<![CDATA[Krista Mason Movement

<![CDATA[Krista Mason Movement - Blog]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:13:53 -0400Weebly<![CDATA[Hope]]>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/hope

Hope is there alright
but you have to let it,
you have to let hope tip the scales.
Everywhere you look, it is there—
standing up, stepping forward,
speaking out. No more of this,
yes now to that, shaking hands, planting
trees, counting birds, counting stars, starfish,
grains of sand clinging to toes.
You have to let it.
You have to take your hand off the scale.
You have to let go of helpless,
reach out your finger
and place it on hope.

-Mary Walker

]]><![CDATA[and seek That]]>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/and-seek-that

There is a life-force
within your soul,
seek that life.

There is a gem in the
mountain of your body,
seek that mine.

O traveler, if you are
in search of that,
don't look outside,
look inside yourself
and seek That.

-RUMI

]]><![CDATA[The Pond]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/the-pond

Dear Friends,

Last spring when riding along the bike trail on his way to school, my son almost ran over a red-eared slider turtle and asked if he could bring it home. Seeing as they are an invasive species I said “sure, so long as you build me a turtle pond to house it in.”

So he set off to work, for the better part of the spring he was digging a hole and setting up the pond whenever he had time away from his classes. Once his brother came home from school the two of them went right to work continuing to build and improve that pond.

Countless hours of work, one missing turtle, a super cute tiny creek, pond plants growing like weeds, a bevy of mosquito-eating fish (which, by the way, are amazing at decimating mosquito larvae population, hooray!) a bunch of goldfish, and one adorable koi later and we have a pond that gives the three of us, plus the birds, the squirrels, the bees and the local neighborhood cats immense amounts of joy. The vision isn’t fully complete yet, but it’s on its way.

Mr. turtle might not be around anymore, but he sure was an inspiration in our backyard.

We all get inspiration in life at times. Sometimes that inspiration comes in the form of joyful and fun circumstances, and sometimes, sometimes that inspiration comes in the form of heartache and sadness…but even after the reason for the inspiration has disappeared, whether that inspiration was fortunate or unfortunate, we can still choose to use that momentum, that inspiration for good in our lives.

I hope you have an inspired week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Heyday]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/heyday

Dear Friends,

While I was in California last week we spent a day in San Francisco, and one of the stops we made was the ruins of the Sutro Baths. Built in 1894 by millionaire Adolpho Sutro, these sprawling seawater baths contained 7 pools of various temperatures, holding up to 10,000 people in its facility.

The ruins were fun to wander, I had always wanted to see them, but hadn’t prior to this visit. While they were fun to wander, I couldn’t help but think that the baths themselves must have been wildly impressive in their heyday.

Now they are just remainders of a time past and gone, but even in those remainders, there is beauty in the ruins.

My dear friend, I hope you can see the beauty in the past, and the beauty in the present. They may look and feel different, one may be more or less spectacular than the other, there may be spaces in past or present that hold no beauty…and yet, the beauty is there.

Have an amazing week.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Find the Magic]]>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/find-the-magic

*Photo by Erin Shaw
Dear Friends,

A week or so ago I went on a walk along the creek as the world was growing dark. It was a beautifully mild evening, the temperature was perfect and was not overly humid, and the fireflies along the creek were out in force.

They never fail to be magical, those fireflies. They come every year, and every year, my friends, they are still just as magical as the last.

I walked along the creek, listening to the water running, and noticing a particular tree that seemed to be more prolific with fireflies than most, and just enjoying this beautiful evening around me. After I got back to the street, I looked up and noticed what looked to be a barred owl on a line, and sure enough, as I got closer, the owl flew away.

If it’s been a while since you’ve spent some time stopping and noticing the magic around you, I would encourage you to slow down, to spend some time noticing, to see and enjoy the world around you. There’s beauty and magic around us, my friend, if only we stop long enough to notice it.

Have an amazing week.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Deep Belonging]]>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/deep-belonging

Dear Friends,

I’ve been thinking about my childhood home a lot lately, and the one thing that continues to stand out to me is my childhood home was a home of deep welcoming, of deep belonging.

