Le’go the Ego ~ Seated Side Bend hands behind head

 

Ardha Padmasana - Half Lotus
Side Bend Stretch variation hands behind head, fingers interlocked.
Restorative chest opener.

Egos — you may not run the yoga show!

Color of Every Year 💞

Pink is my favorite color 💖

What is your signature color?

🐚 Shelling is Yoga 🐚

Dailydoodle shells 🐚 

Even if we do not set foot in the yoga studio we can be intentional with our posture and deliberate with our movements all Summer long.

See Shells by the Seashore ~ Bound Lotus 🪷

Baddha Padmasana - Bound Lotus Pose 🪷 

 Some Seasons it’s simply too spectacular outside for indoor studio yoga. 

👙 Resort Wear 🩳

Wild Thing with Foot Bind

Resorting to wear cotton and cutesy in the South of France. 🇫🇷 

Interested is interesting. 

Inspire. Dazzle. Fascinate. ~ Foot and Wrist Stretch.

Malasana - Squat on Toes with Wrist Stretch

Perform the tricks from up your sleeve.

Share your gifts, knacks and talents with fellow vacationers: whether they be personal handwriting that’s practically a font, thoughtful questions, a bead kit you brought (with letters for personalizing), experience in driving paddle boards, speed boats, Vespas etc. and your other natural abilities, skills and powers that will - believe it or not - inspire, dazzle and fascinate your fellow participants.

Trust - Toe Stand Figure-Four Cradle 🙏

Toe Stand Figure-Four Cradle Namaste

 What do we have to lose by trying Self-Love?

Only Human ~ Cat Stretch

Cat Stretch
Mothers: Human, too.

I think when mothering four young children the highs feel higher and the lows feel lower.

BEE you 🐝 ~ Supta Padangusthasana

Supta Padangusthasana - Reclined Hand to Big Toe Pose

In Aspen, CO the beauty standards seem very extreme - even I have to repeatedly remind my typically composed and centered spirit: all you can be is yourself!

The Show Must Go On ~ Gomukhasana

Gomukhasana - Cow Face Pose forward fold
Double Threaded Needle Bind holding opposite feet.

Summer break with four kiddos at home is feeling impossible today. 

Some days you just have to put your ‘costume’ on and go through the motions.

Simple Pleasures ~ DownDog Transition

Stepping forward from (three legged) downward dog.
Low Lunge hands framing front foot.

Rediscover the omnipresence of simple pleasures while hanging out with kids.  

PS: QUANTITY time - not quality time - is required for the miraculous unveiling of these everyday delights. 

Pinecone, berry, acorn, leaf etc. animals, mermaids, gnomes, boats, lawnmowers and more…

Rainy Day or !Too Hot Day! - Paint 🎨 

🛎️ Order Up! Ceaseless meal service.

Dot Cakes by Goldie.

Mid-pool session siesta.

Buckle Up!

Local ~ Tadasana

Tadasana - Mountain Pose

On vacation, but not a tourist. 😉 😎

True ~ Tadasana Namaste

Tadasana Namaste 🙏 

Stay true to you. 💜

Re-Regulate ~ Parsvottanasana with Reverse Namaste 🙏

Parsvottanasana - Pyramid Pose
With Reverse Namaste
🙏 

The body does ‘keep the score’ (Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD) - use yoga to re-regulate your nervous system. 

Single Specific Attribute or Category that Applies to all Entities

 

Seated Neck Stretch

Three Rows:

💫Values 🏹 Tangible Goals 🌱 Specific Policies and Actions

Fill each row with subsequent columns. 

(EG: 💫Unconditional Family Support 🏹 Quantity Family Time 🌱Dinner Together at the Table Most Nights OR 💫Yogini my Life 🏹 Zen and Fit 🌱Yoga or Walk Weekdaily.)

Find repetitious ‘Policies and Actions’. Circle them. Act on them. Make your life beautiful. 

It’s All Happening.

Make it Happen.

Dream ~ Create.

True Treasure ~ Ardha Yoga Nidrasana - Sun Steeped Café Soleil

Ardha Yoga Nidrasana - Half Yogic Sleep Pose
Looks comfy, right? 🥹

🐾 Your unique fingerprint - discover the valuable habits that work for you (just you!) and treasure your cache of prized behaviors. 🪎

Soleil Café (Sun Coffee)
Steep grounds for a few hours in the sun then sieve and sip with cream.
🤍🌞🤎🌞🤍

🌞 🫖 💐

Remember to dry your flowers 💐🧻 and steep your sun tea 🫖🌞 this Summer. 

💕💖 

Dried Flowers, some pressed into clay.

Dried Bouquet.

Dried Rose Petals

🌞 Sun Tea 🫖 Red Berry, Rooibos, Earl Gray.

Rocky Mountain Highlights.

& Plunge.

Permission ~ Tree Pose with bébé

Vrksasana - Tree Pose
With bébés - lots of them! DIY - with your flair and forté!

Permission to have the best time ever momming and house-making (in a world often convincing us to outsource our divine gifts). 🎁

Infinite body, mind, and spirit benefits (and abundant monetary savings) to be had by executing your family life, yourself, your way!

Yogini Mommy ~ Mother and Daughter Sukhasana Stretch

Sukhasana - Seated Stretch

Endless work - but worth it, yogini mommy. 

Slow and Deep ~ Butterfly Pose ~ Yin Yoga

Butterfly Pose 
Yin Yoga
Slow and deep ;)

Summer is Yang - balance this season with YIN - such as reading an uplifting simplicity book in the shade of the Aspen trees while sipping an avocado smoothie. 📖🌳🥑 

Dandasana

Dandasana - Staff Pose

Unperturbed ~ Janu Sirsasana

 

Janu Sirsasana - Head to Knee Pose

Unperturbed (by the trendy societal madness!) by having cultivated your inner (garden) life. 🙉

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.