Hip, Trankle Chick, November 5th, 2007.

Bonjour, this is Kimberly Wilson.

I'm fresh back from Montreal, where I was practicing my French, and I must confess, it wasn't going over very well.

Welcome to the 107th edition of the Hip Trinklechick podcast, a guide to life on and off

the yoga mats.

Today's menu features a must-have pose and on the mat, getting your Ayurveda on again

with Ms. Onatiel in Off the Mat.

And of course, we've got some omework and exciting other mentions for you

at the end. View our show notes and follow along at Hiptrinkletchuk.com slash blog. On the mat.

Prasarita Patotanasana. In case you don't speak Sanskrit, this is wide leg forward fall.

This is great for calming the vata and for releasing pitta.

So I've got a link to it in Yoga Journal or in the show notes and it'll take you straight to a visual of the pose in Yoga Journal at

YogaJournal.com.

But in the meantime, why don't you get onto your yoga mats and open your feet three to four feet apart

and have them facing parallel same direction.

And inhale, lift through the heart center, bringing your hands to your hips, drop the shoulder

blades down, the back scoop the tailbone, and then exhale, hinge from your hips and fold forward.

Bring your hands on to the floor. Some of you, the hands won't quite touch without blocks.

Others come down onto your hands, your forearms, maybe even your forehead. And you can

bring the arms behind the back interlace your hands and bring those arms up and over, get a nice

shoulder opener, along with all this other great stuff, such as the calming effects of the forward

fold. Off the mat. Today's podcast is an interview with the lovely Anna Thiel, who makes her third appearance on

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