Bonjour, welcome to the 127th edition of the Hip Trinkle Chick podcast, a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.

Thanks for your patience while we've been on a bit of a hiatus with the opening of our new

yoga studio on 17th Street.

It's been a little chaotic and as you may know, we've switched to doing every other week

and we did not intend to switch to every month.

So our apologies for the delay and we're excited to be back on the bandwagon of podcasting

with you all.

So today's menu is going to be basically condensed.

We're going to do a little bit of chatting on a must-have pose that I highly encourage, a

discussion about the transition in our off-the-mat session.

And then of course we have own work questions for you to

ponder yourself. So without further ado, I'd like to go into our on-the-mat, which I highly

encourage is Shavasana. So today, which is Mother's Day, you may hear some rain in the background.

It's a lovely, rainy evening here in Washington, D.C.

And I spent about three hours in Shavasana, which turned into a nice, yummy nap.

And so I wanted to encourage the power of Shavasana as a regular pose in our daily lives.

And so for Shavasana, just come onto your back,

on a yoga mat or even on your bed, and open your feet the width of the mat, or about three

feet apart, two to three feet apart. And let the feet splay open, draw your shoulder

blades flat, turn the palms of the hands to face up, allow the eyes to close, and

tune into your breath, just resting here, absorbing all the sensations around you, absorbing

and acknowledging what's going on in your body, and just being, just absolutely being and letting go.

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