One of my favorite moments in any sort of fandom comes when a mindscape is depicted – when someone’s internal mental processes are revealed through visuals or words. These scenes almost always feel strange and unhinged, like a dream, while also relatable. It’s bizarre but intriguing that these mindscapes feel more alien to us than…
Hone Your Super Power: Planking
What’s your super power? You see that question on t-shirts sometimes, usually adding, “I teach, what’s your super power?” Or the occasional shirt on NASA employees that say “Actually, I am a rocket scientist.” It’s braggy but kind of nice to see people owning their powers, super or not. Because while we don’t usually have…
It’s About Time: Wheel(ish) Pose
“Time is the fire in which we burn.” – Bad guy, Star Trek Generations “It’s linear!” -Captain Sisko, Star Trek DS9 “It’s not linear.” – Captain Sisko, Star Trek DS9 “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint – it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff.” –…
Who You Gonna Call? Self Awareness!: Revolved Lunge
Specters are all around us. Maybe they aren’t ghosts, as such, although I don’t want to claim I know for sure. But we are all haunted in our own ways. Even something as simple as the words we use are haunted – there are connotations to our words and phrases, specters of our past reading…
Yoga and the “Non Zero Sum Game”
There are no winners in yoga. And that might just be the best thing about it. Yoga is not what they call a “zero sum game,” a phrase which in game and economic theory means a situation in which one participant’s win is equal to the other participant’s loss. In other words, it’s winner take…
Waving Through a Window at our Fandoms: Triangle Pose
Ariel wants to be part of that human world, to run and dance and burn things. Dorothy wants to go over that rainbow, not just see it in the sky. And heaven knows we all know by now that Hamilton is not throwing away his shot. In the traditional “I want” songs in musicals, you…
Fandom Food Yoga Flow
Leaving an impact on an irritating world
I don’t want to be the quivering cup of water, however ominous it may be. I don’t want to be the people in the jeep cowering at the quivering water. I want to be the T Rex, careening towards them, roaring and smashing trees. I want to leave big, muddy, imposing footprints. Sure, one reason…
When Being Greatest Showman Becomes Not Enough: Yogi Squat
I love how my glasses help me focus. Without them I’d be unable to see my yoga mat at all, let alone a tiny drishti across the room to help me balance. That said, without them on, there is something intriguing in the blurry, bleary world. The distinctions between people and objects fade away and…
Being each others’ Drishtis/Sestras: Revolved Half Moon Pose
Last week a random person was my drishti. This person still has no idea that they held me aloft in tree pose, nor do I have any idea who they were. Nevertheless, they were my drishti. A drishti, for those who may not have heard of it before, is gaze towards some focal point. It…