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Hey there,
Spring arrives in three days.
And with it, a quiet expectation that you should feel energised, lighter, ready, more motivated, more alive.
The season carries a kind of pressure that nobody says out loud, but most people feel.
If that's not where you are right now, that's not a weakness. Transitions affect everyone differently, and some bodies take longer to turn the page than the calendar does.
Both Ayurvedic tradition and yoga philosophy have always known this.
Seasonal change isn't a gift; it's a demand. Winter asks the body to contract, to conserve, to slow. Spring asks it to open, to move, to shed what's been accumulating. That shift takes real energy.
The body is doing real work, whether it shows or not.
The heaviness some of us feel in early spring isn't resistance to the season. It's the effort of changing.
Deep Dive
The in-between moments
In yoga and Ayurveda, there’s an idea that transitions are their own kind of practice. Not the space between two stable things, but a state with its own intelligence and its own demands.
Sandhya in Sanskrit refers to threshold moments, think: dawn, dusk, the pause between inhale and exhale.
These in-between times were considered sacred precisely because they are unstable, not quite where you were, not yet where you're going
Yoga teaches that the most important thing you can do in a threshold moment is not to rush through it.
Spring is a sandhya, and the body that feels heavy or uncertain in March isn't failing the season. It's in it, fully.
What yoga asks of us in transitions:
Not acceleration; a spring reset or a fresh start plan
But presence, a willingness to be in the between
To move, but slowly. To open, but without forcing
To trust that the body, like the season, will arrive when it's ready.
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Practice of the Day
Parighasana / Gate Pose
In Ayurveda, this pose is considered a spring practice. The lateral line of the body is associated with clarity, renewal, and letting go of what winter held.
How to practice:
Come to kneeling, hips stacked over knees
Extend your right leg out to the side, slightly forward of your hip, kneecap pointing up, soft bend in that knee
Inhale and reach both arms out to the sides
Exhale and side bend over the extended leg, right hand resting on your shin or ankle, left arm reaching over your ear
Let each inhale create length, each exhale deepen the bend
Stay for 5 to 8 breaths, then repeat on the other side
💡 Modifications:
Sensitive knees: place a folded blanket under your shin, not just the kneecap, to reduce pressure on the joint
Chair variation: sit with one leg extended to the side and perform the same side bend from there, full benefit, different entry point
🛑 Avoid if you have an unhealed knee injury or an active hernia.
Yoga In Everyday Life
Daily Life Transitions
Think of the last transition you tried to hurry; a change you wanted over and done with, maybe a decision that was taking too long, or a season of life you were ready to move past.
Most of us have a low tolerance for the in-between.
We want the new thing to arrive, the old thing to be finished. We treat transitions as obstacles between two stable points rather than something worth being present for.
The next time you notice that impatience toward a season, a situation, or even toward yourself, see if you can stay one breath longer in the uncertainty, because being present in the crossing is the practice.
Closing Reflection!
Spring doesn't ask us to be ready. It just asks to stay present. That's enough, on the mat, and everywhere else.
With care,
The Yoga Daily Team
