I wanted to get the recording out to you, so you have it as a support as we feel into these early days of Spring.

Thank you so much to those of you who were able to join me live for our practice, it’s always so special getting to be with you in real time together. I am deeply grateful.

Next month’s community restorative practice is scheduled for Tuesday, April 21st from 7:00 - 8:30 pm EST. The recording will be posted within 48 hours following the class for those who aren’t able to join live.

Sending you lots of love for the days ahead,

Amber

In our class last night I offered an exquisite poem written by Terry L. Chapman, called A Still Point for the Work. This was shared with me by a dear and new friend at a Facilitator training weekend I was humbled to attend at Brooksong a few weeks ago. This traveled deep for me, and held our circle last night with love and reverence - honouring the sacred pause. A deep bow to Terry, and t…

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I just wanted to get this out to you so you have it as a support.

I feel like our time together has been weaving its way through my body today, reminding me that I am healing.

I’m so grateful for Emory Hall, and her beautiful poem which we shared together

I have been a thousand different women

From her precious book Made of Rivers

This poem offered us such a beautiful and potent anchor to hold us in our class last night as we honoured the threshold transitioning from the year of the snake; honouring all the chapters of our lives, the cycles of letting go within a lifetime, the many skins we’ve shed through the years and all the stages of our becoming into who we are in this moment - knowing that life will continue to change us.

Now here we lay, stand or sit, with the energy of the fire horse in front of us.

I look forward to being with you next month for our community practice.

Upco…

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I hope our time together was supportive for you and that your dreams were extra sweet.

I wanted to send over the recording, which is above for you, so that you have it to return to if that would be helpful for you.

For those of you with Birch, Willow and Oak memberships, here is the link to also find this practice in your content library:

Restorative Yoga - January 6, 2026

Our next community restorative offering, free for all paid subscribers and members, is set for Tuesday, February 10th at 7:00 pm EST. It would be lovely to practice with you then.

Sending lots of love for the days ahead

Amber

Breathing Peace by Cristina Norcross

If peace was something we could hold

In our hands,

we would mold it like clay.

We would shape it into a circle,

leaving our thumbprint on it,

then carefully pass it into

the knowing hands of the next person,

as if handling a newborn sparr…

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I just want to take a moment to express my deep gratitude to all of you who were able to join me for this special little cocoon of quiet reflection and rest. I experienced this as such a beautiful gift of shared time together.

Those of you who weren’t able to join us live, you were held in our circle and in my heart.

I wanted to get the recording out to you, so you have it for the next while, for whatever this time holds for you. Please know you have unlimited access. This is a direct link, and those of you with Willow and Oak memberships, you will also find it as the most recent practice in your Restorative Yoga folder in your video library.

I just wanted to also acknowledge that when I say you’re muted in our class, I am simply referring to the fact that your audio setting was in the zoom language set as muted - it’s my hopes in those moments of expression you’re able to express what you’re hol…

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I was so tired on Tuesday, that time was like medicine for my soul.

It felt like such a gift to come together with our little circle, snuggled in our cozy little nests, honouring 90 minutes of intentional time focused on self healing and renewal.

I wanted to send along the practice recording for you, which you have unlimited access to.

This class is free every month for paid subscribers and those of you who have Willow and Oak memberships, a small way for me to say thank you for being here with me.

The poem I shared speaks to me about how we need time for rest and stillness, and to honour our temporary time here in relationship with our natural world. This is where it all begins - the source of our strength, the fuel for our inspirations, the emptiness from which new beginnings are born, the visceral understanding of our intimacy with the Earth.

I wonder how …

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I am realizing more and more how important this time is, I am deeply grateful.

I hope you find this months community practice supportive

Precious - The Emmitt Sisters (this is the song I played in our final relaxation)

Our class was also held within the threads of a blessing from Jan Richardson’s beautiful poem, Beloved is where we begin. I often return to this offering, and it felt like an honouring for our community class this month.

Beloved Is Where We Begin

If you would enter

into the wilderness,

do not begin

without a blessing.

Do not leave

without hearing

who you are:

Beloved,

named by the One

who has traveled this path

before you.

Do not go

without letting it echo

in your ears,

and if you find

it is hard

to let it into your heart,

do not despair.

That is what

this journey is for.

I cannot promise

this blessing will free you

from danger,

from fear,

from hunger

or th…

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This time of year seems to drop me into this reflective space, and marks the beginning of the year for me, as the earth offers us the invitation to put down what we’re holding and what no longer feels supportive, reflect and reassess, and perhaps start again with a little less baggage – moving perhaps in different ways.

As I continue to process my mom’s death, this feels even more potent this year. What can I put down, and what can I remember as true for myself.

This brings to mind a poem by James A. Pearson, I would love to share it here with you, as an offering to ponder and reflect on in your own life.

The First Promise

- James A. Pearson

Sometimes you need to hide

from everything you’ve

promised to become,

so you can find the first promise:

the one you and the soft world

sang to each other

down beneath the tall bushes

along the old stream bed,

back when nobody knew

exactly where you were,

before the person

everyone needed you to be

learned to find you even there.

That place is just a memory now

but the sanctuary still waits—

in the quiet places under trees,

the spacious darkness

of a solitary night—

and if you learn again

how to hide, even from

the expectations you’ve

mistaken for your own,

you’ll find the world still knows

your secret harmony,

and some brave and

brokenhearted voice in you

never stopped singing.

Take some time with this if you’re able. Thank you to James Pearson for this gift. This poem travels deep for me.

Last week we also gathered for our monthly community restorative class, where I shared this poem. I teach this class through zoom, and have been offering this space for the last few years - a chance for us to practice together, reflect on where we find ourselves in cycle, and to connect with like hearted community as we tend to our hearts whispers for self care. It was so beautiful practicing with community, thank you. Paid subscribers are welcome every month, as an offering of support and reciprocity.

In our most recent gather, we took some time to offer ourselves gentle self-massage - to our hands and/or feet, and to our diaphragm. We also did an extended guided yoga nidra practice for our final relaxation.

I would like to offer this community practice to you, as I settle in here - I invite you to settle in with me.

October Restorative Practice:

I’m sending you support for the days ahead. I’m grateful to be here with you

Much love

Amber

Next months community restorative practice is scheduled for Tuesday, November 11th, from 7:00 - 8:30 pm EST. More details to come. This class (live and the recording) is included with all paid subscriptions.