It was a small house, full of 5 kids, various extras living with us at any given time, with pet cats, rabbits, snakes, chickens, rats, turtles and a tarantula for a while, a canoe trailer full of canoes and a couple of 15 passenger vans frequently living in the driveway, and pretty near constant chaos.

I had this spot up a tree in the front yard and a spot on the roof where I would frequently hang out and read or just be, because sometimes you just needed a quiet place of your own, which was hard to come by.

But it was a house where you always knew you belonged, no matter who you were or what time you stopped by.

My brother-in-law tells the story of the first time he came over. My mom had to feed him, because, well, you couldn’t come over without being fed…and so her offering was a hot dog and broccoli wrapped in a tortilla, because that was all she had in the house.

Thinking about it, I don’t think all of our houses need to be places where anyone can stop by at any time…I think that’s a place of personal preference and very personal wants and needs and, frankly, not all are built for near constant chaos…but I certainly hope that you’ve experienced those places, those spaces of deep welcoming and deep belonging…where you know you’ll be accepted, no matter how or when you show up.

Have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[The Ancient and the Modern Again]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/the-ancient-and-the-modern-again

Dear Friends,

I was thinking more about the mixture of the ancient and the modern again this past week. As I walked through the city in Athens last month, on any given street there would be ruins, remnants of an ancient world interspersed among the present world. The ancient and the modern, together.

I’m headed to California next week. Part of the reason I’m going is to help my parents pack up my childhood home, their home of 49 years, to move to another state. There’s a mixture of emotions there, packing a house that is filled with all of my childhood, and some of my children’s childhood memories. While there is sadness and loss in that move, there is also a deep excitement in the life they will be able to build ahead of them, there is a deep gratitude that my parents get to move before they have to, when they get to make the choice for themselves instead of circumstances making that choice for them.

The sadness and loss, and the excitement and gratitude can be held simultaneously, because we hold multitudes of emotions. We don’t have to feel one way or another, we can hold all. Just like those streets that hold both ancient and modern, we can hold multitudes.

I hope you have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Over the Rainbow]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/over-the-rainbow

Dear Friends,

A few days ago I was chatting with my son on the phone. He was on his way home from work, I was on my way to a class. It was rush hour in DC, coupled with the fact that it was on and off raining, and, as you can imagine, traffic was something fierce.

We had our fair share of complaints about the traffic situation as we chatted. Our frustrations did not go by unnoticed

As we sat there whining to each other in our respective vehicles, a bright rainbow burst out of the clouds and appeared all the way across the sky. The two of us saw it simultaneously and stopped our whining to wax poetic about the beautiful rainbow that had just moved into our vision.

The rainbow didn’t stop the traffic from happening, my friends. The two of us were still frustrated about the state of Downtown DC and our navigation through the city. And even in that frustration, we got to share this magical glimpse of beauty in our day.

Sometimes those places and spaces of beauty aren’t enough to stop and erase the trials and frustrations in our lives. And yet, my friends, we can still stop, enjoy, and notice the beauty and the magic all around us.

Have a wonderful week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[The Ancient and the Modern]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/the-ancient-and-the-modern

Dear Friends,

There are remnants of an ancient world interspersed in various metro stops in Athens, Greece. It is said that the building of the Athens metro system facilitated the largest archaeological excavation in Greek history, uncovering over 50,000 ancient artifacts and turning some of the transit stations into underground museums of a sort.

I stumbled upon one such site as I came out at the Monastiraki Station a few weeks ago when wandering Athens for the day post-retreat. I hadn’t heard about this ahead of time, and was surprised to see a super archaeological display as I was exiting the metro.

The ancient and the modern, intermingled together.

I was thinking about that with our own lives. We don’t do away with the old when we integrate the new in our lives…this life is full of journeys and changes and areas where we can both shift and change, while simultaneously recognizing the importance and beauty of where we were before.

My dear friend, I hope, as you travel along, you are able to see the importance of the here and now, and also the importance of where you were along the way.

