I'm excited to hear about the dramatic shift into your spring energy! Hoping and praying you find all the most life-giving directions to channel it into. I look forward to hearing what emerges 🌱🌿🌳
Huge fan of the Geese nesting on the chair - very good serendipity for my personal ties to the poem wild geese so thank you for sharing!
Wishing you a magically mundane visit to Pom where the very ordinary hits just right 🎯 and I'm proud of you for committing to the fidelity of your rituals. I think it's important and worth celebrating 🫂
I'll be heading up shortly - the sun is out, and the only thing lying between me and Pomona is the entire Manchester marathon, which goes past the end of my road and all along the main road I need to cross... 🙃🤔😂
Is that one of those things dogs run through at crufts?! 🤔 Not sure it would've helped with crossing a stream of runners, but I'm willing to be educated 🫡
‘the best time to have started any practice is years ago. The second best time to start is now.’
Did Tai Chi years ago, loved it 🤲🏻 but the movements are lost… great reminder that I can always return to it. Just dread that it takes so much to (re)learn things, if I can’t be consistent in them yet. If you know of any good videos that do the movements right in front of you, like a teacher in class would, (so not in mirror, my brain just can’t pick that up somehow), you may always send them to me! 🙏🏼💚
I learned tai chi in person, one-to-one in the local park, with a guy who was something of a martial arts master but who "didn't teach any more" - it's a pretty cool story, I'll tell ya sometime 😊
The only way I keep it in my body is but doing it pretty much every single day, and I have a terrible relationship with online videos. I never watch them if I can help it. So I totally empathise with your situation, but don't have anything to recommend, unfortunately 😔
Yes, same 🤗 I got classes from an elderly lady who then later had to stop teaching for her own health. Love to hear your story!
It was so good to have her as a teacher, some martial arts Tai Chi teachers focus more on that first part, she was more on the energetic and gentle side and I loved it.
Wouldn’t it be lovely to have people doing this at every street/park, like in Asia. I saw that in Vietnam and I loved the vibe, just people joining in morning practice at random places 🥰
I do believe it’s some sort of muscle memory, like riding a bike, and I would be in it pretty fast again when I can practice the movements regularly.
Send it out into the universe, will come back ✨🤲🏻✨
A wonderful journey through late March and into April, Jez. Thanks for reading the Clare poem too, it never fails to amaze me how hearing a poem in another voice helps land it more deeply.
As for your question, one thing I’m noticing, is how quickly I’ve felt a shift from being happy to hibernate so to speak, and be relatively withdrawn from the world, to suddenly having energy to connect and (borrowing your phrase) begin relating. I suppose I’d have expected a gradual return of energy, a slow uprising, but that’s not how I’m experiencing it. It’s left quite unprepared for what to now do…! Which has me wondering how to work with that energy flow in the future. Thanks for giving some space to reflect on that!
Finally, seeing that horsetail shoot reminded me of a recent post I’d read about it, of its deep roots and ancient origins, I’m not sure I’d want it in my garden but I celebrate its presence at Pomona - it feels like an act of resistance!
Thanks for documenting ‘your place’ - I appreciate your fidelity.
On a whim - instead of reading - I listened to your recording this morning. So glad I did because, although your words speak authentically and poignantly ‘on the page’, your voice transported me to feel the ‘wrestle’ along with you.
I’m reminded of something (and slightly pulled-up on it too), that my work with what we are calling a bioregion here in South Devon happens to be in lesser frequented spots, still relatively wild, where the nests are mostly formed from organic furniture!
I sometimes struggle to tap into the imaginal realm - even there (I’m only human) - but with considerably less hoops to jump through to get there.
Passing lay-by after lay-by coated in human detritus yesterday on a journey and feeling grim, desperately focussing on the sprouts of spring hope forcing through the concrete, I realise now how the bioregion holds these places too. It shouldn’t wear rose tinted specs.
Thank you for such eloquent, sincere and inspiring writing. It has lifted the veil from my eyes and helped turn to the next page in my practice,
Beth
Ps Have you come across Crab and Bee? I think you might enjoy their flavour of urban magic. https://crab-bee.tumblr.com/
Thank you for this generous response Beth. And thank you for participating in the inner wrestling.
So much of our world, and our lives, are in messy, both/and territory, and I honour you for choosing to remove the rose tinted specs and see the complex allness of your wonderful bioregion.
I don't know Crab and Bee, but will check them out.
Thank you for all of this Will 🙏🏼💚
I'm excited to hear about the dramatic shift into your spring energy! Hoping and praying you find all the most life-giving directions to channel it into. I look forward to hearing what emerges 🌱🌿🌳
Thank you Jez🙏
Huge fan of the Geese nesting on the chair - very good serendipity for my personal ties to the poem wild geese so thank you for sharing!
