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).

💃 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. 

Hallucinating - Flapping Fish Pose

Matsya Kridasana - Flapping Fish Pose

My father once pointed out to me, his procrastinating daughter, “thinking about writing a thank you note and writing it are not the same thing.” As in the Japanese proverb: Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is chaos. 

Legacy ~ Wide Angle Forward Fold

Upavistha Konasana - Seated Wide Angle Forward Fold 📐 

Preserve your life philosophies, values and story with holistic legacy planning. 

Balancing Chakras: Life Stages ~ Neck Stretch

Neck Stretch

Building a family and its nest is a primordial undertaking - where we operate predominantly from the lower, the heart and below, chakras. (Aka ‘survival mode’.) Once these basics are in place, we are available to lift our energy back into the higher chakras, the heart and above, where life is more spirited and less physical. 

Aura - Root Chakra

 

Vajrasana - Thunderbolt Pose
Muladhara - Root Chakra: earthy, deep red 1st Chakra located at the pelvic floor

The red root chakra at the pelvic floor manifests itself as our connection to the physical world. If MATERIALISM beyond survival, stability and safety, has become a fixation for you (it has been an obsession for me,) there is an abundance of Muladhara. 

Ascend your energy out of the red Muladhara, located at the base of the spine, with your mind’s eye: your imagination. Levitate your vitality up the body through the rainbow of colors from red to orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and ultimately, to the aura that surrounds you in violet, pink and white. Picture this rainbow flowing upward, outward and skyward into translucent stars as you go about your day. 

Make decisions from this pink, white, ultraviolet, sparkling perspective and quickly you will begin to lighten up!

Baddha Hasta ~ Bound Hands

Sukhasana Baddha Hasta - Easy Pose Bound Hands

Unite with the divine daily by: taking care of and committing to what (who) is right in front of you. 

Firewood, Fresh Flowers & Honey

What is your “Farmstand” (what are you into) this season?

Keep dreaming. 🌝 Dream your own way.

Keep creating. 🏹 Create your own way.

Keep growing. 🌾 Grow your own way.

Sumhersasana

Summer come save me.

Four kiddos. Four packed lunches and snacks. Five days per week.

Effortless ~ Vajrasana

Vajrasana - Thunderbolt, Side Bend ⚡️

Cost Incurred ~ Parivrtta Utkatasana

Parivrtta Utkatasana - Twisting Chair Pose

When singularly focused on an acquisition, inquire conversely: what am I giving up to ‘get this’?

Do You - Janu Sirsasana

Janu Sirsasana - Head to Knee Pose

Unexpected ~ Urdhva Dhanurasana

 

Urdhva Dhanurasana - Wheel Pose 🎡

Just lay it all on the yoga mat for the universe to figure out.  

Wrestling with my usual mommy / wifey / community conundrums, I arrived at hot yoga in a tizzy. So I just gave it all over to something greater. Immediately an unexpected course of action - to embrace what I had been rejecting - was proffered by the divine. By opting for this original possibility I then floated through the remainder of the (rife with responsibilities) day in pure peace. OM Shanti OM. Namaste.

Self Massage ~ Utthita Parsvakonasana

Utthita Parsvakonasana - Extended Side Angle Pose

With familiarity through exposure, background and skill, yoga becomes self massage. 

Inner Universe ~ Meditate with Bolster 🦋

Hand to Heart and bébé belly.
Butterfly Legs Seated on Bolster.

 Make PEACE (rather than happiness, joy, love) your aspired state of being.

Silent Retreat

Listen only to the Universe.

It has been 10 days since I turned off all podcasts, audiobooks, and music; a calm has swept over me that I haven’t felt since… turning them on. 

Life Lived In Full Color ~ Winter Rainbow

Easter Bunny spotted on Aspen Mountain!

There are as many ways to do things as there people upon this earth and as many ways to asana as there are yoginis!

🌟🎀 🐣🩵 Easter on Aspen Mountain.🩵🐣🎀🌟

❄️💎🦊 “I Made It” moment ~ Easter on Aspen Mountain with my family; including an egg hunt at the spot where we were married! (16 yrs.) 💍💎❄️

Reclamation ~ Ardha Chakrasana with Self Assist

Ardha Chakrasana - Half Wheel Pose, Standing Backbend
With self assist: low back support and press to open.

Reclaiming adequate alone time to return to oneself - supportive and enabling of You. 

Rewire ~ Ardha Chakrasana

Ardha Chakrasana - Half Wheel Pose, Standing Backbend

Rewire your energy through movement. Always be rewiring. 

Badass Then, Badass Now, But Different … ~ Knee to Nose Pose

Knee to Nose from Three Legged Dog

Weight forward, shoulders over wrists, for the ‘badass’ version.

Wear leopard-like patterns and large gems.

After dropping the girls off at violin lessons this afternoon, I took the boys to the new North Boulder Library and parked right in front of an apartment that we lived in for two years. It has been exactly a decade since the one toddler days we spent there, but, as I did then, I still have a three year old. Patrick’s comportment at the coffee shop and playground nearby was so similar to Goldie’s ten years back that I came home exhausted from the surreal experience. I was badass then, and I’m badass now, but different…