Have you ever been in a great yoga class and thought to yourself, “gee, what’s really missing here is pigs”? No? You don’t know what you are missing, you with your mat not covered in a hundred muddy hoof prints. I recently got to take part in a “yoga with pigs” class, mat placed square in…
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A Meditation on Trees & Literature
A few of my drawings and photos together, showing my love of the native trees in my area! Also… Some of my favorite quotes about trees from literature by year published… Alice’s Adventures In Wondeland & Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll, 1865 “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so…
Spring Flower Meditation
Just the Dandelion, when we all turn gray, may we also bring joy to children and vice versa and spread our wisdom far and wide. Just like the Tulip, may we all be so willing to let our big, brash, ostentatiously colorful selves perch so confidently on such a small and delicate stem. Just like…
Flowering Tree Yoga
Flowering tree yoga! Featuring tree pose with forsythia, magnolia, cherry, weeping cherry, crabapple, and maple blossoms.
We are Groot: Tree Pose
Being a tree isn’t exactly second nature to us. As humans, we are more into pruning… or picking… or chopping, when it comes to plants in general. In fact, telling nature what to do has always been one of our species’ favorite hobbies. And that makes sense: anyone itching from a mosquito bite will agree…
Yoga with Animals: The Twinkie Wiener Sandwich of Physical Fun
To understand the “Yoga with Animals” fad, you need look no further than Weird Al Yankovic and the Twinkie Wiener Sandwich. If you’ve never seen his classic movie UHF, then you may have never actually heard of this amazing concoction of the modern culinary era. It is a Twinkie, sliced in two to admit a…