Late summer slow down 🍃 yin yoga for turning toward Autumn 🍂

You might have noticed the seasons beginning to turn through the end of August - perhaps a little more crispness in the air in the morning, or those long summer nights slowly drawing in to cosier, darker evenings.

Maybe the idea of season's changing makes you long for more summer haze - of course when we know something is coming to an end we have that desire to hold onto it a little longer! But we can take this change of the season as an opportunity to slow down, notice, and fully appreciate the last of the hot summer sunshine and soak up enough warmth and light to see us through as darker months approach.

Some late summer magic I love :

🌞 rising with the sun as daylight hours creep a little shorter

🌄 not having to stay up as late to catch the beautiful sunset colours!

✨ the magical light of this time of year

🌬️ the first time you notice a chill in the air of a morning

Late summer, particularly September, traditionally brings us back to routine after summer daze. Traditional back-to-school time may be an opportunity to pick back up self-care habits and take a bit more time to take care of body + mind, whatever that means to you. Yoga, meditation, journalling, or mindful walking to notice the subtle changes in the natural world throughout the season.

Our yoga practice is an opportunity to align our inner rhythms with the rhythm of the natural world around us - at this time of year it's a gradual shift from the bright, fiery, expansive energy of summertime to the more grounded, earthy energy of autumn - and the final bloom of harvest season, reaping the gifts of energy invested earlier in the year, both physically and metaphorically. Where can you celebrate the fruits of your own efforts, your own personal harvest?

A yin practice nourishes and supports us through this gradual turning of the seasons, and reconnects us with the Earth element - a stable, grounded, rooted energy that will keep us tethered when autumn winds begin to blow! During this time of year, our yin practice nurtures spleen and stomach meridians - the primary organs of digestion, assimilation and distribution of nutrients, keeping us balanced, grounded, and feeling at home within ourselves and the wider world.

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