Yoga With Monika

Day Ten: October

Withdrawal & Rest

“Today, honour the hard work with time for rest. Celebrate dusk, draw inwards.

By Day Ten, the movement turns inward. Today marks a retreat, a necessary return to shelter.

After the shedding of what no longer fits, and the careful reorientation that followed, there is a quieter need now: to stop moving, to stop adjusting, and to allow what has changed to be held. This, too, is part of the cycle.

Rest is not an absence of work. It is where the work begins to settle.

Today, do not rush out. You have worked so hard. Today, rest. Rest and wait, even perhaps until dusk. And only then go out, if you want. Or you prefer and you might be feeling lazy (like me), sit by a window and witness the light slowly bleed from the day.

There might be a quiet settling within you, and urge to explain less, to engage less with what pulls at you from the outside. This is not withdrawal from life, but a turning toward its deeper rhythms. Energy that has been spent must be restored again.”

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The Omen Days: Day 6

June, Embodiment

“Today, I suggest you head out at midday to catch the sun at its highest. Even in winter, just beyond the Solstice, the sun’s energy is there if you simply allow yourself to feel it. By the sixth Omen Day, the world feels fuller, rounder, more inhabited. We are halfway through, which means today belongs to June.

June energy is unmistakable. It is not the shy promise of spring, nor the tentative steps of early growth, but something richer – the fullness of the sun, the turning toward the Summer Solstice, the deeper blossoming that settles not only into the land but into the body itself. Today we ask ourselves: how can we live a life that is informed by the work of the last few days? One that is truly our own? Joyful and fully embodied? How can we allow it to take root within us and live the truth of it?”

Read The Omen Days on my Substack: The Yoga Almanac, link in bio

Day Five: May

Joy

“Today, the fifth Omen Day, arrives with an unexpected joy in the form of a rare blue sky – a sky so clear it feels like a blessing, a joyous invitation to play. The light is crystalline, and everything feels light and breezy. It’s as though the whole world has tilted toward delight overnight.

And if ever there was a month of joy, it must be May, the month for this Omen Day. A month of rampaging colour: of dark blue (English, not Spanish) bluebells and frothy pink hawthorn, of rainbow tulips and fresh new neon greens of spring.

Let today carry that same sense of lively possibility – a world seeking joy after months of waiting.”

Read The Omen Days on my Substack: The Yoga Almanac, link in bio