Hello instagram, it’s been such a long time I almost forgot how to post pictures 🙈. I guess Insta wanted me back and that’s why it alerted me about new likes and followers. Thank you for liking and following by the way 🙏 Though I’m surprised that after over half a year someone is still interested in my - one of the numerous similar - Insta yoga blogs. Nah, it’s not even a blog. Just some random pictures and even more random rambling. Anyway, in case you wondered where I was - same old NYC. Just very busy: full time job, daily 2 hour long yoga practice, teaching 5+ yoga classes a week, taking care of my 🐶, and yes, I still do find time for my social life and other hobbies. In the meantime, this is as far from my character as it gets. All I wanted was to grow up and be a couch potato 🥔, and now - this. 🤷‍♀️ I blame the crazy energy of #NYC. I actually have a conspiracy theory that its tap water is secretly caffeinated. That’s why the city never sleeps ☝️

When you’re passionate about something, turn it into a career. When you’re passionate about several things, turn them into several careers. LOVE MY JOBS 👩🏼‍💻🧘‍♀️WorkFusion makes the future happen now, and I’m pumped to be a part of it #productmarketing #summit in #nyc

Pineapple family #halloween2018

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said no, no, no #halloween2018

#VeronikasBadCircus presents our new series “100 Ways To Pack Yourself Into a Suitcase” ✈️. Better than coach, faster than pre-check. Цирк дю соплей представляет: из цикла «100 способов упаковать себя в чемодан». Так и досмотр пройдёшь быстрее, и подушку надувать не надо.

GOOD OR EVIL? I met a woman, let’s call her L, who used to be in the military. L is suffering from nightmares. Years ago she was sent to a war zone, and witnessed her colleagues being killed in front of her. And since then while asleep L gets this horrible flashback which leads to an anxiety attack. Luckily, her phycologist came up with a solution - L just got a service dog to sleep by her side. The dog is trained to detect L’s nightmares and wake her up before anxiety attacks happen. GOOD. This service dog was actually trained in prison. An inmate got it when it was a puppy, and spent two years methodically teaching the dog. After the two-year training, the dog was given to L, and the inmate might have gotten another dog.. A person, a human being, in prison, deprived of his dignity and freedom, without family or love, gets this innocent creature to care for, maybe the only creature in the entire prison that shows him affection only to lose it. EVIL. The dog was rescued as a puppy. It probably would have not survived otherwise. This gave the dog a purpose. GOOD. The dog was trained to forget its canine habits. It doesn’t bark, doesn’t sniff, doesn’t play with other dogs, it is even trained not to defend itself in case if another dog or human attacks. It lives to serve the master. EVIL. I’m speaking to L and asking her about the moral dilemma. At the end of the day, it was L’s choice to join the military, but it was not a dog’s choice to become a service animal, nor it was an inmate’s choice to care for the puppy. L is listening, half-smiling, half-annoyed. She shrugs the shoulders. She is going to sleep well tonight.

I have this secret passion for making up quotes, mostly for fun 🤫. Turns out, it runs 🏃‍♀️ in the family. My mom admitted that as a school girl she used to come up with “quotes” and credit them to famous people to use for her school essays 🤣🤣🤣. So I figured, I should also make up my own #inspirationalquotes 😜. Here’s one but it’s actually something that I seriously believe in: “Cultivate mental strength, daily. Conquer your fears, stand by your words, commit to your goals. Once the mind is strong, the body will have no other choice but to catch up.” Have to remind this to myself every time I jump upside down. It works. So I guess it is an inspirational quote after all! 😂

Once upon a time a girl got into yoga because she wanted to do #fullsplit. Nine years later the girl is getting into splits because she wants to do yoga.

DO ANDROIDS CHANT AN ELECTRIC OM? Sanskrit, the international language of yoga, is also the best suited natural language to program artificial intelligence 🤖(#AI), according to Rick Briggs, a NASA researcher (to give you a little background why I care - I work in the field of AI and also have a degree in linguistics, so this is like 3 of my favorite topics to read about in one paper 🤓). 🕉 Even if you don’t practice yoga, you still know at least a couple of Sanskrit words. The word #Yoga to begin with, which means “union”. #Asana - ✅ yes, means “pose”. #Namaste - ❎ nope, common misconception, it’s actually Hindi, derived from Sanskrit. #Sanskrit itself means “perfected” - perfected to communicate sacred texts to people… and apparently to robots. 🕉 There is a widespread belief that natural languages (languages that were developed organically unlike an artificially created Esperanto or programming languages, for example) are unsuitable to convey some ideas to a robot mind as they lack precision and mathematical rigor. Typically, they entail too much ambiguity, which is fine for us humans as we can interpret things, but it puzzles the hell out of robots (if you ever tried to have a meaningful conversation with Siri, you know what I mean 🤣🤣🤣). 🕉 Sanskrit though, just like programming languages, strives for unambiguity. Briggs gives an example - a simple phrase “to cook rice" would be broken down into very specific steps as "placing a pot on the fire, adding fuel, fanning, etc." Such specifications are necessary to make logical pathways, which otherwise would remain unclear. 🕉 So if Sanskrit is indeed the language of god, as it was believed to be, can it be that god has a precise and logical mind, just like robots? In which case by trying to build a general artificial intelligence are we essentially re-creating god, Deus Ex Machina? 🤯

#ISeeYogaInEverything Call me obsessed, but I see yoga in everything 👀. For example, in fiction novels. And very much want to share this 🙃. DOSTOEVSKY #TheBrothersKaramazov “If you do not attain happiness, always remember that you are on the right road, and try not to leave it. Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don't be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions. I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. But I predict that just when you see with horror that in spite of all your efforts you are getting farther from your goal instead of nearer to it—at that very moment I predict that you will reach it and behold clearly the miraculous power of the Lord who has been all the time loving and mysteriously guiding you.”

What do you do when you want to take a #yogapicture but can’t think of an asana to perform in a silky evening dress on a dirty manhattan street? 🤔 You invent an asana! 💡I call it a Standing Camel Pose - Drama Queen Edition (because of my theatrical hand gesture 🤦‍♀️). You’re welcome, Yoga world 🤣. #StandingCamelPoseDramaQueenEdition

This summer has seriously k̶i̶c̶k̶e̶d̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶t̶ tested my dedication to yoga as I re-entered the professional world after a couple of months break AND wanted to keep my morning practice at Brooklyn Yoga Club. For the logistics to work out, I’ve been getting up at 5AM 😅! Trust me, I am NOT excited about it. Not a fan of going to bed / waking up early. Very fond of sleeping. Not to mention, I’m generally lazy (like can-spend-all-day-on-a-couch kinda lazy 🍕🛋📺). So - how come? ❤️. The only explanation of this unplanned sacrifice is true LOVE. The love that is not about the excitement and fun anymore. It’s a deep connection, nurtured over the years. Just like other love stories, it didn’t begin here. Yoga and I, we go way back. We’ve flirted for so many years before committing to anything. If someone told me even 3-4 years ago that I’d be waking up before dawn and biking to Brooklyn, I’d laugh to their face for a solid hour. But here I am 🤷‍♀️. It’s not easy, love never is. But just like in a classic romantic story, it made me a better person. I ❤️ Y. #йога_уходящеголета