 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
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 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  Dear Friends,
This past weekend I had the privilege of taking a wonderful group of folks to the lovely Lake Anna in Virginia for a weekend retreat. It was my first time going to this little lake less than two hours from the DC area, and it was delightful. Because the weather was going to be beautiful and warm on Saturday, at the last second I arranged for a group of us to have a three hour sunset pontoon ride on the lake. It was a lovely trip exploring the lake with amazing company. Our captain was fabulous. We had some snacks and wine, some good connection time and an all-around relaxing trip…and at the end of our time we experienced a spectacular sunset to round out our trip on the water. Turns out, however, three hours on a pontoon boat without a bathroom...add in some wine...is about an hour too many. By the end of our trip I was absolutely dying. So while I enjoyed the beautiful sunset, there was an amount of enjoyment that was totally overpowered by a need to pee with nowhere to escape to. Spoiler alert, I made it back in one piece…phew…but not without telling our captain that yes, it was time to go to shore because our three hours were about to be up even though the sun hadn’t fully set. These past few weeks have been hard, scary, exhausting…right? I was thinking about that sunset, and how I couldn’t fully enjoy it because of extenuating circumstances, and I think that’s our life all the time right now…it’s hard to decouple ourselves from the hard, scary and exhausting things that are going on in our world. I don’t have any answers to give other than to keep showing up, keep being a light in this world, keep being good to those around you…and perhaps keep noticing those beautiful sunsets…even if you might be a little distracted. Have an amazing week, my friend. Love Krista  Dear Friends,
I stumbled across this tree while I was talking to my siblings the other day. I had to stop what I was doing, and totally lost my train of thought to get a picture of said tree…I did not get back to what I was saying to my siblings after that. I use an app called Marco Polo to chat with my siblings, with my bonus mom and bonus sister, and with a couple of friends on the regular. It’s basically this video message app where no one is in real time, we’re all talking and listening when we, individually, have the opportunity to listen and talk. We can have individual chats, or chats with groups of people. If we’re being honest, it’s not as nice as a phone call. It’s hard to have a real time connection when you’re basically talking to yourself, and there’s no real time reaction from the folks I’m talking to, because I’m not talking in real time to them, as they are not there with me…there is by definition less opportunity for real connection. And yet, through this app I have found greater opportunities for connection in general…stay with me here…because I know I basically contradicted myself. Life gets so busy, and it’s hard to stay connected to the people we value and want to stay connected to...add in some different time zones, and wildly different schedules and that connection becomes near impossible. This app has allowed people important to me to maintain that day to day connection, to maintain that conversation in each other’s lives across time zones, states, the whole country…and that is a joy in my life, even if it might not be the best platform for real connection. Sometimes the opportunity for real connection is abundant in our lives, and other times we take the morsels we can get, because staying connected to the people we love is important in this life we’re living, and connection, no matter how mediocre, is absolutely essential. I hope you have an amazing week, my friend. Love Krista |
Hi, I'm Krista!Krista Mason is a movement instructor based in the Washington DC area. She founded an online strength, yoga and movement studio, teaches group classes, hosts both local and overseas retreats, hangs out with private clients, writes weekly blogs and absolutely loves the work she gets to do. Archives
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