Eka Pada Dhanurasana | One Legged Bow Pose Yoga Illustration

Backbend, twist, stretch, and strengthen in Eka Pada Dhanurasana, also known as One Legged Bow Pose, with an opposite foot hold variation. Illustrated by Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum.

Eka Pada Dhanurasana (One Legged Bow Pose) | Yoga Illustration 

 Back-to-school requires backbending, twisting, stretching and strengthening!

Scorpion Pose Handstand | Vrschikasana Yoga Illustration

Vrschikasana, also known as Scorpion Pose Handstand, illustrated by Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum 

Vrschikasana (Scorpion Pose Handstand) | Yoga Illustration

Some poses will be personal best poses, some will be good enough, and others will be weak points. Strengthen your strengths; practice your natural talents, accentuate your best assets, focus on what energizes and lights you up!

Seated Side Bend | Ardha Padmasana Heart Opener Yoga Illustration

 Le’go the ego in Ardha Padmasana, Half Lotus Pose, with a Side Bend Stretch variation hands behind the head, fingers interlocking. A restorative chest opener illustrated by Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum.

Ardha Padmasana  (Half Lotus) with Side Bend Stretch | Restorative Heart Opener | Yoga Illustration 

Egos — you may not run the yoga show!

Compass Pose | Surya Yantrasana Yoga Illustration

Surya Yantrasana, also known as Compass Pose, illustrated in pink by Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum.

Surya Yantrasana (Compass Pose) Yoga Illustration

 Pink is my favorite color. 💖 What is your signature color?

🐚 Shelling is Yoga 🐚 Illustration

🐚 Shelling is Yoga 🐚 Illustration by Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum.

Shells 🐚 illustration 

Even if we do not set foot in the yoga studio we can be intentional with our posture and deliberate with our movements all Summer long.

See Shells by the Seashore ~ Bound Lotus 🪷

Baddha Padmasana - Bound Lotus Pose 🪷 

 Some Seasons it’s simply too spectacular outside for indoor studio yoga. 

👙 Resort Wear 🩳

Wild Thing with Foot Bind

Resorting to wear cotton and cutesy in the South of France. 🇫🇷 

Interested is interesting. 

Inspire. Dazzle. Fascinate. ~ Foot and Wrist Stretch.

Malasana - Squat on Toes with Wrist Stretch

Perform the tricks from up your sleeve.

Share your gifts, knacks and talents with fellow vacationers: whether they be personal handwriting that’s practically a font, thoughtful questions, a bead kit you brought (with letters for personalizing), experience in driving paddle boards, speed boats, Vespas etc. and your other natural abilities, skills and powers that will - believe it or not - inspire, dazzle and fascinate your fellow participants.

Trust - Toe Stand Figure-Four Cradle 🙏

Toe Stand Figure-Four Cradle Namaste

 What do we have to lose by trying Self-Love?

Only Human ~ Cat Stretch

Cat Stretch
Mothers: Human, too.

I think when mothering four young children the highs feel higher and the lows feel lower.

BEE you 🐝 ~ Supta Padangusthasana

Supta Padangusthasana - Reclined Hand to Big Toe Pose

In Aspen, CO the beauty standards seem very extreme - even I have to repeatedly remind my typically composed and centered spirit: all you can be is yourself!

The Show Must Go On ~ Gomukhasana

Gomukhasana - Cow Face Pose forward fold
Double Threaded Needle Bind holding opposite feet.

Summer break with four kiddos at home is feeling impossible today. 

Some days you just have to put your ‘costume’ on and go through the motions.