Yes, I know what you think of me, you never shut up, never shut up, never shut up, never shut up. Can I take from you and not keep taking? Welcome to Never Shut Up, I'm your host Rose Grass, and today is March 24th, 2026, and we are talking about another girl's paradise. Tori says this song is all about how Scarlet is grappling with covetousness.
I mean, you know, looking at another girl's paradise and wanting that paradise for ourselves, and you know, like, oh, that should be mine and all of those, well, the grasping at something that is not yours. Covetousness in Sanskrit is Pari-Graha, and one of the yamas, which is prescriptions for how we should interact with other people in the world, is a Pari-Graha, which means non-Covetousness. So, you know, not wanting what other people have, not looking at what other people have and thinking that should be mine. And it's not like, oh, hey, that would, you know, a beach vacation would look great on me too, or I love your stuff, like, there's a difference between seeing what somebody has and thinking, oh, I'd love to do that too.
What is it going to take for me to create that versus I think that should be mine, that whatever Bob has, I need to have what Bob has, to covet would be to want and need something, and maybe even begin to take actions for that something that we need that creates a loss for the person who has that thing. And Pari-Graha takes it a little bit further and talks about how our attachment to pleasurable feelings and experiences in our lives, but particularly in our practice, because we're just bringing this to our personal practice, how this attachment drives us to grasp at things that no longer exist. It's an invitation to look at how we close ourselves off to the present moment by trying to recreate an experience we had one time or an experience we see in somebody else. So we can be covetous of somebody else, but we can also be covetous of our past, that we want to bring something forward from our past.
So the best way to experience this is to try something challenging. And maybe it's something challenging that you were able to do once, maybe not. Maybe it's something challenging that you can see in a picture. And this challenge that we're going to do is Warrior III or Vera Badrasana III.
So you'll need to be standing for this one because it's a balance post. If you're using a mat, come to the top of your mat and you're going to ground it down through both feet for a moment, pressing into the earth, feeling your length, the rebound of length that comes out of the pressure, and then shift your weight into one leg, pressing through that heel, and then take the other leg and begin to, with it nice and straight, lift it up behind you as you hinge forward at your hips. Now, it can be done with the arms overhead, this front loads the spine, so I think it's actually best to take airplane arms. The goal here is to bring that lifted leg up so that it is in line with your spine and perfectly parallel with the earth.
So the standing leg is straight, standing leg is perpendicular, and we're balanced on that one leg. This requires our hips to be even. And abdominal muscles are drawing in. When you lose your balance, put your foot down.
If you're doing this at home in the kitchen, that's actually kind of a great place to do it because you can use the counter, at least at one side, some of us have islands and we can use, or maybe a table, and we can put our hands on the counter and the table. But again, you're hinging forward abdomen coming in, pelvis, spine, leg, parallel. And then when you're ready, slowly release that foot back to the floor as you lift your spine up, coming back to standing, and pausing here to see how did that feel? How did that, well, land in your body to try something really challenging?
Were you grasping and coveting a balance? Maybe coveting a version of this pose you saw on the internet or coveting a version you did, I don't know, weeks ago, years ago? When you're ready, rewind this a little bit and do the other side. And I thank you for joining me and Tori for a little mental yoga.
Remember, five minutes a day is so much better than 60 minutes once a week, and I hope you join us this Saturday, the 28th at 10 AM for our ears with feet. But Club, we're talking about King Solomon's minds. Have a great one. Bye.
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