January 24, 2025

Flip the Script

 

 
Kakasana - Crow Pose.
It’s basically Happy Baby inverted, right?

Think of the FLIP SIDE and turn your day (life!) around. It’s a lighthearted, topsy-turntable way to get unstuck. Also a rad mechanism to make new shapes in your practice - ROLL OVER 🙃


Happy Baby Steps

Ananda Balasana - surely the most cheerful pose to say 💛

There truly is enormous power in putting one teensy foot in front of the other in (even just pretty much) the right direction. 🎯 
 

Outshine

Above - SunBum, Mineral Fusion, Pacifica, Physician’s Formula, Dr Haushka, Waleda, A La Maison, HoneyPot, ORL… fond of them from old fashioned trial and error. Personal, empirical data that no amount of “(online) research” could ever compete with. 🤓

Learning is EXPERIENTIAL. All of the second-hand information in the world can never top trying something for yourself. 🎩 Just as all the 1000’s of product reviews cannot substitute for physically testing said commodity 1st-hand. 💋
 

January 23, 2025

PROP UP

For the L💜VE of PROPS. Blocks, Bolsters, Straps, Towels, Blankets, Eye Pillows, a Chair, the Wall…

SUPPORT. Seek it out. ACCEPT it. It may seemingly manifest in an unforeseen form, but it’s exactly as you asked it. So again, please RECEIVE the RELIEF. 🌬️

January 22, 2025

🤵‍♀️ Look Cute - Have Fun 😻


Shopping should be FUN. In France they would say it should be a ‘pleasure’. As a necessity of most modern lives, we may as well know our Shopping Style to make it gratifying, if not a thrill ;)

  • In Person or Online
  • Morning or Evening
  • Dolled-up or Incognito 
  • Full Price or Bargain
  • Specific or Open-ended
  • Marathons or Sprints
  • Prepped or Impromptu
  • Focused or Multi-task
  • Alone or Accompanied 

Personal Profile: Anytime I Order I feel I could have fared better In-Person, I hit the shops upon Opening, I Preen enough to be friendly and decisive, I dwell if it’s not a Steal,  I’m capriciously receptive to Unplanned Purchases, I Pack numerous drinks and snacks, I must have my own Bags and a vacant car, phone calls are Silenced, I shop Alone or with my mother ❤️…



January 21, 2025

Pranayam

The untapped potential of not holding your breath today 🎁

Forgot to breathe this season, mom? Remember that glorious pre-spawn luxury of not panicking always? That’s why we have YOGA. RE-WIELD your god given lifeforce, even if it’s for scarcely one hour, in studio, assisted. 
 

Dazed


Parivrtta Parsvakonasana - Revolved Side Angle 
Back leg straight, back heel grounded, as in Warrior I.

Spiral so hard your head pops off !! Grounding ones back foot is so surprisingly intense it may just blow your mind. 💖☠️💙 You’re Welcome. 👻

Vivid PJs for bewilderingly energetic mornings and evenings. ⭐️🌸🌙


January 20, 2025

Wash, Rinse, and Repeat.

Ardha Matsyendrasana - Half Lord of the Fishes Pose
Twist to release stagnation.

Wash, rinse, and repeat — At what point does its efficacy wane and your nobbut using too much product?  Constipated with sticky mucky old ideas…

January 15, 2025

Axis


Parivrtta Ardha Chandra Chapasana - Revolved Half Moon Bow Pose or Revolved Sugarcane

See legs 🪢
Revolve • move in a circle on a central axis. 
Requires both sun 🌝 and moon 🌚 energy 

If you commit your focus to THE ONE thing (and follow it with passion), most else must fall by the wayside. The sacrifice is monumental and, hence, why few walk this path. My family duties pull me back to the center HUB like a magnet, to which I have given sanction. My ONE thing has been my brood for a decade now, but this girl’s wheels are turning with all of the beauty she has to offer outside the nucleus. Rounding out of this era; rotating focus.


Greetings NINE year - Completion and Closure. 💍
2025 : 2+2+5=9 


January 14, 2025

Adho Mukha

 

Adho Mukha Vrksasana - Downward Facing Tree. 
Not-so-sweet handstand you vex me, lately. 
…Even in Favorite-Heather-Red stretchies❤️

Is it that my life is already YANG enough? Is it lack of shoulder strength or too tight a back body? Perhaps lax complacency? Or heavenly contentment? An unostentatious desire to YIN? A provocative aversion to only the antagonizing Adho Mukha variety of Vrksasana has taken residence. 

January 13, 2025

🦅

 

Garudasana- Eagle Pose - solicitous to concentration and respiratory strength. 
Bolstering my lungs after weeks of chest weakness this winter. 

Compression • the reduction in volume (causing an increase in pressure) of the fuel mixture in an internal combustion engine before ignition. Oxford Language Dictionary

Compression poses prepare us for TAKE-OFF 🚀 

The emphasis on compression in HOT YOGA feels like a healing salve that keeps me returning for more. I have no passionate opinion on a heated practice (105 F plus humidity), it just so happens to fit into my timetable. The perk is that enduring the sauna space alone feels like an accomplishment.

My daughter says “at least it’s not cold yoga.” 🥶🙃

January 12, 2025

Rosy Urdhva Mukha Svanasana

Urdhva Mukha Svanasana - Combat depression and apathy. Improve posture. Also true for the color Pink☺️

Pink is a neutral, right? Besides all pink shades (and now even reds,) MY ordinary dailies include blue from ice to navy, army greens, and metallics. One look at my closet and it is obvious what I love. Are YOUR favorites represented? Does your wardrobe MIRROR back to you your tastes? (Are you even acquainted with what you fancy? Have you granted your preferences permission to evolve?) This is cohesion. Yoga - to yolk.

