buffyshot:

Legs progress
Thanks girlgonesporty for the submission
enlightenedyogi:

This weeks pose is utkatasana twist with opposite leg lifts. This pose is awesome for the core, butt, and legs. Sit down into your utkatasana, take a deep inhale, and exhale your hands through heart center. Take another deep inhale and twist taking opposite elbow to opposite knee. Press into the palms to try and get them at heart center and sit the butt down and low as you can (still keeping thighs in line with knees). Then once you find your pose lift the opposite foot up without moving the knees out of line. Hold there for a breath and repeat it a few times. When you’re ready for the next side, slowly twist back to center taking a sun breath, and then twist to the opposite side and repeat!!
Namaste yogis!! Don’t forget to upload pictures and hashtag!

nemomeimpune-lacessit:

The Nu Project’s Nude Photos Tell The Truth About Women’s Bodies

The Nu Project is a no-glamor honest look at beauty and image in our world.

Female nudity isn’t hard to come by in the media, but the bodies we see usually represent a fairly limited scope of sizes and shapes. The Nu Project, a collection of nude photographs shot by Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum, seeks to add some variety to the mix. Blum started The Nu Project in 2005 but said it really took off when his wife, Katy Kessler, became the project’s editor. Blum sees the photos as filling a void. “When I started shooting nudes there was no project like it,” he told The Huffington Post in an email. The things that I had seen either used models with typical model bodies or average people who were made to look extremely unimpressive. I figured there was a way to treat women (of any size/shape) like models and photograph them beautifully, respectfully without a lot of sexual under or overtones. The women photographed are all volunteers, and most of the pictures are taken in the subjects’ homes — where they feel most comfortable. The Nu Project’s website showcases six galleries of nudes, three shot in North America, three in South America. Although Blum told HuffPost that he feels that they have a “good variety of people involved,” he and Kessler acknowledge on The Nu Project website that they’d love for the subjects to be more diverse. “The hardest part for us is that the project is 100 percent volunteer, so I do not see the women until I show up at their door,” Blum writes on the website. “We’re doing our best to encourage all types of women, but we need volunteers of all backgrounds and walks of life to make the project more complete.” Blum said he ultimately hopes that these images inspire the women who see them to feel better about their own bodies. “It’s been really exciting to hear people react to the images,” he told HuffPost. “We get a lot of feedback from women (especially) who have struggled to see themselves as beautiful, and this project has helped them on that path.”

http://thenuproject.com/

(via th3skinny)

Listen to many, speak to a few.
morninghealth:

Today: Grapes and oatmeal with banana, almonds, raspberries and homemade peanutbutter.