Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum

Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum
Showing posts with label globe-trotting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label globe-trotting. Show all posts

March 26, 2026

Commitment to Excellence ~ Camatkarasana

Camatkarasana - Wild Thing Pose

I go gaga for fashion and design inspo when out and about. Secluded to a yacht for 7 days was, surprisingly, no exception. The staff on our latest seaward adventure has me thinking: What are the attractive and serviceable uniforms that allow me to execute dutifully? …

Yacht crew uniforms create a professional and cohesive image for your team, enhancing the overall guest experience aboard luxury vessels. These uniforms ensure your team looks polished but also promote unity and functionality in their demanding roles. High-quality yacht staff uniforms are designed for comfort and durability, meeting the unique challenges of life at sea. Investing in professional yachting uniforms reflects a commitment to excellence and sets a refined tone for your yacht’s operations. -liquidyachtwear.com


March 25, 2026

Traveling Circus ~ Camatkarasana


Camatkarasana - Wild Thing Pose
‘Astonished’, ‘Miracle’

Vacation vibes: Lots of family trips lately, lots of lovely bonding, but it is time to park the traveling circus and put a romantic getaway on deck. We have it all, just not all at once by reflecting on each excursion’s aims, expectations and emphasis ahead of time as not to miss the holiday’s inherent distinctive opportunity. 



March 23, 2026

🐌 Vacation Integration 🐢 ~ Sukhasana, Dhyana, Mukula Mudra


Sukhasana - Easy Pose
Dhyana - Meditation 
Mukula Mudra - Lotus or Lily Bud Hand Gesture 🤌 

(Vacation) integration is gradual, slow, steady, slimy, super cute, hard shelled, long-lived… 🐌 🐢 

March 21, 2026

Broaden Horizons ~ Dwikonasana

 

Dwikonasana Seal PoseDouble Abgle yoga Yogini cute pink drawing illustration
Ardha Dwikonasana - Half Yoga Seal Pose, Double Angle Pose

Traveling will stretch you beyond your limit: release all those staid and pesky ‘preferences’ to appreciate the discomfort.

March 18, 2026

Starfish ~ Vasisthasana


Vasisthasana - Side Plank Pose, Starfish

If you need a cute trick (jumping into water from a high place, jumping on a trampoline, jumping for a pic): Starfish. ⭐️🐠 😉 

February 21, 2026

Pre et Après ~ Ardha Kapotasana

 

Ardha Kapotasana - Half Pigeon Pose cute sweet fun Yogini yoga girl drawing illustration
Ardha Kapotasana - Half Pigeon Pose

Pre or après (ski) body love. 🎿 🩵💛🩷

January 10, 2026

Notes from my last flight

 

Cute hand drawn travel pack airplane notes what to bring traveling with kids
Notes taken in the air - originally in pen 🖊️ in a mini notebook 📓 — never, ever leave home without one. 
🩵💚Not to be forgotten when flying with kiddos 💛🧡

January 5, 2026

What are you building?

 

Eka Pada raja kapotasana king pigeon pose yoga girl cute drawing
Eka Pada Raja Kapotasana - King Pigeon Pose in happy frenchie cool girl stripies
Eka Pada Raja Kapotasana - King Pigeon Pose
Add flourish to your asanas. 🐚 

Everyday around 10am, for eight days straight, our family of six, (with cousins in tow,) headed to the beach. My youngest, age 3, would promptly ask me to “build a road”. We scooped, dug, piled, grated, patted, and decorated gaping holes, super highways, winding rivers, picturesque villages, connecting tunnels, long islands, creepy faces, and even a giant sea serpent monster. What were we making? We never knew. We just kept constructing. 


🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️Sea monsters🧜‍♂️🧜‍♂️


January 1, 2026

Yo-ga

 

Dancer drawing yoga girl cute
Dance your yoga ~ unite with the divine. Inner peace and outer beauty are yours for the taking.
This New Year - UNIFY yourself.

YOLK each aspect of your life through self realization. 🥚 

Jolly shopping and wrapping.

Silly gilly traveling.


Amusing dressing and entertaining.

