Our favorite opportunities to spend autumn

When autumn comes, do you love it or do you dowel it? That is the question that I have asked myself in my seasonal living workshops in the past few weeks. With some of us, the colder days and longer nights can cause bad mood and a longing for the lighter summer months. For others, autumn brings an audible sigh of relief, a signal to become slower, and introduces the season that reminds us to connect us to our roots again after a year.

Whatever you think about autumn, I hope this post will help you find ways to find joy in this time of year, to celebrate the unique beauty that brings us nature and be inspired to create your own rituals and traditions, to which you can return year after year. I have put together some of the most popular answers that I hear when I ask: "What do you love in autumn?" with the intention that we can use them all as a guide for the season. From cooking to handicrafts, change your yoga practice and make the best of nature, choose your favorites and start putting them into practice.

f: What do you love on autumn?

: "The cosiness"

Cozy evenings on the sofa or on the fire are the most popular reason why people tell me that they love autumn, and it is one of the things that make this time of time so special. A bright, hot (or if this year is a bit to pass: sultry!) Evening is not exactly beneficial to pull soft hand -knitted socks and deep into the sofa, and while warm summer evenings are to be celebrated, they do not give us the urgently needed feeling of comfort and calm that our body and mind need so urgently.

In his book the 4-year-era solution, author Dallas Hartwig explains how many of us live in "summer mode". This means that in the habit to work too much to work, do sports, to say "yes" to make contacts, even if we have the need to be alone and not enough - does that come to your best? It is common to get stuck in summer mode, but it can easily lead to burnout and tiredness, which is why learning to lean into the cozy, slow evenings of autumn can help to bring a lot more balance into life. In order to connect with the feeling of "cosiness" that so many people enjoy in autumn, they give themselves comfortable and cozy loungewear, such as the yogamatters hand-knitted bio-socks , (link removed) , and (removed) everything completely organically, cotton and breathable. A cozy evening in the house is not completely without a few games, so make sure you have selfare truth or duty play also at hand.

f: What do you love in autumn?

a: “preparation of warm, hearty meals”

With seasonal foods such as carrots, potatoes, pumpkin, cabbage, apples, pears, late berries, figs and soon parsnicks and beets, autumn asks us to nourish our bodies with earthy, hearty meals. When we eat seasonally, we give our body the right nutrients at the right time. While the bitter green and the cleaning herbs that grow in spring are perfect to help us cleaning and detoxification, the earthy root vegetables and the sweet fruits of autumn, soothing, soothing and even sleeping vitamins and minerals, give us not to protect the immune system.

If you still stick to cold smoothies and raw salads, it is time to switch to warming meals such as soups, oat porridge, stews and casseroles. For breakfast, think of warm oatmeal with nuts and berries, for lunch on a soup and sourdough (make it easier to bring the soup for lunch by lunch by (linked) and in the evening. Inspire from the (link removed) full of 100 simple and delicious vegetarian recipes and (link away) in which you can find dishes on a tray like baked dahl with sweet potatoes with tamarind glaze, stew soups and stews or quick dishes such as tahini broccoli on toast.

f: What do you love in autumn?

: "The colors"

As a poem by Robert Frost nothing that can say Gold ; "The first green of nature is gold, its hardest color to keep your early leaf is a flower; but only one hour"- The colors of autumn are beautiful but fleeting, which is why many of us may look forward to the gold, red, orange and mustard yellow tones, which fill the branches and soon fall on the ground. Only in autumn we see the circulation of the ends and beginnings of life so obviously in front of us. When the leaves fall onto the earth, they create the nutrients and the quality, from which spring plants and flowers will grow in a few months.

The warming colors of autumn also have a natural way on these more cloudy and gray days for our minds, and if we accept these colors all autumn and winter instead of choosing black, gray or white, we can really help you feel more lively and happier. Red is stimulating and energetic, and you can use this (link removed) to heat your core and mood at the same time. Orange is also stimulating and is said to be one of the strongest colors to improve the mood and to raise our tiredness, so exchanges your yoga mat against (link away) to bring more joy into your practice. Yellow refers to self -esteem, provides energy and can increase happiness - use this (link away) to fill your meditation sessions with more happiness and self -love.

f: What do you love in autumn?

: "The reminder to slow down"

As we have already discussed, as many of us are chronic in summer mode that the idea of ​​"decelerating" can seem almost strange to us. However, getting slower does not have to mean that we do less or become less productive, it only means that we can find ways of helping our minds and nervous system, relaxing and finding calm so that we have the feeling of becoming slower, even if life is busy. We can do this by switching our yoga practice to Yin or restorative yoga that gives the spirit of space and time to get back into balance, and helps the body to switch to parasympathetic state or "calm and digestion", where healing and rejuvenation take place. If you go to a studio course, use the (link removed) so that you can bring props like yours with you ceiling made of organic cotton, yoga belt made of hemp cork block. Even better, you can equip yourself with ultimate luxury restoration yoga kit with everything you need to relax and relax, especially if you practice at home this autumn.

What do you love for autumn? Whether it is the colors that are cosiness or pretext to spend relaxed afternoons to create seasonal dishes, I hope you can take this inspiration in your own life to make autumn for a season that you look forward to every year.