Hello Reader,

I have been on the quiet side here for the last few weeks.

From completing assignments for a year long course that wrapped up, to dipping my toes back into photography, teaching on another round of yoga teacher training, navigating some big business shifts with my partner, navigating school holidays with a toddler, taking up knitting...

To experiencing an inner spring and budding. And now, getting ready to travel to bid farewell to a dear friend in his last weeks of palliative care.

It has been a full time. An emotional one. Yet a rewarding one too. I feel myself emerged from the cave of burnout and post partum depression. I see my capacity fill, spill over and then recover, able to hold so much more than I have been able to in years.

But for the last two weeks my body has been telling me all about it with a persistent tension headache that never quite disappears completely.

So today I spent some time to understand it better and simply tend to it. Both the inside out and the outside in.

I returned to the most basic of resting poses and added a simple rolled hand towel as an antidote for the muscular guarding that has settled in my upper back.

Support. Space. Time.

A return to embodied safety.

I took that into the Yin Somatics class I taught tonight. And I share that class with you now if you too are in need of more support, space and time to tend all that is on guard.

Along with your mat, you will need a hand towel, a tennis ball, bolster/pillow and yoga block.

Fun Fact - 25 May is also actually considered 'Towel Day' in honor of Douglas Adams who wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I leave with you with this line from the book as a reminder of what you are capable of.

Any person who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where their towel is, is clearly someone to be reckoned with.

Much love, Liezl