Hello Spring! I have been waiting patiently for you and all the life you bring with you. This is the generative, creative, sprouting season...are you already feeling a stirring of creativity within you? Looking to get those creative juices flowing...check out the spring detox deal in this email and contact me to get in on the goodness!

Chinese Medicine considers our bodies a microcosm of the natural world and as such, each organ system is related to a season, an aspect of nature, an element, emotions, and body tissue. According to the 5 Elements theory of Chinese Medicine the Liver + Gallbladder are the organ systems related to Spring and the Wood element. This is where manifestation begins to form from deep seeds of potential and is reflected in nature when plants begin to grow upwards, new shoots rising out of the ground.

The Liver meridian goes from the inside edge of your big toe, up the inner leg, onto the abdomen shifting internally below sixth rib then internally running within the liver, lungs and thoat and ending at the top of your head. The Gall Bladder begins at the corner of the outside of the eye, around the ear, back up and around ear toward above pupil, down to the base of hairline to top of shoulder, down lateral side of body and leg and ends on the lateral side of the fourth toe. For more detailed images on these meridians click here.

Typical Spring season imbalances, particularly irritability, frustration, or even anger can arise if there is stagnation in these channels. Yin Poses that target the glutes, like shoelace, dragonfly with a twist, and reclined butterfly can help rebalance Qi flow. Check out a few great poses below to stretch out and get energy (qi) flowing through the Liver meridian.

Coming out of winter after reflection, we enter spring where we order and plant our seeds of intention. Our lives are like gardens...now is the time to grind down the stumps, and clear out the brush, and plant the seeds that we have ordered. 

The Wood element empowers us to find clarity around our direction and vision so that we can move towards our goals, play with our creativity and imagination, and cultivate emotional balance and release any stuck emotional patterns.

As you start to fully embrace this process of planting your seeds, below are a few prompts to help you along your way:

1. Am I 100% myself? How many things are in the way of me ordering the correct seeds? Identify.

(Ex. processing someone else’s emotions, fulfilling someone else's goals other than your own, an incorrect belief, below the line)

2.    Is someone else ordering seeds for me? Do I need to cancel their order?

(Ex. someone wants you to be their fix-it person, their teacher, their answer, responsible for their lack of self-development)

3.    How many seeds are there to order? Identify. (likely something you have not yet ordered in your life)

(Ex. financial success, your reputation, your legacy, a new car, a rate sheet, an editor for your book, new clothes, painting your house)

4.    I crave?

5.    Other than time or money I want more of this?

6.    I need to give myself more permission to be…

7.    What do I do even though I don’t want to?

8.    This brings me alive, brightens me, reminds me of who I am…