Happy Spring, April, Easter, and Passover!

Easter was originally (and still is) a celebration of the fertility of the earth, renewed each springtime. The egg, the chick, the rabbit, the flowers, are all fertility symbols. In ancient times, many peoples associated this festival with the coming back to life of the god of fertility who had been dead in the underworld during the winter. The word Easter is derived from the name of the Teutonic goddess of spring and fertility, Eostre or Ostara, whose festival was the spring equinox.

However you celebrate and observe the season, I hope you will take some quiet time to see the emergence of buds on the trees and the early flowers dusting themselves off as they pop up out of the earth.   The longer hours of light give me more energy and i find my outlook on life a little more upbeat.  May you renew your commitment to yourself and to your yoga practice at this auspicious time of the year and allow the extra light to fill up some dark spaces.