Accidentally New Age was just cleaning out her wallet and came across the baggy of crystals that she has been carrying around in her (various) wallets since 2001.
A friend asked her what the crystals represented.
“I have no idea, but I picked them up and liked them, then my friend who is a healer blessed them. So I just keep them with me.”
overheard at yoga:
Him: I’m moving there to be with my wife.
Her: You’re married?
Him: Well, yeah, it was like a Burning Man, ritualistic-type thing.
Accidentally New Age needed to look up some synonyms. So she went to her reference shelf to consult the thesaurus. She also took a step back to find some humor in the books on that shelf; a very accurate reflection of the information she looks up or verifies most often.
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate
Roget’s Thesaurus
Berkeley High School’s Slang Dictionary
What’s What: A Visual Glossary of the Physical World
Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar
ASPCA Complete Guide to Dogs
Here’s a fun game for those of you who actually know Accidentally New Age. The publicity photo for the upcoming Anusara gathering was taken at a John Friend workshop. ANA likes to look at the photo and find yogis & yoginis she knows.
ANA would like YOU to find HER in the photo. It’s like an Accidentally New Age version of Where’s Waldo.
Sankalpa: Resolve, Will, Intention
Mudra: Seal, Sealing Posture, Impression
Accidentally New Age sets a sankalpa each morning; another one before each yoga practice. It gives her a neutral point to come back to if her day starts to overwhelm, or if she finds that she has stopped breathing in a pose. Checking back in with the intention after savasana (corpse posture) and before bed provides bookends, a way to measure and reaffirm.
Sankalpa mudra is a way to seal in your intention. From your seated meditation posture, raise your left hand, palm facing up. Clasp your right hand over your left, as if shaking hands with yourself, then rest the back of your left hand on the top of your right thigh.
The left arm crosses in front of the heart, an external manifestation of turning inward; listening to, and making an impression upon, the heart. The right hand pushes the left hand gently into the thigh, a grounding agent.
