Hey, it's been a minute. How are you?
Believe it or not, that's not just a throw away opening line. I'd really love to hear how you are. It's been quite a year and one that is leaving us with more than a little uncertainty about how 2025 will unfold. I'm definitely working with a sense of being unsettled and worried about the future of our world.
I'm grateful for my yoga and other self care practices to help keep me regulated and living into my life from a calm and thoughtful place. I firmly believe it's the only way we're all going to get through this. That doesn't mean we don't get to feel all the feels including anger and frustration and even fear. But feelings and thoughts are everchanging, and at the end of the day, taking a step back to connect to that best part of us that is unchanging will help us figure out how to do better.
What does my self-care look like? Lots of pauses and deep breaths--that $h!t is magical, no joke. I'm getting quiet and listening to my heart; cultivating compassion towards myself and others--all the world is a mirror; doing lots of self-care to build resilience and wellbeing; constantly being grateful; and looking closer to home to where I can make a difference. I want to nourish connections new and old that will help us remember our shared humanity and interdependence.
How about you? How are you doing? What's making you happy and what's feeling hard? Can I do anything to help and support you? Please reach out--for real!
Now is a great time to make time for getting quiet and reflective to clarify and fortify how we want to show up for ourselves and others. It's yin season. The nature of yin is receptive and accepting. It's about letting go and being with what is. In practicing that, we can begin to understand what is in our control and what isn't--like predicting and directing the future. When we can find peace with this truth we create a lot more ease within ourselves and in our relationships with others.
Yin qualities are quiet and still and dark. Sounds like autumn and winter in the northern hemispheres right? Many of the Eastern philosophies and sciences are rooted in understanding the cyclical and evershifting forces of nature and that our wellbeing rests in aligning with versus resisting them. How would you like to lean into your yin nature more?
If you need a space to explore, I’ll be teaching a yin yoga class to celebrate Winter Solstice and you can register here.
