Lavender Fields ~ Headstand Variation

Sirsasana ~ Headstand variation 
To safeguard my neck, I typically headstand with tripod arms.

When I was growing up, the day school ended my family and I flew (fled?) to the French Riviera and returned to the USA only after the school supplies had - much to my dismay - run out at the American stores. Summer was not filled with planned activities or camps or playdates but with open-ended European road trips and unhurried, unstructured, seemingly endless days chez nous en Provence. 🪻🪻🪻

With my four petites being ages 3-13, it is likely not prudent to emulate this relaxed, improvisational, détendue, and highly unAmerican protocol, but I am going to give it a shot. I will let you know how it goes...

❤️Red 🤍White 🩵Blue & 💓Pink ~ Headstand Yoga Pose variation

Sirsasana - Headstand variation 
Loving red-white-blue (plus pink).

In preparation - or was it the opposite? - for this Summer I said sayonara to my week-daily sunrise yoga, I eschewed all camps for the kiddos, we bought only one-way airplane tickets, and I haven’t sought out a single sitter. Naturally, I am becoming petrified and beginning to panic as school winds its way down  (4 kids - 10 year spread - 75 straight days!), but this weekend is going so well I think it’s going to be the best Summer yet!!! 💙🤍❤️ ✌️🤞😎😎😎😎😎🤞✌️❤️🤍💙

Firewood, Fresh Flowers & Honey

What is your “Farmstand” (what are you into) this season?

Keep dreaming. 🌝 Dream your own way.

Keep creating. 🏹 Create your own way.

Keep growing. 🌾 Grow your own way.

No Holds Barred

Upavistha Konasana - wall Straddle Pose
I just love love love (cute, soft) pajamas.

There are seasons where living your yoga may not involve actual yoga… as in no-holds-barred convos over ice-cream sundaes poolside or hanging in your PJ's until the PM part of the day.

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. 

Mature ~ Standing Half Bound Lotus Pose

Ardha Baddha Padmottasana - Standing Half Bound Lotus variation
Ok to mature over here.
I am not one to try to turn back the (face and body) hands of time.

Mature: A fruit that has reached its ideal, fully developed state on time.

Growth Phase to Maturity Stage ~ Bound Half Lotus Standing Forward Fold

Ardha Baddha Padmottasana - Bound Half Lotus Standing Forward Fold
Goodbye growth phase, hello maturity stage.

This past week I felt wrenched (physically ill, even) over a possible exciting, albeit petrifying, dramatic life-change. Then, all of the physical pain dissipated when I returned to an old-friend book of mine and made the realization that...

We are at the point where our "Growth Phase" is plateauing into the "Maturity Stage" of (family) life. It is time to point the decision-making compass towards:

The Maturity Phase:

- Enjoying moderate, steady, stable growth. 

- Lowering ‘costs', increasing 'revenue', and refining processes.

- Maintaining pre-established fundamentals (number of children, location...)

- Distributing excess wealth and emanating peace.

A satisfying discovery: I have earned the position, through time + work, where it is wonderfully NOT necessary or appropriate (anymore) to act on exciting, petrifying life changes! I have painstakingly developed the character and gradually accumulated the means to be creative, expansive and free within my already glamorous, gorgeous, lovingly curated Life-Structure. 

Lost ~ Goddess Pose On Tiptoes

 

Utkata Konasana Samprapada - Goddess Pose on Tiptoes

Feeling lost and in despair with nowhere to turn? Remember what your mother told you and stay put where you are. 

Sumhersasana

Summer come save me.

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

Soak Up the Sunny Colors ~ Reclined Bound Angle

Supta Baddha Konasana - Reclined Bound Angle Pose

🌼 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?🙏 

Yoga Habit

For a behavioral habit - do it even though you don’t want to.

A clothing ‘habit’ is often long and loose.

Habit - a distinctive garment worn to signify a person’s affiliation with a specific group, profession or purpose. 

It is time I return to an all black (+ dark grey) habit for yoga… the stunning woman beside me this morning looked flawless and serene in her entirely ebony, austere uniform (and always does.) 🖤🖤🖤