Take this flow of poses when you want to embody the spirit of the princess and general who inspires us all…
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Faith in the Secret Garden: Chair Pose
Being mere mortals, we are limited. The Doctor can choose to move back and forth in time in her TARDIS. Superman can see a vistas of land below him. Billy Pilgrim is unstuck in time. We, however, can only see what’s in front of our faces right now. And we so often don’t like what…
Have fun out there, Turd Blossoms: Reverse Warrior
“I’m distracting you, you big turd blossom.” The phrase ‘turd blossom’ isn’t always associated with joy, fun, and profound relief. But in the case of “Guardians of the Galaxy,” it most certainly is. Starlord/Peter Quill/Hotty McHotpants says it near the end of the movie after he and the other guardians crash land in the Big…
Why do yoga? To travel to the Wood between the Worlds
Loving the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is a fairly universal phenomeon, I think. Solid quaint British writing + fanciful characters + a solid allegory = a winner, unless you are one of the non-religious people who didn’t realize the direct religious tie-in’s and then felt a bit duped. In any case, anyone who…
We are Wonder Women: Goddess Pose
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…
“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…
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…