Yogabodii

Dogs are my kind of people. 🐕

Backbends are extensions. They have the ability to elongate and decompress our spines. They have the power to help us broaden our collar bones, stretch our chest, increase the lung capacity. Backbends help us face the world and build our courage. They are a tool. If you practice with some consistency and precision, with props and without, you will give your spine the power it requires to heal, correct, and face your fears. Backbends come up in many poses, not just the backward extensions. Do you ever feel like you need to just get out of your body? Let me help, I’ve got your back!

When I was a kid, I absolutely loathed Halloween. I never said anything to my parents, I always made some kind of costume, your basic ghost with two eyes cut out of old sheets, and went along for the journey. I felt totally intimidated to knock on neighbours’ doors, awkward about my costume, it was always raining and the car lights blinding, but i continued on the journey. But one Halloween, I decided I was going to be seal. My mother had a fur coat in our front hall closet that made me feel safe and protected as I snuggled in it and hid from Halloween. I declared I was a seal wrapped in my mothers fur (it was the 70’s!) and I watched Halloween through the crack of the closet, from where I safely perched myself to see all the kids come to our door. I knew in my 6-year old self, this wasn’t my holiday. The dark, cold, creepy costumes, my mother sorting candy to ensure safety. We heard about razor blades in candy apples and poison injected into raisin boxes…this was just not for me. And some of these childhood impressions just stick with us. I still do not like Halloween. For many of the same reasons but adding one more super unpopular contributor, the candy. Now, resist the urge to judge, who doesn’t “like” candy?? It has come to be almost common knowledge how sugar is addictive, inflammatory, and indigestible. So, for me, you won’t find me at a party all dressed in drag, not at my door answering the calls of goblins and gools with buckets of candy. I’ll be hiding, disguised and camouflaged by nature waiting for Nov 1! November 1st has been claimed as , , and . Now, those are holidays I can get excited about!