This is such a special time of year,
with the final harvests coming in, plants slowing down for the arrival
of winter, and, of course, the evenings getting dark an hour earlier.
Harvesting
squash, tomatoes, pumpkins, peppers, and ground cherries at my friend's
farm, reminded me that that this has long been a time of the year when
people all around the world begin to celebrate nature's need to turn in
for rest and preparation for winter. I let some old tomatoes spill into
the dirt, in hopes that maybe next year a few plants will pop up on
their own time schedule. It's just amazing that a tiny seed can hang out
in the dirt all winter, waiting for the right time and the right
conditions, to begin to grow.
I
think that Autumn is a beautiful time for practicing yoga because it
possesses a shared momentum of transition, bounty, and beginning to turn
inward. When the nature all around us is changing, it invites us to
also be open to change. When the farmers market has the last few tomatos
of the year, it reminds us to be grateful for the bounty that we have.
And when the plants begin slowing down and the evenings get darker, we
are given an opportunity to slow ourselves down too. It is our chance
to reconnect to our Creator and discover or re-discover or uncover who
we were authentically made to be. Are you ready for the slowing down?
Let us all look inside to see what we find......see you on your mat!
"Two
people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego,
garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden
spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard
or attended to." - Soghal Rinpoche
Namaste,
Trish
