Artic Air, Lazy Butt, & What Keeps You Sane?

It's early Sunday morning as I write this. Dawn is breaking as I sip on my coffee. I am sitting in my favorite spot....my bed, pillows fluffed all around me, laptop on my lap, cat curled up and purring at my feet, and the joyous sound of a zillion birds singing is flowing in through the slightly cracked open window, along with the frigid air.

I am wondering if Spring will ever come. When I was up earlier making a coffee I noticed the ground outside was covered with frost. Uggghhh! It's almost mid-April here in Ontario, Canada and I am longing to shed these winter blues and hit the nature trails so I can be nourished by the warm sun and the earth beneath my feet.

With so much time spent focusing on our websites, training, and WA blogs, especially in the winter months, I find that I can easily lose balance because I loathe to go outdoors when it's so friggin' cold and grey! This really affects my body as it's always wanting to move daily, and I tend to ignore this in favor of my precious 'comfort zone' of warmth.

It's not that I don't want to exercise..it's just that I want to exercise without my blood becoming frozen solid or the skin on my face falling off from the icy temperatures.

What I've succumbed to doing to balance out the long hours sitting on my butt is lifting some small weights, doing a short routine of arm and ab exercises, and pulling out my yoga mat to do some slow stretches and deep breathing. All of this done in the cozy, warm comfort of my living room.

Still...my soul is not content...she wants the freedom of breaking out of the four walls that surround her, she wants to feel the pulsating rhythm of the natural world as she winds and wends her way through the forest and drinks in the earthy scent of pine and new apple blossoms. She longs to sit in the long grass by her favorite pond and listen to the croaking bull frogs and the clicking buzz of dragonfly wings as they whiz past her face... upturned to the sun.

Nature is my nourishment. It keeps me sane and in love with life. I realize I am choosing to disconnect with her because I am such a wimp when it comes to the cold, so in truth, I am the cause of my own imbalance. Sigh...time to move to Hawaii...:-) (motivation to keep moving forward at WA)

What keeps your body and soul sane, balanced, and nourished?

Warmly, (ha! I wish!)

Heather :-)