Namaste | Yoga Illustration

Elegant, sophisticated yoga for this beautiful, complex life. Prayer Hands to Heart Center Meditation (Samadhi Namaste) illustration by Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum 

Seated Meditation | Hands to Heart Center | Prayer Hands | Samadhi | Namaste | Yoga Illustration

My current mom hierarchy while orchestrating the back-to-school season: naps first, walks second, yoga third.

Going out on the town fourth!

Cleansing juicing and vibrant eating fifth.

Simple Pleasures ~ DownDog Transition

Stepping forward from (three legged) downward dog.
Low Lunge hands framing front foot.

Rediscover the omnipresence of simple pleasures while hanging out with kids.  

PS: QUANTITY time - not quality time - is required for the miraculous unveiling of these everyday delights. 

Pinecone, berry, acorn, leaf etc. animals, mermaids, gnomes, boats, lawnmowers and more…

Rainy Day or !Too Hot Day! - Paint 🎨 

🛎️ Order Up! Ceaseless meal service.

Dot Cakes by Goldie.

Mid-pool session siesta.

Buckle Up!

Single Specific Attribute or Category that Applies to all Entities

 

Seated Neck Stretch

Three Rows:

💫Values 🏹 Tangible Goals 🌱 Specific Policies and Actions

Fill each row with subsequent columns. 

(EG: 💫Unconditional Family Support 🏹 Quantity Family Time 🌱Dinner Together at the Table Most Nights OR 💫Yogini my Life 🏹 Zen and Fit 🌱Yoga or Walk Weekdaily.)

Find repetitious ‘Policies and Actions’. Circle them. Act on them. Make your life beautiful. 

It’s All Happening.

Make it Happen.

Dream ~ Create.

True Treasure ~ Ardha Yoga Nidrasana - Sun Steeped Café Soleil

Ardha Yoga Nidrasana - Half Yogic Sleep Pose
Looks comfy, right? 🥹

🐾 Your unique fingerprint - discover the valuable habits that work for you (just you!) and treasure your cache of prized behaviors. 🪎

Soleil Café (Sun Coffee)
Steep grounds for a few hours in the sun then sieve and sip with cream.
🤍🌞🤎🌞🤍

🌞 🫖 💐

Remember to dry your flowers 💐🧻 and steep your sun tea 🫖🌞 this Summer. 

💕💖 

Dried Flowers, some pressed into clay.

Dried Bouquet.

Dried Rose Petals

🌞 Sun Tea 🫖 Red Berry, Rooibos, Earl Gray.

Rocky Mountain Highlights.

& Plunge.

We Are Family ~ Side Stretch

Parivrtta Upavistha Konasana - Revolved Seated Angle Pose

(This) Summertime it is all about the Family time - and I am here for it.

What I Wore 💖

I live to painstakingly plan outfits for travel and events: shoes, sheaths, snaps, wraps, cross-bodies, sparkles, jewels, clips, claws, hair… and then I -UGG - invariably forget to take photos!! Less focus on rare special occasions and a little more attentiveness to everyday styling (notably hair) could release this acute pressure to document and dampen the recurring disappointment. 💖

The only photo 😭 

Snapped upon returning home long after midnight…

🍒 Kamp Kirschenbaum 🍒 2026

Ardha Dhanurasana - Half Bow Pose 🏹 and chiiiiill
Iced coffee, chocolate milk bottles and popsicles at our convenience. 🧋🍼🍦

What shall we do today Kampers? Life is good when you are your own Kounselor; No forms, no packing lists, no weather updates, no transportation issues, no allergies, no early mornings, no problemo. 

At 🍒 Kamp Kirschenbaum 🍒 there are no rules (except be polite!) 

Kamper Ash is a careful builder.

Kamper Lélé refinishes furniture.

Crochet Kampers Opal, Pansy and Ocean.

Kounselor Astrid Kirschenbaum is not pictured as very minimal oversight is necessary 😻

The Tone of Your Home

Zesty, starry, shiny, peppery, salty, coppery, green, energetic, soft, pink, calm, blue... Mom Vibes - to infinity and beyond!!!

As women we set the tone of our home, and that energy, embodied in the members of our family and the visitors to our environment, ripples out indefinitely.

Cloudy days call for colorful dinners…

Not pictured: Stormy Day Dinner was chicken tortilla soup (from a dear school-mom-friend's Boulder CO soup company) with plenty of Astrid's home-baked vanilla pound cake (new fave) with fresh CO cow whipped cream. 

Sumhersasana

Summer come save me.

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

🌼 Ditzy Bimbo 🌼

What is a girl to do?

I have a penchant for embarrassing myself. Hopefully it amuses others and maybe puts them at ease? This blonde likes to have fun and doesn’t mind looking like a lunatic doing it (knocking over cups full of pens in a solemn bank meeting 😬, showing up to the pool opening - and swimming! - 2 days early with 6 kids in tow: “why is no one else here?” 😬, bopping around town with my shirt inside-out 😬, stating my drive-thru order loud and clearly into the trash can placed en route to the speaker 😬, and on and on all the days long…)

Happy-go-lucky, carefree and a bit daffy while hard-working in my home, active at our school, engaged in the neighborhood, out-and-about in my community…

When actively occupied both at-home and about-town, faux pas are bound to happen and, in my case, it is gaffes galore!! You are welcome?🙏 

Santosha ~ Setubandha Sarvangasana

 

Setubandha Sarvangasana - Bridge Pose

Cultivate Santosha with (week) DAILY yoga.

DAILY yoga and DAILY creativity for DAILY peace.

Is Your Rest Constructive? ~ Constructive Rest Pose

Constructive Rest Pose

Knees together, feet apart.

 Deeply relaxing - like a self hug. 💞

Just as your food should be nourishing, your rest should be deliberate. 🫛

Green Goddess Dressing, Flower Blossom Cookies, Nut Stuffed Bacon Wrapped Dates, Mamachi’s Tomato sauce has carrots and cream, Homemade Food makes your fridge beautiful.

Garnish with your garden flowers (lilac here).

Yes - It’s Yogini Food! ~ Diver Pose

Diver Pose (Drinking Bird Pose) 🦅 

What does a Yogini cook and eat? Why, the foods she loves, of course.What foods does a Yogini love?

Living a creative life means create-ing daily; handmade delectable edibles are a piece-of-cake way to commune with the divine per diem (especially if you’re planning to eat anyways)!

Just keep COOKing (in silence for effortless enlightenment).

Spring goddess salad, chocolate pots, homemade ‘perfect bars’ plus oats, three berry muffins, classic stuffed bell peppers. 💚🤍❤️

EN-JOY

Breaking Bread ~ Parfait-asana

Berries, dairy, crystal. 🍓🐮💎

Procuring, preparing, serving, and bussing (week)daily dinner takes an immense amount of effort, consideration and sacrifice; therefore, it is imperative to nourish your family by making and sharing the recipes you yourself LOVE. Breaking bread is a daily form of modeling universal respect and zest for life.

Germans liebe potato salad.

Chocolate pots all around.

Greek salad is pretty in pink and green.

Just add granola: substantial Greek yogurt and berry dessert to prevent late night snacking.