Yesterday I was in the kitchen chopping vegetables and all of a sudden Skylar got quiet. Not a good sign because I was thinking, oh God, what is she into now.
But I turned around and saw her practicing some yoga. She was working on bakasana (crane pose).
She just turned four. But she’s been watching me do yoga since her birth. Well, technically sooner, since I did yoga while I was pregnant with her so maybe she felt the yoga, too.
I don’t ever “practice” yoga poses (asanas) with her. She just does what she feels like which is how my practice is. I just work on whatever pops into my head and what my body asks for that day. Plus, kids are natural yogis. They just contort, bend, and pop themselves into all kind of poses and take it for granted.
Here’s a really old picture of me in bakasana from this post with tips on how to stay up, or get up, in bakasana
After chopping all those vegetable it was time to east some. Spring time means lots of salads with fresh veggies.
I dressed this one with Orange Coconut Lemon Pepper Vinaigrette
And also had some leftover Mac-n-Cheeze (Vegan, GF, one-pot) to go with it.
Or just pair with Cinnamon Sugar Roasted Chickpea “Peanuts” if you’re craving something a little sweeter.
From my last post about In the News and the Influence of Blogs, thanks everyone for the congratulations you extended for my Fox News feature. It was really exciting for me to be quoted and hopefully just the first and not the last time. I liked hearing if you’ve had any brushes with fame, too.
Everyone seemed to unanimously agree that yes, blogs have incredible influence and power in shaping and influencing purchasing decisions. Everyone seemed to report that yes, you’ve bought things after seeing them on blogs and that you trust the opinions of bloggers more so than celebrity opinions, for the most part.
Dessert: Who doesn’t love chocolate? I actually know some people who don’t love it, but they are not from the same planet that I am.
Chocolate Chocolate-Chip Cookies (Raw, Vegan, GF. You can dehydrate them or bake them in the oven)
Questions:
1. If you do yoga, what’s your favorite pose? Why?
I love pincha mayurasana (feathered peacock pose). I love the feeling of being inverted but balanced on my forearms. I’m in the pose, here.
Inversions and arm balances are poses I really love to practice. I dig backbends, too, because I love to open my chest and chakras and I like the feeling of being upside down and looking at the world from that vantage point.
2. Any poses you’re working on in yoga or otherwise?
I am working on the:
get more sleep pose
try not to blow up my slow computer pose
laugh more, worry less pose
spend more time in my kitchen creating and having fun pose
lay on the beach pose (but that’s coming up!)
What poses (silly or otherwise) are you working on?
3. If anyone has any topics you’d like to see me address, recipes you’d like to see more of, questions you’d like answered, I am open to suggestions from your inquiring minds and could do a future post(s) covering the popular requests.
Speak now and enjoy your day!
Hahahhahah I’m working on the get more than 5 hours and change of sleep a night pose… I don’t know how you do what you do on so little sleep! :) And I too have been eating tons of raw produce… big salad beasts and lovely fruit… yaaaaaay for springtime! :)
Hi Averie! After reading yesterdays article, I wanted to ask a little bit about your name change. I’ve read some of your previous posts about your legal name change, and I think it’s great you decided to change it to something that makes you happy. But after seeing your last name as “Sunshine” in the article, I take it you didn’t take Scott’s last name when you got married? I’m getting married in four months and don’t intend on taking my future hubby’s name, and I’ve gotten mixed feedback from others about that (future hubby doesn’t care). My question for you is how to you deal with negative feedback regarding your name change? If your last name is different than Skylar’s, does that bother you? I keep hearing people say “oh but you’ll want the same last name as your children!” and that’s so far off in my plans right now that it doesn’t concern me, but since you have a child I thought I’d ask.
Wow this was a longer and more loaded comment than I expected! Sorry about that! Hope to hear from you soon :)
Sidenote… I haven’t been called my legal name since I was 10 or 11. I’ve been Amy since then and no one has really said much about that (except once a year my dad will say “your legal name isn’t so bad!” and I tell him “it’s not, that’s why it’s the third most popular girl name for the year I was born!”). I don’t know if I would ever legally change it though!
