Dakhsa

 

Dekasana - Airplane Pose

Requires Dakhsa : ‘skill, capability, dexterity’.

As well as actively extended arms and hands for ease of flight.

SUMMER TRAVEL requires skill, capability, and dexterity. An active extension that is LIGHT enough to FLY. Even and especially your fingertips should be animated with buoyant energy. I keep my fingernails well-filed and natural for these high season ventures 💅 

Summer Elixer

 

CLEAN with bar soap 🧼 

SCRUB with sugar/salt + lemon, honey, vanilla, olive oil 🧂🫒 

MOISTEN with coconut oil, castor oil, beef tallow 🧉🐮

SOOTHE with aloe, lavender essential oil, ice 💜🧊

Transparent

 

Savasana - Corpse Pose

 🧟‍♀️ 

Sometimes the ‘GOAL’ is a MOOD. 

Laid back

 

Supta Baddha Konasana - Reclining Bound Angle Pose

Bird’s-eye view 🦅 

High-strung over an upcoming encounter? Unwind with your posture. 

How to initiate easy-like, trouble-free encounters or conversations? Begin by physically sitting in a leisurely, relaxed manner; stay loose, lounge, kick back. With the body allayed, the mind is equally mollified. 

Magnesium

 

Parshva Balasana - Revolved Child’s Pose

There is an ANTIDOTE to this ANXIETY provoking culture! ENDEAVOR into the world of YOGA. 

Beginning to fly

 

Eka Pada Urdhva Dhanurasana - One Legged Wheel Pose

WHITTLE down your personal items until you have literally no choice but to use the FINEST. 

LifeSTYLE

Balasana - Child’s Pose

🦅 bird’s eye view 

 Only YOU can determine and establish your distinctive, CUSTOM lifeSTYLE.

Moth

 

Like the moth, my countenance is subdued and my work hours are after dark (this sultry Summer).

The Daily Wayfarer

Navasana - Boat Pose (Crunch) ❤️

Q: “Is the bikini body in the diet or the exercise?”

A: “The bikini body is in the bikini.” 😚

Show up. Put one foot in front of the other. 🐾 Imperceptibly strengthen each and every day. 

 

mild medium hot

 

Prasarita Padottanasana - Intense Leg Stretch Pose

As pronounced in its appellation, Prasarita Padottanasana is not meant to be mild. Continue to YANG your  yoga this Summer, (straight legs, flexed feet, firm buttocks, strong biceps, flat palms), but with that graceful, soft, yin MO and soul you cultivated in the past two seasons. ❄️ 

👙 Freshies 🍦

 

Prasarita Padottanasana - Wide Legged Forward Bend 

variation Both Hands on One Ankle

Returned home from the neighborhood pool today and threw my swimsuit in the garage’s trash still wet. 💦 Why oh why am I wearing these tired, faded, stretched separates to the splashy parties ?? SAYONARA !! 🍑 

Clear the decks !! 🌊 

Etiquette

 

Vakrasana - Twisted Pose

I have a custom of informing the yoga teacher if I will be missing a class.

Currently, I also :

- Make use of the ladies locker room, both pre and après asana.

 - Bring and use a gaudy, very not-yogi, plastic water cup. 💦

- Twist hair into a standing-bun or plait tresses into a lying-down-braid  (clips at the ready). 

- Gravitate to any location in the room, but always roll my yoga RUG out TENDERLY.

 - Borrow blocks. 💙💙

AND, most imperatively,  happy to change my ways ;) 🙃🧺🧿 

What are your yogic ticks ?? 🐜