Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum

Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum

June 30, 2025

Dirty work

 

Parivrtta Malasana - Revolved Squat Pose

BREAKTHROUGH days feel like Stuck-in-the-mud all day days. ๐ŸคŽ

June 29, 2025

Light as a feather. Stiff as a board.

 

Virabhadrasana III - Warrior 3

Stiff as a board = light as a feather. ๐Ÿ’ช ๐Ÿชถ 

June 28, 2025

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 ๐Ÿ’… 

June 27, 2025

Summer Elixer

 

CLEAN with bar soap ๐Ÿงผ 

SCRUB with sugar/salt + lemon, honey, vanilla, olive oil ๐Ÿง‚๐Ÿซ’ 

MOISTEN with coconut oil, castor oil, beef tallow ๐Ÿง‰๐Ÿฎ

SOOTHE with aloe, lavender essential oil, ice ๐Ÿ’œ๐ŸงŠ

June 26, 2025

Transparent

 

Savasana - Corpse Pose
 ๐ŸงŸ‍♀️ 

Sometimes the ‘GOAL’ is a MOOD. 

June 25, 2025

Laid back

 

Supta Baddha Konasana - Reclining Bound Angle Pose
Bird’s-eye view ๐Ÿฆ… 
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. 


June 24, 2025

Magnesium

 

Parshva Balasana - Revolved Child’s Pose

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

June 23, 2025

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. 

June 22, 2025

LifeSTYLE


Balasana - Child’s Pose
๐Ÿฆ… bird’s eye view 

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

June 20, 2025

Moth

 


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

June 19, 2025

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.” ๐Ÿ˜š

Show up. Put one foot in front of the other. ๐Ÿพ Imperceptibly strengthen each and every day. 

 

June 18, 2025

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. ❄️