Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum

Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum
Showing posts with label international tricks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label international tricks. Show all posts

February 27, 2026

Fundamentals - Sukhasana neck side stretch

Sukhasana neck side stretch easy pose pranayama cute yoga girl drawing Yogini illustration
Sukhasana - Easy Pose, Neck Side Stretch
Underlying everything - Pranayama is to yoga what attitude is to life.

My children’s Waldorf school aligns with the very essence of how (and with whom) I believe they should be spending their days; and the details of our life are worked around the decision to have them there.

February 26, 2026

Ordination ~ Ardha Eka Pada Galavasana

Ardha Eka Pada Galvanasana Half Flying Pigeon Pose yoga Yogini illustration drawing cute pretty leg warmers
Ardha Eka Pada Galavasana - Baby / Half Flying Pigeon Pose
What feels good with the floating leg?

We must forgo 80% of everything (we do, own, don, desire etc.) if we would like a ‘signature’ anything, and much more if ‘iconic’ is the desired ordination.

February 23, 2026

Perfect Form ~ Manduka Malasana

 

Malasana manduka squat garland frog pose yoga yogini illustration drawing cute fun pink blonde
Manduka Malasana - Frog Garland Pose Squat
Playful, with movement: childlike.

Some days are not (at all!) perfect your form days. 

February 16, 2026

Snake Oil 🐍 Malasana

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.

February 15, 2026

LBD NBD ~ Koundinyasana II

 

Koundinyasana II Flying Splits Pose 2 Yoga Yogini illustration drawing fun cute silly sweet
Koundinyasana II - Flying Splits Pose 2, Preparation
Pausing here often during Vinyasa.
This is an accurate representation of what I generally wear to yoga: dark leggings, a lightweight, medium tone half-length undertank, and a looser (often grey) soft top tucked in.
With a rose quartz colored cotton mat.

Color TONALITY is important when dressing - take into account how much CONTRAST you do or do not have regarding your skin, eyes, and hair (and shade changes due to age, health status, tanned skin, sun-kissed tresses …). 

Hint: Not everyone looks great in black. 🌞 🖤

February 14, 2026

Poise ~ Ashta Chandrasana

Yoga asana Ashta Chandrasana High Lunge Pose arms extended Yogini cute sweet fun yoga illustration drawing
Ashta Chandrasana - High Lunge, arms extended forward 
Let us train for the strength and control to improve our posture. 

By refining our physical comportment we will, in turn, upgrade numerous facets of our lives (or so I have been told 😉… still a sloucher over here 😬).

February 12, 2026

Vinyasa ~ Vasisthasana

 

Vasisthasana Vinyasa - Side Plank Dance
🪩 Move in vinyasa manner to find your groove; embrace certain elements (and omit others) to make the practice your own. ☃️ 

❄️❤️Combine the things you love.❤️❄️

February 8, 2026

Bye Bye, Bra ~ Pranayama

Yoga breath cute yoga girl 3-part pranayama drawing illustration
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! 

January 11, 2026

Houseworkasana

Cute laundry housework drawing girl love fun inspiring
Houseworkasana

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

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 3, 2026

1%

Anuvittasana Tadasana back bend Found pose dance yoga cute drawing
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.


December 26, 2025

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 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. 

December 16, 2025

Stop spinning your wheels 😵‍💫

 

Intense shoulder stretch yoga pose asana drawing cute
Intense Shoulder Stretch on a cotton Yoga Rug, which is just so much better than a plastic mat.
Intense Shoulder Stretch

“Do less, observe more, enjoy most!” - Magda Gerber

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.) 🥸

November 20, 2025

Ear pressure

 

Karnapidasana Deaf Man’s Pose asana yoga drawing mydailydoodle Plow variation
Karnapidasana - Deaf Man’s Pose
Plow variation

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

November 14, 2025

Trianga

Trianga Mukhaikapada Paschimottanasana - Three Parts Forward Bend
Trianga:
Three poses - Dandasana, Virsasana and Paschimottanasana 
Three body parts - buttocks, knees and feet. 

Why draw yoginis most often on their mats? Because I am personally terrible at - practically incapable of - asana-ing without attending a class. 

If three tenets of our happiness are faith, family/friendship and meaningful work then we must hunker down and stop seeking. 

November 4, 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 🔑. 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.

October 30, 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 
🦀 
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. 

September 27, 2025

🐭

🍂🧡🎃💛🌻

- 💚BAKE zucchini bread. 
- 💛Light a CANDLE at dinner.
- 🧡Autumnify the NATURE TABLE
- ❤️UNEARTH the winter socks. (And pants, and hats, and mittens…)
- 💜CRAFT in the common family area.