Image: Temple Woods, Midlothian on a sunny crisp late March day.
I’m writing this following a really cool morning I spent yesterday, deep in the woods of all places. Now, I should say this is not typically my go-to place. I was there as I was supporting a friend and fellow business owner who was leading a Women’s Yoga Spring Retreat. The theme was embracing the reawakening of life and nature, following the Winter months. We witnessed nature starting to come out of hibernation and considered the growth and nourishment that the autumn and winter debris lying around on the forest floor has been providing for the seeds and plants quietly growing underneath.
We walked in silence, with so much day-to-day ‘noise’, I always appreciate this so much when I allow myself to.
No doubt about it, it definitely feels counterintuitive at first. We used movement to warm ourselves up (needed!), had a hot drink and snack, explored our surroundings, had a bit of a chill out and then ended the morning with a lovely yoga savasana. If you’re not familiar with this, it is a restorative resting pose within a yoga session that allows you to drift off in a lovely state floating somewhere between the sea and the sky. I love it and I always look forward to it within a session.
Although the wind was cool and bracing at times, the sky was a beautiful piercing blue and provided the perfect backdrop to the morning’s events. I haven’t spent that long outdoors for some time and honestly it felt great.
Just before we all departed one of the participants shared a clanger of a penny drop moment. She observed that much like the forest floor providing cover and nourishment for the seeds and plants growing underneath, past mistakes or things that didn’t go to plan can be more helpfully viewed as actions and decisions that nourish and strengthen your future. I thought this was a really effective reframe and far healthier rather than the tendency many of us have to revisit past decisions and beat ourself up over and over on a loop. I find this pattern is particularly common when it comes to money matters as people tend not to see the benefit of the gained wisdom and life experience they have built up and now bring to a situation. Instead, they focus on their perceived failings or mistakes and give themselves a hard time for what they wished they had done differently.
Before I knew it, the time was up. All good things had come to an end. The morning had well and truly whizzed by. I drove home with a calmer head and a fuller heart with thoughts turning to the months ahead and the anticipation of the longer days and promise of the summer ahead.
For me the acknowledgment of Spring well and truly continued with a declutter and thorough house clean, which I find worth it for the outcome of clarity and a less busy mind when I look around me.
How about you? Have you done things differently and settled into the seasonal shift with the clock change and with Summer around the corner? Do you have any seasonal rituals?
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🌹Until next time.
Disclaimer : written by a human therefore minor errors inevitable.
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