Le temps des cerises

hretsinias
Jun 22
2 min read

Le Temps des Cerises – A Season to Come Back to Our Senses

Spring 2025

Yoga is often called the study of the mind. But more than that, yoga is the art of experiencing life—through the body, through the senses, through presence.

A Memory of Cherries

The other day, I came across a photo of children perched in a cherry tree, picking fruit, and my whole body reacted. My mirror neurons lit up, and I was suddenly back in our garden in the South of France.

We had three cherry trees, and when they gave fruit, they gave abundantly. There were the perfect cherries we placed gently in a basket. The irresistible ones we ate straight from the branch. And the dark, almost black ones—if the worms hadn’t beaten us to them—they would end up in a cherry clafoutis.

That memory is so physical: climbing barefoot, stretching for the fruit, juice running down my fingers, the sweetness of summer sun.

From Body to Screen

Then I look at my own children today.We’re raising them in a world that keeps them in their heads—a world where imagination is outsourced to screens, where risk is limited, and where the body’s natural urge to explore is constantly tamed.

I feel it in myself too—this subtle pull away from real experience, from the directness of touch, breath, movement, and play.

Earlier this year, I read The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, and it gave words to what I had long felt: our children are growing up with less and less space to move, feel, and connect in the physical world.

A Way Back Through Yoga

And yet, it’s not too late.

Yoga offers us something profound—not just postures or techniques, but a way to remember.A path back to what is simple and true: to our breath, to the sensations in our body, to the joy of being fully alive in this very moment.

To try new things—or rediscover old ones.To feel the earth beneath our feet.To eat the cherry.To feel the sun.To be here, completely.