Have an amazing week.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[What a Difference Some Sun Makes]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/what-a-difference-some-sun-makes

Dear Friends,

The sun came out yesterday!

After 9 straight days of rain and cloudiness, the sun was shining today in a spectacular fashion.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the rain. We’re in a drought in the DC/Maryland area, and having been born and raised in California and frequently in drought, I always love and appreciate rain. This time of year I especially love how green it turns the world, how the creeks and streams grow fuller and faster, how the rain creates beautiful colors around us.

Even so, when the sky turned blue this morning and the sun came out, when the birds were singing in the trees around my house it was absolutely magical…what a difference some sun can make in our lives.

There are times when it feels like we are perpetually under the clouds, with no sun, with no relief in sight…and if that’s you right now I hope you can find a little respite, a little blue sky, a little sun peaking out behind the clouds even if the clouds are still largely there.

Have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[The Winding Road Again]]>Fri, 22 May 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/the-winding-road-again

Dear Friends,

I was thinking about those Cycladic roads again this week, about how they work with the terrain around them instead of blasting through said terrain…and about acceptance and love of ourselves exactly as we are and where we are.

We visited this beautiful monastery built into a cliff while we were on Amorgos. Legend has it that the monks who were building it first built it closer to the water, but the building materials kept falling down each night. Finally, one of the tools was found high up on the cliffside, and the monks decided, instead of the original spot, the cliffside spot was where they were called to build their monastery.

Sometimes, in our very understandable rigidity, we get stuck in the thinking that acceptance of where we are now, and allowing ourselves to view ourselves as worthy and enough just as we are means we can’t move and shift from where we are. But, my friends, like that cliffside monastery, our lives are not either/or. They are both/and. We are both worthy and enough just as we are, right here and right now, and also, we are able to shift and change if we want or need to.

My dear friend, I hope you can see your own worthiness here and now, just as you are…and I hope you can know that whatever future iteration of you is just as worthy also.

Have an amazing week.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[The Winding Road]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/the-winding-road

Dear Friends,

Last week I had the privilege of spending a spectacular week leading a retreat on Amorgos, a beautiful little island with a population of 2000 full-time residents, and 370 churches dotting the landscape, in the Cyclades in Greece.

Throughout the week we went on various adventures on our little island, we visited a beautiful monastery, Panagia Hozoviotissa, dramatically built into a cliffside, we visited the adorable town of Chora, went on a stunning hike, explored the town of Tholaria up the hill from our hotel, learned some greek dances and culinary skills…all the while, as we adventured, I was noticing the roads on our little island.

The roads on our little island home for the week were built into the landscape. Instead of barreling through the landscape, they followed the curves and the altitude…which made for some really curvy, steep roads and a slower trip to get where we were going…it also made for roads that practically disappeared into the landscape around them. Instead of fighting the landscape they had and blasting through it, the Amorgans worked with what they had to build transportation infrastructure.

I was thinking about those roads in terms of our own bodies. Sometimes we get frustrated with what we have…maybe our age, our old or new injuries, our weight, the way our bodies work…all those things sometimes frustrate us, and we end up getting in our heads about it. But I wonder how it might feel if we simply accept ourselves exactly as we are, right here and now, and then work with what we’ve got. I wonder how it might feel to judge ourselves a little less, to find beauty in ourselves, to work on knowing we are just right just as we are right here, right now.

I hope you have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Blocking My Way]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/blocking-my-way

Dear Friends,

A while ago while I was meandering in the woods I came to a fork in the road. I could continue on the paved trail I was on, or I could walk down what was clearly the old trail.

Pavement is not my favorite surface to walk on, so I opted to head down the latter path, hoping to have a little less pavement in my life. Little did I know, although had I taken a second to think about it I might have figured, the old trail was full of broken pavement and potholes and was not the greatest to walk on…surprise, surprise.

As I continued on, I came across a couple of downed trees crossing my path. I scrambled over them and thought about how there was no need for the rangers to clear said trees, because this particular path was no longer in use and had no need to be cleared.

