Before we start, can you all join me in wishing Pa Yogini a very happy birthday!
Happy Birthday dad, love from the whole of the internets!
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Two weeks ago I looked at a variation of Virabhadrasana 1 coming from Downward Dog with the back heel lifted. Here is a video of another version of the posture, this time coming from Tadasana and working on alignmnet in the pelvis and openess in the shoulder girdle.
Enjoy and all feedback/other variations much appreciated!
Readers, tomorrow is Midsummer’s Day and in the UK yesterday it poured with rain all day long and had a top temperature of 12*C!! Don’t you love the British Summer? And Wimbledon is starting on Monday so don’t expect a dry spell any time soon.
Although I did read in one of the less intelligent newspapers that we were heading for a drought. Go figure!
Also:-
* I went to the gym for the first time since October (yoga six days a week and cycling six to eight miles a day is enough for me!). I went on Himself’s guest pass and watched him do boy things with weights whilst I lifted handweights that were only one step up from sticks. I also sat in the steam room until I went pink and ate carrot soup in the bar afterwards.
* Watched Dorian Gray. Oh how awful it was. Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray is my favourite book. I know it *really* well. I wrote my MA thesis on it you see. And the film missed the whole point of the book by over glamorising and over sexualising the whole thing. Plus the book has probably the most perfect ending in the history of fiction and the film…… THEY CHANGED IT, readers!!! They had the audacity to change it. There was anger in my living room.
* Ate toast, drank caramilised vodka (this stuff is so good, readers), stocked up on Moleskine journals (there was an offer on), spent a little too much money (still trying to learn the difference between “necessity” and “frivolity”) and met friends staring at cakes through a window.
These cakes were purchased for my darling dad yesterday as an early Father’s Day present (Mama and Papa Yogini are driving to France as I type so I haven’t seen them today). Papa Yogini is one of my most avid readers and one of my biggest inspirations (yoga and otherwise). Hope you are having a wonderful day dad, even if you are stuck behind the wheel!
Feeling definitely below par today. Too much garlic kept me awake half the night (more on that in a moment) and my poor back is just getting worse and worse. My sacro-iliac joint has felt out of alignment all week and I see a trip to the chiropractor in my future. For now though a restorative yoga sequence to just keep that lower back moving.
Repeat ad infinitum!
The weather today and yesterday has been pretty below par for the last two days. Typical British Bank Holiday weather, windy and rainy. I guess we were lucky we had such a great day on Saturday!
Yesterday the whole family came over for dinner and wine and chitter chatter and games of Articulate and Uno!
I made Portabello Mushroom “Burgers” in ciabatta with salsa and goat’s cheese (for those who eat cheese!) with garlicky veggie fries. Too garlicky clearly
To make the fries, chop up veggies into strips – I used zucchini and sweet potatoes but I reckon pretty much anything will do. Pop them all in a tupperware with a spoonful of oil, a chopped garlic clove and a spoonful of ground flax seed and give ‘em a shake until they look like this.
Then put them on a greased baking sheet in a 180*C/Gas Mark 4 oven for 30 minutes.
Et voila. Hope the garlic doesn’t give you indigestion!
punk rock yogini, teacher, writer, massage therapist , general sprinkler of fairy dust with a love for all things glitter, cupcakes, kittens, pugs and Dave Grohl
I am a BWY registered yoga teacher, but only you truly know your body. If you try out any of the yoga sequences in this blog and they don't feel right for you please stop! Please do consult a doctor before starting any new exercise regimes, especially if you have pre-existing injuries or illnesses.
