Guard your rest

Dear One,

We must rest on the offensive.

(Yes, I've resorted to sports talk ... I mean offensive as in offense, the balancing strategy to defense.)

The pace and requirements of dominant culture will back us up into a defensive corner. A corner from which we must defend our space, our schedules, our recovery time. Our personhood and normal human capacity. A corner from which we begin to adapt to more relentless demands on our energy, and accept it as norm.

But this norm is just someone else's design.

For many of us, our true nature appreciates pauses. Reflection time. Unscheduled, unclaimed space. Creative space. Space for the unpredictable to emerge. Breathing room. Daydream time.

We don't always have the privilege or capacity to carve out offensive rest. But when you stay on the lookout, you may find more moments where you can claim your space, guard a boundary, and remember what it's like to schedule in breathing room.

If getting on the yoga mat helps you claim that space for yourself, join me in the return of monthly restorative workshops (Befriending Stillness is this Saturday) or weekly Flow & Restore on Monday nights. These offerings happen in-person at JP Centre Yoga, as well as live-streamed, and recorded. See below.

In solidarity,