Autumn sets foliage ablaze in auburn and crimson rainbows, a season that bursts with the nostalgia of familiar, cozy comforts even as change takes hold. The natural world descends, dropping and scattering seeds — breadcrumbs toward its future self. It’s a wise lead to follow, connecting to the ground beneath our feet.
Endings and beginnings cohabitate, inviting a pause to catch our breaths and create space for release. Take inventory. Notice your tracks, muscle memory, habit energy. Slow the inertia of the year’s accumulating tensions — goings, makings, doings — so that you can let go. A little or a lot. We’re usually carrying more than we need to.
Take a breath and see what’s there.
The trees, meanwhile, sway effortlessly in their surrender to the natural order. Unhurried, gently bowing to their cyclical nature. A leaf changes hue, slow at first and then all at once before dropping off, drifting down, falling away. It’s easy. I bet trees feel no resistance to this process. Why would they? These natural gestures of surrender are the most generative kind of decay. Beginnings wrapped within endings.
The events of our days extend us outward and if ever there was a moment to shed a layer and come home to ourselves, this is it. Relinquish urgency, soften the grip of lists, slow down, breathe deeply, pay attention…
Peel back a layer
shed a skin
let go and let go and
let go. (Keep going.)
Notice
the space before your inhale becomes
an exhale and
pause,
patiently…
What’s there?
What can you release?
(Keep going.) Until you
feel rock, earth.
Grounded.
Your practice
Amid autumn’s action, yoga and meditation are inward movements — homecomings that clarify our perspective, recalibrate our balance, and increase our resilience. These are gentle ways to frame our days, to practice and to feel the difference.
An honour to introduce and offer Welcome Home, a new set of yoga practices and accompanying 10-page guidebook I’ve created to support you to move through your days more effectively and with more ease. These tools are designed to help you feel more clear and grounded — use them to align and set the tone each morning, to recap and release each evening, and to find your balance right where you are.
Thank you for being here, it means a lot. See you on the mat and page soon and in the meantime please do ❤️ and share this post if this space is feeling good. I’d love to hear from you.
Into autumn
To Center, Again
October is here and there’s a poem I recalled with the turn of the calendar page this week. Perhaps National Poetry Day, which is today here in the United Kingdom where I live, nudged it back into my consciousness. Or maybe it’s the winds of change, prompting a recalibration of balance, again.
Good Afternoon, Autumn
We turn with the seasons. Skies overhead, ground underfoot, all reorganising as I write and you read these words — Can you feel it?
Stock and Preserve
Autumn feels more official now, doesn’t it? It’s a timely prompt to pay attention and realign ourselves with what’s important, what’s needed, and how we might support ourselves and our people.