Parent handbook

 

Utthita Parsva Konasana - Extended Side Angle Pose
You are right - it is not easy. 

Parenting is the epitome of primal living. It is unyieldingly petrifying, thrilling and rewarding. Good luck! 🍀 

What are you?

 

Upavistha Konasana - Seated Straddle Pose with block
Force and berate yourself for what you cannot do in order to stay stagnant and stuck (and, possibly, injured.)

You cannot be everything, you will have to pick and choose — and the sooner the better (besides, it isn’t written in stone — at least, not yet). ☠️ 👻

Witch’s foot: connection to the supernatural & a need for spiritual protection

 

Tadasana - Mountain Pose
Let us focus on our feet and hand health. Open, close and activate the fingers. Lift, spread and control the movement of the toes.  

Somehow I have been rolling onto the outside edges of my feet when I walk these days. Upon further investigation it was brought to my attention that ‘witch’s foot’ is from forging my own path and going my own way. Guilty as charged! But pain there suggests extreme self-protection: guardedness and detachment (from the mainstream). AKA taking my individuality too far?

 PS: Excessive supination can also be exacerbated from muscle strengthening.

Ladybug

 

Bhujapidasana - Insect Pose, Shoulder Press Pose. A mini floaty for confidence in poses that fly. 🐞 

Start somewhere.

Then refine.

Upgrade eventually.

Mydailydoodle - Unite With Your Divine

 

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.

The best 💖

 

Matsyasana - Fish Pose, with blocks

Matsyasana - Fish Pose, with blocks

💝 Crack your heart open. 💝

The best way to start your morning (5:45am in the studio) is with a block on middle height running vertically between the shoulders along the spine and a block at the highest height positioned horizontally under (the base of) your head. 💕

Works every time 🎐

Marichyasana - Bound Seated / Sage Twist

Marichyasana - Bound Seated / Sage Twist

Often your yoga teacher will cue intention setting at the beginning of class. This is an excellent time to ask the cosmos a question - you’ll have your answer by the end of the hour. 🎐

Houseworkasana

Houseworkasana

AHA moments are continuously had in savasana, but also habitually unveiled while carrying out the housework. 🧹 

Sublime

 

Hanumnanasana - Monkey Splits goals, but not really

Hanumanasana - Monkey Splits 

Awe-inspired by your own magnificence. 

1%

Anuvittasana - Mountain Pose with Backbend 🏔️’Found’ Pose 🪐

Anuvittasana - Mountain Pose with Backbend,  ‘Found’ Pose

Find your true self and best health by removing all obstacles 🐘 (including yoga alignment mandates?)

Natural as the new elite? The latest luxury seems to be living artificial additive, preservative, colorant, chemical (etc. etc.) FREE. 

FREE to BE.

What is

Vajrasana - Thunderbolt wrapped in the cozy calm flicker 🧸 

Vajrasana - Thunderbolt

🤎 Current favorite pose - Kneeling and meditating. 🕯️  

Santosha - a deep satisfaction with your current situation, feeling enough as you are, meeting the present moment as it is. 

Many a duty (this December, especially) have I obliged - so, now it is time to sit back and enjoy the rest of the 2025 ride. 

🌫️ Fog lifts 🪽

 

Utthita Ashta Sanchalasana - Runner’s Lunge Pose in eclectic, collected woolen long johns.

Utthita Ashwa Sanchalasana - Runner’s Lunge Pose

Easylike

Big (holiday, travel) emotions have bubbled to the top, then, mercifully, dissipated into thin  air. 🫧 

Advance notice

 

Ardha Purvottaanasana - Reverse Table Top Pose

Some days we predict will be light, end up heavy and presumed heavy days, end up light; our continued yoga practice makes provisions for these miscalculations.

🩷❤️🤎 Party prep : Making provisions! 🤎❤️🩷 

Open, ready, available

Tadasana - Mountain Pose

Thumbs interlaced.

It’s an eyes closed during yoga type of week. 😌

How to be open, ready and available? Listen more.

Contemplation

Parsva Anjaneyasana - Low Lunge Side Bend Pose with block

For answers at first, revelations at last:

CONTEMPLATION sees everything, holds on to nothing. (Warning: takes years)

Ear pressure

 

Karnapidasana - Deaf Man’s Pose

Plow variation

It is your prerogative to shut out ‘the world’ if you need to. 🗺️ 📡

Foundling

 

Upavistha Konasana - Wide Angle Forward Fold 📐 

FIND that which you are hiding from yourself.

Creation creates

 

Natarajasana - Dancer Pose 

Hand to floor

In dancer we are both the archer and the bow : yes - we are creators, but first and foremost we are creation. 

Me, myself and my mat.

Salabhasana - Locust Pose

Most often I point my feet and flex my toes (Barbie foot) in big poses. Taking note from the ballerinas lately, I am experimenting with purely pointing - for precise direction and the hopeful strength to straighten those long limbs in the vigorous shapes.

 Yoga - just you and the mat. No masks. No pretense. No fake-it-till-you-make-it. 

🥠Fortunate🪙

 

Supta Utthita Tadasana - Supine Extended Mountain Pose

 Streeeeeeeeetch from the tips of your fingers to the ends of your toes. 

How lucky are we to be born again each morning?