 Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right.
-Melody Beattie
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 Dear Friends,
Yesterday, I was driving through the park as I was headed to a client's house. As I took a turn onto beach drive, the underbrush below the tall, bare trees was suddenly so stunning I felt like I had to stop…and with a few minutes of wiggle room in my schedule I got out of my car, wandered into said underbrush and for a few brief moments was instantly surrounded by color. It was like I wandered into some magical fairyland. We are coming into the week of Thanksgiving…and while I know holidays are, for some, a joy-filled time, I recognize for others they aren’t always the most joyful. Sometimes holidays contain stress and tension, sometimes it’s just a lot. But whatever your holiday experience is, whatever your holiday week looks like this year, I hope you can take some time to stop, take some time to see and notice the little things you can be grateful for…perhaps finding the color and the magic in your experience, even if it is for a brief moment in time. I hope you have an amazing week, my friend. I am so incredibly grateful for you. Love Krista  Dear Friends,
As some of you know, I moved this past weekend, yes, again. This time, with much excitement, to my permanent place…no more moving for the foreseeable future for me! I’ve set up three different studio spaces prior to this one…and one feature of all three prior spaces was me “fighting the light”. At various times in the day, the light would shine directly into my studio, and so it was always a battle to keep the light from coming in. Prior to my move last weekend, when I was thinking about which room to use for my bedroom and which room to use for my studio, I realized the bigger room in the house was on the back of the house, where I can potentially keep my blinds open all year long and get wonderful indirect sunlight all day, but never fight with the direct sunlight. As I’ve been thinking about this the past several days, as I’ve been enjoying looking at the trees outside my window as I’ve been teaching, I’ve been thinking about how those small annoyances are just that, they’re just small annoyances. And yet, those small annoyances sometimes add up, they sometimes have the power to eat away at us and create stress and irritation. Sometimes we have no choice but to keep moving forward even in those spaces of small annoyances…but I think there are times when we can think creatively to mitigate some of those small annoyances and create a little less stress and irritation in our lives. I hope you have an amazing week, my friend. Love Krista  Dear Friends,
Last Tuesday at twilight, after my son and I voted, we went for a walk in the woods. The world around us was getting dark and less clear and the colors more monotone throughout our meander as we strolled down the trail in the park. As in any election, for many, the change earlier this week was perhaps not what we wanted, and the anxiety of last week has not been assuaged. While I don’t pretend to have an answer, I think turning inward, focusing on our gratitude in a tangible way goes a long way. I think turning outward, and staying in our movement and our breath goes a long way also. They help us show kindness, love and respect to the world around us. They help us move through the world with more peace. They help us see the beauty in the world, in our lives. They help calm us. My dear friend, may we see the beauty in the world around us a little more this week. May we show up to our lives with a little more love, kindness and respect. May we be at peace. Have an amazing week, my friend. Love Krista  Dear Friends,
Last weekend I meandered over to Shenandoah for a hike up to Mary’s Rock on a beautiful fall day. It was spectacular weather, and the drive and hike were just lovely. The leaves on my particular hike and in the hills surrounding were past their prime, settling into the dull colors of late fall. The following day I had an hour or so to kill in-between things, and decided to wander in Rock Creek for a bit. The leaves were brighter, more vibrant…they were in or maybe just past their peak of fall color. But one thing was apparent during both my walks. Change was unavoidable no matter where I happened to be. The deep green of summer was gone, replaced by the colors moving us into a different season. My friends, we are in the midst of changes that are hard. Change that perhaps makes us deeply anxious and uncomfortable…and there are times when we simply do not know what to do with that anxiety and discomfort. And while I don’t have any words that will be an absolute, I think staying in our breath, in our movement, getting out into the world and noticing and seeing the beauty around us even in the midst of our own anxiety and discomfort and sense of overwhelm, while it won’t solve the issues surrounding us, does help us individually, does have the ability to soothe. My dear friend, I hope you are able to get out and see the beauty in the world around you a little more this week, allowing that beauty to move through you and soothe you as you walk through this world. 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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