The symbol for centered. is a simple circle with a point at its center, a form found in ancient solar symbolism and Celtic stone carvings in Scotland and Ireland. It is also the traditional astronomical symbol for the sun: ⊙

With my Scottish roots and connection to the Hay clan, the mark feels remembered rather than invented.

The outer circle represents the shared space we step into through practice.

The center point represents presence: breath, awareness, self, and quiet power.

A circle of space.
A center of power.

Before this symbol, I was drawn to the spiral, a shape associated with movement, growth, and becoming. The spiral has been part of my own story for years.

The spiral moves outward.
The circle returns inward.

But returning to center does not mean returning as the same person.

We move.
We explore.
We lose balance.
We discover.
We return changed.

My study of Patrick Beach's Awakening Yoga has given me another way to understand this return.

Patrick describes practice as an exploration of the self through movement and breath, where repetition becomes ritual and structure creates the freedom to explore.

We move outward to investigate, experience, challenge, and discover.

And through that movement, we find our way home within ourselves.

For me, that home is center.

The practice doesn't give us our center.
It gives us ways to find our way back to it.

Trevor Hall's words, “My love is a reminder to find your center,” have carried a similar meaning for me.

A reminder.

Center is not something another person, teacher, song, or practice gives us. It is already there.

Yoga becomes a way of remembering it.
Art becomes a way of expressing it.
Presence is where we experience it.

Over time, movement simplified into stillness.

What was once becoming became being.

At times the mark can feel like an eclipse:

light softened rather than extinguished.
Strength held rather than projected.

The symbol lives within both my yoga practice and my art.

A field.
A center.
A return.

FIND · WANDER · REMEMBER · CENTERED.anew

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