Mid-Winter Greetings

Welcome Yule! Happy solstice, Happy Hannukah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year
Dear friends of Cedar Heart Wellness,
There is much to celebrate from 2022. Many of you I met for the first time and I had the immense pleasure of supporting your health goals. It is such a huge honor to be in service to mamas in their journey of becoming mothers, through fertility preparation, pregnancy, birthing, and postpartum recuperation and the many other twists and turns we go along the way. I am constantly awe-struck and humbled seeing the power of the body to create life and the many complete transformations we go through in life. Women seem to be a type of phoenix that can be transformed beyond recognition and then bounce back stronger and more brilliantly plumed than ever before. I hope this year brings that resilience, power and rejuvenation that you wish for. I am so glad that I can be there to witness and fan the fire of your transformations for my clients of all genders.
I hope this season of Winter, of Water, the Kidneys, the bones, the darkness, the deepest Yin of the year, of silence and wisdom has brought you some time to pause, time to be with family, to reflect and to consider how to best move forward in your life in the year to come. I am personally wishing to devote myself to the fullest service I can to my family, clients, the Earth, the herbs and continuous learning.

We are already in Mid-Winter in the Chinese calendar. The time of the longest nights and shortest days known as dōng zhì or Winter Solstice. We will soon be going into xiǎo hán or minor cold where we enter into colder time of the year until about January 20th. We have seen historic storms across the US and landed planes from Buffalo, NY to the Pacific Northwest. This came right in the holiday travel rush and kept many people home for the holidays. For me this felt like, of course a very challenging time for many, but also a reminder to all of us that the way of nature at this time is rest. Animals go into hibernation, perennial herbs and vegetables have gone dormant and disappeared, and we too must remember this is a time of to slow down and allow ourselves time to mull over things and incubate new ideas and projects. We will maintain our health by following the season’s urging: to go to sleep early and rise late, to rest and reflect on this year and to nourish our inner spark so that the yang might dawn again.
These strong rains over the holidays have been such a blessing for California and I hope you all continue to call the sweet waters back and receive this nourishment as a gift to the Earth and to your own body as well. I look forward to connecting again in 2023 and supporting your goals for vibrant health, emotional ease, and deeper connection to Nature and your own inner Nature.
Many blessings to you and all your relations.
With Peace,

Peregrine

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