Hip, Trankle Chick, February 24, 2008.

Bonjour, welcome to the 122nd edition of the Hip Trankle Chick podcast, a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.

Today's menu features a must-have sequence in on the mat, being succulent with sark in

off-the-mat, and of course we have own work and savvy sources for you too. View our show notes at

hiptrinklechick.com slash blog. On the mat. Check out the pigeon pose sequence and twist from our hip chinkle chick YouTube page.

Off the mat. Sark. Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy is the best-selling author and artist of 14 books and creator of hundreds of products.

She's the founder of Planet Sark, her company that creates products and services to inspire people to think and live more creatively.

She's an acclaimed speaker and transformational teacher and is featured in the PBS series Women of Wisdom and Power.

Visit PlanetSark.com or call Sark's Inspiration phone line at 415-5-446-3742.

Welcome, Sark. Thank you, Kimberly. It's such a treat to have you. I have known about you for at least a decade now, and I'm sitting here surrounded by some of the first books I picked up of yours and some of your most recent ones. So it's an absolute treat to have you on the show. Well, I'm so excited, and it sounds like a Sark Haven over there. It is a Sark Haven. Now tell me, this is probably a question you're asked a lot, and I'm just dying to know,

which is why I'm asking you.

It's more of a personal question, but what is a typical day like for Sark?

Well, first of all, there's no typical.

Right. And second of all, there's no typical. Right.

And second of all, it's interesting.

I've changed a lot.

I was completely nocturnal for the first 45 years.

And about three years ago, I became a diurnal day person.

So this is a huge change.

And as you can imagine, I used to stay up all night and go to sleep about 7 in the morning

and sleep until about 3 or 4 in the afternoon.

And now I'm asleep by 11 or midnight and up at 6, 7, or eight, and stay up all day.

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