With spring, magic

What I Read in Yoga This Month, April 2025

Dear humans,

My birthday is tomorrow (🥳).

If you care at all about astrology, I am a Taurus Sun, Virgo Moon, and Leo Rising.

I’ve become more interested in astrology lately, post-retreat in Sweden. When people ask me why, I like to say, simply: Because it seems more fun to believe.

Often, when I chat with people about it, they tell me that they just can’t believe in it. My brother specifically said: “Why would Jupiter and Mars impact our personalities?”

To which I answered: “Well, why do Jupiter and Mars exist at all?”

Lol.

My point here is not to try to make you believe in it, too. Or to make any grand statement about belief and logic. It’s simply to suggest that even with all of our knowing—beautiful advancements in understanding—there will always be certain things that are unknowable. These things, to me, will always feel a bit like magic.

And is that okay? To still believe there’s some sense of magic left in the world? I think so. I hope so.

Because without that sense of wonder—the awe we feel when we watch the first sprouts arise from the earth, after being blanketed by snow and cold for months—I think we’d miss out on a truly essential and amazing part of being alive.

I’d like to suggest that Spring is a time when we start to believe, once again, in the beauty and wonder of life. Because somehow, some way, we’ve made it back to the flowers. Somehow, we always do.

And all of us—stardust dancing on a spinning planet in the middle of anywhere, somewhere—I think we all, somewhere inside, see that as magic.

The readings I shared in my yoga classes in April start to hint at hope after a long, dark winter. They are lighter in tone. More playful in energy. This was a winter where I sensed many were struggling. These readings remind us that we should never lose hope. Never lose that sense of wonder and magic—it’s there—if we are willing to look.

Sending love, my friends,

Izzy

Izzy Martens

author, yoga teacher, sequence enthusiast

www.yogahumans.com

What I Read in Yoga This Month | April 2025

Author: Cleo Wade // @cleowade on instagram

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