A new season for us
Hello! How is everyone doing? I have missed you. So many of you have reached out with support and kindnesses in these difficult and quite uncertain weeks. Thank you as your messages have been an integral part of my healing.
Know this!
In an unprecedented season of deeper listening, also know, healing is never just only physical.
Weeks of acute pain I’m relieved to report has reduced dramatically to minor remaining tightness, ache and mild discomfort. It lingers as though reminding me this injury’s healing will be a process and for perhaps the first time in my life, I don’t feel that sense of urgency to “get it done!” Time has slowed for inventory over this last decade from when I first began teaching yoga. I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished and the beautiful community we built at Yoga on Willow.
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Spring is a pruning time. The Master Gardener carefully cuts branches from the vine, no longer beneficial to the plant for healthiest new growth and knows the promise of an even greater yield of flower and fruit in the right time.
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The time has come for me to end this chapter. This injury happened. With it came a full stop to everything, but then a wider lens formed bringing clarity to things I wouldn't, couldn't allow as running a small business and teaching became all too consuming. Did it take a substantial injury for me to recognize a shift was needed? With his unending kindness, support and love, Todd whispered “it did.”
I’ve always enjoyed the seasons nature gives us. Fall and Spring particularly transition seasons, awaken me to both reflection and anticipation. Healing yet still ahead for me and perhaps it is also a new season to spend more of it with my two wonderful grandchildren. I’ve a mid 20’s daughter who’s making a life in Texas, I miss dearly and would like to visit her more and I’ve another one living at home for what I know too well, will be for but a brief time.
An answer to two years of prayer as my last child readied to graduate from high school and head off to college, God opened yoga doors wide and was very clearly lighting my path and blessing my way. Within the last couple of years, shifts have been; even more goodness had been added to my life and the pace had quickened. Fearful it was unsustainable, yet I kept at it, adding more and more to my overflowing plate until one day, my body spoke loud enough for me to hear. Todd is right; I wouldn’t have made the changes I so needed to make without my body breaking down. God is very clearly doing something new. His ways are also never only about one person’s journey for we are connected and His work is also doing something new in yours.
I am grateful to so many of you who’ve made you and your mat at home with me and the studio space we shared. I trust what we did together made a difference in your life. I hope you have less pain in your body, more confidence in who you are and how you show up in the world. I also hope that at a time with much chaos in our world, we are still meant to live in peace and that you do. What we think about, what we practice both on and off the mat makes us who we are and who we want to be. I believe God was with us in every practice and conversation. I hope you live life today better and happier. Thank you for sharing such a very wonderful season with me, with us and I do so hope we stay in touch.
I may still write you a whisper from time to time.
He made us all for such a time as this.
His plans are for us to prosper and to have peace.
With love and gratitude and anticipation in a brand new season for each of us,
Jill ❤️