5 Tips to Tune Your Yoga to the Season 

When the seasons change, our yoga practice changes – if we are in tune with Nature.

Otherwise, we keep plugging along as we did in summer setting ourselves up for imbalances.

Have you experienced?

• Anxiety or scatteredness
• Constipation or irregular bowel movements
• Insomnia
• Increased aches and pains
• Depletion or decreased energy

 

These are all symptoms associated with change of seasons from hot to cold (autumn), and are especially prominent in certain individuals, according to Ayurveda.

 

Tips:

1.  Slow down. If you are an ashtangi or vinyasa lover, it’s important that you focus more on holding the poses then you do on moving quickly from pose to pose.

2. Focus on balancing poses.  Fall is a season that naturally causes us to go out of balance – so you want to counter that on your mat by creating balance.

3.  Release the barrage of thoughts while practicing by focusing more intently on your breath than the pose. It’s particularly helpful to focus on the exhalation.

4.  Make sure to take ample rest at the end of your yoga practice, at least 10% of the total minutes practiced in savasana.

5.  Practice at home rather than going to class. With the mind being very active during fall season, it’s important to do things that quiet it. Plus, you’ll save yourself a hurried drive in the car. Practice be present to sensations rather than thoughts as you practice.

 

Love and light,

Laurel

 

“Enlightment is an accident. Practice makes us accident prone. “–Richard Miller