Foundling

 

Upavistha Konasana - Wide Angle Forward Fold 📐 

FIND that which you are hiding from yourself.

Everyday anow?

 

Marichyasana - Sage Twist Pose 

 Symphony not severity.

PAST poses create PRESENT poses and FUTURE poses and they all exist all at once.

Nowhere else I would rather be

Marichyasana III - Sage Marichi Pose 3, Seated Sage Twist With Bind C

The kiddos, or you, or both 😱 are sick and suddenly, without warning ones focus is single minded and undivided; nothing else matters. 🧿

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. 

Whirly 🌪️

 

Balasana - Child’s Pose

Illness, injury or sadness as a time for reflection, illumination and, possibly, ascension. 

Turn away from this WHIRLY WORLD and tune into your inner true self. 

Thoughtlessness

Phalakasana - Plank Pose, hip twist

Feet hips distance apart.

Hurts so good.

Twists are far more potent now than in my twenties. Is the sensation from childbearing and birthing? Amassed responsibilities? Accumulated toxicity? Crystalized convictions?  … 

Vinyasa = no thoughts! Moving through postures breath by breath reduces opportunities for extraneous thoughts. I forgot my water bottle in the studio today. (& Yesterday I forgot my mat!) Not because I wasn’t thinking, but because I was thinking too much!!

Creation creates

 

Natarajasana - Dancer Pose 

Hand to floor

In dancer we are both the archer and the bow : yes - we are creators, but first and foremost we are creation. 

Infinite

Ardha Padma Anantasana - Reclined Half Lotus Pose

Kubera Mudra for focused intention 

Sacrificing for your dream. Some days I look around (at my little life) and I feel overtaken with awe and immensely ‘blessed’. So much so, that the beauty of it can feel precarious (“too good to be true, so much to lose!”). But, as my husband elucidates, this life did not appear out of nowhere - myriads of sacrifices (countless other possibilities passed up) befalls when we make each choice. We are choosing one of infinite. So when the bliss is so joyous we panic, remember we had our hand in this; these are the steady and continuous - unprecarious - fruits of our labor. 🍇 

Selective

 

Dhanurasana - Bow Pose

Always one to grab the ankles in big back bends, maybe this week it’s time I clasped the toes.

The years are long, but the days are short; so let’s be selective with our interests, commitments, engagements and activities for, thankfully, we can have it all, just not all at once. 

Pointer

 

Bharmanasana - Table Top, Bird Dog Pose

All I know in this moment is that I do not know… 

Start here

 

Phalakasana - Plank Pose

Small victories: 1. Make the bed. 2. Brush your teeth. 3. Walk the dog. 4. Brush your teeth. 5. Unmake the bed. 

Fruit

 

Bharmanasana - Table Top Pose

There are times to actively manifest* and times to passively enjoy the fruits of your labor. 🍡

* manifest = imagine and create your own true, beautiful, Free reality, not that which the ‘world’ dictates. 

Zero talent 🥶

Vyaghrasana - Tiger Pose 💖🐯⛸️

About to skate, swim AND climb with kids 🥶😶‍🌫️😱, these are precisely the words of wisdom this mom needed today: 

“Everyday you wake up, you can control your attitude and your effort… it takes zero talent to be a good person and a good teammate.” - Aspen Recreation Center, Ice rink

Long weekends = lots of spontaneous outings. 

Years

 

Uttitha Tadasana - Mountain Pose, with Backbend

Years - decades - of practicing yoga allow for a vast catalogue of poses to call upon and with less ego attached to them; including the acceptance that certain poses may never look a specific way.

Major

 

Pincha Mayurasana - Forearm Stand funky style

Practice, practice, practice. OR maybe it’s just not that major for you. 

Privacy

 

Pincha Mayurasana - Forearm Stand with stag legs 

Some poses are better practiced at home. 

The hospitality rubber band has been stretched to its maximum and must now snap back; after a many-weeks-long, very social streak for our household, mom and dad are enforcing nuclear family time, just the six of us (plus the pup). 

Cobwebs in the attic

 

Parsvottanasana - Pyramid Pose 

🕷️ IDENTIFY and sweep aside your COBWEBS. 🕸️ 🧹 

Altitude

Urdhva Mukha Pasasana - Thread the needle pose 🧵 🪡 

 Relax your eyes, relax your jaw, relax your teeth, relax your toes, relax your ATTITUDE. 

Yoga nidra

 

Waterfall with bolster

I practice yoga. Just kidding I take naps. 

Mirror rorriM

Bhujangasana - Cobra Pose arms wide 🐍 

When we lessen our own material requirements, (persistently removing those pesky impulses and cravings one-at-a-time,) the incessant worldly demands of our children (and other household members) no longer vex us, as the mirror aspect is removed. 🪞 

XS enough to schlep XXL loads.