Wishing you a magically mundane visit to Pom where the very ordinary hits just right 🎯 and I'm proud of you for committing to the fidelity of your rituals. I think it's important and worth celebrating 🫂
Thank you Jen 🙏🏼
I'll be heading up shortly - the sun is out, and the only thing lying between me and Pomona is the entire Manchester marathon, which goes past the end of my road and all along the main road I need to cross... 🙃🤔😂
😂😂😂 its still commiting to fidelity if it has to be another day!
Believe me, it had to be today. Grateful she has held me through a storm 🙏🏼
Ah glad you made it! Know where I am if you need a waffle tunnel.
(Waffle tunnel? You know for those moments where you have waffles and you need to throw them somewhere 😆)
Is that one of those things dogs run through at crufts?! 🤔 Not sure it would've helped with crossing a stream of runners, but I'm willing to be educated 🫡
😆 it's when you have a case of the waffles jumbled thoughts/feelings/whatever and you tell them to a friend.
‘I offer myself to life’ 💛✨
My heart bleeds with the littering 😠
But please don’t kick yourself 😆
‘the best time to have started any practice is years ago. The second best time to start is now.’
Did Tai Chi years ago, loved it 🤲🏻 but the movements are lost… great reminder that I can always return to it. Just dread that it takes so much to (re)learn things, if I can’t be consistent in them yet. If you know of any good videos that do the movements right in front of you, like a teacher in class would, (so not in mirror, my brain just can’t pick that up somehow), you may always send them to me! 🙏🏼💚
Hey Eva
I learned tai chi in person, one-to-one in the local park, with a guy who was something of a martial arts master but who "didn't teach any more" - it's a pretty cool story, I'll tell ya sometime 😊
The only way I keep it in my body is but doing it pretty much every single day, and I have a terrible relationship with online videos. I never watch them if I can help it. So I totally empathise with your situation, but don't have anything to recommend, unfortunately 😔
Yes, same 🤗 I got classes from an elderly lady who then later had to stop teaching for her own health. Love to hear your story!
It was so good to have her as a teacher, some martial arts Tai Chi teachers focus more on that first part, she was more on the energetic and gentle side and I loved it.
Wouldn’t it be lovely to have people doing this at every street/park, like in Asia. I saw that in Vietnam and I loved the vibe, just people joining in morning practice at random places 🥰
I do believe it’s some sort of muscle memory, like riding a bike, and I would be in it pretty fast again when I can practice the movements regularly.
Send it out into the universe, will come back ✨🤲🏻✨
A wonderful journey through late March and into April, Jez. Thanks for reading the Clare poem too, it never fails to amaze me how hearing a poem in another voice helps land it more deeply.
As for your question, one thing I’m noticing, is how quickly I’ve felt a shift from being happy to hibernate so to speak, and be relatively withdrawn from the world, to suddenly having energy to connect and (borrowing your phrase) begin relating. I suppose I’d have expected a gradual return of energy, a slow uprising, but that’s not how I’m experiencing it. It’s left quite unprepared for what to now do…! Which has me wondering how to work with that energy flow in the future. Thanks for giving some space to reflect on that!
Finally, seeing that horsetail shoot reminded me of a recent post I’d read about it, of its deep roots and ancient origins, I’m not sure I’d want it in my garden but I celebrate its presence at Pomona - it feels like an act of resistance!
Thanks for documenting ‘your place’ - I appreciate your fidelity.
💚🙏
See reply below Will, I've gone and replied without replying 🙃
:) 🙃
On a whim - instead of reading - I listened to your recording this morning. So glad I did because, although your words speak authentically and poignantly ‘on the page’, your voice transported me to feel the ‘wrestle’ along with you.
I’m reminded of something (and slightly pulled-up on it too), that my work with what we are calling a bioregion here in South Devon happens to be in lesser frequented spots, still relatively wild, where the nests are mostly formed from organic furniture!
I sometimes struggle to tap into the imaginal realm - even there (I’m only human) - but with considerably less hoops to jump through to get there.
Passing lay-by after lay-by coated in human detritus yesterday on a journey and feeling grim, desperately focussing on the sprouts of spring hope forcing through the concrete, I realise now how the bioregion holds these places too. It shouldn’t wear rose tinted specs.
Thank you for such eloquent, sincere and inspiring writing. It has lifted the veil from my eyes and helped turn to the next page in my practice,
Beth
Ps Have you come across Crab and Bee? I think you might enjoy their flavour of urban magic. https://crab-bee.tumblr.com/
Thank you for this generous response Beth. And thank you for participating in the inner wrestling.
So much of our world, and our lives, are in messy, both/and territory, and I honour you for choosing to remove the rose tinted specs and see the complex allness of your wonderful bioregion.
I don't know Crab and Bee, but will check them out.
With gratitude and Wild Green Blessings 💚