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.

PRISMATIC Supta Virasana

Supta Virasana. Healing LEG VEINS from carrying the bébés (number four especially!) in the belly. Therapeutic for menstruation and menopause, as well.

Lounging in skintight neon yellow with loose cashmere stars.

At certain intervals we put ourselves into a shape and the ✨STARS ALIGN✨. My marbled, panging legs thank me intensely as I Supta my Virasana. ⚡️

Supta Virasana lets your Manipura - solar plexus - Chakra SHINE. 🌟

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Naturally handsome neutral baskets and jute, canvas or felt sacks. 

Nothing to wear? Launder (nearly) daily. Cast away allegiance to ‘laundry day’ and throw in a load forthright.

🐾🐾🐶 Mucky Puppies 🐶 🐾🐾

Retro rainbows, silver hoops, and agate crystals.

✨WORDS AS WANDS*✨ for MOM & DAD 

🪶Animal Edition🪶

Creature Style your Turns of Phrases for a Supernatural Offspring Following:

• Time to go ! - “Hop it to the Kangaroo.” “Quick like a Bunny.” 🦘🐇🦘🐇🦘🐇🦘🐇
• Wash your hands !  - “Mucky Puppies” - Slippy Fishies, Frozen Penguin etc. - “to the sink.” 🐾
• Settle down ! - “Curl into the cave baby Bear.” (Lap) “Where’s your den little Fox?” (Bed) 🪺
• Speak clearly ! - “Sing to me again, sweet Goldfinch?” 🕊️
• Dress warmly ! - “ABRACADABRA transform these children into their favorite fuzzy Animal.” (Layers on) “What’s your name, little Critter?”🧣🧤

Augment the clever and SILLY; reduce the rude and mundane. SOUND OUT what you mean (‘curl’ invites contracted coziness, ‘Mucky Puppy’ is sticky-icky). SING aloud, but not loud. Edicts are most efficacious delivered in varying spirited and melodious tones🎵. Like GOD’s animal kingdom, our vocal artistry is limitlessly puissant. 

*Borrowed terms : Words as wands, Ciara Burton. Mucky Puppies, Ms. Gussie Gertge Boulder Valley Waldorf School.

Beyond Asana

Tadasana. Next on the list to test - Yoga Rug.

It can be a matter of life and death to stay light on one’s feet. It also feels fantastic to float. But how is levity realized? YOGA. Practicing Yoga encompasses the stretching, weightlifting, meditating, chanting, but also all manner of healthy habits and beyond. 

Natarajasana

Natarajasana (lord of the) Dancer pose. 

Backyard snow pants, softest grey tank, wool baselayer. 

In the market for a MOON-like boot. 🌝 

Nata - dance 

Raja - king 

Rule from the heart to reign this life. Thermal layers are vital for maintaining personal reserves, so there remains ample vigor abound to offer out. Accumulate - SNOWBALL! - your silky, woolly, fuzzy, windproof stash and PILE IT ON (in that order!)!

A WARM♥️ is an OPEN❤️

 

Palm Beach frond

Palm Frond as broom 🧹

Each balmy midmorning outside a prestigious estate in in lavish Palm Beach, I witnessed an unerring monk deep in meditation: a tranquil caretaker sweeping the street with a palm frond. 

Palm fronds symbolize victory, triumph and INTEGRITY. 

ATMOSPHERE

Xmas flowerchild dress, jellyfish onesie (on bébé), ‘tartlet’ (so says my brother) ruby and diamond earrings, pink and green tourmaline ring, bows, bows, bows, and BARE FEET !!

Every holiday has its ambiance - decide on and GUIDE that quality, but when life inevitably throws its curveball - just GO WITH IT. Our Christmas turned out sickly and stormy, but it was also curiously easygoing, exceptionally intimate and required a remarkable combined effort - an ESPRIT DE CORPS !!!

Atmosphere - ‘vapor’ ‘globe’