“Life Moves Pretty Fast”
Dear Friends,
There’s a line at the end of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off that always makes me smile. You probably know the one:
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
It's a classic line - delivered by a truant teenager! But it makes you stop and think.
It makes me stop and think about yoga!
We live in a culture that glorifies speed and productivity. One task leads to the next. One email becomes five. One day slips into another. And sometimes, before we know it, weeks go by and we haven’t truly been in any of them.
That’s where our practice comes in.
Yoga offers us small, sacred windows of pause. Moments to stop and look around—not just outside ourselves, but within. When we step onto our mats, we get a rare chance to slow down and feel—our breath, our bodies, our thoughts, our surroundings. And in doing so, we catch the beauty that we might have missed otherwise: the sunlight on the floor, the quiet rise of the breath, the simple miracle of being here now.
This pause or presence isn’t something we earn after we finish the to-do list. It’s a choice that we can make again and again in tiny ways: by looking up from the screen, by taking a breath before we speak, by savoring a coffee or a laugh with someone we love.
Life does move fast. But the good news? We can choose when to stop and look around.
Please join me on your mat, and we will do that together.
Love & yoga,
Nina G