Just Your Presence by Bill Wofford

Ah, spring time! The azaleas may have passed, but the roses and peonies are exploding at our house as the fig tree threatens to absorb our back deck. Honeysuckle is in bloom and it’s strawberry shortcake) season. Yes!

Spring has always been my favorite season. It just feels like vitality and growth and new life. It’s the season of baby this and baby that. I recently had the good fortune of visiting friends who welcomed their first child into the world—and have been gracious enough to let me play uncle a couple of times. Sweetness incarnate.

Holding that little one, it’s easy to feel like I’m witnessing a beginning. And yet, in the teachings I’ve been sitting with, there’s a gentle reminder that birth is less a beginning and more an arrival… a spark of the universal taking on form, identity and, all too soon, story and karma.

From that moment, life begins shaping us. Names, roles, habits, patterns—all layered on top of something more subtle and lasting underneath.

Maybe that’s part of what spring stirs in me each year. Not just a celebration of new life, but the invitation to explore the dance between the ephemeral and the eternal.  As one song puts it- “Round and round we go. Classroom earth is the best, don’t you know?” 

Enough philosophizing. And on to the public service announcement.  Sunday is Mother’s Day.  Send flowers. Or deliver some. Or just enjoy them. And if you are a mom, or if you have or had one (or two), come honor that on our final Sunday of regular classes.

Start the day with gentle hatha with Aviva at 8am.
Get your kundalini flowing with Brooksie at 11am.
Find your way to deep rest in a Guided Yoga Nidra with Melissa at 5pm.

Or help me celebrate my birthday (in studio or livestream) at 9:30am . Yep, this is one of those years where my birthday falls on Mother’s Day. 

I promised my regulars there’d be some special guests. Maybe that means you.

What to bring? Just your presence.

After my class, I plan to bring mine to brunch with one of Chatham County's newest residents- my mom, Alice.  Happy Mother's Day!