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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.

Yo-ga

 

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.

Victory pack

 

Vrksasana - Tree Pose

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

Dress like he’s your Ex

 

Parsva Anjaneyasana - Low Lunge Pose Side Bend

Au naturel

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Parivrtta Prapadasana - Twisted Toe Squat

“Being in ‘nature’ is good for us,” “get out into ‘nature’,” “commune with ‘nature’ daily,” “eat more naturally, wear natural fibers, naturalify your home…” — hold the phone — we ARE nature!!! ☎️ 

🌟 Starbaby 🌟

 

Yoga Mudrasana - Psychic Union Pose

Lotus legs, hands bound, third eye to the floor 🧿

🌈 How do you prepare for your birthday? ✨ 

Fashion Rules

Eka Pada Ardha Navasana Baddhanguliyasana - One Legged Half Boat Pose Interlocked Fingers

Using interlaced fingers to coax and then train the leg to straighten. For some of us it’s a process 🥵

As I am perpetually attracted to and distracted by bright, shiny objects and innumerable looks, modas and trends, I have to condition myself not to try every cut, color and material …

We should (in times of limitless options) make our own little unspoken edicts (whilst free to disobey and evolve said mandates constantly). Such as : 

FOR FASHION (currently) - 

1. No writing. Strong personal pet-peeve, should be its own post.

2. No logos. Especially not on heart or head!!

3. No black. Unless for equipment, like sports.

4. No polyester. Though also OK for athletic / specialty purposes. 

5. No bands around the diaphragm. Camisoles in lieu of bras.

6. Revolving door of anything goes undies.

7. No high-heels. Low heels on occasion. Thick soles for dusty country living. 

8. Soft style hair ties.

9. Mascara is for special days. 

10. Shop while on vacation. Too taxing during regular family-life days. 

11. The word ‘fashion’ gets a bad rap - and I keep hearing use ‘style’, but I like the practicality of fashion being a ‘system, manner, method, approach’, and the DIY aspect that to fashion is to ‘make, manufacture, construct, build’.

Your mat as an island

Vasishtasana - Forearm Side Plank Pose, with elbow twist

Oblique strength 👙

Your mat = your own little world. Today I left my rose quartz colored, woven cotton yoga mat in the yoga studio’s ladies room. Sob! I’ll pick it up next time, of course. I use a yoga rug and cannot believe this style has not caught on (I’ve seen only one other) as I give it zero complaints and many acclaims. 💕

Consistency

 

Awkward Airplane Balance Pose

Simple. Strong. Everyday. 

Gaseous 🌬️

 

Ardha Pavan Muktasana - Half Wind Removing Pose

Release blocked energy channels. 

 Handpick preferences and priorities. Your own, not others’. 

Thingies 💓💖💝💕

 

Vyaghrasana Dandayamana Bharmanasana Vinyasa- Tiger Tabletop Pose Knee to Nose Flow

If you’re not fond of that THING (the fit of your sweats, the tightness of your sports bra, the cut or color of your thong, the stroke of your hairbrush, the ingredients in your lip gloss, the squeeze of the scrunchie on your wrist…) today, it will inconvenience you even more tomorrow, but you will forget your aversion over time - so OUT NOW with that thingie! And all of its unsatisfactory thingie friends, too. 

Eras

 

Era of refinement.

Be true to yourself in this present-day era: balance inner knowing with open curiosity. There is always room for improvement. 

🐭

🍂🧡🎃💛🌻

- 💚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.

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. 🍃 🍂 

Matriarchy

Parighasana - Gate Pose 

Open all sides.

 Using passion, pleasure and emotion to find our rhapsody. ❤️‍🔥

Stardust

Ustrasana - Camel Pose

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

 

Tartlette

 

Have yourself a French-inspired little weekend.

Housedressy

 

I ❤️💛💜 Housedress 

Not sheer, past the knees, poitrine concealed. 

Natural in fiber, of course.

The best Housedress is the one you can answer the door, grab the mail, chat with neighbor, and maybe even walk the dog in (if you live in the sticks like me). 

Swedish

 

Utkata Konasana - Goddess Pose with forward bend

Hands on ankles, arms follow leg shape

Lighten your hair in Summer by swimming (in salt water) often, often, often and - no rinsing - allow to sun-dry. Also, concentrated Chamomile Tea, Lemon Juice, raw Honey with Cinnamon, Olive Oil, diluted Hydrogen Peroxide 😉 (aka Sun-In) and … SUN SUN SUN.

Less zealous

Taking NOTES from the MEN (who have fewer options and less zealous marketing). 

1. Pockets! - Perhaps even forgo a purse. 😱

2. Dresses and skirts (while they so contentedly stick with pants and shorts). 

3. Fewer colors. 

4. SMALLER CLOSETS. 

5. Denim.