Spring beckons the call of transformation as all things dormant await with anticipation to spring to life once warmer weather hits. We have rituals like spring cleaning and winter yard cleanup. We start to want to get in shape for swimsuit season. We go on (or long to go on) tropical vacations. As we travel through our normal Wisconsin spring weather chaos…70 degrees one day, snow the next….we get restless. The change of seasons creates an urgency to transform, to clean out, to become.
Our life is ours. It is the only one we are given. Each breath is shared yet our own. It’s not a right/wrong or a pass/fail kind of life. It is the light woven with deep and the dark. We get to flow and make mistakes which prune us back which allows us to grow. The things that make us the most uncomfortable are the spaces and places we learn the most from, not our successes, but our struggles. Think of it as ‘failing forward’. Remember, failures are LAUNCHPADS. Often the resulting growth is not something we ever dreamt possible. We don’t need to have it all figured out. We need to cultivate the ability to embrace and be okay in the gray area of ‘this is my life right now’ which does not define what it will be. We need to give ourselves permission to change it. We just need to keep moving and make ourselves present to the journey, be brave and dig deep within, trust our intuition, and listen to God’s guiding voice.
Yoga is a gateway to healing as we connect with our soul. The studio allows us a sacred and sweaty space to move these amazing bodies…these vehicles and homes for our souls. Having a safe space to practice and sweat allows us to be able to get the pause we so desperately need. The pause allows us to ground and take a breath so we can see things clearly. Then we can make the changes, recognize the path, and step forward to our own brilliance God manifested in each and every one of us.
Our hearts open up differently when we are moving our bodies and putting in our very own sweat equity. Our yoga practice breaks us wide open and we get to see deeper and deeper layers of who we are and who we want to become. Who God made us to be is slowly revealed. There is a strength in our vulnerability.
Transformation is always happening. Be awake. Be alive with it. Be present. Our mat is a 21-square foot, sacred space to rise higher.
Onward and upward. Our lotus awaits….
