how can she afford all this on a woman's salary?

sweetcherryblossomswrites:

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escuerzoresucitado:

lionfloss:

Rainbow Velvet Couches (by request 💫🏳️‍🌈)

slowlikehoney1996:

t shirt that says “i used to be worse”

missinyouiskillingme:

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.

— Ally Condie, Matched

audioyoga:

Breathing with your lower back, your sacrum, might seem like an odd thing to imagine.  Most people think of their lower backs as a rigid, bony structure whose job is to help hold the body up.  But it’s so much more than that.  Your lower back is the joining of two important areas of your body, your spine and your hips. Because of that, it’s one of the few parts of your body that is designed to move in almost all directions. To assist your spine, it must be able to encourage forward and backward movements.  To assist your hips, it must be able to easily rotate.  To do both jobs, your lower back must be strong and flexible.  So it’s not just a rigid piece of bone.  It’s a complex network of structures that support and balance each other, all held in place by what are (hopefully) flexible fibers.

So what does that have to do with breathing?  First of all, one of the areas your lower back supports is your core, your abdominals. To the degree that both your lower back and your abdominals are strong and supple, they can respond together to the demands you put on them, including assisting your breathing.  To use your abdominals for relaxed, healthy breathing, they need to open loosely and easily.  But they can’t do that completely if your lower back is rigid or weak.

Discovery Exercise

• Take a few breaths right now using your abdominals.
• Make the breaths fairly full, (but they don’t have to be extreme).
• As you breathe, notice the movement in your lower back where it joins your hips.
• You might notice that, as you finish breathing in, your lower back seems to loosen and spread apart.
• As you breathe out, notice that your lower back shrinks toward your spinal column.

If you feel some movement in your lower back, that’s a good sign.  It means your lower back is ready to more fully participate in breathing.  Even so, most people can loosen and strengthen this area even more, so the breath goes even better.

If you don’t feel movement there, it means you have a little more work ahead of you, strengthening and loosening your back and hips so that they are ready to join in the breathing party.  That can become a good place to focus some of your practice.

Namaste,
Corinne

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