Let's stay here for just a little longer

What I Read in Yoga This Month, May 2025

Dear humans,

I feel like I’ve been in limbo over the past few weeks.

On one hand, I finished my school year (yippee!), and so I was feeling really ready to embrace a slower and more open season of life.

On the other hand, the start of summer doesn’t tend to be very slow. In fact, I’ve been quite busy. And then I got a little sick. And it’s also been really rainy. And it’s easy to feel like summer hasn’t turned out quite how I expected it to…

And this is where I catch myself….

Summer hasn’t even started yet!

In fact, the summer solstice isn’t for twenty more days. We are still sipping-in the last few moments of spring.

It’s funny how we do this as humans though, isn’t it? All winter we can’t wait for spring. Then spring arrives and we can’t wait for summer. Somehow we feel like we’re losing time. Or, we can’t wait for time to speed up so we can get to the next exciting season. But that begs the question: When are we just enjoying where we are?

So that’s the invitation I’ve been offering my students this week: To stay with spring just a little bit longer. To enjoy whatever is right in front of you, to savor in this unique moment in time, because summer will indeed come. So we may as well enjoy the rain.

I want to do something that’s a little bit different for What I Read in Yoga This Month. I will still provide five readings that I’ve shared in my classes, but then instead of telling you how I created intention and meaning out of them, I am going to provide you with some guided reflection prompts and encourage you to draw your own meaning out of them.

I think it’s a powerful practice as a teacher to craft your own messages. One thing I know to be true as a teacher: It’s much easier to speak from your own voice. It’s also really important for us to flex the muscle of fine-tuning our own lessons and intentions as we teach.

And this is a practice. It’s a skill that gets easier and easier overtime.

If you really want to participate in this exercise, then grab a journal and a pen, and perhaps find a comfortable and quiet space. Then, take a few centering breaths, so you can draw yourself into a centered mindset. From there, read each poem slowly. Take it one at a time. Read it out-loud to yourself. Then, use the journal prompts I’ve provided to help you develop an intention or class theme from each reading.

Then, if you’re willing, you can share some of your thoughts and reflections in the comment section and we can all learn from one another. (I might even cheat a little and throw in my ideas, too, after some people have participated! 😊)

So, let’s dive in, dear humans. I hope you enjoy these readings, I truly hope you enjoy this exercise, and I hope you’re encouraged to savor spring for just a moment longer.

Love,

Izzy

Izzy Martens

author, yoga teacher, sequence enthusiast

www.yogahumans.com

What I Read in Yoga This Month | May 2025

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