 “In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” ― Gautama Buddha
Dear Friends, How gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. Last week I was floating in a beautiful bright blue Cenote filled with crystal clear water watching the clouds float across the sky above me, feeling the weightlessness of the water surrounding me, and thinking about the process of letting go, and a conversation I had with a friend a few weeks ago. I came across the above quote on a pillow at our retreat house in Mexico this past week and immediately took a picture of said pillow…it just struck me as so deeply profound. Gracefully letting go of things not meant for you. It’s easier said than done, isn’t it? A dear friend of mine and I were talking several weeks ago about areas in life that we have not let go of, areas in life that are hard to release, areas where we might feel a little stuck, perhaps holding on to things not meant for us. But even when we feel, or we are stuck, I do believe we can still be in that space that is hard to release with grace, with love, with gentleness towards ourselves and those around us. It might take years of processing to get unstuck, but I think we can still continue to walk through those stuck spaces with grace and love. While we might not be immediately good at gracefully letting go of things that are not meant for us, we can be graceful and loving towards ourselves and those around us during the process of letting go, no matter how long that might take. I hope this week you are able to be a little more graceful and loving toward yourself and those around you, even if you are a little stuck. Have an amazing week, my friend. Love Krista
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 Dear Friends,
Stay curious about ways that you can change and shift as you continue to grow and learn. Many of you have seen the show Ted Lasso, and remember when he says on said show, “be curious, not judgemental”. I was thinking about that phrase this past week, and how it can show up in our own lives as we move through our days and weeks. I wonder how it might feel if we were willing to be a little more curious, and a little less judgemental with the world around us. I wonder how it might feel if we were willing to be a little more curious, and a little less judgemental with our families, our partners, our kids, our teens. I wonder how it might feel if we were willing to be a little more curious, and a little less judgemental with ourselves. Of late there has been this specific space in my life where I have been full of jealousy…and I really, really don’t like it. It feels gross, ugly, embarrassing, and I have, frankly, had a hard time approaching that space without judgment toward myself. But lately I have been trying to approach that space with curiosity, with interest, with acknowledgement of my own humanity and my inability to move through this life without jealousy flair-ups once in a while because, well, I am human. I wonder how we could shift and change our perspectives if we were willing to be a little less judgemental with ourselves, and a little more curious about ourselves. I wonder if it would help us soften both to ourselves and to the world around us. I hope this week you can move through your life with a little more curiosity, and a little less judgment. Have an amazing week, my friend. Love Krista  Dear Friends,
The shift in seasons can be felt all around us right now, we are on the verge of change in the world around us. Remember last week’s blog post, when I talked about setting a boundary about a silly little, but important, thing to me? Last week, one of my students and I were talking about the importance of trying the new, the unfamiliar, even when we are not so comfortable with the new, with the unfamiliar. It’s important to know ourselves, and to set our boundaries, that is, I think, of utmost importance…but there are times when we might consider something a boundary because it doesn’t feel familiar to us, because we are uncomfortable with the thought of change…and I do think there is great value in being willing to be curious about, and to perhaps take a risk and try something new even if that new makes us uncomfortable. We simply don’t know if it will resound with us if we don’t try it. While not applicable to everything, I do think we would all be well served to move through our lives with a little more curiosity. Take my silly little boundary from last week as an example. Yes, the question I ask myself, “how can I continue to show up in my work feeling genuine in what I do so that I don’t feel like an imposter” is an important question to think about and feel into, and, in my own life, it wouldn’t serve me to ignore that question and forge ahead with something new because that something might create more followers or get me more attention. But if that question causes me to get set in my ways without ever being curious about how new and different ways and modes might make me feel, if that questions makes it so I refuse to try new things and be curious about how those new things might feel in my life, if that question makes it so I don’t ever change and shift what I’m doing even if it would serve me, then it is allowing me to get stuck, to stop being curious, to stop growing and learning. My dear friend, I hope you can live your life feeling genuine and true in what you are doing and how you are living, and simultaneously stay curious about ways that you can change and shift as you continue to grow and learn. Have an amazing week. Love Krista  *Washington DC is surrounded by 40 boundary stones, 36 are the original stones laid out in 1791-1792 marking the original boundary of the city. Dear Friends,
Are there ways we can shift, change, hold boundaries in our own lives to make what we’re doing in our work, with our friends, with our families feel better, truer, more sustainable in our own lives? Let’s be honest here, there are times when we have jobs that are not so great, or maybe when our family or friend life feels overwhelming and hard, and that is deeply part of this life. I have had my share of not so great, or downright terrible jobs in my life, of times when my family life was hard and exhausting. There are times when we’re simply in the thick of it and there’s just no way to exit that thick…but even in the thick of it, with some creativity, I think we can shift and change to make our lives feel a little better, a little more sustainable. A while ago my son and I were talking on the phone, and he was encouraging me to try some instagram reels for my business. I was telling him that, while I’m not opposed to learning and seeing if that is something that feels good, brings me joy, or is ease-filled, one of my personal boundaries in my business is always creating things that feel true to me. I want my work to feel good and sustainable. I don’t ever want my work to make me feel like an imposter, like I’m trying to be something I’m not, or like I’m putting on a show. I have a firm boundary in that area because I don’t want to do something that makes me feel untrue to myself. It’s a small thing, that boundary, and one that certainly can shift and change, but I think it makes a big difference in my own life...it helps me feel true and good in what I do, it helps me avoid the dreaded imposter syndrome that I feel plagues so many in my line of work, it feels correct to me. There are times when we just have to live with the hard…where perhaps spaces in our life feel hard and there’s no exit from that hard. Even so, I do think there are ways, with a little creativity, that we can make life feel a little better, a little truer, a little more sustainable even in the hard. I hope you have a week filled with creativity, my friends...who knows, maybe by the time you read this I’ll be creating some instagram reels…but maybe not. :) Love Krista  Dear Friends,
A few weekends ago, my son, a friend of ours and I hopped in the car on Sunday morning to mosey on up to our favorite cross country ski spot in West Virginia, White Grass, to go cross country skiing for the afternoon. My son and his friend had no school the next day, as it was a holiday, so they were going to be able to sleep in, and, well, you take snow when you can get it during the winter in the DMV. We had an absolutely fabulous day, we had so much fun and it was just completely wonderful. A few weeks prior, when we got our snowstorm in the Washington DC area, I had been out skiing a couple of different times. I was up at White Grass the weekend before the snow fell in my area, and then I was able to get out in Rock Creek Park the day the snow fell to ski for a few hours. Even so, that Sunday I was determined to get my book club book finished in a timely manner so I could get out skiing in the park one more time, because, well, snow is unpredictable in the DMV…you never know if or when it will be back. As I was reading, snuggled in my bed on a Sunday morning with no one else in my house, I realized I just didn’t want to go. Yes, snow is unpredictable around here, yes, it could have potentially been the last opportunity I had to go skiing this winter…and also, I was cozy in my bed, tired, and didn’t actually want to move my body. So I stayed in bed. I finished my book, I watched a show, I lazed about until it was time to get to my book club…and it was exactly right. Sometimes we need to take the opportunities that present themselves…but there are other times when it’s just correct to walk away from said opportunity, even when we don’t know if or when it will come again. I hope, this week, you have an easy time knowing which opportunities you should take, and which ones you should simply let go of. Have an amazing week, my friend. Love Krista |
Hi, I'm Krista!Krista Mason is a movement instructor based in Washington DC. She founded an online strength, yoga and movement studio, teaches group classes, hosts both local and overseas retreats, hangs out with private clients, and absolutely loves the work she gets to do. Archives
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