Your Season to Grow

Feel at home in the season.

An hour to learn how fall shows up in your body and mind, and how to balance it through breath, movement and food, so you leave able to notice the signs and adjust on your own.

Your body notices fall before the calendar does. The air turns dry and cold, the wind picks up, and the days get shorter just as life seems to speed up. You might feel it in your skin, your sleep, your digestion, or a mind that won’t settle. Or you might simply feel a little off and not know why.

This workshop is for everyone. It’s open to beginners, and no Ayurveda background is needed. All of us go through the change of season, and all of us can learn to meet it with balance.

The qualities of fall

Ayurveda, India’s traditional approach to balance in the body and mind, looks at the world through qualities. Fall is dry, light, cold, rough, subtle, mobile and clear, and those same qualities show up in us. Food shifts too: as we trade the lighter meals of summer for heavier fall food, many people notice bloating or a slower digestion.

Ayurveda’s answer is to bring in the opposite qualities: warming, grounding, stabilizing, moist, heavy and smooth. Kendra will show you how to notice what the season is doing in your own body and mind, and how to bring those opposites into your food, your movement and your day.

Where mindfulness comes in

Kendra sees mindfulness as the place where yoga and Ayurveda meet: knowing how your body feels, moves and breathes, noticing when something is out of balance, and knowing how to answer it.