Names are highly personal and you have to name YOURSELF what YOU want to be called.
Who cares what people think, they aren’t walking in your shoes.
If you dont like your name, change it. If they don’t like your choice, who cares. :)
And who cares if people’s names match, don’t match, “take someone’s name”, etc..it’s 2011. Families and parternships dont have “rules” like they used to. Make your own rules!
Finally made the white chocolate mango cookie dough bites and am presently sitting down eating them. I wanted to let you know that i love them! thanks for the new recipe!
Carrie
glad you made them!
That’s so cute! It’s great that she’s developing healthy habits like yoga while she’s little.
My favorite pose is probably straight-up triangle. I love how it stretches everything out and opens up my chest. I love chest openers for some reason. It’s also a pose I’m really good at, so it makes me feel strong.
I just learned to do crane pose actually, so I’m currently working on holding it for more than a couple seconds. I’m also having a good time with wall (or ceiling) assisted handstands.
Averie, we are psychically linked. I have a serious pose-crush on bakasana RIGHT now, I literally just held my first one yesterday. Ive been practicing every day. AAhhhhh. and Skylar is SOOOOOOOOOO cute! I was just reading an article about how yoga is incredibly beneficial for children, in the same ways that it is for adults, and more. I love that Skylar does like Mommy!!
I did yoga while I was prego, and I loved it, but I have never been one able to do challenging posing..I am not that good yet, but maybe some day :)
I need to do more yoga. I keep saying that and it keeps not happening. Sigh.
I’m working on the “just keep your eyes on the prize” pose. I have to practice my talk today – at aleast twice, I keep telling myself – but its hard to make myself do it, because it is an hour long! Ugh. Listening to myself talk for an hour??!?! Twice?!?! Not my idea of fun.
I used to do yoga, but I haven’t done it in years. I’m sure I could really use it too. I have a long torso and short legs, so I always loved poses that showed how far I could stretch. But what I need to do are poses to stretch out my back. I can’t do a backbend, even if I start from the floor.
That’s so precious that Skylar was practicing yoga! It’s true, kids naturally move and bend their bodies without even thinking about it. We should all learn from that! My favorite yoga poses are any kind of hip opener or lunge. I love feeling opened up! I feel that backbends are super beneficial to me too. I love the heart opening and spaciousness that comes! I’m not very strong in my arm balances or inversions. Something to work on for sure!
I love that Skylar practices yoga! I also love her name by the way :)
My pose: I need to be exercising more pose!
thanks
AFAIC that’s the best asnewr so far!
Awww, Skylar is absolutely adorable! Totally made me smile when she popped into my google reader this morning. Sadly, I haven’t done yoga in forever…I’m a hardcore spin class junkie.
Keep me updated on any meet-ups or blog-related things you’d like to do, there’s always opportunities popping up!
I love pigeon pose because I have insanely tight hamstrings and I also love the wheel pose because it took me a while to open up enough to do it. I’ve recently been moving over to vinyasa flow from bikram and I have been trying to work on some of these headstands but they are hard! Especially when you’re super-cramped in at a small yoga studio!
loving the cinnamon chickpeas, yummy!
Great thinking! That raelly breaks the mold!
haha! I love the idea of making up poses!
I am definitely working on the “finish my blog posts before 3 am pose!” I’m not surprised that Skylar is doing yoga, kids definitely pick up healthy habits just by observing their parents! :)
Too freaking adorable! I agree though, taking yoga pictures takes SO much time – I did a photography assignment once that was centered around yoga poses… It was almost comical how ridiculous it was!
ummm yes!! thank you for understanding. it’s ridic time consuming!
TYVM you’ve sloved all my problems
Averie, that is so precious, I can hardly stand it. My 4 year old son loves seeing me do yoga, and he pretends to do some of the poses. But I can’t do anything like a crane pose!!!
kids and yoga are so fun to see together. bet your 4 yr old is cute!
Cool! That’s a clever way of loonikg at it!