There are times, in all of our lives, where it's hard to discern when it’s time to continue down a path, and when it is time to walk away from something that is no longer serving us.

My dear friend, I hope you are able to trust your own discernment even in the hard.

Have an amazing week.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Keeping Up]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/keeping-up

Dear Friends,

That walk that I talked about last week, it was on one of those hot and sweaty days. As such, it was, for sure, a slow meander through the woods…taking my time, walking my walk, enjoying practically seeing the leaves get fuller on the trees around me.

I was thinking, as I walked, about how much I love walking my own walk, going at my own pace, stopping, looking, noticing without being in a hurry, without anyone else dictating how fast or slow I need to go.

Several years ago I realized I had been walking at other folks' pace for years, trying to keep up with people who were naturally faster than me and I didn’t want to do that anymore. I no longer wanted to run after people who were naturally faster than me…so largely I stopped.

Now, don’t get me wrong, there are times when we have no choice but to keep up with others, there are times when keeping up helps encourage us to push ourselves further and do better than we might on our own, but there are also plenty of times when we can and should choose to walk our own walk, even if it’s a different pace then those around us.

My dear friend, I hope you can walk your own walk this week, knowing with confidence that your walk is your own beautiful journey.

Have an amazing week.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Take Time]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/take-time

Dear Friends,

I had a little space in my schedule last week, so I got to take an unexpected wander through the woods in-between clients.

As I wandered I was recognizing that I simply haven’t been wandering through the woods as much lately. My life has been busier, I have had less spaciousness, I haven’t been making the time in my week to wander.

But those slow meanders are really good for my mind, my body, and my nervous system. They’re a super important reset in my week. As I walked I was recognizing that I need to prioritize being out in nature, on trails, in the woods a little more.

Life gets busy, and unfortunately none of us have time for all the self-care we might want for ourselves…but I think noticing those details that make a sizable difference in our lives, whatever that may be for you, and prioritizing those areas, taking time for those areas as we move through our weeks can make a real difference in our minds, our bodies, our nervous systems and our lives.

I hope you have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Void of Life]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/void-of-life

Dear Friends,

I talked last week about my drive through the park and how one day all the trees were void of life, and the next, on that same drive, there were bits of bright green all around me.

But they weren’t, those trees. They weren’t void of life. They might have looked that way, they might have presented as void of life…but under the surface life was moving and churning. That life might have been waiting to burst forth, but that doesn’t mean life wasn’t there, under the surface the whole time.

Sure, it might look different on the outside, and throughout the colder months that life might be slower, but even in that slower state, that life is still there…moving, changing, growing.

Sometimes we think we’re in a stagnant place, we feel like our growth has slowed to a halt. And perhaps we aren’t moving or growing as much as we are at other times in our lives, but that doesn’t mean life isn’t there, moving, changing, growing.

My dear friend, I hope you can celebrate your journey exactly where you are right now, whether that is full of life and change, or perhaps moving at a little slower pace.

Have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Instant Changes]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/instant-changes

Dear Friends,

While I was driving through the park last week, I noticed, while spring was springing all around, and blossoms were blossoming, yet, all the trees in the park were still bare and void of life. The very next day, as I drove that same road through the park, there were little dots of green all around me. One of my clients last week aptly referred to the trees at this stage as like an impressionist painting…life was springing up throughout the park in this beautiful moment of instant change.

How are you feeling, my friend? I don’t know about you, but this past week the political climate we have been living through has been rough on my nervous system. I noticed a distinct feeling of exhaustion earlier this week and realized I had been holding a lot of tension, a lot of nervousness, a lot of…a lot.

And there’s not a whole lot I can do about it, other than limit my consumption of the news. But I can anchor back to the good, the beauty, the life springing up around me in that moment of instant change. I can find other ways in my life to anchor back, ways that allow me to feel a semblance of control in one area even if I can’t feel that control in others.

