NO MUD NO LOTUS..

This is a wave from a place of restlessness, to all those who are restless too.

Recently my relationship with rest, and much of the rest of my practice has been really tested. There’s a whole lot of emotion and questions coursing through me at times, and other times I’m completely numb. This is the nature of life and its ebbs and flows. Impermanence is a truth and often our practice serves to remind of us such.

It’s felt weird to be talking about rest when it felt like somewhere so far from where I was, or could be, so largely I’ve been quiet on it all. And now I’m realising that this place I’ve been languishing is where so many of us spend much of our lives …. Restless AF.

All my experience and knowledge and practice has really been put through the wringer. It’s taking strength, so much strength to get on my mat and other days I look at it untouched and know that’s okay too.

I’ve found new value in the work I offer on a personal cellular level, felt even more the importance of agency within a practice, and an even deeper embodied understanding of the journey towards rest and all that the rested state holds. It’s been a big reset on my practice, a whole back to square one kind of situation. 

Had I forgotten the depth of the challenge to come to rest in turbulent times? Maybe over time the edges and softened and blurred on the memories… who knows, who cares… but I’m here, sharing from a place of experience, deep in the mud still… 

So my restless folk - know we can find our way. Rest will come, but often theres an uncomfortable journey towards it, and we have to ride that through, perhaps being held by somebody else, when we feel we have the strength for it. 

FYI… the tools I’ve been using to settle me towards a regulated nervous system include TRE (tension releasing exercises - been studying this modality through the year and will be sharing more soon), somatic practices and Yoga Nidra) and movement wise Pilates, the class and Ofc dog walks are holding me very sweetly.