Tree Pose

Stay still no matter what flutters by . . . .

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The Cedar Tree Pose Man was giving birth to me and this drawing.

Dogward Facing Back

Sometimes my mat is like a mirror, sometimes it’s like a black hole. At any rate I feel grounded when I sense my inner dog’s face staring back at me.

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Ofelia

“You are new here.”
“Yes, this was my second time. I came last Tuesday too.”
“But you’ve done yoga before, you’re very flexible.”
“…[gulp]…[inhale…exhale]…thank you…”

Beyond comparison.
Seasoned Beginner.

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Vision, Strength, and Flexibility…

Two scoops of vision for me please.

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Faded Muscle Memories

It’s time to roll out my mat and resume my war on chronology.

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Savasana

I go places during Savasana. Just today I took a spin around the block.

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I joke about yoga, but in the year and a half since I started practicing it, it has come to mean more to me than words can express. Learning how to listen to the stories that my own respiration is telling me is, I’m sorry, I can’t resist, breathtaking. There’s so much more to yoga that I don’t like talking about it at all.

When Ann turned me on to Fifty Three Paper, my first drawings were yoga related. Here are a couple of examples:

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I modified the following photo of one of my blocks and made a blank notecard of it. It was inspired by my first instructor, Paula at Shakti Yoga in Des Moines, where I’m a beginner-practitioner.  Namaste to my other instructors Marialyce and Joseph.

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