My dear friend, sometimes there’s no help to be had for the exhaustion and nervousness, but I do think if we’re willing to take some time to anchor back to the good, the beauty and the life around us we can find a little deeper breath and a little more relief.

Have an amazing week.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Forgot]]>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:49:40 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/forgot

Dear Friends,

As I was driving to see a client at 7:40 this morning, I suddenly realized I didn’t write or set up an email to send out this week…I completely forgot, it totally slipped my mind until this morning when it was too late to schedule and send out at 8am when I normally send it.

I chuckled about forgetting because, well, sometimes we just forget, right?

But, as I drove, admiring the various redbuds and (my favorite) puffball cherry trees in bloom on my way, I also realized that I had recently changed my schedule, and the time that I used to have set aside for my weekly email was no longer available to me.

So, after 5 ½ years of writing an email to you all faithfully every week, I changed one thing about my week and completely forgot…because I hadn’t set any time aside to write said email.

I didn’t judge myself for forgetting an email, that’s life sometimes…we can’t do everything right all the time. But also, I did recognize that I, once more, need to set aside time in my week for a task that I value, that I want to accomplish…because without that time set to the side clearly that task is easy to forget.

My dear friend, I hope we all can be a little more gentle with ourselves when we inevitably fail or forget a task at hand…because we all do and will. And yet, I also hope we can look at our own lives and figure out ways we can help ourselves accomplish those things we want to accomplish with a little more ease.

Have an amazing week.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Transform]]>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/transform

Dear Friends,

Last Sunday happened to be a beautiful spring day around here…it also happened to be a day full of getting things done around my house, and checking things off the to-do list that had been on said list for way too long. Perhaps not the best use of beautiful spring weather, but important nonetheless. I was in and out of the house all day fulfilling my to-do list.

The day prior, my niece and I had been looking at the weeping cherry tree in my next-door neighbors yard. It happens to be one of my favorite trees, it is just so beautiful. We were looking at the buds that were tightly closed and talking about how pretty it is when they open…I went to bed that night with the blossoms still tightly wrapped up and tucked away in their little cocoons.

That next day, however, as I was in and out of the house, it was amazing to see this tree completely transform from morning to evening in one day. It went from nary a bud opened, to practically full bloom that Sunday. I could see the transformation happening in front of me as I went about my work.

Sometimes transformation is a long, arduous process…but sometimes transformation happens in an instant…both roads have their challenges, their lessons and their beauty.

My dear friend, I hope, during this season of transformation in the world around us, we can see and notice the beauty around us even when life has its inevitable challenges.

Have an amazing week.

Love
Krista

]]><![CDATA[Ways to Mofidy]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.kristamasonmovement.com/blog/ways-to-mofidy

Dear Friends,

My son was home on Spring Break last week. One evening during that time we were at the climbing gym, and I, like a bit of a dummy I am, decided to show off and lift heavier weights than I should have. Nothing like showing off to your 21 year old son to really put you in your place…and so it’s been a week of stretching, and icing, and rolling and elevating and resting a place I re-injured just to show off to my son.

But he was impressed. Mission accomplished. Worth it.

As we age and change our bodies just don’t work the way they once did, right? Perhaps you’ve noticed it in your own body. Maybe you’ve lost movement that once felt easy and fluid. Perhaps your injury is taking longer to heal than it used to. Maybe areas in your body feel a little more burdensome, a little more catchy. Perhaps movement feels less easy and second-nature.

It’s real, and natural, and part of life and, as much as we don’t want to hear it, part of the aging process...and also so incredibly frustrating, this change in our physical experience as we move through life.

This week I was working with a student to brainstorm ways we could modify movement so that those movements that feel inaccessible can become more accessible. Because, my friends, even when those inevitable changes occur it is still so very important in our bodies and our minds to keep moving, to keep our strength and mobility, to find ways to modify so we can both keep that integrity in our bodies, feel strong in our bodies, and find the fun and the joy when moving through life.

My dear friend, I hope this week you are able to find a little more fun and joy as you move through this life…and hopefully you don’t feel a need to show off to any 21 year olds.

Love
Krista

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