Welcome to the Floor, Let's Stay There

Hey there,

March was about finding the floor. Sitting down. Arriving somewhere without immediately trying to make it better. And if you were on the mat with us this month, you felt it; that particular kind of effort that doesn't look like effort. The kind where you stop performing and start just being there.

So here's the thing about April.

We're not leaving.

You did the hard work of finding the ground in March. The actual difficult thing; slowing down enough to notice what's underneath. And now the question isn't where do we go next. The question is what happens when you stay?

There's a line from the Yoga Sutras I keep coming back to right now: "Practice becomes firmly grounded when done over a long period of time, without interruption, and with sincerity." That's Sutra 1.14. You could summarize it in five words: keep showing up, and mean it. Not because you'll finally get somewhere. Because the staying is the practice.

April in Minneapolis is doing exactly this. The ground is actually thawing. Things that have been underground all winter are starting to push upward; not because spring announced itself dramatically, but because the roots have been there the whole time, waiting. Your practice works the same way. You don't manufacture it. You just stay long enough for something to emerge.

Week one is simple: we just show up. We arrive the same way we did in March, but this time we know where we're going. We're going to the same place. We're just going to stay a little longer.

See you on the floor, 💗Annie