Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum

Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts

November 3, 2025

Consistency - HOW TO:

Padukabandhini Asana Shoelace Pose
Padukabandhini Asana - Shoelace Pose
Yin yoga
Can we slough off a fleck of ‘the world’ to excavate a glimpse of our true essence?

Consistency is the key ๐Ÿ”‘. We will find consistency when we DIS-COVER our inner selves. No copycatting, no idolizing, no formulas. No prescribed diets, uniforms, or interior spaces. No dictated timetable or curriculum.

November 2, 2025

Selective

 

Dhanurasana Bow Pose
Dhanurasana - Bow Pose
Always one to grab the ankles in big back bends, maybe this week it’s time I clasped the toes.

The years are long, but the days are short; so let’s be selective with our interests, commitments, engagements and activities for, thankfully, we can have it all, just not all at once. 

October 30, 2025

Consistency

 

Awkward Airplane Balance Pose
Awkward Airplane Balance Pose

Simple. Strong. Everyday. 

October 29, 2025

Not crabby

Eka Pada Ardha Purvottanasana One Legged Reverse Table Top Pose
Eka Pada Ardha Purvottanasana - One Legged Reverse Table Top Pose
Eka Pada Ardha Catuspadapitham - One legged crab pose 
๐Ÿฆ€ 
Just hanging out, letting your light shine. 

Certainly we do not neeeeeed skin tight, synthetic leggings (or polyvinyl thermoplastic mats, tritan water bottles, laminate floors, foam blocks…) to train. 

October 28, 2025

Mystical magical

 

Ardha Purvottanasana Reverse Table Top Poss
Ardha Purvottanasana - Reverse Tabletop Pose

RECLAMATION: Not a destination. An ongoing, thrilling, pleasurable, amusing, surprising, magical, life-long process.

October 27, 2025

Destroyer of all diseases

 

Matsyasana Fish Pose
Matsyasana - Fish Pose
Reduce stiffness in shoulders and neck. Improve posture. Balance the thyroid.

Self-compassionate healing aprรจs over-giving. 

October 24, 2025

Flechette ๐ŸŽฏ


Prasarita Papadasana Wide Toe Balance
Prasarita Prapadasana - Wide Toe Balance
Namaskar Mudra

Embody that little arrow pointing where you aim to go! ๐Ÿน



 

October 18, 2025

Label maker

 

Adho Mukha Sukhasana easy pose forward fold
Adho Mukha Sukhasana - Easy Pose Forward Fold

LABELS may temporarily console us (“I am not alone!”) but, ultimately, epithets are limiting and best discarded (every snowflake is, in fact, unique.) ❄️ 

Also - put down the podcast, book, lecture, course etc. Cease the googling. And reject outside opinion (even from your mother, brother and besties). Reacquaint yourself with yourself. (The answer is you.)

October 16, 2025

Cheery

 

Prapadasana toe balance
Prapadasana - Toe Balance 

Clear (even just a byte of) your DIGITAL CLUTTER  and experience such exceptional lightness and striking clarity it’s revolutionary. 

October 13, 2025

Start here

 

Phalakasana plank pose
Phalakasana - Plank Pose

Small victories: 1. Make the bed. 2. Brush your teeth. 3. Walk the dog. 4. Brush your teeth. 5. Unmake the bed. 

October 5, 2025

Stay and play ๐Ÿฆš

 

Pincha mayurasana feathered peacock pose
Pincha Mayurasana - Feathered Peacock Pose
With or without the wall. 

๐Ÿฆš Strike while the iron is hot and play all-warmed-up directly after class (if the room is available) or immediately upon returning home. ๐Ÿชถ 

October 4, 2025

Splendor

Mahayamuri mudra wise peacock queen
Mahayamuri Mudra - for the wise peacock queen.
From hands in prayer at heart center, clasp together the three middle fingers of both hands leaving the thumbs and pinkies extended. 

Mahayamuri mudra - Activate your crown chakra, accelerate towards your destiny. 

Modest days are splendid wise peacock rising days. 

October 3, 2025

Major

 

Pincha mayurasana forearm stand funky style drawing
Pincha Mayurasana - Forearm Stand funky style

Practice, practice, practice. OR maybe it’s just not that major for you. 

September 26, 2025

๐Ÿญ

๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿงก๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿ’›๐ŸŒป

- ๐Ÿ’šBAKE zucchini bread. 
- ๐Ÿ’›Light a CANDLE at dinner.
- ๐ŸงกAutumnify the NATURE TABLE
- ❤️UNEARTH the winter socks. (And pants, and hats, and mittens…)
- ๐Ÿ’œCRAFT in the common family area.

September 23, 2025

Squeak

 

Waterfall Pose, Squat Pose
Afishka yoga mice packed and dressed

Pack, fold, place sweetly out of sight only those clothes you’ll be elated to unbox next summer. The SURPLUS leaves your home ASAP. ๐Ÿƒ ๐Ÿ‚ 

September 16, 2025

Velocity

Dhanurasana - Bow Pose

It is an effortful task to reverse the momentum from intake to outtake when a decision has been made to disencumber yourself (of both your beliefs and your belongings). But once that tide has been turned - you are unstoppable. ๐ŸŒŠ ๐Ÿน

September 13, 2025

Make do ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฅฅ

Weekends are for using it up or chucking it out! Clean out the fridge + actually clean the fridge = resourceful foods for the famille and a fit kitchen for the week ahead. ๐Ÿ›’

Lemon Mousse from lemon curd left-overs and on-hand whipping cream.

Remaining cup of sheep’s yogurt into Brownies ๐Ÿ‘

Coconut milk revives last week’s rice ๐Ÿ™€

๐Ÿ’‹It’s always the sweets that seem to get photographed. ๐Ÿคท‍♀️


September 11, 2025

Matriarchy

Parighasana - Gate Pose 
Open all sides.

 Using passion, pleasure and emotion to find our rhapsody. ❤️‍๐Ÿ”ฅ

September 10, 2025

Stardust

Ustrasana - Camel Pose

Reinvent yourself again and again and again (on the mat and then off)…

 

September 3, 2025

Impeccable

Hanumanasana - Monkey pose, forward bend

Get crystal clear and impeccably detailed on your life’s vision. Now. Today. You can change it later. ๐Ÿ’