Winter and a New Year

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the idea of rituals, particularly winter ones that help us settle into the cooler and darker days to find rest for renewal. As daylight hours, (more like minutes) begin to grow, we too, begin to grow new things. The old is gone, behold, God is doing a new thing. What is your heart singing to? What are you waking up to and noticing that even in the first week of January 2024, no longer is serving the way it perhaps once did (there are seasons for everything) and with a kind adieu, you can let it go. We are accumulators. We want more dreams, more accomplishing. We want to reach more goals and set even loftier ones. We want to see and be seen. We want to belong and be liked. If we are to dream and live out those desires of our hearts, we need to become wise to the things either that once served us and no longer do, or the right timing has yet to be, in order that we can lean in well to a the stirring of a new thing. Within these cozy, albeit really rainy winter weeks, lives a perfect time for for our planning. While the earth is winter hardened, we doodle, delete, re-design and dream. We begin to tune into the song of our hearts, so that when the soil of our souls is soft and open, we can cultivate a new thing.

Our mats are a safe and quiet place by which we explore not only making shapes with our bodies, create balanced and regulated energy and find flow and integration, it is also a place where we hear our hearts.


May your wintertime find wonder. May you feel the gentle stir of a new thing.

With you in wait and wonder (and wrap)🧣,
Jill