Welcome to the Floor, Let's Stay There

Hey there,

So that was April.

Honestly I'm still a little surprised we did what we did this month because it went places I didn't plan for. We started with Bird Dog, which I keep describing as a beginner pose that will absolutely humble you and somewhere between week one and right now it turned into a whole thing about freedom and core challenges and apparently a 12-week camp that some of you are now doing with me. So. That happened.

If you missed the core camp news a few people heard me talking about the challenge my son gave me when he was in town and wanted in. 4.5 minutes of core, twice a day, slow the reps all the way down so you actually feel them instead of just surviving them. We started it together. It is harder than it sounds. We are doing it anyway.

That kind of became the whole month, actually. Not the posed version of yoga where everything is intentional and soft-lit and you float off the mat feeling like a different person. The real version. Where you show up on a Tuesday when you're tired and the weather still can't commit to being spring, and you put one hand down and one knee down and you reach because that's just what we do here.

I've been thinking a lot about what I want to carry out of April. The home base thing keeps coming back to me. That being grounded doesn't mean you're going nowhere it means you always know where home is. You can go anywhere from a home base. You can reach, wobble, fall over sideways in Bird Dog in front of a room full of people, and still know where to come back to. That's not a small thing. That's actually everything.

We're going into May soon and I'll tell you more about what's coming. But I'll say this much if April was about finding the floor, May is about what happens when you finally trust it enough to push off.

I think you're ready.

Thank you for this month. For showing up to the ordinary version of the practice and letting it be enough. For slowing your reps down even when it got harder. For being the kind of people who do a 12-week core challenge because someone mentioned it in a newsletter.

You're my favorite.

See you on the mat, Annie

P.S. If you're doing the 4.5 minutes today- same. Let's go.