Yes, I know what you think of me, you never should have never should have. Stay with me until we unravel this fishing net. Welcome to Never Shut Up. I'm your host Rose Crass today's April 22nd of 2026 and we're talking about ocean to ocean.
It's for 22. Should we be talking about cloud writers? I make calendar though. Even make calendar, but just saying ocean to ocean really is well, it's about the ocean and Tori really discovering understanding what's going on with ocean where we are with them and we need to stick together until we unravel the fishing net of damage that we have caused in this world just by living by all those microplastics.
And here in Oregon, we've got lung, single-use plastic bags, you can't get plastic bags at the grocery store, which is fine, but everything comes in plastic. Everything comes in plastic. It's disturbing. You can make plastic bricks if you've never tried before.
You can make plastic bricks. And basically you take like plastic bottles that you get stuff in and you use something and you cram those plastic bottles full of your single-use plastic that you get from all your, I don't know, like CDs and when you order something online and food bags and so on and so forth and you cram those into those, the plastic bottles and then you seal the top and then those can be used to build things. So what a great way when we can't recycle plastic bottles, but what a great, not plastic bottles, when we can't recycle or single-use plastic, what a great way to put it into something that we can use to, I don't know, build structures. And I think the places that take those plastic, plastic bottle bricks, whatever they're called, anyway, not supposed, but it is something that we can do to help celebrate Earth Day and to honor our planet Earth, this mother, on which we live in that we are slowly destroying with Earth synthetic clothing and everything else.
Tori is in this invitation with us on that we need strength to see this work through. We need to come together. We need to support each other and have the strength to move this vision down the road, the vision of the world that we're creating, the better world that we're creating. We need to come together and find the strength to see this through.
So a really good pose for that is the Vasana or boat pose. It's an ab pose, so you're going to love me for this one. So come onto your mat, or just the floor, and we're going to come to a position where we're seated on our sit bones with our feet flat on the floor in front of us. The knees are bent to take your hands behind your knees to get a big breath in and the exhale lift and lengthen your heart rocking your pelvis so that your hips are tilted forward inhale here.
Exhale, lift the right foot off the floor so the ankle is level with knee, inhale lower, exhale to the right left foot, inhale lower. You can alternate between the feet or if you'd like and you're still shifted in an anterior pelvic tilt, you can lift both feet up so that they're level with the knees balancing on your bones. You might even be able to release your arms and have your arms alongside. This is not about perfecting the pose with the developing the strength, so daily practice of the simple versions of the Vasana will help you to build the strength to come into longer forms of this pose and we must develop the regular daily strength in our abdominal muscles to hold the pose.
And with that, I thank you for joining me and for your little mental yoga today. Remember five minutes a day so much better than 60 minutes once a week.