vitamin db: Don't Be CHICKEN . . .

Try some YOGA! Read some BOKs! BOKs! BOKs!

When you feel the sky is falling, try a WIDE LEGGED FORWARD FOLD!

Folds are naturally soothing to the body's nervous system. Folding over may help you calm your jangly feelings! In the story of Chicken Little, Chicken panics and creates chaos. What if the little chick had taken a deep breath and practiced a fold . . . would her feathers still have ruffled??!

SHOULDER STAND is one way to elevate the heart above the head. Yogis call this kind of movement "an inversion." There are many, many benefits to giving an inversion a try! It calms the brain, relieves stress, lifts your mood, increases circulation, energizes and reduces fatigue, alleviates insomnia, increases immunities, and much, much MORE!

In SHOULDER STAND you're working to get your hips over your shoulders as you reach your feet high to the sky. If Interrupting Chicken had worked an inversion, maybe she would have been a better listener! Her brain might have calmed down, and she might not have had so much to say . . .

BOW POSE is a heart opening pose. Yogis feel these moves "dust the clouds off your heart."

Surfer Chick was discouraged when her focus was scrambled and her toes tangled. When you are feeling low, bending the back and opening the heart is one way to lift your spirits.

In Big Chickens by Leslie Helakoski, the chickens are frightened about what could happen next. Despite their fears, they bravely work through their challenges with "chicken power," "chicken brains," and "chicken guts!"