December 26, 2025

Victory pack

 

Vrksasana -  Tree Pose while auditioning clothes (yes, sparkle pink is coming with!). 🌸
Vrksasana - Tree Pose

TRY ON ALL clothing and accessories, if possible, when packing for a trip - dressing well is a feeling, literally. 

Indefinitely

Savasana - Corpse Pose so sweet and not so subtle ✨.
Savasana - Corpse Pose 🧟‍♀️ 

It can be as little as a water bottle or as big as a location; things in your life expire, and not necessarily when you expect them to. 

December 24, 2025

Observe

 

Malasana Garland pose yoga cute drawing
Malasana - Garland Pose starry ⭐️ bubbly 🫧 lovey 💕 dovey 🕊️ 
Malasana - Garland Pose

Sit back and watch the frenzied, delirious world do its thing whilst you do peaceful, casual yours. 


Ski buttermilk aspen one pieces wild fun colorful patterns rainbow kids Burton Reima free people
Buttermilk snow bunnies gone disco crazy 🐰 🪩 
Jingle all the way 🔔 

December 21, 2025

When life keeps on life-ing you

 

Anjaneyasana Low Lunge Twist cute yoga pose drawing
Anjaneyasana - Low Lunge with a twisty
Anjaneyasana - Low Lunge, twist 🍋‍🟩 

A power outage lasting days (appropriately during Chanukah 🕯️), just before holiday break, travel, and Christmas will test even the most yogic of nerves. 

November 25, 2025

Away message

 

Supta baddha konasana reclined bound angle daily doodle yoga drawing cartoon sketch
Supta Baddha Konasana - Reclining Bound Angle Pose

At the beach, out of touch from ‘the world’, getting my messages directly from the cosmos 🪐: aka on vacation sun tanning. 🧘‍♀️ PS: vacation - vacate! Cancel it, annul it; for I have left (and maybe even quit! Not really.) 🥸

September 6, 2025

Tartlette

 

Have yourself a French-inspired little weekend.

August 28, 2025

Sleek

Part Uttitha Parsvakonasana- Extended Side Angle Pose, Part Skandasana - Side Lunge
Touch the Earth, Cradle your head, Flow freely

How to become aerodynamic (for a SMOOTH efficient life)? Reduce drag and streamline your shape. As in - goodbye more and more things and hello more and more yoga; litheness and health :) 

The weather is quite bleak this week in Colorado, so I’m brainstorming Autumn’s sleek trim-down clean-up schematic. To excavate a layer deeper into the household’s gazillion items, I will ask “would I bring this in a move?” Not moving, but act as if. Aerodynamic. 

August 15, 2025

I speak French fries

 

Le Weekend

I did not cross the Atlantic this Summer, as I regularly do, but, nonetheless, I endeavor to channel la fille Francaise.

July 28, 2025

Peppy steppy

Walk about the neighborhood. 
Clothing as KOSHA - SHEATH 

More PEP in my STEP this AM thanks to the husband who scooped up and brought back with him a small assemblage of attire from my main closet at home whilst there on a work day (I am on a month-long uninterrupted ‘reclusive’ vaycay). I didn’t realize how fatigued I was of my pathetic selection of duds (it is ASPEN, after all,) until I donned a neon swimsuit, gingham dress, silky cardi, pink suede sneakers and got a NEW LEASE ON LIFE!

Unfortunately? But powerfully! Clothing acts as a sheath - energetic layer - which can be used to our advantage (or disadvantage). 

P.S. The procuring of such items was made possible by strategic, color-coded closet organization (and periodic paring down,) allowing myself to plainly explain and my husband to effortlessly locate the 10 or so sought-after items in mere minutes via FaceTime. 🛍️ 


Purchase less, create more ✌️

July 23, 2025

Best of Aspen

 

Blue Cookie Muncher Ice Cream 
PARADISE BAKERY, Aspen
 
💚🌳En route to the muncher 🍨 💙



July 22, 2025

Rad


You know you’re having a pretty RAD summer when you’d rather PLAY in that lame purple bikini AGAIN (and be seen in it!) than stop to go SHOPPING.