Spring Has Sprung - Yoga & Detox

Spring has officially sprung with the Spring Equinox happening this past Thursday! Thanks to everyone who attended the Spring Equinox Yoga Practice Celebration (where we celebrated 5 years of my teaching online and 710 classes!) on Thursday and the Spring Equinox Online Retreat yesterday too. What a special time!

Now the days are growing a little longer and we are midway between Winter and Summer. How does it feel in your part of the world?

Here in Floyd, it is definitely feeling warmer and brighter and I have been enjoying getting out on hikes and digging into the garden dirt, clearing beds for this year's planting. 

Even if the world has become incredibly technologically advanced in the past decades and centuries, let us not forget to give thanks to the cycles of mother nature that sustain us and all the living things here on Earth. How wonderfully predictable and trustworthy they are. Hallelujah!

Here is a poem to celebrate the release of Winter and the beginning of Spring:

A Purification 

by Wendell Berry

At the start of spring I open a trench
in the ground. I put into it
the winter’s accumulation of paper,
pages I do not want to read
again, useless words, fragments,
errors. And I put into it
the contents of the outhouse:
light of the sun, growth of the ground,
finished with one of their journeys.
To the sky, to the wind, then,
and to the faithful trees, I confess
my sins: that I have not been happy
enough, considering my good luck;
have listened to too much noise;
have been inattentive to wonders;
have lusted after praise.
And then upon the gathered refuse
of mind and body, I close the trench,
folding shut again the dark,
the deathless earth. Beneath that seal
the old escapes into the new.

Now is the time for Spring cleaning! Your body, mind, home, and calendar await your intentional, seasonal detoxing. The Heartfelt Wellbeing Spring Detox starts tomorrow. This is a chance to have a supportive structure for making changes, real-time feedback, and focus to reset your body, mind, space, and time after a winter of gunk has accumulated. These three weeks can provide immense healing and re-calibration for your body, mind, and spirit, especially amidst the uncertainty of these times.

May beings everywhere be safe, happy, and well.

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