crescent Lunge Pose

 Clean, meticulous, unshowy.

Victory pack

 

Vrksasana -  Tree Pose while auditioning clothes (yes, sparkle pink is coming with!). 🌸

Vrksasana - Tree Pose

TRY ON ALL clothing and accessories, if possible, when packing for a trip - dressing well is a feeling, literally. 

Dress like he’s your Ex

 

Parsva Anjaneyasana - Low Lunge Pose Side Bend

Balancing act

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Shiva Squat Pose

Anjali Mudra - Prayer Hands

Strengthen to balance. 

Not crabby

Eka Pada Ardha Purvottanasana - One Legged Reverse Table Top Pose

Eka Pada Ardha Catuspadapitham - One legged crab pose 

🦀 

Just hanging out, letting your light shine. 

Certainly we do not neeeeeed skin tight, synthetic leggings (or polyvinyl thermoplastic mats, tritan water bottles, laminate floors, foam blocks…) to train. 

Shrewd

 

Supta Padangusthasana - Reclined Big Toe Pose

Preserving energy is not underperforming, it is clever planning. 

Sweatpants

 

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

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

Dirndl

 

Dirndl 

Liebe - Love

How do we, as women, find our personal UNIFORM in the current CHAOS of literally unlimited options?

You are yours 💘

 

What’s the next ITERATION of YOU?? Decide as though no one else gives a !&*% — because they don’t!! 💜💕💔

🌲 Tada !! 🌳

 

Paschimottanasana Namaskarasana- Reverse Prayer Pose, Reverse Namaste 

Wear what YOU like for your yoga or hike. 

Up the mountain a few 1000 feet 

💙 Swimsuit 💚 Linen 🧡 Crocs. 

Flush

 

Parivrtta Utkata Konasana - Revolved Goddess Pose

The DailyDooDoo - Jettison a substantial chunk of your closet, kitchen, garage, office or other chosen area of collection and notice vastly improved digestion and elimination. Sweet RELEASE !!! 💩 😊 

Lâcher Prise

Supta Matsyendrasana - Supine Spinal Twist

Why not release it for once and for all ??

Out

 

Kapalabhati Pranayama - Breath of Fire

Forceful exhalations, Passive inhalations.

Rhythmic abdominal contractions; intentionally push out, allow for a natural quick return. Sounds demanding? Involuntary? Imposing? It is.

Take the one next best step in the right direction. 

Overstuffed

 

Upavistha Konasana - Wide-Legged Seated Foward Fold

EMPTY yourself for Spirit to enter. 

SUPERficial

The Material World is frivolous and should delight. If it’s weighing us down, we must rethink our approach. 

How to lose 5 lbs

 

Phalakasana — Forearm Plank Pose, Dolphin Plank Pose

 

Personally, abstaining from TV is all it takes for me to eschew mindless noshing. How to curb snacky small screen marathons? Books! Lots of them. From the library. Stacked high on the bedside, the stories beckon me out of the chaotic kitchen to the orderly upstairs dormitory, sometimes as early as 8pm …