September 2010 newsletter

One of the gifts of doing the work that I do is that I get to witness the shared consciousness that we all experience, but that we often forget that we share. It happens like this: maybe I’ve been noticing a pattern dancing around my life, and suddenly some of my friends are experiencing the same thing, while simultaneously a client will arrive for their session with a similar issue to work through; and in the inter-connected support that we offer one-another, we all transcend these issues in our unique way and in our own timing.

It’s as if we’re all being given the same ‘test’ or ‘lesson’ at the same time, although its disguised in the colorful trappings of our life and represented by people that hold familiar names and faces that we recognize. So we think that the issue is solely our own, however, it’s the same energetic undercurrent showing up for each of us in a slightly different way.

As summer moves toward its close, a common theme has begun to surface in my life, the lives of those around me and in the experiences of many of my clients. The ‘winds of change’ are brewing. Change is always in the air, but never so much as when we enter the transitional season of autumn.

The hot summer sun, which in Ayurveda represents the fire of transformation, has activated our beings, brought energy to a new height and offered us many different pathways of experience. As the heat begins to settle into the autumn season, dry, cool winds will begin to pick up those pieces of remembrance and fan their potential, uncovering the essence of that which we are being asked to look at.

Over the next few months, as the leaves begin to change their color, we too, may begin to observe changes in our perspective, a desire to change some action, a readiness to let things that no longer serve us whither away and be re-birthed. Autumn ushers in the Ayurvedic season of Vata, represented by the wind, offering a time of creativity and movement.

This vata season of autumn requires a need for rhythm and grounding. Society helps us to do this, imposing a new schedule for ‘back to school”, or “back to work”, signifying a close to the free-form of summer vacations and summer dreaming. But this routine has its purpose, it helps us to ground the activations of the fiery season of summer and to transform those new awakenings into their creative purpose this fall.

As we move into Labor Day weekend, the ‘big hurrah’ of summer, see if you can carve out some space for yourself, some alone-time, to reflect on the gifts of the last season and to prepare for the shifts to come in the next. This transitional time in the month of September is ideal for creating new healthy habits, routines, and rhythms, as well as to bring to life the creative essence of your being.

In hopeful anticipation of what’s to come,

Gianna