The Earth Remembers First: What Spring Has Always Known

Winter has a contracting quality — and there’s beauty in that. The introspection, the stillness, the going-within. But spring invites expansion. It invites you outside, back into your senses, back into your body. And when you’re fully present in your body — when you can feel the sun on your face and smell that dark, alive earth — the observer naturally comes online.

I notice it in myself every year. Something loosens. I become more curious and less defended. My dreams get richer. My intuition gets clearer. The ancient teachers would have recognized this as exactly right — spring is a time for the inner senses to reawaken alongside the outer ones.

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How to Use a Snowstorm for Spiritual Practice

But what if, instead of treating this as an inconvenience to survive, we approached it as an opportunity for spiritual practice? What if a few days snowed in is exactly what our souls have been asking for—a forced pause, a chance to deepen your spiritual practice without the usual distractions of daily life?

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