Dear friends,
In accordance with Governor Whitmer’s most recent Executive Order, we will be extending the closing of the studio until Tuesday, April 14th. All active class packages and memberships will continue to be frozen until that date.
Until then, join us for Stone Turtle Yoga classes online! Keep in touch on Facebook, and make sure to do what you can to stay healthy. Eat fruits and vegetables, drink lots of water, get plenty of sleep, and get fresh air and exercise every day, if you can safely.
Food for thought: It is so easy to numb yourself with news and Netflix right now. Never before have I felt so compelled to look at my phone and scroll for updates. But you know, it never makes me feel that good. Instead, how about checking the news just enough to stay informed, and instead use this time to reconnect to creativity and simplicity?
In the Colie household, after our baby goes to bed, I’ve been having a great time experimenting with cacao recipes, writing letters by candlelight, staring out at the darkening landscape as night trickles in (what’s the rush?), and going deep into conversation-land with my partner. What are our values? What kind of world do we want to live in? How do we want to be with each other, in our home and out in the world?
By using this time to our advantage and learning more about ourselves and those we love, I do not mean to minimize the very real trauma that is and will be experienced by so many right now. Coronavirus is causing all kinds of pain, on a physical, psychological, and financial level, for all kinds of people everywhere. My intention is that this suffering not be in vain, and that we use this “shut down” time to stop and think and feel, to strip away the distractions and get back to the basics, so that when this is over, we can move forward much wiser and more connected to our earth and our humanity.
Finally, I’ll leave you with a reading that I’ve found beautiful and comforting. Love to all. -Mariah
Message from the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers:
“As you move through these changing times… be easy on yourself and be easy on one another. You are at the beginning of something new. You are learning a new way of being. You will find that you are working less in the yang modes that you are used to.
You will stop working so hard at getting from point A to point B the way you have in the past, but instead, will spend more time experiencing yourself in the whole, and your place in it.
Instead of traveling to a goal out there, you will voyage deeper into yourself. Your mother’s grandmother knew how to do this. Your ancestors from long ago knew how to do this. They knew the power of the feminine principle… and because you carry their DNA in your body, this wisdom and this way of being is within you.
Call on it. Call it up. Invite your ancestors in. As the yang based habits and the decaying institutions on our planet begin to crumble, look up. A breeze is stirring. Feel the sun on your wings.”
