Happy Baby

"The biggest tragedy of our times is not / what happened to so and so or how / this country fell or that country suffered so..." - from Happy Baby by Corie Feiner

Hello yogis, poets, and seekers of inspiration! 

How do you find your joy? Not on beach days or sunny “everything is going as I planned” days, but the in the midst of hard moments on hard days?

Since today’s yoga pose poem is, Happy Baby, I am going to focus on finding joy — in the little things, in the big things, in the easy things, in the redundant things, in the everything-ness that makes up what we experience to be our lives.

I give us permission to be ok and not give into collective grief. I give us permission to get silly and not take it all so seriously. And, if it is a really, really, really hard day for you, I invite you to a moment of self-care, poetry, and maybe even a bit of laughter.

Here are four recommendations for working on feeling happy today—

1. Watch the original Laughing Baby video. It is a blast from the past back when Youtube was more of an innocent home video format.

The Original Laughing Baby Video with 23M views.

2. Read the post, “Practical Tips for Happiness” on the Do Happy Be Happy Substack written by Alan Jones, Phd. He is a Mind Coach and a has a plethora of inspiring and practical material on spirituality and changing your mindset.

3. Practice Happy Baby pose. If you are not familiar with it, here is a tutorial by Ventuno Yoga.

4. And lastly, read my poem, Happy Baby, and take your time to feel what it would feel like to embody this pose on every level of your being.

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Happy Baby

By Corie Feiner

 
The biggest tragedy of our times is not
what happened to so and so or how 
this country fell or that country suffered so, 
or even how our elders have abandoned us 
in so many ways. 
 
It could be that those in charge neglected 
to pass on the instruction manual and the list
of tools we would need to deal with this life, 
 
but I say it is that we forgot how to be delighted
by our toes, to lay on our backs like babies and play
with big toe, little toe and pinky toe always doing
its own thing, to see our feet as one of the leaves 
rustling on a tree as we become present, again, 
 
to the wonder of it all, and how truly awesome it is
that we are actually here. 


Sanskrit Name: Ananda Balasana

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Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to read this. Please do share anything below on how you embodied - or tried to embody - Happy Baby today!

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