Welcome to the Floor, Let's Stay There

Hey there,

Something happens in week two.

Week one has this energy to it. New month, fresh intention, maybe you wrote something down, maybe you came to class and it felt meaningful. That's real and it counts. But week two is different. Week two is a Tuesday. You're tired and it's probably still doing that thing where it can't decide if it's winter or spring, and the intention you set seven days ago is now just a thing you said you were going to do.

And you do it anyway.

That's the practice. Not the inspired version. The quiet, ordinary, nobody's-watching version.

I keep thinking about this in the context of what we're sitting with this month. Rooting. Staying. Letting the ground hold you instead of just touching it on your way to somewhere else. Because most of us are actually pretty good at arriving. We're good at beginnings. We sign up, we show up, we feel the thing. What's harder is the return. Coming back when it isn't new anymore.

Sutra 1.14 says practice becomes firmly grounded when it's done over a long period of time, without interruption, and with sincerity. That middle part is the one I keep landing on. Without interruption. Not perfectly. Not brilliantly every single time. Just continuously. The thread doesn't break. You come back.

Roots work this way too. They don't make a grand gesture. They just keep growing in the same direction, quietly, without anyone watching. By the time you can see what they've built, it's been happening for a long time. So this week in class we're practicing the return. If you were here last week, notice what's different now that you've been sitting with this for seven days. If this is your first class of April, welcome and you are not behind, there is no behind here. Either way we're doing the same thing. Showing up to the ordinary version and letting it be enough. Because it is enough. It really is. Come back to the mat this week.

All levels welcome. Bring a mat. We'll handle the rest.

See you on the floor, Annie