Living Seasonally—Tune Into Autumn
Each season holds a particular energy, and whilst Summer is the peak of extroverted ‘yang’, Autumn sees us moving deeper into a quieter, more contemplative state of ‘yin’
We love Fall!
It’s our favorite season!
Autumn brings an increase in vata energy, which can make us feel anxious and unsettled. Try a grounding autumn yoga sequence to bring you back into balance.
Louise Longson
I have returned to Mosaic Yoga’s studio! I’m thrilled to be back on the weekly calendar.
John, Scott and I teach weekly at the Noon hour; MY day is designated asThursdays.
I look forward to grounding out our anxious vata energy together with you!
In the meantime …
Autumn foods!
One of the BEST parts of the Fall Season are foods!
I love Michael’s cooking anyway, but Fall Foods make any of his delicacies devourable.
Autumn is the harvest season, when root vegetables, leafy greens like kale and spinach, and vitamin C rich foods like broccoli, brussels sprouts, and cabbage are abundant. I love squash-ANYTHING, soups, roasted, grilled; it’s all good.
If you enjoyed plenty of fruits and herbs over Summer, you will have provided your body with the natural sugars it needed in order to feel energized all day.
As we move into Autumn, this is the time to enjoy seasonal fruits like apples and blackberries or even hedgerow berries like elderberries if you are so lucky.
This year, we grew our own decorative corn. We planted on Mother’s Day and throughout the Summer and into Fall, our non-edible colorful decorative corn grew. Well, it didn’t JUST grow, it GREW! I swear, the plant is like bamboo. I swear, if I stared at it long enough I could actually visually witness the growth. Each kernel is a different color. Each cob has a different hue, EVEN IF it came from the same stalk. One is ghostly blue and gray while the other is deep red with orange specs.
“Knee high by the 4th of July,” heck ya!
It’s so true.
Karma Yoga in the Garden of the Soul
The work is the reward in itself when done with awareness, in the joy of the present moment, and with detachment from the outcome.
Naveen Radha Dasi
If you aren’t aware of this, caring for a garden can become very frustrating. But if you are tending a garden, it becomes a joy to release any notion of goal or endpoint and simply enjoy the process.
You flow with the garden through its seasons as it takes on new shapes.
What are you harvesting this Fall?
