Your body knows it is spring before your mind does. A restlessness arrives. An urgency you cannot quite name. The feeling that something in you wants to push through, expand, begin, even when nothing on your calendar has changed. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, this is not coincidence. It is the Liver speaking. Why spring belongs to the Liver In TCM, each season corresponds to an organ system, an element, and a quality of energy. Spring belongs to the Liver and Gallbladder.

No phone. No talking. No dinner. What really happens inside a 10-day Vipassana retreat? Burnout coach Ling shares a decade of experience with this transformative meditation practice and what it taught her about stillness.