Rose Quartz


Frangible Perch - LFB for EPG

 

  Eka Pada Galavasana- One Legged Flying Elphaba (Pigeon)

Why in the universe would one attempt this wicked pose? To forsake that fear of falling on our face. To unhook ourselves from the ego’s clasp.


January 11, 2025

PRISMATIC Supta Virasana


Supta Virasana. Healing LEG VEINS from carrying the bébés (number four especially!) in the belly. Therapeutic for menstruation and menopause, as well.
Lounging in skintight neon yellow with loose cashmere stars.

At certain intervals we put ourselves into a shape and the ✨STARS ALIGN✨. My marbled, panging legs thank me intensely as I Supta my Virasana. ⚡️


Supta Virasana lets your Manipura - solar plexus - Chakra SHINE. 🌟

🫧

 

Naturally handsome neutral baskets and jute, canvas or felt sacks. 

Nothing to wear? Launder (nearly) daily. Cast away allegiance to ‘laundry day’ and throw in a load forthright.



January 10, 2025

🐾🐾🐶 Mucky Puppies 🐶 🐾🐾

Retro rainbows, silver hoops, and agate crystals.


✨WORDS AS WANDS*✨ for MOM & DAD 
🪶Animal Edition🪶

Creature Style your Turns of Phrases for a Supernatural Offspring Following:

  • Time to go ! - “Hop it to the Kangaroo.” “Quick like a Bunny.” 🦘🐇🦘🐇🦘🐇🦘🐇
  • Wash your hands !  - “Mucky Puppies” - Slippy Fishies, Frozen Penguin etc. - “to the sink.” 🐾
  • Settle down ! - “Curl into the cave baby Bear.” (Lap) “Where’s your den little Fox?” (Bed) 🪺
  • Speak clearly ! - “Sing to me again, sweet Goldfinch?” 🕊️
  • Dress warmly ! - “ABRACADABRA transform these children into their favorite fuzzy Animal.” (Layers on) “What’s your name, little Critter?”🧣🧤

Augment the clever and SILLY; reduce the rude and mundane. SOUND OUT what you mean (‘curl’ invites contracted coziness, ‘Mucky Puppy’ is sticky-icky). SING aloud, but not loud. Edicts are most efficacious delivered in varying spirited and melodious tones🎵. Like GOD’s animal kingdom, our vocal artistry is limitlessly puissant. 

*Borrowed terms : Words as wands, Ciara Burton. Mucky Puppies, Ms. Gussie Gertge Boulder Valley Waldorf School.

Beyond Asana

Tadasana. Next on the list to test - Yoga Rug.

It can be a matter of life and death to stay light on one’s feet. It also feels fantastic to float. But how is levity realized? YOGA. Practicing Yoga encompasses the stretching, weightlifting, meditating, chanting, but also all manner of healthy habits and beyond. 

January 9, 2025

Natarajasana

Natarajasana (lord of the) Dancer pose. 
In the market for a MOON-like boot. 🌝 


Nata - dance 
Raja - king 

Rule from the heart to reign this life. Thermal layers are vital for maintaining personal reserves, so there remains ample vigor abound to offer out. Accumulate - SNOWBALL! - your silky, woolly, fuzzy, windproof stash and PILE IT ON (in that order!)!

A WARM♥️ is an OPEN❤️

 

January 8, 2025

Palm Beach frond

Palm Frond as broom 🧹

Each balmy midmorning outside a prestigious estate in in lavish Palm Beach, I witnessed an unerring monk deep in meditation: a tranquil caretaker sweeping the street with a palm frond. 

Palm fronds symbolize victory, triumph and INTEGRITY. 

January 7, 2025

ATMOSPHERE

Xmas flowerchild dress, jellyfish onesie (on bébé), ‘tartlet’ (so says my brother) ruby and diamond earrings, pink and green tourmaline ring, bows, bows, bows, and BARE FEET !!



Every holiday has its ambiance - decide on and GUIDE that quality, but when life inevitably throws its curveball - just GO WITH IT. Our Christmas turned out sickly and stormy, but it was also curiously easygoing, exceptionally intimate and required a remarkable combined effort - an ESPRIT DE CORPS !!!

Atmosphere - ‘vapor’ ‘globe’



January 6, 2025

Back to the Sea

Crystal turtle-neck dress, gold and pearl choker, diamond hoops, suede cowboy boots, leather cherry purse, cremant champagne and Coke for Family party in Denver.
 

The river is flowing,

Flowing and growing

The river is flowing

Back to the sea

Mother Earth carry me

A child I will always be

Mother Earth carry me

Back to the sea

- Sun Bear, Chippewa Tribe

Home from the Sea, musing over what the future will be…

January 5, 2025

CLOUDY with a chance of PENUMBRA

 

Coniglio viscose rose tie lounge set. Ruby earrings and moonstone necklace. Pink sparkle Arabian slippers and diamanté conejo purse.

A hazy genesis of 2025 in paradisiacal, but overcast, Palm Beach. The pink hotels, patterned store windows and I are nearly cheerless. Yes - the sun shines eternal. But then there’s those deleterious clouds rendering all below dull and dreary. We are beginning the year in the penumbra - the gray area.