So Hum

SO HUM. I am that (I am).

The beautiful and powerful SO HUM meditation — Read all about it at Banyan Botanicals - CLICK! - as I love this cosmic explanation and cannot describe it more successfully. Above is Dr Vasant Lad’s drawing DailyDoodled 🌼🌼🌼

Party Pose

Ardha Padma Vrksasana - Half Lotus Tree Pose

POTLUCK - Gathering together without a singular hostess carrying the load. Attendees are often glad to be more than a guest and feel part ownership in the social occasion. Proprietorship makes the party more special in one’s mind. Win-win-win…

FANCY

 

Anahatasana - Melting Heart Pose

 YIN Puppy Dog Pose

💕💞💓💗💓💞💕

🧊🔮Clarity on what it is we actually want. 

Q: What do I actually want??

A: Never stop asking!! 🤓 📝

Our heart’s desires ought to always metamorphose.

MyDailyPoodle 🐩!!

Uttana Shishosana - Playful Puppy Pose

✨🛍️👙💕👛🎀👒👑🌼💎🐩💎🌼👑👒🎀👛💕👙🛍️✨

Adaptable, affectionate, athletic, energetic, intelligent, lively, and social with a bouncy, self-confident prance. Poodles delight in their family and may seem stuck-up to strangers. Poodles have mastered the side-eye and cross their paws when they lounge. 

Current mood - I’ll be CHANNELING POODLE, Thank You Very Much. 

SPRING is GREEN

 

Salabhasana - Locust

SPRING is the GREEN Season

👁️ GO into the greenery and GAZE upon it. DRINK it in with your eyes. 

👄 EMBIBE green leaves in juices and smoothies - SWILL and guzzle arugula, basil, dandelion, MINT, parsley, pea shoots, spinach etc.

👃 INHALE Clean, Grassy, Marine, TEA, or NO added SCENTS.

👂 HEAR(T) the Birds, Crickets, Laughter, STORMs, Wind; simply Nature’s music only. 

💚 & ADORN with green? Army, EMERALD, Jade, Sage, Sea…looks spectacular with a TAN. 

🦗

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 :)

🍹

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!!