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Dear Friends,
To refine your posture, ask – what if there was a little more uplifted ness in the way I am sitting and a little more gentleness in my chest? Remember the sky and the earth support you. Take a moment to think about the space around you – feel the openness, expansiveness in the space. Allow gravity to soften your shoulders and a long exhale to spiral through your body into the earth. The air we breathe and the space around us is what connects us to all things – we are in this world together. – Wendy Palmer
Spring is beckoning and I feel the impending transition. The earliest signs of crocus and tulips are hinting at their arrival with little shoots of green leaves eagerly pushing through the snow.
Having recently spent time in Japan, the awareness of transitions is highlighted throughout the architecture with beautiful Torri gates framing the entrance to a sacred space as well as the bowing ritual to mark beginnings and endings.
Transitions are an interesting aspect of our lives to pay attention to. Small transitions are happening all the time, physically moving from one building to the next or from and to our next zoom call. Medium levels like our children driving on their own, starting a new job or business; and bigger transitions, the birth of a child, moving or the ending of a relationship.
As a student of awareness practices, I notice that these times of transition big or small can can be mundane, satisfying, quite uncomfortable or a mix. I am finding that the more present and centered I can be during these transitions the more satisfying the experience.
For the rest of the month of March, I am dedicated to more careful consideration of transitions both big and small. My intention is to notice my tendency to either tighten, speed up or space out during the transition and to bring myself back to the moment with Centering. Just this simple act can change my experience and I find myself more open and at ease.
If this practice sounds interesting, please join me for a March transitions, awareness and centering practice by adding this to your own daily practice. I hope this practice will offer you many more satisfying moments.
Please consider re-connecting to your practice and the work by attending a LE Course or Retreat and deepening your journey in community learning. You really can’t Center or practice too much. As Wendy would joke, if you get over Centered, you will be the first!
Warm wishes and Noble, Awesome, Shiny
Tiphani
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