NicolePresents: Wellness

This email came to me today and I wanted to repost it, cause it was really nicely written and a great reminder for us of why Spring is really the new year, energetically!

REPOST:  From the Editor of LA Yoga Magazine

The spring equinox, the first full moon of the season, Passover and now the renewal weekend of Easter are all part of our current experience. In many ways, this season is the true New Year, and we feel this intention with the day lengthening upon each sunrise and sunset. We have the opportunity this season to commit and recommit to what is important to us and to plant seeds in our lives just as we take these moments to plant seeds in the ground that is becoming warmer and more inviting each day.

We also have the opportunity to pause and take a deep breath and ask ourselves how we are nourishing and nurturing ourselves and our community amidst the messages around us of despair and division. We can give into the confusion that is part of what many people see as shifting paradigms and priorities or we can be creative, valuing collaboration and cooperation. We ensure that we are taking good care of ourselves first, getting the rest we need, in order to support our family and community. We can come back to our practice, whatever it may be, as an anchor of support, as a way that we positively cultivate the relationship we have with ourselves.

The relationship we have with ourselves is the longest-lasting and most powerful relationship we have throughout our entire lives. And this relationship informs all of our other relationships, so let it be a healthy, joyous and nourishing one.

In collaboration and with wishes for a creative spring,

Felicia Marie Tomasko, RN
LA Yoga Magazine, Editor in Chief