Why now is a great time to start yoga & a poem for Spring

15 Apr

Spring is here and with it, new possibilities for renewal and growth for us all 🌱

Spring is nature’s way of reminding us that growth is always possible.

Whether you’re rolling out your mat for the first time or returning after a break, there’s no better time to move, breathe and begin (again) ...

🌱 New energy

🌼 Fresh perspective

☀️ Longer days = more light

So if you’ve been thinking about trying yoga or getting back to your practice, now is the time - we can always begin again.

Things that I’m making a dedicated effort to get back to include: gardening (ah, the weeds - so much to do!), a little run now and again, working on my headstand and blogging more regularly than I have been doing 🤣.

What’s on your list, dear reader? I’d love to know.

Passing on a poem

I often like to share poems in class and those of you who follow me over on Instagram might have already spotted my post about this particular poem.

Over the last few weeks, the words ‘the loveliest of trees’ have become a sort of mantra to me as I’ve watched the blossom trees burst into bloom.

Forever grateful to Jane (find her here in her internet garden) and those clever colleagues at The Reader who introduced me to this and many other lovely poems … Enjoy and take time today to enjoy the blossom while you can! 💮💮

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

Is hung with bloom along the bough,

And stands about the woodland ride

Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,

Twenty will not come again,

And take from seventy springs a score,

It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom

Fifty springs are little room,

About the woodlands I will go

To see the cherry hung with snow.