Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum

Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum

November 4, 2025

Consistency - HOW TO:

Padukabandhini Asana Shoelace Pose
Padukabandhini Asana - Shoelace Pose
Yin yoga
Can we slough off a fleck of ‘the world’ to excavate a glimpse of our true essence?

Consistency is the key 🔑. We will find consistency when we DIS-COVER our inner selves. No copycatting, no idolizing, no formulas. No prescribed diets, uniforms, or interior spaces. No dictated timetable or curriculum.

November 3, 2025

Selective

 

Dhanurasana Bow Pose
Dhanurasana - Bow Pose
Always one to grab the ankles in big back bends, maybe this week it’s time I clasped the toes.

The years are long, but the days are short; so let’s be selective with our interests, commitments, engagements and activities for, thankfully, we can have it all, just not all at once. 

November 2, 2025

Me, myself and my mat.

Salabhasana Locust Pose
Salabhasana - Locust Pose
Most often I point my feet and flex my toes (Barbie foot) in big poses. Taking note from the ballerinas lately, I am experimenting with purely pointing - for precise direction and the hopeful strength to straighten those long limbs in the vigorous shapes.

 Yoga - just you and the mat. No masks. No pretense. No fake-it-till-you-make-it. 

November 1, 2025

🦢 elegant and effective

 

Upavistha Hamsasana Swan Pose
Upavistha Hamsasana - Sitting Swan Pose
Both graceful and effective. 

Weekends are the necessary outbreath to your week’s extended and exaggerated inbreath. Keep your weekends 1. Nourishing 2. Restful 3. Warm. 🧤🧦🪶




Wholesome nature-based activities nourish the soul. 


Warm with Fire and Water (food and clothing).

Movement can be restful; rather than planning a ‘hike’, step right outside your door.

Have an approach that is lighthearted and buoyant.

October 31, 2025

Consistency

 

Awkward Airplane Balance Pose
Awkward Airplane Balance Pose

Simple. Strong. Everyday. 

October 30, 2025

Not crabby

Eka Pada Ardha Purvottanasana One Legged Reverse Table Top Pose
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. 

October 29, 2025

Mystical magical

 

Ardha Purvottanasana Reverse Table Top Poss
Ardha Purvottanasana - Reverse Tabletop Pose

RECLAMATION: Not a destination. An ongoing, thrilling, pleasurable, amusing, surprising, magical, life-long process.

October 28, 2025

Destroyer of all diseases

 

Matsyasana Fish Pose
Matsyasana - Fish Pose
Reduce stiffness in shoulders and neck. Improve posture. Balance the thyroid.

Self-compassionate healing après over-giving. 

October 27, 2025

🥠Fortunate🪙

 

Supta Utthita Tadasana Supine Extended Mountain Pose
Supta Utthita Tadasana - Supine Extended Mountain Pose
 Streeeeeeeeetch from the tips of your fingers to the ends of your toes. 

How lucky are we to be born again each morning?

October 26, 2025

What fresh hell is this?

Supta Baddha Konasana Reclined Bound Angle Pose
Supta Baddha Konasana - Reclining Bound Angle 
With a bolster, two blocks and blankets.

OH the sheer agony of caring for the family and tending to the home while feeling unwell. We know it from periods, pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, traumatic or sad events, the common cold, chronic illness, heartache, heartbreak and beyond. There is no relief to be found. My personal solution? Complain (and blame) loudly and incessantly until someone (my husband) tells me they feel sorry for me and then all is a little bit more right in my world - merci beaucoup, dankeschön. 

October 25, 2025

Flechette 🎯


Prasarita Papadasana Wide Toe Balance
Prasarita Prapadasana - Wide Toe Balance
Namaskar Mudra

Embody that little arrow pointing where you aim to go! 🏹



 

October 24, 2025

Head cold

 

Parsva Savasana Side Lying Corpse Pose
Parsva Savasana - Side Lying Corpse Pose - Fetal Position

What is your illness telling you? STOP most of what you’re doing, get quiet & listen intent-ly.

My head is now submerged in what feels like a giant cotton ball and I’m hearing from my dis-ease that I’ve been consuming too much. Intaking kids’ equipment, junk food, other’s opinions, gossip, media, activity, meetings… throat, nose, ears and eyes are ailing. As I have been actively releasing much of this worldly influx as of late, I can also concur this is another important, physical step in the cleansing. ☁️