Hip, Trinkled Chick, January 20th, 2008.

Bonjour and welcome to the 117th edition of the Hip Trinkle Chick podcast, a guide to life on and off the yoga math.

I'm here in Snowy West Virginia.

We got a lovely snowfall on Thursday.

And I'm out here celebrating my four-year anniversary and getting caught up on oodles and oodles of projects.

So it's delightful to be here with you.

In today's menu, it features my favorite pose or one of my many favorite hip opening poses and on the mat, Badakanasana.

The power of writing things down and off the mat, which is fresh on my mind as I just wrote

my piece for the weekly column on this. And then we've got some homework and savvy sources for you,

as always. View our show notes and follow along at Hiptrinklechik.com slash blog.

On the mat, Barakanasana.

So begin seated on your yoga mat.

Nice and comfy seated pose.

Those of you who are a little snugger in the hips, go ahead and sit on the edge of a blanket.

And then draw your soles of the feet together and draw those heels up towards your body.

And now work to open the soles of the feet like a book.

Your book may not open very wide and that is fine.

We're just working to open it as much as you comfortably can.

Basically opening the top few toes apart from one another.

And then take the flesh from the thighs, kind of roll that back, creating space, and then inhale, lift through the heart, and exhale, fold forward.

Let's take five deep breaths here together and feel free to stay here longer, even up to five minutes.

Inhale, exhale. and feel free to stay here longer even up to five minutes. Inhale.

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