yoga sandbox moment: get bent

be flexy, be bendy.  live the yoga!  hope this pic helps you get over the mid-week hump! 
(image found while purusing pinterest)

yoga sandbox: t-rex hates chaturanga

this pic is dedicated to all the yogis starting out in their practice that have a love-hate with chaturanga.  think of it this way, as challenging as chaturanga is, be grateful your arms can support you or at least brace our body as you lower down :)

a yoga sandbox moment (part 2)

it's playtime in the yoga sandbox. i am so excited that there is now a part 2 of one of my all-time favorite youtube videos!  watch this quick video when you need to lighten the mood of your day - it's a quick remedy you can even do at your desk!

yoga vs. jogging

when i first saw this cartoon on a postcard (promoting a swank fundraiser in nyc), it made me smile and giggle.  captured by well-known cartoonist,  david sipress, who has had his sketches in the new yorker (magazine), i felt like it really did capture the shift in how folks portray a healthy lifestyle. for decades new yorkers have been known to run, the more stressed you are, the more you run, and with little room to play ball or other sports in our concrete jungle, jogging seemed to work. 

luckily, yoga is perfect for city living too!  it requires little space and it's nicer to your joints than pounding the pavement everyday, regardless how bouyant and shock-absorbing those sneaks might be.  think you need to run like forrest (gump) to get your cardio workout?  think again.  going upside down in yoga (read: inversion) can satiate your heart-pumping fix, plus it allows blood to flow more easily back to the heart from your tootsies in addition to more blood to that noggin of yours.  yay for yoga!

yoga sandbox moment: girls gone yoga

i am not sure if this is a spoof or a real trailer for a youtube reality show (read:  if you have more info, share it in the comments)... but it was tweeted to me and i thought it was a fun video that qualifies of a yoga sandbox moment regardless of what the real intention of it is - it's monday afterall, so let's keep it light and airy today folks, there's a whole week to feel otherwise.