Our lives, much like nature, move in seasons. There are Summers for action, activity, and growth, and Winters for quietude, stillness, and healing. Each phase is equally important and relevant (like Yin and Yang), in order to live a balanced, harmonious life.

Each season brings some common and predictable patterns that can affect our health. For example, as we move from summer into autumn we may see the ‘winter blues’ starting to creep in and an irregularity in digestion as a result of the seasonal change in diet. Understanding why these patterns occur can help us to develop strategies against these seasonal tendencies and therefore maintain maximum wellbeing.

Doing this practice regularly not only shifts your mood, but it actually changes the neural pathways in your brain. At first, and especially if you’re new to this sort of thing, you may find you have resistance to this. You might think “how can this even work?” Or you might feel it’s too new age or woo woo — not practical or action-based.