Happy Baby Steps

Ananda Balasana - surely the most cheerful pose to say 💛

There truly is enormous power in putting one teensy foot in front of the other in (even just pretty much) the right direction. 🎯 
 

Outshine

Above - SunBum, Mineral Fusion, Pacifica, Physician’s Formula, Dr Haushka, Waleda, A La Maison, HoneyPot, ORL… fond of them from old fashioned trial and error. Personal, empirical data that no amount of “(online) research” could ever compete with. 🤓

Learning is EXPERIENTIAL. All of the second-hand information in the world can never top trying something for yourself. 🎩 Just as all the 1000’s of product reviews cannot substitute for physically testing said commodity 1st-hand. 💋

 

PROP UP

For the L💜VE of PROPS. Blocks, Bolsters, Straps, Towels, Blankets, Eye Pillows, a Chair, the Wall…

SUPPORT. Seek it out. ACCEPT it. It may seemingly manifest in an unforeseen form, but it’s exactly as you asked it. So again, please RECEIVE the RELIEF. 🌬️

🤵‍♀️ Look Cute - Have Fun 😻

Shopping should be FUN. In France they would say it should be a ‘pleasure’. As a necessity of most modern lives, we may as well know our Shopping Style to make it gratifying, if not a thrill ;)

• In Person or Online
• Morning or Evening
• Dolled-up or Incognito 
• Full Price or Bargain
• Specific or Open-ended
• Marathons or Sprints
• Prepped or Impromptu
• Focused or Multi-task
• Alone or Accompanied 

Personal Profile: Anytime I Order I feel I could have fared better In-Person, I hit the shops upon Opening, I Preen enough to be friendly and decisive, I dwell if it’s not a Steal,  I’m capriciously receptive to Unplanned Purchases, I Pack numerous drinks and snacks, I must have my own Bags and a vacant car, phone calls are Silenced, I shop Alone or with my mother ❤️…

Pranayam

The untapped potential of not holding your breath today 🎁

Forgot to breathe this season, mom? Remember that glorious pre-spawn luxury of not panicking always? That’s why we have YOGA. RE-WIELD your god given lifeforce, even if it’s for scarcely one hour, in studio, assisted. 
 

Dazed

Parivrtta Parsvakonasana - Revolved Side Angle 

Back leg straight, back heel grounded, as in Warrior I.

Spiral so hard your head pops off !! Grounding ones back foot is so surprisingly intense it may just blow your mind. 💖☠️💙 You’re Welcome. 👻

Vivid PJs for bewilderingly energetic mornings and evenings. ⭐️🌸🌙

Wash, Rinse, and Repeat.

Ardha Matsyendrasana - Half Lord of the Fishes Pose

Twist to release stagnation.

Wash, rinse, and repeat — At what point does its efficacy wane and your nobbut using too much product?  Constipated with sticky mucky old ideas…

Axis

Parivrtta Ardha Chandra Chapasana - Revolved Half Moon Bow Pose or Revolved Sugarcane

See legs 🪢

Revolve • move in a circle on a central axis. 

Requires both sun 🌝 and moon 🌚 energy 

If you commit your focus to THE ONE thing (and follow it with passion), most else must fall by the wayside. The sacrifice is monumental and, hence, why few walk this path. My family duties pull me back to the center HUB like a magnet, to which I have given sanction. My ONE thing has been my brood for a decade now, but this girl’s wheels are turning with all of the beauty she has to offer outside the nucleus. Rounding out of this era; rotating focus.

Greetings NINE year - Completion and Closure. 💍

2025 : 2+2+5=9 

Adho Mukha

 

Adho Mukha Vrksasana - Downward Facing Tree. 

Not-so-sweet handstand you vex me, lately. 

…Even in Favorite-Heather-Red stretchies❤️

Is it that my life is already YANG enough? Is it lack of shoulder strength or too tight a back body? Perhaps lax complacency? Or heavenly contentment? An unostentatious desire to YIN? A provocative aversion to only the antagonizing Adho Mukha variety of Vrksasana has taken residence. 

🦅

 

Garudasana- Eagle Pose - solicitous to concentration and respiratory strength. 

Bolstering my lungs after weeks of chest weakness this winter. 

Compression • the reduction in volume (causing an increase in pressure) of the fuel mixture in an internal combustion engine before ignition. Oxford Language Dictionary

Compression poses prepare us for TAKE-OFF 🚀 

The emphasis on compression in HOT YOGA feels like a healing salve that keeps me returning for more. I have no passionate opinion on a heated practice (105 F plus humidity), it just so happens to fit into my timetable. The perk is that enduring the sauna space alone feels like an accomplishment.

My daughter says “at least it’s not cold yoga.” 🥶🙃

Rosy Urdhva Mukha Svanasana

Urdhva Mukha Svanasana - Combat depression and apathy. Improve posture. Also true for the color Pink☺️

Pink is a neutral, right? Besides all pink shades (and now even reds,) MY ordinary dailies include blue from ice to navy, army greens, and metallics. One look at my closet and it is obvious what I love. Are YOUR favorites represented? Does your wardrobe MIRROR back to you your tastes? (Are you even acquainted with what you fancy? Have you granted your preferences permission to evolve?) This is cohesion. Yoga - to yolk.

Rose Quartz

Frangible Perch - LFB for EPG

 

  Eka Pada Galavasana- One Legged Flying Elphaba (Pigeon)

Why in the universe would one attempt this wicked pose? To forsake that fear of falling on our face. To unhook ourselves from the ego’s clasp.

M.A.B.