Attention is the Beginning of Devotion: A Season of Presence, Romance & Everyday Devotion
Attention is the beginning of devotion. – Mary Oliver
This season inside The Portal is an invitation to soften your gaze and come back into relationship with your life as something to attend to.
In a world that trains us to stay on the surface, rush, consume, and move on, paying attention becomes an act of devotion.
This moment matters, and February and March remind us how to see the beauty in your ordinary rhythms of being alive – the kind that steadies the nervous system, brings us back into our bodies, and back into intimacy with the present moment.
This season offers practices, reflections, and weekly support to help you move through your days with more presence, more tenderness, and a deeper sense of connection to yourself and the world.
If you’ve been moving through life on autopilot and you’re ready to fall back in love with your everyday life, this is your invitation.
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Practices this season include slow and gentle yoga, yin and restorative, and meditation — all designed to support presence, consistency, and embodied awareness.
Rather than pushing toward transformation, this season invites closeness: with your body, your breath, your inner world, and the quiet beauty woven through your days.
Chapter 1 (February) – Beauty Is a Way of Paying Attention
February opens the season by returning us to the basics: noticing.
This chapter is about learning how to be with what’s here; the sensations in the body, the quality of breath, the emotional weather of the day, without rushing to change it.
You’ll explore practices that cultivate attentiveness as a form of devotion. This month plants the seed of a steady rhythm and reminds us that beauty is something you allow yourself to perceive.
Chapter 2 (March) – Attention as Devotion
March carries February’s awareness forward and asks a deeper question:
What happens when paying attention becomes a daily practice?
This chapter explores devotion as a gentle commitment to showing up for yourself and the world again and again.
As spring approaches, energy begins to stir, but we move slowly, honoring integration rather than acceleration. Practices support grounding, embodiment, and creating space so that whatever wants to emerge can do so naturally.
This is where attention becomes relational and the practice spills off the mat and into your world. Where presence becomes something you are.
