 “Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.”
— Jen Sincero Dear Friends, The past several weeks, as all the taller trees have turned bare and lost their leaves, forming their long lines against the sky, the underbrush in Rock Creek Park has been putting on a show, bursting with this abundance of color. My dear friend, I know there are many differing emotions surrounding us as individuals as we move through this week of Thanksgiving and move into this season of holidays. Even as we acknowledge the various emotions we might be feeling, whether good or bad, I hope we can begin to shift our perspective from lack to abundance even in the midst of challenging emotions. And as we move past this day of Thanksgiving, I wanted to pause and tell you all how deeply grateful I am for each and every one of you. Thank you for being in my life, for being part of this journey we’re walking on. Thank you for the abundance you bring to my life. I cannot tell you how grateful I am for you to be on this journey with me. I hope, as you move into and through this holiday season, you can feel the abundance, you can focus on the good around you, you can shift your perspective a little more. Have an amazing week, my friend. Love Krista
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 Dear Friends,
This past weekend I had the great privilege of spending a few hours at a gathering for a friend who had completed a long emotional journey and wanted to commemorate the end of said journey with a weekend away. As part of this weekend of commemoration, my friend brought in a woman who does Kintsugi workshops…Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with gold. Instead of hiding the cracks, it highlights them as part of the object's history, embracing imperfection, and creating something more beautiful and resilient than before. Kintsugi is often seen as a metaphor for life, where those areas of hardship and hurt are used to build and create something new, something different. As we broke and built back our pieces of pottery, our workshop leader kept reminding us to breathe into and embrace the imperfection…she reminded us that we aren’t going to automatically be good at something that is brand new to us, but part of this process, part of this art is letting go of the expectation of what we think we will create, and leaning into the process of creating. My dear friend, sometimes it’s hard to let go of the expectations we build around ourselves and the need to be perfect…but I think if we can let go of expectations and lean into the process of creating, we can find ourselves building something unexpectedly beautiful. Have an amazing week, my friend. Love Krista  Dear Friends,
This past weekend I had the great privilege of spending a weekend with some wonderful folks on a retreat in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. It was a spectacular weekend…the weather was perfection, the company, wonderful, I had a lovely time. A few weeks prior to that I had taken a little road trip up to that area to “pre-hike” the hike I planned on taking us on…I wanted to make sure I knew where I was going and that the trail would be appropriate for my people. The hike was called the ridge hike, appropriately named as I spent the first half of the hike on the top of a ridge overlooking the state park on one side and the road on the other. That whole first half of the hike, while lovely, was accompanied by the sound of traffic on the road. And then I turned and started down into the valley, and all the sounds of traffic faded away and was replaced by the sound of the wind moving through the trees. As I kept walking down, the sound of a little stream filled my ears. A small shift, a slight change in direction and elevation made all the difference. My dear friend, I hope, if there are areas in life right now where noise is just too much, you can make a small shift and a slight change to find a little more peace. Have an amazing week. Love Krista  Dear Friends,
My neighbor has this Japanese Maple in her backyard. It makes me happy every day as I get to see it turn more and more red as we move through the season. Soon it will be a bright red and then the leaves will fall. A few weeks ago I talked about glimmers…those pockets of goodness and delight that we can train our brains to notice and be aware of. One of my friends was telling me, the other day, how she always had a hard time with what felt like the obligation of a gratitude practice, but is having a much easier time noticing and being aware of those glimmers in life…it simply feels more accessible. I think one way we can train ourselves to notice those glimmers more often is to start when they’re easier to see, to notice. This time of year we have colors cropping up everywhere we look…the yellows, oranges, bright reds of fall are all around us…soon those leaves will be on the ground and the lines of winter will be all around us, but right now, right now we can see and notice colors all around. My dear friend, I hope you can start to notice those glimmers in your life when they are abundant, so when the abundance starts to fade you can still see and notice them…because, my friend, the glimmers are there no matter what the season so long as we’re willing to look and notice. Have an amazing week. 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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