found here

 Oh la la! Love this variation...
 found here

Learn how to fall.

image via known-stranger

"There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve."

― William S. Burroughs

Callum Innes

Callum Innes

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Marco Basta

Works by artist Marco Basta from the exhibition Blue Thursday at  Gasconade, Milan.
Inkjet prints on Japanese paper.

Lake Retba

A pink lake!!
Lake Retba or Lac Rose lies north of the Cap Vert peninsula of Senegal, north east of Dakar.
It is so named for its pink waters, caused by Dunaliella salina in the water. The colour is particularly visible during the dry season. The lake is also known for its high salt content. (Thank you wikipedia)

images from here

Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

Found photographs via the lovely evencleveland

Melissa Joy Manning

beautiful jewellery from Melissa Joy Manning via Una

The 90-year-old world record holder in pole vault

LOVE!

The 90-year-old world record holder in pole vault

I'm completely addicted to the Olympic Games! I wish this dude was pole vaulting for the United States this weekend...GOLDEN!

Quite!
From inflated/deflated

inflated/deflated

Love these!
See more on the inflated/deflated blog and you can buy them here.

via witanddelight

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

Kurt Vonnegut

Swami Chidananda Saraswati Found here

Lil Buck: Aria on Nowness.com.

Uniform Exercises on Nowness.com.
“For these beautiful old ladies who meet every morning it’s a routine in their daily lives, it’s part of their identities. For the past 30 years the group has gathered daily to practice luk tung kuen, a specialist Chinese form of exercise."

Temporary Tattoos

top set from Culture Label and the rest from from Tattly

Going for gold

Vintage Olympic photographs. Found here.

Mathilde Roussel

These beautiful and delicate sculptures, made of paper and glue, were made by French artist, Mathilde Roussel. Meant to emulate human skin, these folded sculptures serve as a metaphor for everyday human change:

"We imperceptibly change everyday as if we were changing skin. The Mues sculptures make visible this metamorphosis through imprints of a body at the specific time. They are clothing of empty skin that we fold and keep to put on a new one. This skin becomes the trace of the time passing and the memory of an anterior life."

See more on Mathildes website

Yoga Print by Bonnie and Clyde from culturelabel

Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

image from here

Pose of the week

Savasana (Corpse Pose)

Savasana is a pose of total relaxation, which can make it one of the most challenging poses to be in.
  
After a balanced practice, the entire body will have been stretched, contracted, twisted and inverted. Savasana allows the body a chance to regroup and reset itself.  This means that even the deepest muscles will have the opportunity to let go and shed their regular habits, if only for a few minutes. Most importantly the physiological benefits of deep relaxation are numerous.

In the classic pose you lie out flat on the ground, like the image above, with no support, but this isn't a truly comfortable position for us all. Comfort is essential in the pose! The fairy tale of The Princess and the Pea always comes to mind when preparing for this pose. The slightest point of discomfort can be endlessly distracting. There are a few things you can do to support the body in this posture, for example placing a bolster or rolled blankets under the knees to help relax the low back, or placing a blanket under the head to help lengthen the neck and release tension at the base of the skull. You might also like to have something over the eyes, if that helps you soften the face,  and make sure you are warm enough.

Savasana can come at the beginning and/or at the end of a practice. I often start and always finish my practice with a version of corpse pose, and there are loads of visualisations for relaxation out there, but i like the simplicity of melting, with a focus on the breath.

When you come into the pose it's nice to start by internally patrolling the body, releasing tension bit by bit, from the crown of the head to the tips of the toes. Have the idea of simply allowing your body to melt as a whole, like butter, into the floor.
As you continue to let go you'll feel like your body is spreading into the ground, the whole of the back of your body literally taking more and more space.

Just enjoy watching all your muscle tension melt with gravity and an easy breath into the ground. It's bliss!

One of the most challenging aspects of this pose is keeping your attention on what you are doing as you are doing it...a challenge in all yoga asana!
Your attention often seems to want to run ahead of you, so that you feel like you are constantly trying to keep up with it. It may help to think of your attention as a young and eager puppy. Every time you catch yourself wandering off call your attention to heel so that it follows what is happening rather then trying to lead. Over time you'll find that you've trained it into to staying with you for longer and longer.

Last of all, and most importantly (i think) is to be careful not to judge what you you come across when relaxing. See if you can be with yourself without judgement and accept what ever you come across in each moment. Let yourself be, allowing your attention to linger in the places that you feel it might benifit from most. 

image from here