I'm a yoga teacher and trainer sharing somatic & reflective practices that cultivate right relationship between body, mind and heart to live in felt wholeness.
Big Things. Small Things.
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Hello Reader, I was told that motherhood would change everything, but I didn't really realise how much of everything there was. On the threshold of my daughter having turned two, I am reflecting on how the landscape around me and in me has changed. The big things have become small things, melting away like clocks in a Dali painting as time stretches out. Life has acquired a level of intimacy that has me dancing with delight and dissolution equally all before lunch. On Monday and Thursday afternoons I drive out of town to go teach a handful of students at a quaint little studio in the desert. It simple, spacious, relaxed and utterly healing. What you make of itA gentle darkness still cloaks the room as I open my eyes from underneath the warm cocoon of blankets. A tumble of strawberry blonde curls lie tucked into my arm, not yet ready to leave our shared nest or my side. Dipping in and out of dreams from last night we lie in silence, waiting to see what the day brings forth from within us. The shower starts running, marking the time and calling us to move as the water stops. The heaviness of sleep still has us in its embrace. In this liminal space, a host of guests stand at the door, waiting to step over the threshold. Which one will be invited in first? What will this day bring? Joy, as I consciously breathe in and kiss the curly warm head snuggled onto my shoulder. Some days a heaviness. A bone deep tiredness, that pulls you down into the mattress. Some days a heaviness. A bone deep comfort, that pulls you down into the mattress. What the body feels is unfiltered. What the mind makes of it is another story... I look forward to connecting with you more regularly here to share musings and practices that bring you back to the center of yourself. Much love, Liezl
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Liezl Hoving
I'm a yoga teacher and trainer sharing somatic & reflective practices that cultivate right relationship between body, mind and heart to live in felt wholeness.
Dear Reader, Azza Al Ghardaqa on Unsplash The darkness begins to give way to unfamiliar textures underneath my feet. A foreign breeze caresses my bare arms, legs and torso. It is cool on my cheeks, with a lingering smell I cannot quite place as it stirs something in my chest. It passes. With effort I open my heavy eyelids. My eyes strain to focus and adjust to the light. Eventually my gaze comes to rest on the unknown horizon stretching out ahead of me. I turn around to see where I have come...
Hello Reader It's a busy week. The to-do list is long and is pressing into me from all sides. I need a brisk walk to wake up my brain and body. A walk to ease the feeling of flight welling up in my legs. A walk to give me perspective. A walk to ground me back into the smells, sights and sounds of right now. I hit my regular route down to the beach, walk under my favorite tree and past the hedge of blooming aloes, red rockets pointed up at the sky. I get to the walkway. I turn left. I fall in...
Hello Reader, Whooosh We’re both making swishing wave sounds while our hands trace the shapes of them in the air. ‘This is how they come and go.’ Whooooosh whoosh ‘Some are very big and some are small. Some feel easy and some feel hard. Sometimes there are even many of them together!’ Whoooosh whoosh whoosh woooooosh Our hands tangle and twirl together in the air, wave upon wave upon wave… We giggle. ‘Did you feel them in your body this week? There were some big ones.’ She latches on to...