I don’t know about you but I love feeling connected to nature, really experiencing and ‘feeling’ the seasons. Where I live in The Wairarapa, New Zealand we are heading into the season of Autumn. The leaves are starting to turn all the glorious autumnal colours of golds and reds and browns. The mornings are definitely much crisper, my woollen socks have mad an appearance in morning yoga sessions. Yet the sky seems to often be that breathtaking blue that I don’t seem to be too bothered by the cooler mornings and evenings.
As autumn is associated with the Vata Dosha in Ayruvedic tradition. Think coldness, dryness and excessive movement (yes the wind definitely blows). Meaning it’s a great time for grounding in our yoga practice, for turning the focus ‘inward’. Generating a little internal heat doesn’t hurt either in this cooler season. In nature the autumn season is a time for letting go, we see the trees around us letting go of their leaves and for rejuvenation. These too are qualities that we can bring to our yoga practice in autumn as we attune to nature.
If you feel like moving through a yoga practice for autumn with me, you can join me for a class if you live locally. If not, you can join me in this short video I have made for yoga an the autumn season.