New Year, Fire Horse:

My first feelings led me to write down–
Invitations to do new things, to move forward, to go with those ready to gallop together. 

Now having taken the first week to clean, feed family,
have lengthy chats with my spiritual companions,
to rest, to be outside of NYC and away from my daily routine,
I can tell this is not a ‘right out of the gate” type of forwardness.

My current feeling–
I imagine the steady movement of a band of horses, wild and free,
enjoying a soft pace, one that comes directly after a joyful, active frolic.
A satisfied rhythm that moves forward still resonating 
with the free, explosive movement that just came before.
Strong, like after a playfulness with others that was expressive and safe.

Reflecting–
I don’t know much horse terminology.
So these descriptions of movement are depicting
what I assume is at the essence of the unbridled-ness of horses.
Which likely, at first, feels stunted or just plain unimaginable
when expecting the same of human bodies.

And yet, what would happen if this is what we could cultivate?
How does this look and how can it fit, snugly, into our daily interactions?
And also, how might it ask us to break free from our current-ness?

I’m looking forward to a year of teaching with such forward movement in mind.