Perhaps, like me, you have been wondering...

Why do we initiate a new year with promises to improve?

Who started this tradition of never-ending pressure?

What would it feel like to end 2025 with congratulations for all how we have received, experienced, and learned? Gratitude could be the fertile ground from where we can enter 2026 with a sincere commitment to be kinder to ourselves, to better understand what being a human being is.

And if we are to promise more, let’s pledge to rest, before our bodies force us… to move and breath to create body-mind health and spaciousness… to feel clear, creative and strong… to feel more connected to all that surround us … to pause and drink in life as it happens.

Let’s start another year, gifted to us in this earth, with gratitude and the awareness that we can cultivate peace within- no matter what comes our way.

I wish you peace in 2026. Everything else is all just a part of it.

Alma