Hip Trinkle Chick, June 3, 2007.

Bonjour, this is Kimberly Wilson and welcome to the 86th 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 in On the Mat.

An insightful interview with On Ateal, on Ierveda, in Off the Mat.

And we've got own work and savvy sources for you too.

View our show notes and follow along at Hittrankwitch.com slash blog.

On the mat.

Bow pose.

So following up from last week's lovely locust, we've got bow pose.

So from locust, go ahead and bend those knees so you're on your belly.

And just in case you don't remember from last week, this is not a pose you start with. Definitely don't want to start your morning in bow pose, right? So you want to warm up to this. You want a nice warm body for it. So a few sun salutations just to get the juices flowing. You do locusts pose from the belly. And you can just come down into locust from a cobra. So maybe you're doing sun satitations. You're nice and warm. Drop your belly down. Come on into cobra pose. Then locust. And then bend your knees and reach back with your hands for the outsides of the ankles. Knees are bent, feet or flex. I don't know if you remember the cover of Vogue. It was November of 2002, I think. Christy Turlington's in this

evening gown in Bow Pose on the cover. It was a gorgeous, gorgeous cover. Anyway, so inhale,

lift those legs up, lift your shoulders up, and then pull up as you exhale and open through

the heart center. So you want to try to keep those legs

about hip width apart. They have a tendency to splay open, especially the knees. And take

five deep full breaths here. You may find that the breath rocks you forward and back on your

belly and just enjoy that. Go with it. Enjoy this huge opening sensation.

And then as you exhale, releasing down all the way down,

surrender the legs, turn your head to either side

and once again shake those hips back and forth.

After back bends, I always encourage a nice counter twist,

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