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| 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.
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| Padangusthasana - Toe Stand Pose |
APARIGRAHA - LET GO of wanting anyone to be anything other than who they are. DUH!!!
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| Sukhasana - Easy Pose for meditation and pranayama Rest palms on knees to promote a tall straight spine. |
Your free time, leisure time, is meant for restoration and well-being.
Monetization of our free time is robbing us of our money and our peace. Be weary of any “leisure” activity that costs you. (In fact, your leisure activities, if truly personally enriching, should be more likely to make you riches.)
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| Sirsasana ~ Headstand variation To safeguard my neck, I typically headstand with tripod arms. |
When I was growing up, the day school ended my family and I flew (fled?) to the French Riviera and returned to the USA only after the school supplies had - much to my dismay - run out at the American stores. Summer was not filled with planned activities or camps or playdates but with open-ended European road trips and unhurried, unstructured, seemingly endless days chez nous en Provence. 🪻🪻🪻
With my four petites being ages 3-13, it is likely not prudent to emulate this relaxed, improvisational, détendue, and highly unAmerican protocol, but I am going to give it a shot. I will let you know how it goes...
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| Sirsasana - Headstand variation Loving red-white-blue (plus pink). |
In preparation - or was it the opposite? - for this Summer I said sayonara to my week-daily sunrise yoga, I eschewed all camps for the kiddos, we bought only one-way airplane tickets, and I haven’t sought out a single sitter. Naturally, I am becoming petrified and beginning to panic as school winds its way down (4 kids - 10 year spread - 75 straight days!), but this weekend is going so well I think it’s going to be the best Summer yet!!! 💙🤍❤️ ✌️🤞😎😎😎😎😎🤞✌️❤️🤍💙
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| What is your “Farmstand” (what are you into) this season? |
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| Upavistha Konasana - wall Straddle Pose I just love love love (cute, soft) pajamas. |
There are seasons where living your yoga may not involve actual yoga… as in no-holds-barred convos over ice-cream sundaes poolside or hanging in your PJ's until the PM part of the day.
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| Utthita Trikonasana - Triangle Pose |
What is your Enough? Dis-cover Un-conditional enoughness through daily yoga.
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| Ardha Chakrasana - Half Wheel Pose, Standing Backbend With self assist: low back support and press to open. |
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| Navasana - Boat Pose play Mindful of my low back, I like to work my Navasana without any outcome in mind. |
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| Vajrasana - Thunderbolt Pose Remember You? When you are You - life is fun and funny as it is meant to be! |
Spending time with someone who is completely, unapologetically themselves invites us to be a little bit more genuine and original, too.
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| Manduka Malasana - Frog Garland Pose Squat Playful, with movement: childlike. |
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| Malasana - Garland Pose, Low Squat, reaching forward Self-actualize. |
Watch your step - it is (almost) all snake oil out there. I say be (very) skeptical of any THING or ANYONE - “authority, expert” - OUTSIDE of yourself promising YOUR self improvement; only the self can self-actualize.
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| I wore a more traditional bralette today for my AM movement and, boy, did I regret it. It was sweet with lace, constructed from organic cotton and seemed benign enough, but I was suffocating by the hours end with that tight-ish band encircling my ribcage and constricting my lung expansion, I couldn’t wait to rip it off (and toss it out)! |
‘Burn’ any BRA that restricts - strangles! - your diaphragm. Wear soft, little camisoles without the throttling punishment of asphyxiation, or simply go bare, and fully breathe in life once again!
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| Parsva Upavistha Konasana - Seated Side Straddle Pose Your way or it’s just a fake way. |
Who you are is how you lead and your strengths of character are applicable in any situation - just bring your best self (and in my case, a hand written note). 💌
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| 🌈Tadasana Hindolasana - Standing Cradle Pose. Just here being my embellished self. 🎀🐯🎄 |
How we do one thing is how we do everything. One look in my cabinet and I had to laugh - a collection of drawings on both my shelf stable household items and my perishables…
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| What does it mean to yoga your life??? |
HOW TO YOGA your daily life and Unite With The Divine:
1. Find Inner Peace by DREAMing - practice self study, surrender to accept, and play or rest.
2. CREATE outer beauty with the 3 necessities of life - keeping house, dressing and cuisine.
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| Eka Pada Tadasana - One Legged Mountain Pose |
Attract what you are.
