Bead Covered Skulls

Cathy Peterson in Bellaire, MI created this collection of skulls using different types of beads.

Headliner C says:

While some may argue that three is a magic number, one could then say that four heads are better than one: four horsemen, four apostles, four Beatles... and certainly now your quartet.  Thank you for sharing your creations with us.

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Let Your Practice Bloom

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. - Pablo Neruda

via FuckYeahYoga

both from Awakened Lotus (One and Two)

via YogurtYoga

Elegant Universe

League of Space Pirates (the band featuring Skull-A-Day founder Noah Scalin and co-editor Abby Davis) has a brand new video for the song Elegant Universe that of course features some lovely futuristic skull imagery...



The video was directed by Georgiy Kuznetsov and the song is also included on the beand new Book & Record comic book/vinyl single from the band.

Dynamite Skull Drawings

Nick Simon of San Diego, CA is blowing up the gray scale with these 2 dynamite skull drawings.

"Geo-Skull"- Graphite drawing

"Paradox"- Ball point pen drawing

My mind is obliterated with the fact that these excellent drawings are nothing but shades of graphite and ink.  The textures are amazing and I urge you to see what all Nick is capable of here at his site.  Thanks for the sweetly shaded submissions, Nick!

Hodge Podge Flowers

I am loving all the spring colors I'm seeing around as of late and have especially loved wearing them on my nails. However, I have done some sort of pastel color for the past few manis and I'm a little burnt out on those hues. I decided to mix it up slightly and use some deeper colors for today's look. I'm really excited to show you how it turned out! 

I used OPI's Skull and Glossbones as my base color and I am fairly positive that this will become a regular in my rotation of polishes. I really love how fresh and clean it feels on its own. I ended up using 5 additional colors to complete the flowers. I really love how these colors go together -- one of my favorite combos :) I would tell you the names of said colors but there are a lot of them and the bottles are all the way in the other room...and I'm lazy so it's not going to happen right now ;) Let me know if you're curious about a particular color and I can get you the info on it! 

 Didn't want to leave the thumb out for this one ;) 

So, what do you think? 

Happy Polishing :) 

Core of the Yoga Sutras - Book Review

B.K.S. Iyengar's Core of the Yoga Sutras: The Definitive Guide to the Philosophy of Yoga is actually a pretty short book at less than 200 pages of actual reading material. Much of the bulk is comprised of a handy dandy Glossary and Appendix. There's also a foreward, preface, and prologue before the introduction. I thoroughly appreciate all the organization that went into this thing. Plus it's pretty in pink and orange. I'm only a little sorry for saying that - because it's true.

This book is meant for everyone. Including newbies and people that have never done any study of yoga.

Iyengar's 80+ years of yoga experience prove helpful to the rest of us in learning what the sutras are saying - providing a more modern accessible explanation. It even has a few charts and tables throughout for the more visual learners.

Don't let the small amount of God-talk in the preface fool you. This book is not a religious text. It took me forever to read because I'm terrible about reading philosophy or anything that isn't chick-lit really. Don't let my reading-flaws color your perception of this book.

I think most yogis that are just barely getting started should probably not read this book just yet. They'll likely get bogged down by the amount of sanskrit tossed about. Flipping back to the glossary every few sentences can make it feel like a more difficult read than it really is; but the glossary is a huge help. Yogis that are starting to get serious about the practice (beyond asana practice) should totally buy this book. Sit down with your tea, keep one finger on the glossary - and get ready to do some learning. Smart teachers will add this to their library.

Especially for being well-organized - I certainly recommend this book.