Hip Trinkle Chick, December 2, 2007.

Bonjour and welcome to the 111st edition of the Hip Trinkle Chick podcast, a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.

Today's menu features a must-have pose and on the mat, exploring macrobiotics with Jessica

Porter, and we've got homework and some savvy sources for you too.

View our show notes at Hiptrinklechick.com slash blog.

On the mats.

This is one of my favorite poses that always makes me smile.

And I find myself doing this a lot more lately.

And it's not the most pretty pose.

It's called Lion Pose.

And I'll get a photo into the show notes for you.

And so for Lions Pose, you can be in any position you'd like.

You could be standing, walking, hanging out on the metro, at your holiday dinner.

And so with Lions Pose, basically what it is is you extend your tongue out, you open your mouth wide,

you open your eyes wide, and you make a sound.

And for some reason, it's actually very cathartic, and it's supposed to be really good for the facial muscles.

And I'm sure there's lots, lots more benefits.

But I'll be sure to put those in the show notes for you.

So, Lions Pose.

All right. So now moving on. All right.

So now moving on to a fabulous interview with Ms. Jessica Porter.

She teaches macrobiotic cooking lessons in Toronto,

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