Good day, Steemians! 

I AM SO GRATEFUL TO BE ALIVE TODAY!!!
It's a beautiful October day
and I'm surrounded by the people I love,
and they inspire me to do noble things.
This is the chance to be better than ever!
Possibilities are poetically unfolding,
and I'm leaning into that expansion
with faith and trust--
I've jumped off enough cliffs to know that
the net catches me when my wings aren't strong enough.
I'm just so happy for another day to play this game
and share my passions,
and I hope that by shining my bliss someone out there
in this great steemy universe is enriched by the
treasures I offer.
Please enjoy this yoga:

This is Wide Angle Standing Forward Fold

AKA Prasarita Padottonasana in Sanskrit

(prasarita = widespread limbs/stretched out, pada = foot, ut = intense, tan = stretch, asana = pose/posture)

Standing forward fold flips perspective.

Standing forward fold, as with all inversions,
is like giving the body an oil change;
drain out old stagnant energy and
replace it with vital, fresh, supercharged new fluidity.

When I began to practice yoga, some poses felt
very uncomfortable as I moved my body in unfamiliar ways.

Wide angle standing forward fold is an intense stretch
down the outside of the legs and feet,
and I often felt like I didn't have the strength
to support my full weight,
as if being upside down somehow hindered me.

There's nothing to do but hang out and breathe,
and eventually the new sensations became more agreeable,
and I learned to shift my focus
from what feels bad and uncomfortable
to what feels good and enlivening.
So I hung out until this pose became something that I did not resist,
and instead came to look forward to and appreciate.

I like the freedom of letting the upper body hang,
I like the new view I get for a few moments,
I like to remember how much I've changed.
This pose is a place in time--
it's a measuring stick,
a notch on the door jamb to indicate my growth. 

How to WIDE ANGLE STANDING FORWARD FOLD:

• From standing, step or jump the feet out to the sides.
• Inhale and extend the arms at shoulder height; feet are lined up under the wrists.
• Open up the chest and extend through the head.
• Exhale, and fold forward from the hip creases. 
• Hands can come to the mat or grasp the toes.
• Mindfulness preserves the expansion in the chest and length in the spine as you hang upside down. 
• Enjoy as gravity pulls you deeper, attracting the crown to the Earth.
  

Breathe in, breathe out.

Breathe in, breathe out.

Breathe in, breathe out.

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." --Dr. Wayne Dyer

💛 Sara!
Thank you to the ever lovely @everlove for the lovely photo
We can make custom Steemit Ts or pants fit for a king!

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I will teach yoga at STEEMFEST! I'm getting more excited as I draw closer and closer to my goal, and I kindly request your support in generating SBD so I can procure a plane ticket to Amsterdam! Please upvote, resteem, comment, tweet, and/or share my daily yoga posts on FB. I have deep gratitude for this community and appreciate all you have blessed me with, and I send a super mega giga ultra THANK YOU to @roelandp for saying YES to my STEEM DREAM!!