A Gentle Reset

On resting to rise

It’s winter, have you exhaled? If you haven’t, that’s okay. It’s been a busy month. How about a quiet, restorative pause right now? Rest. This, my friends, is how we integrate, heal, and grow. This is how we prepare to begin again. 

A few words from behind the paywall, which I wrote last year around this time and feel well timed for this moment. A prayer and invitation for our collective respite and rejuvenation —

Usher me in
from the outer swirl
create a container
to hold my momentary flailing
to hug my complex internal systems
to gently guide me
and all of us
here, now
orchestrate a more unified order
harmonize and neutralize
the passing chaoses of the year
and lift my perspective higher
bringing me home
to my most innate ease
and restoring
my inner peace.

A gentle reset

And a little gift from me to you, from you to yourself, to close 2024 — Legs up the wall. This is the most steadfast, important posture in my personal practice of resting to rise. It’s a gesture I return to again and again for guidance to catch my breath and reset even while life is happening... I’ve called it the boss for years because it’s such an effective leader of restorative action, the gentlest guide to harmonizing your mind, body, and nervous system.

It reminds me that rest is readiness. I hope it sparks this knowing in you, too.

Give yourself 5 minutes (or 10, or more…) of grace now — use this page from Move, Rest, Recover to guide you in the time that you do have, and feel the difference…

May you rest and rise in 2025.