I’m surrounded by teachers. Members of my family are teachers. Many of my friends are teachers. Hundreds of my former students are now teachers. Even my next door neighbour is a teacher. That’s a lot of teachers in my life. The words I hear many of them say is “this is by far the hardest year of teaching I’ve ever had.”

Awakening from the slumber of winter is also a process of awakening the body. There are many ways to increase our vitality, which tends to include movement.