Stop spinning your wheels 😵‍💫

 

Intense Shoulder Stretch

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

Hookie

 

Paschimottanasana - Seated Forward Bend

‘Staying in’ will likely involve actively skipping something(s); do not wait for a day off to happen, make it happen. 

Days 6 and 7

 

Ardha Uttanasana - Half Forward Fold

Weekends are to be worry free. 🩶

Foundling

 

Upavistha Konasana - Wide Angle Forward Fold 📐 

FIND that which you are hiding from yourself.

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!!

Destroyer of all diseases

 

Matsyasana - Fish Pose

Reduce stiffness in shoulders and neck. Improve posture. Balance the thyroid.

Self-compassionate healing après over-giving. 

🥠Fortunate🪙

 

Supta Utthita Tadasana - Supine Extended Mountain Pose

 Streeeeeeeeetch from the tips of your fingers to the ends of your toes. 

How lucky are we to be born again each morning?

Pointer

 

Bharmanasana - Table Top, Bird Dog Pose

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

Avert burnout 💥

 

Parsva Bakasana - Side Crow Pose

Some days (weeks?) are No Guest Days (no play dates, neighbors, workmen, dinner crashers, carpools…)  Determine the duration and spread the word. 

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. 

In the wake

 

Viparita Trikonasana- Reverse Triangle Pose

What comes after the precipice? The Hinge point from expansion to contraction. Anticipation to aftermath. 

Uh oh

Seed Pose

That lay-low because you are about to GROW pose. 

Preparatory School

 

Dreamasana ☁️ 

Life is not a means to an end, luckily, the contrary seems to be true. 

While away the hours

 

Returning from a 40 day hiatus, I had 3 (mostly) uninterrupted hours to reflect. 

While in LIMBO - (and perchance even alone,) on a long drive, airplane ride or other commute - we are proffered an ideal time for introspection and reflection; if we don’t kill the opportunity with distraction📱!

24/7

 

Cool summer rain shower while in the hot tub. When full-time stay-at-home parenting, it is essential to find pockets of (sensory) pleasure.

She’s so misty

Standing Squat Pose on Tip Toes

It was a bustling, clamorous day at the pool with nary a place to unwind, but I lay myself on the one-and-only empty chaise longue and somehow the extra ‘static’ helped a Message come in sunny. As the other adults sympathized and the children splashed — HUSH — I experienced an UNVEILing amidst the MIST. An aha in the hubbub. 
 

Bug out

 

Mandukasana - Frog Pose

The refuge will be there waiting until next time.