🐌 Vacation Integration 🐢 ~ Sukhasana, Dhyana, Mukula Mudra

Sukhasana - Easy Pose
Dhyana - Meditation 
Mukula Mudra - Lotus or Lily Bud Hand Gesture 🤌 

(Vacation) integration is gradual, slow, steady, slimy, super cute, hard shelled, long-lived… 🐌 🐢 

Broaden Horizons ~ Dwikonasana

 

Ardha Dwikonasana - Half Yoga Seal Pose, Double Angle Pose

Traveling will stretch you beyond your limit: release all those staid and pesky ‘preferences’ to appreciate the discomfort.

(Water) Ski Season ~ Utkata Konasana

Utkata Konasana - Goddess Pose

 Strong legs are imperative for (water) ski season. 

Starfish ~ Vasisthasana

Vasisthasana - Side Plank Pose, Starfish

If you need a cute trick (jumping into water from a high place, jumping on a trampoline, jumping for a pic): Starfish. ⭐️🐠 😉 

Turtle Power ~ Tadasana

Tadasana - Mountain Pose
Awestruck by the remarkable human body. 

The turtle is more magnificent than the most impressive ship: magic is down-to-earth. 

Toy Boat 🚤 ~ Navasana

 

Navasana - Boat Pose play
Mindful of my low back, I like to work my Navasana without any outcome in mind. 

Centimeter by centimeter ~ Navasana

 

Navasana - Boat Pose
I am a boat pose modifier.

After 1.5 years of weekdaily yoga practice, my legs are ever so slightly straightening (centimeter by centimeter). If ‘it’ doesn’t happen in a few years time, wait longer. 

Warmth ~ Dandasana

 

Dandasana - Staff Pose

Self care 101 - staying warm by dressing properly.

Cocoon ~ Paschimottanasana bent legs

Paschimottanasana with bent legs - Caterpillar Pose

Can you feel it? Spring - and hence special lifestyle shifts - are just around the corner. 

Look Inside ~ Sukhasana Dhyana

 

Sukhasana - Easy Pose, Dhyana - Meditation 

I took out my contacts one week ago and went unobstructed for the first time in decades. Here is what happened:

1. My sinuses filled with pressure, but the congestion is subsiding with each passing day. 

2. I realized that I am completely reliant - obsessed - with the visual realm.

3. I am slowly learning to look inward. 

4. My drishti is better than ever. 🙈

Reinvention ~ Supta Baddha Konasana

Restorative Supta Baddha Konasana - Reclining Bound Angle, with Heart Opener

Reminiscing about my early yoga days while conceptualizing what is to come.

Summer is the season of reinvention, SPRING is the season to plant the reinvention seeds. 

Hand-me-downs ~ Virabhadrasana I

Virabhadrasana I - Warrior One 
The color of the heart is green.

I am stuck on the Stuff Merry-Go-Round. Packing for a family of six makes me lose my mind a little. I have beneficially and appropriately kept and corralled many, many seasons and sizes of duds and doo-dads, but this again? How many times can I unbox, unfold, sort, fold, wash, dry, sort, fold, pack, unpack, sort, shakeout, dust off, examine, sort, fold, keep, pass along, repeat …