The Light Was Always There
You Can Feel It, Can't You?
That moment when the sun catches you off guard. That first real feeling of the sun on your skin after what feels like a very long time. (Let’s forget about the hail storm last week!)
People are talking about it - it’s no secret we love to talk about the weather, but there's something almost instinctive about the way we respond to light. We turn toward it, like plants. We soften into it and breathe a little more deeply.
How does this relate to our practice?
In Chapter 5 of the Bhagavad Gita, one of yoga's philosophical texts, there's a verse that stops me every time I return to it:
"As the darkness of night vanishes when the sun rises, so too the darkness of ignorance and delusion is dispelled when you gain knowledge of your True Self." — Ch. 5, v.16
The idea that there is light within you — not something you have to find or earn or create from scratch, but something that already exists. It's just that sometimes, we can't see it. It gets covered over by your thoughts, the stories you tell yourself. The heaviness of these darker months, or just the heaviness of being human right now depending on where you’re at in your world right now now.
The practice isn't to create the light. It's to remember it.
Our golden light visualisation is a familiar practice we’ve been using to bring the mind home and link to this quality of light. In these days that can still feel heavy — even with the light returning outside — this is the reminder. You carry something within you, underneath all the noise, and you remember what is within.
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Take It Deeper — Spring Half-Day Retreat, Cheshire, April
We're in that space now where it’s not quite winter, not yet spring. There's more light, but it still feels like it’s not quite ready to stick around just yet..we're almost through but not quite.
This is exactly the moment to turn inward as well as outward. To feel the sun on your face and to tend to the light within. To restore, gently, before the busyness of spring kicks in.
If this resonates — if you're feeling that pull toward more space, more stillness, more of this — then I'd love to invite you to our Spring Half-Day Retreat in Cheshire this April.
When you give yourself a proper pocket of time, something else happens compared to an hour class or morning mediatation. A real reset. When you step away from the to-do list and the noise and the relentless pace, even just for half a day.
The collective exhale of a room full of people who've all said yes to showing up for themselves.
This is a chance to rest, restore, and reconnect — with your breath, your body, and that quiet inner light we've been talking about. Whether you come solo or bring a friend, the half-day retreat is designed to hold you gently, exactly as you are.
Spring is the perfect season for it. The world is waking up and maybe like me, you are too!
Come and join me — on the mat, online, or in person this April in Cheshire.
With warmth (and a little more light), Kelly 🌿
You can join me for weekly in-person classes in Comberbach and Northwich, and also from your home with my Gentle Mat & Chair live online classes.
1-to-1 and Corporate classes and events also available.