AUGUST 7, 2023 - PEAK POSE: TWISTED CHAIR POSE VARIATION (PARIVRTTA UTKASANA)

Feel it all.

By Glennon Doyle
I finally stopped avoiding fires long enough to let myself burn, and what I learned was that I am like that burning bush: The fire of pain won’t consume me. I can burn and burn and live. ...

JULY 20, 2023 - PEAK POSE: HALF HANDSTAND AGAINST WALL

It's all just lessons and blessings. All of it. And when we realize this and then accept it, life gets WAY better. )

JULY 11, 2023 - PEAK POSE: ONE-LEGGED DOLPHIN POSE AGAINST WALL

"What if life happened AS you, not TO you?"

In other words, what if your entire life was an extension of YOU? If you don't love your life, time to change YOU. :)
In my opinion, all of life's expressions are just an extension of who...

JULY 3, 2023 - PEAK POSE: CROW INTO FIREFLY (BAKASANA into TITIBHASANA)

What if life were happening THRU you, not TO you?
(4th of July Patriotic playlist)

We start our lives believing that life happens to us. We are the victims. Life is unfair. Once we embark on the spiritual path, we come to ...

JUNE 15, 2023 - PEAK POSE: BALANCED REVOLVED HALF MOON (NIRALAMBA PARIVRTTA ARDHA CHANDRASANA)

Your Best Days

By all means rest
and go ow when you must
lay on the bottom
and allow the darkness to consume you
sometimes, that's the only way.

But when the light starts to stroke your eyelids
just ...

JUNE 5, 2023 - PEAK POSE: FLOATING GARLAND (MALASANA)

Life beyond The Thunderdome
We all want a life beyond it. Let's do it!

MAY 22, 2023 - PEAK POSE: BALANCED FIGURE-FOUR

Connect with your inner kid.
What is it saying to you today? How can you advocate on its behalf.
How can you create a life where that little voice within you feels heard and plays!?

MAY 14, 2023 - PEAK POSE: ONE-LEGGED BRIDGE (EKA PADA SETUBANDHA SARVANGASANA)

Return to Innocence. (Mother's Day-inspired playlist)

"Delight in the innocence you once were.
Say to your inner child: 'I love you. I'm here with you now.
What would make you feel most loved right now?
What'd happen...

MAY 4, 2023 - PEAK POSE: UNSUPPORTED SHOULDERSTAND (NIRALAMBA SARVANGASANA)

"What you say no to determines the success to what you say yes to." - Bethany Webster

(And I'm saying "no" to perfectionism and my OCD that tells me my shoulderstand in this frame isn't perfect. lol. It's the little dec...

APRIL 25, 2023 - PEAK POSE: LOCUST (SALABHASANA)

Change your thinking, change your life

Until and unless you change your thinking, you will always recycle your experiences.

APRIL 14, 2023 - PEAK POSE: SIDE PLANK WITH YOGI GRIP (VASISTHASANA)

After life breaks you. :)

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are h...

APRIL 8, 2023 - PEAK POSE: TRIPOD HEADSTAND (SIRSASANA)

Turn your life into a celebration! Lean toward the sun! :)

The Sunflowers, by Mary Oliver

Come with me

into the field of sunflowers.

Their faces are burnished disks,

their dry spines

creak like ship masts,

their green leaves,

so hea...

MARCH 31, 2023 - PEAK POSE: SIDE CROW ON FOREARM AND HAND (PARSVA BAKASANA)

The Audacity to Bloom.
How can you have the courage to bloom into the life that has been waiting for you?

THE SUN By David Whyte

Sometimes

I look out

at everything

growing so wild

and faithfully beneath

the sky

a...

MARCH 24, 2023 - PEAK POSE: ONE-LEGGED UPWARD PLANK POSE/ EKA PADA ARDHA PURVOTTANASANA)

Be still and know.

MARCH 17, 2023 - PEAK POSE: EASTBOUND POSE/ PURVOTANASANA

"Come home to yourself."
“The truth is — genuine connection is ease. It is peace. When you find it, you will know. You will feel seen, you will feel like you are being mirrored back to yourself, like you are discovering the shadow of your...

MARCH 10, 2023 - PEAK POSE: STANDING SPLITS AGAINST WALL (HANUMANASANA AGAINST WALL)

"Your new life is going to cost you your old one."

What of your old life are you finally ready to relinquish for the new set of keys?

MARCH 4, 2023 - PEAK POSE: STANDING SPLITS INTO HANDSTAND

You do not have to be good... You just need to be kind. You do not have to be good. You just need to be courageous. You do not have to be good. You just need to be committed.
-
Wild Geese – Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do ...

FEBRUARY 23, 2023 - PEAK POSE: FISH VARIATION
(MATSYASANA with PADMASANA LEGS)

Build a life you don't need to escape from.

FEBRUARY 16, 2023 - PEAK POSE: FISH (MATSYASANA)

Speak what you seek until you see what you've said.
The words we speak to ourselves are a form of prayer - what prayers are you reciting? Do you pray to the Worry Gods? Etc.
Keep speaking what you DO want, and relentlessly so, until you see what y...

FEBRUARY 6, 2023 - PEAK POSE: REVOLVED BOAT POSE (PARIVRTTA NAVASANA)

Do it... We're not here for long.

JANUARY 29, 2023 - PEAK POSE: HEADSTAND (SIRSASANA)

"I am not throwing away my shot."
We can't throw away our many opportunities that life presents us - shots at our joy, happiness, peace, healing, growth, etc.

So, how can you seize the shots and opportunities you've been receiving today? :)

JANUARY 21, 2023 - PEAK POSE: BHARADVAJASANA

Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death

If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
Do not silence yourself to say something
And do not speak to be silent

If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do n...

JANUARY 14, 2023 - PEAK POSE: KING ARTHUR VARIATION (BOTH HANDS)

Your worst enemy sometimes is your own memory. You gotta let that sh*t go.
What can your memory teach you? What can you learn from your memory? Once the lesson is learned, it's time to move on to create space for building new and b...

JANUARY 7, 2023 - PEAK POSE: MERMAID

The key to happiness is a shitty memory - Truly. May we forget the pain and heartache, or the ways in which we were unkind to ourselves.
But let us never forget what we learned from those experiences or the ways in which we got stronger and wiser.