In-Person Class: Saturday, February 7

Thank you to all of you who showed up so fully this weekend. There is something powerful about a room full of people willing to slow down long enough to truly listen to their bodies, their habits, and the quiet knowing that winter invites.

As we talked about in class, late winter carries the Sage energy, a season for reflection, honesty, and conservation. Before spring asks us to grow, it asks us to notice. To take inventory. To get clear about what is working… and what is simply taking up space.

So for the month ahead, we begin gently but truthfully.

We each have 168 hours in a week.
When we look at our lives week-by-week (instead of day-by-day), something interesting happens: we begin to see that there is time. We just need to decide how we want to spend it.

Here are a few places to start your personal inventory this week:

1. Where do your hours go?
How many hours are spent sitting, driving, scrolling, standing, moving, resting?
What postures or positions do you live in most of the week?

2. What could you release to reclaim time?
Is there something you can let go of, even temporarily, to create a few hours for what fills you instead of drains you?

3. How often are you moving and building strength?
Not perfectly. Not intensely. Just honestly.
Where can you support your body with more consistency?

4. How often is your phone a tool… and how often is it a distraction?
No judgment, just awareness.

5. Look at your physical space.
How much is filling your home, your surfaces, your visual field? What is truly necessary?
What simply occupies energy?

This is about making room for strength, for clarity, for the life you actually want to live this spring.

From a physical standpoint, we’ll build together slowly and sustainably:

• Work toward 7,000 steps per day minimum
• Aim for 3 strength-building sessions per week- use the function movement flow below as your WOD (workout of the day)
• Hydrate, rest, and support the body like it matters (because it does)

Your Movement Practice This Week

Practice the functional movement flow we learned in class two more times this week.

• 20-30 secs x squats
• 20-30 secs x hop scotch lunges
• 60 secs x holding tree pose
• 20-30 secs x core rotation 
• 20-30 secs x one leg challenge

Do right leg, then left; Repeat 2-3 times.  Think of it as reinforcing new pathways in muscles, joints, and habits.

Balancing the Water → Preparing for Spring

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, winter’s Water element (kidneys) governs our reserves — energy, willpower, and restoration. When out of balance, we can feel depleted, scattered, or stuck in cycles that don’t serve us.

Our work right now is not to push harder, but to balance the reserves so that when spring arrives, we move forward with direction instead of urgency.

This is the bridge between seasons:
Reflect → Clear → Strengthen → Grow

And you don’t have to do it alone. We’re doing this together, one week at a time.

I’m already looking forward to seeing you in class next week as we continue moving from the quiet wisdom of winter into the momentum of spring with intention, strength, and just a little more space to breathe.

XO
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