Intense Focus - Dandayamana Janu Sirsasana

Dandayamana Janu Sirsasana - Standing Head to Knee Pose
Head down. Intense focus. Significant engagement. 
It’s not Summer Break - yet 😉.

Do You - Janu Sirsasana

Janu Sirsasana - Seated Head to Knee Pose
It’s a Do You day.

No Cell Reception ~ Paschimottanasana

Paschimottanasana - Seated Forward Fold
Yogis: a weight-bearing, stretching, breathing, chilling, sweating, meditating, luxuriating tribe - sans phones.

Cellphone-free in the yoga studio ; it’s reason enough to go!

Santosha ~ Setubandha Sarvangasana

 

Setubandha Sarvangasana - Bridge Pose

Cultivate Santosha with (week) DAILY yoga.

DAILY yoga and DAILY creativity for DAILY peace.

Yoga Your Way ~ Ardha Anjaneyasana

Ardha Anjaneyasana - Half Lunge Pose

Mini Visions, Missions, and Values for each Season; purposefully thought about and clearly written out.

Unexpected ~ Urdhva Dhanurasana

 

Urdhva Dhanurasana - Wheel Pose 🎡

Just lay it all on the yoga mat for the universe to figure out.  

Wrestling with my usual mommy / wifey / community conundrums, I arrived at hot yoga in a tizzy. So I just gave it all over to something greater. Immediately an unexpected course of action - to embrace what I had been rejecting - was proffered by the divine. By opting for this original possibility I then floated through the remainder of the (rife with responsibilities) day in pure peace. OM Shanti OM. Namaste.

Spring Flings ~ Bhujangasana

Bhujangasana - Cobra Pose 🐍 

SPRING - bright sun, dark clouds; high temperatures, UV rays, summer-like days, drizzle, pouring rain, sleet, hail, snow, storms, sunshine, tan-time again … and all the moods that come with it!

Candles On My Cake ~ Virabhadrasana II

Virabhadrasana II - Warrior 2

 __ Kisses when I wake.

__ Candles on my cake.

We have closed ‘Birthday Season’ (until next October) in the Kirschenbaum home. A huge EXHALE for a mother who decorates and celebrates (6 human stars and a sparkle pup) in fantastical excess. 💐 

Self Massage ~ Utthita Parsvakonasana

 

Utthita Parsvakonasana - Extended Side Angle Pose

With familiarity through exposure, background and skill, yoga becomes self massage. 

Inner Universe ~ Meditate with Bolster 🦋

Hand to Heart and bébé belly.
Butterfly Legs Seated on Bolster.

 Make PEACE (rather than happiness, joy, love) your aspired state of being.

Silent Retreat

Listen only to the universe.

It has been 10 days since I turned off all podcasts, audiobooks, and music; a calm has swept over me that I haven’t felt since… turning them on. 

Cherry and Pit ~ Prasarita Padottanasana

Prasarita Padottanasana III - Wide Legged Forward Fold C

What was the cherry (peak) and what was the pit (valley) of your day? We use this as our analogy since our last name is “Kirschenbaum”, German for Cherry Tree. 🍒

When our family has been apart for the day’s working hours conquering the world, we dine together at sunset while comparing notes, but when the weekend has been seemingly endless hours of “mom”, “MOM”, “dad”, “DAD”, why not serve the children separately?