The shift into Spring is real. Spring Cleaning happens for a reason. And it happens all around us. Trees shed their winter selves to make space for new blooms. We clean out our closets - putting winter clothes away and making room for warm weather attire. The days start to get longer and, emotionally, I find myself more ready than ever to shed my old ideas and to grow some new ones. As I let my old blooms fall to the ground, fresh new ideas spring up and I want to spring forward and live this new me.
The name of the season itself tells me I'm supposed to take action. Spring: leap, bounce, bound, hop, vault. But also flexibility, give, and resilience. I can leap, bounce and bound into the next stage of life but "springing" also gives me permission to be flexible, giving, and resilient about the changes. Things might not bloom and develop quite the way I plan them but my springy-ness allows me to go with the flow and adapt.
A Yoga Mala is not only a physical practice, it's an emotional, mental, and spiritual one. I have an idea of how the practice will be but, in reality, I have no idea. What I do know is that it will be lovely however it turns out. Cleaning my closet is no different. Neither is rising early and getting a head start on my day. These are all ways that I can shed the old and take that step forward knowing with every breath that I will have the flexibility and bounce to end up exactly where I am supposed to.
Tomorrow, the Mala. Today, laundry calls. Off I go to spring into action...
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