Yoga is a fairly recent development in my life, but I’ve been striking a pose since at least middle school. Not Downward Facing dog or Triangle pose – no, my girlfriends and I would strike a pose, Vogue style. At sleepovers, we would blast Madonna’s song, frame our face with our hands, and let our…
Top 10+ Pop Culture Yoga Poses
Whether or not they are on a mat, our favorite characters often find themselves striking a pose. Here are the top 10+ from in pop culture and fandom… comment if I missed your favorite! 13. Abbi in “Broad City” This may just be the best Bow Pose ever performed on the floor of a dentist’s…
Which Orphan Black Clone are you in Yoga?
We all have many different versions of ourselves – but in Sarah Manning’s case, those versions have totally separate bodies and lives. She is the main character in Orphan Black, a British sci-fi show which earned well-deserved praise over its five season run. It’s pro-science and pro-female in all the best ways. Sarah is cool…
“Aw, Brilliant!” : Welcome, 13th Doctor!
“Aw, brilliant!”: the words we’ve waited 55 years to hear. Well, ok, I’m not 55. I mean “we,” as in the Doctor Who fandom… well, not all of them. I mean “we” female Doctor Who fans – although honestly, even I didn’t know I was waiting to hear those words. I’d just sort of accepted…
The crucial quiet of Matilda and yoga
The absence of sound has always scared me. It has always seemed to imply the absence of other things to do – of connection, of energy, of things happening and people talking and the world moving. It can seem like the Veil in Doctor Who’s episode “Heaven Sent,” lurking behind every action we take, every…
Bow to the Absurd in Lizard Pose
When I was a kid, I loved to draw frogs. I doodled them on school papers, I put them in clothes, I designed houses for them. They looked something like this: My fascination might have come from the fact that I owned a frog as a pet for many years. Initially it had been purchased…
Anne’s revolutionary rapture: Warrior III
Picture “Anne of Green Gables” – you’ll find yourself with images of long red breads, quaint frocks, and pastoral nature scenes. You’re not wrong. But Anne is also subversive AF. (as in, “as far [as possible]” Ahem.) Sure, she goes to Sunday School, learns a moral a chapter, and oozes family values. But those who…
An Ode to a Big, Old Rock
Every one of my favorite yoga studios has a different view outside their windows. My downtown studio shows passersby going about their lives – which is neat in a way, since you realize how you have hit your own personal pause button. But it’s hard to beat the view outside another of my favorites, Main…
Be a Warrior (I) through a Wrinkle in Time
“Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such thing as a tesseract.” So goes my favorite quote from what’s probably my favorite book. At least, it’s the book that opened up to me a world that has become a cornerstone of my life – “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle. It might have…
Getting an A+ on your C+: Boat Pose
I like getting A’s. A lot. They are clear-cut, unmistakable validation. Straight line up, straight line down. Inscrutable awesomeness. Like a pyramid, ready to stand the test of time. I am a good, worthwhile person, otherwise, why else would there by an A on my paper? It’s probably the thing I miss most about being…