Searching for stillness in spring - A busy weekend, and a 21-minute yoga nidra
Being pulled into the current of the season, and finding moments to pause
Well, friends - this was the week - the one where spring SPRINGS assertively, launching you straight into let’s-do-all-the-things season, winter inertia suddenly forgotten completely as all the things that awaited nicer weather got done a-waiting.
One small salvation for me: a weekend of yoga classes and bread deliveries and various farm errands meant several hours in the car, sitting (a small luxury), simply taking in the view, listening to my audiobook (the un-soothing Midnight in Chernobyl, if you must know), and watching as the landscape turned ever-more technicolor shades.
When I wasn’t sitting in my private viewing gallery, I was: repotting tomatoes and clearing the wreckage from the blown-down coop and picking up a new rooster and cleaning the garage of winter detritus and baking and bulk-prepping dog food and checking on the sheep and visiting with neighbors and laying out garden beds and making another run into town for supplies and…
In lieu of a long post, I’m leaving you here with some snapshots and a 21-minute yoga nidra. After a very full weekend, what I really need is a nap. Maybe you do, too.
Below: 21-minute yoga nidra for finding stillness in springtime.
A note about audio content: I love Substack best for its long-form written-word posts, such a rarity these days on the internet, and usually listen in other places. If that’s you, too, you can also find some of my recordings on Bandcamp, Insight Timer, and YouTube.
An awesome 21 minute break in a busy day - thanks!
Thank you for reposting. I’m struggling. Not with social media, but game apps. Easy dopamine and I need to figure out how to taper off.