Sensory play & restorative yoga

I love spending Sunday mornings in my apothecary processing plants. It’s been an abundant summer and I had a lot of dried plant material to attend to. 

I love the tactile nature of plant processing. As I sat at my table breaking up dried juniper and cedar I noticed the difference in textures and how it felt on my fingers. 

Inspired by these sensations, I arranged props for restorative yoga and lay in front of the fan dipping the bristly Japanese cedar on tender parts of my skin relaxing into the experience of the softness of the breeze from the fan and the rug beneath me combined with the scraping of the branch against my skin. 

Decidedly it would be a much more delicious practice with a blindfold and a partner but that would have to wait for another day. I adore sensory play.