Tag: yoga
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Love Me Like…Wind Down Slow Flow Yoga and Written Meditation
I wasn’t too glad with the video and the song particularly; I realized there are more videos I could do on my yoga channel @jadenicoleyoga. The wisdom part of the post that came after was not restoring, but I could see the full thoughts in draft. A tech issue that makes me realize what I […]
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Snowfall during Morning Tea with Handwritten Letters
Morning tea during snowfall, fluffy, twirling snowflakes; my cat Peeko is smiling at his reflection in the tv screen before he reclines for a nap. I sometimes sit in bound angle pose or butterfly pose in yoga, perfect size in this spacious chair, soles of the feet touching together, feels good for the hips, lower […]
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Best Bath Tips for Relaxation and Favorite Spa Fruit (with photos)
For the new year…treat yourself extra good, especially if you are, for example, an artist, and no one but you may let you know it is time for your vacation…now 🙂 I recommend no phone in the bath though, this was an exception. 🙂 Cucumber slices for eyes, a few moments, eat a few, let […]
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Ideas for the Bath
Baths are wonderful and may invigorate aching muscles, but if you have sensitive skin and in general, a bath should be quick and warm (not hot) as in 5 – 10 mins. It is best to clean the tub quickly before you go in, and to rinse off after quickly in the shower. This is […]
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Get the Party Started and then Welcome Relaxation
Besides sketching with pencils at the library, yoga arm balance against the wall is great fun, for an evening lift you up and then an eventual release of energy from the whole day—a quick hold, come down slowly, just a few, and then to relax, and to recline. 🙂 💕Jade
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1…2….3…4! Literary Salons Today, Tuesday
November 29, 2022 …And this cat is ready for nighttime relaxation; he picks and chooses where and what he will attend and what he will read…at home…We await his full results from the vet to receive this week; he seems contented and eating well. *** A Tip For Book Lovers who Like Baths: If you […]
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A List of Art and Writing, Plans, Dreams, and Hopes while Currently Sitting
* I hope my hair will continue to grow a little longer; I am mindful of the ends now, and gentle detangling, comb and brush. * I am content sitting now, my feet don’t touch the floor but freely I swing them up, can stretch and flex them well like this, posture is great with […]
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My YouTube Channels
I plan to do more videos: Jade Nicole Yoga. Yoga classes, meditation, with dance. Jade Nicole Beals: Channel for this Blog, with Playlists: Poets read aloud by me and Blog Shows. All pretty much relaxing / fun Jade
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P.S.
Last night’s drawing in the warm lamplight… I don’t know what I will do yet today…:) P.S. With my drawings and paintings, I sign the back & date the paper too, whereas a sketch I will initial and date on front bottom corner. I’d like to draw on separate paper outside a drawing book sometime […]
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A Lady Practicing Yoga
by Jade Nicole Beals, graphite pencils on paper, Oct. 5 2022. I don’t know this lady, but I found her in a yoga book I have, so I drew her doing yoga…The new very light portable wood easel I got can be placed in a flat position so I could draw on it in a […]
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My Replenish and Restore Index Cards—for when things are very exciting & stimulating—even if good
I wrote this for Artists or Authors or anyone designing a schedule, and if not doing that daily, some ideas for relaxation are here for anyone. I thought of this idea today, as I can be very excited by creativity…information…ideas…comments to and from…on my screen, and then become stimulated (‘tho often starts in a good […]
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…Storybook Yoga with Monet
(Monet and his paintings, 1923, colorized, credit: openculture) After awhile of living and painting many garden lily pond scenes outside his home in France, the artist Claude Monet became enthralled with the ocean. He wanted to paint it as he saw it and would get as close to it as possible with his paintbrush and […]
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Champagne or Gold or a Buttercup from the Field
June 4, 2022 I don’t care. Neither does Ed…Let’s dance. 💃🥂♥️♥️ Oh yeah, I had Ed Sheeran mis-tagged last post as ‘Australian’. I don’t know why…I don’t care either. 😂
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Spa Time at Home and a Couple of Phrases to Mend
Feb. 11, ’22, needs improvement 🙂 March 22, ’22 I have taken out my newly-written ghazal poem (on my laptop) ‘tho I’d first thought it might still be too hot to my touch but it wasn’t and was ready to read. Reading it aloud I can see it is almost complete, but just one line […]
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The Sky Full of Blush with a Very Golden Moon
We had a silent literary salon today—we looked at the sky: through the window, I noticed just how the two pines are entwined and that there are three different greens, one much like the very feathery white-green of winter, and we read📕O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. That’s the evening sky above, with sufficient blush, and […]