free flowing through movement 🧘🏼‍♀️

Hello baby angel, happy new year!!! Wow can we believe it’s 2025 I simply cannot but simultaneously it makes perfect sense.. I’m gunna share in my next post perhaps what my energy leaning into this year is but as I tap back into the space after the holidays and being with my family over christmas, I am pretty much loving finding my groove these days in all the things that light me up and I’ve been so giddy and eager to sit in my lil writing spot and brain dump 👼🏼 I think I mentioned in a previous post how I’ve never ever seen myself as a writer of ANY sort, despite being told quite often that I have a way with words, and I guess what I love is the part where you get to just channel your thoughts and feelings and experiences in written form and so perhaps that is where the passion is hitting! Letting my creative flow flow.

And on the topic of things that are lighting me up these days… the way I’m moving my body has been way too much fun and it’s in a way that 2 years ago - actually who are we kidding, the one year ago Sarah would not have seen coming but that INTUITIVE (my fav word ever) movement is where it is at my friend. Period end of story. Okay well it’s not the end of the story because I’m also very in tune with the value in lifting weights and resistance training but for a while there (5 months lol) all my body was wanting to do was dance dance dance, long walks and stand on my head. And by that I mean I’m finally fully embodying my yoga practice finally hahaha after resisting and not being a fan of yoga for as far back as I can remember, other than over the last 7 years I’ve embodied everything else about the yoga practice, just not the the actual 🧘🏼‍♀ doing yoga 🧘🏼‍♀️ part.. I’ve been a very consciously mindful human and protect my peace and meditate and participate in the yogi philosophies etc!!....it's just that anytime my sister or mom or friends have taken me to a yoga class I simply didn’t enjoy myself. Which always seemed odd because I love everything else about yoga but I’ve recently wondered if it’s just the mainstream and glamourized yoga practice that got really trendy over the last decade, while kind of missing all the other pieces and parts of the practice, paired with the fact that I don’t like being told what to do… I just never vibed in classes BUT after diving into that this summer and the retreat I attended a month ago, I’m finding my love for the free flow once I realized that you’re allowed, or rather supposed to honour what feels best for your body, and simply just moving and breathing through the practice these days on my lil cutie pink mat has been so nice. 

But back to my point about intuitive movement because after spending the holidays enjoying time with my family and putting some of my daily practices on hold so that I could be present with my nephews and go tobogganing and eat treats with them, I’m in a heavy state of gratitude for what I’ve been slowly teaching myself on this topic. I enlightened myself to this now over a year ago now, but as someone who started her fitness journey at a young age with the intention to GET into shape, it never really allowed me to develop a healthy relationship with it where I was honouring my body for being able to move in so many ways. It always had more of a tone of punishment or consequence or something that I felt like I “had” to do because that’s just how you have to stay healthy. I ran for years throughout elementary & high school… I danced when I was younger and loved it, and then in my last year of university I became a gym girly and got hooked on how good it felt! Which there is absolutely nothing wrong with because obviously any form of movement is so amazing, I just think personally my mind wasn’t there to celebrate my body and therefore it was never fully in alignment. Being the intuitive little witch that I am, I've developed my deep passion for the mind-body connection and I continue to play with the power of having them in coherence with one another, because I’ve felt the difference and can now also easily see it in others when the two are not on the same page. Of course I was in decent shape when I was going to the gym consistently but not in a way that I actually felt good about. And down the road when covid hit I started rocking home workouts like it was nobody's business which again, so so great and I commend myself for the discipline and consistency I built in that area of my life, but I did begin to recognize the days where I really was dragging my booty to get it done or how I really didn’t want to workout or lift weights or do something high intensity, which a lot of the time I would do it anyway, because that’s the whole point of discipline right?...at least I thought.. but leaning into the power of rest, and then starting to play around with those thoughts that came in with “what if you went for a long walk instead and listened to a podcast because that actually feels like it would be nice”, or go for a bike ride on the backroads at my parents place, or do a low intensity pilates workout because you don’t need to burn a certain amount of calories or sweat buckets to have a productive workout. The more I followed that voice in my head, also known as intuition 🤭, the more I started to notice a shift in my relationship with my body, with movement and with my mind. We were all syncing up a little better, how CUTE! I also know how important it is for women to follow their cycle in fitness and up until recently I didn’t have one because I had an IUD in but in getting back in tune with my body in that sense since september, I’m now tracking that so I know what it’s asking for throughout the month because honestly if we take the time and energy to listen, our bodies will always tell us exactly what we need 🥹

The last year and a bit I’ve just really played around with my movement practices, going from pilates to HIIT to weighted workouts and gym sessions to heaps of walking to being a dance party QUEEN, seriously my neighbours probably hear me singing my heart out with my noise cancelling headphones in and I’m sure that’s cute hahahah, and now more stability and yoga practice, I’m always trying to follow what feels good in the moment because that’s what leads to me feeling my best really!! If that’s weights one day and a long matcha walk the next, or both, or just my 10k+ steps I get while working… honestly whatever it is, as long as you’re moving your body with intention, knowing that you feel good about what you’re doing and most importantly!!!!! doing it in a way that celebrates and honours her 🫶🏼or him 🫶🏼 because how lucky are we to have these vessels that carry us around all day and do all the heavy lifting for us while we navigate this human experience, truly magical! If you’re fortunate enough to have that privilege to move with ease and flow, I hope you are celebrating it and if you don’t have that privilege, I hope you can find other ways to celebrate being here in your body because it’s still working hard hehe 

I’ll also toss in there for my super intuitive pals that truly when you’re doing the deep emotional healing it actually heals your body from the inside out 🥲 if you haven’t read or heard about the book The Body Keeps the Score, time to lean in a little because the shit our body stores in the form of energy is absolutely CRAZY and when you learn more about how much you can release and heal from getting to know yourself on a deep level….liberating. I’m no scientist but – actually I am I have a bachelors of science don’t gaslight yourself sarah – but I will say that since the start of last summer I had done the least amount of intentional movement that I have in YEARS but the level of emotional healing I’ve done has perhaps been making up for it because I do feel like I’m in some of the best shape of my life in a physical, mental, emotional, spiritual way and while I am currently in the space of tapping more into the physical side of things again, I’m simply learning where the balance of it all lies 🤭

Have fun monkeying around ya cutie, and be gentle & patient with yourself going into this beautiful new year 🫶🏼

xx Sarah