Compass Pose 🧭

Parivrtta Surya Yantrasana - Compass Pose

 Compass - define your purpose and meaning to stay on course. ✨ 

Button Down ~ Five Pointed Star Pose

Utthita Tadasana - Five Pointed Star Pose
Cotton voile, button-down men’s shirt over your swimsuit. 👔 

 (Button down) Shirt. Shorts. Swimsuit. Summer. 

No FOMO ~ Warrior 2 Pose

 

Virabhadrasana II - Warrior 2 Pose
FOMO free 🌞 

In the Summertime activities are optional. 

Striving ~ Triangle Pose

Trikonasana - Triangle Pose with blocks

Surprisingly (because of the affluence) or not (because of the nature) spending time in extra, extra Aspen, Colorado is teaching me non-striving.

We Are Family ~ Side Stretch

Parivrtta Upavistha Konasana - Revolved Seated Angle Pose

(This) Summertime it is all about the Family time - and I am here for it.

Clueless ~ 3-Legged Downdog 🐕

Tri Pada Adho Mukha Svanasana - Three Legged Downward Facing Dog on forearm 
Remember when everything was not shiny, new, polished and perfect?

Pre-Social Media Yoga. On your cotton mat. Wearing your worn-in clothes. In that clueless, unique only to you, pilgrim style.

Time Tested ~ Scorpion Leg 🦂 Three Legged Downward Dog

Tri Pada Adho Mukha Svanasana Vrschikasana Pada -
Three Legged Downward Dog Pose Scorpion Leg
Yoga bodies are still looking the best to me 👀 

So many workout classes, new fancy studios, hybrids, conglomerations, crazes… but the yoga vibes always bring me back (and the yoga bodies, of course).

Deprogrammed ~ Half Pigeon

Ardha Kapotasana - Half Pigeon Pose

Deprogram - unlearn, reset  - the programming - indoctrination, conditioning - with yoga. 

Consideration - Yin Pigeon 🐦

Kapotasana - Pigeon Pose with bolster 🐦 

Am I ‘taking others into consideration’ or am I consumed with what they think… 🤔 

Counterculture - Flip Your Dog

Adho Mukha Svanasana flip - Flip the Dog
Counterculture saved me.

Why yoga and not Pilates or running or weightlifting or…

Yoga answers my many burning, buried questions (that I don’t even know I have or how to express). With yoga I can live productively and joyfully in this world that I do not necessarily embrace or even accept. Yoga is for the sensitive and the curious - you know who you are. 

lol asana - Lolasana

Lolasana - Pendant Pose
Hang out like a pendant this Summer.
🏅I sure am 😉😎 

Dear self,

I know you like to frolic in the sun all summer basking in your freedom - but perhaps you could squeeze in just a few asanas for just a splash of at-home practice? 🍊 

Sincerely,

Yours Truly

PS: Your daughter says to spend more time on your backgrounds and to make your drawings crazier (like you used to).

💃 Macarena to Makarasana 🐊

 

Makarasana - Crocodile Pose 🐊 
To prevent falling asleep, lay your forehead on your forearms in Makarasana.
Relax deeply into diaphragmatic breathing,

Post-trip / post-event / post-big-life-moment blues? 💙 Deep relaxation will absorb all that you have learned and gained from the experience. Become transformed and changed by the standout parts of your life’s story by pausing (in this prone position). Crocodile pose will relieve tension, calm the nerves and promote restoration.