“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Spring is a beautiful, tumultuous time. A brutiful time.
After a stretch of dormancy, nature is coming back to life. Since we aren’t in nature—we are nature—it’s a time of great renewal for us too. The thing is that rejuvenating at this level requires a surge of energy.
While uplifting, energizing, and hopeful, spring’s rigorous momentum can also be overwhelming. With this expanding energy, we can be pushed—even dragged—forward very quickly. We can be enthusiastic about the sunny days, warming temperatures, and colorful blossoms… while simultaneously feeling exhausted from the oscillating rains, winds, and weather fluctuations. It takes a lot of energy to move through transitions of change and growth.
Still, we can trust that there is an energy under the surface that consistently, annually, will bring nature—and us—to blossom… even when and where we wouldn’t expect we’d have the potential to bloom.
Our practice is here to help us harmonize with the season.
This week, I’m sharing a 20-minute practice to guide us in moving intentionally and mindfully. We’ll use light weights (1–5 pounds), or two blocks, to feel more grounded, so we feel strong and steady enough to blossom—stabilizing our body and opening us to the creative and courageous flow of expansion.
Yoga Flow with Light Weights
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Join meditation and yoga teacher Jillian Pransky in and explore the space between stimulus and response, where you can leave behind your habitual solutions and cultivate a living relationship with the present moment. Come home to yourself—and to the spaciousness that opens you to new possibilities. Join us for The Spacious Pause: Renewing Presence, Clarity, and Connection, Aug 15 – 22, 2026!
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About Jillian Pransky:
Jillian Pransky is an international presenter and the author of Deep Listening: A Healing Practice to Calm Your Body, Clear Your Mind, and Open Your Heart. As a certified yoga therapist and meditation teacher, she leads retreats, yoga teacher trainings, and restorative workshops—both in person and online—for students all over the world.
For almost 30 years, she’s been teaching the principles of pausing and deep listening through restorative and slow flow yoga and mindfulness practices. Her message is simple but potent: slowing down, turning inward, and deeply listening to our body and heart is perhaps the most meaningful form of self-care work we can do. When we are more compassionate and connected with ourselves, we are able to be more compassionate and connected with others and the world around us.
Jillian gave a TEDx Talk on metta meditation; created and leads Yoga Journal‘s online course Restorative Yoga 101; and is a featured yoga expert to magazines such as Prevention, Mindful, Yoga Journal, Yoga International, and more. A student of Pema Chödrön’s work since 1998, Jillian infuses her yoga classes with mindfulness practices, compassion, and ease. Jillian’s seamless style of working simultaneously with the body, mind, and spirit, while attuning with nature and the environment, creates inspiring classes, community connections, and an integrative healing experience.
Learn more about Jillian: jillianpransky.com