Ayurveda texts describe the importance of shifting our diet and routines with the seasons...

Ayurveda texts describe the importance of shifting our diet and routines with the seasons, but something I keep meeting in my Ayurveda practice is the pervasive effects of changes that AREN’T due to nature.

Culture can also be a factor in lifestyle rhythms, and have huge impacts on health. In some places, fall is a time of massive change in daily schedules as children and university students go “back to school” and they as well as their families are swept into a sudden shift in the demands and timetable of daily life. It is wise to take into account the effects such changes have on the system!

If you think about it, it makes sense the digestion, or sleep, or nerves might go through the ringer a bit as things are suddenly quite busy, and quite different, from how they were a week or two ago. Simplifying the diet can make things a lot smoother, as well as taking care to implement a few touchstone routines, such as a consistent lunchtime or bedtime, to ground down the days while change is afoot.

Consider a Fall Community Cleanse as an opportunity to establish these rhythms, with a little help from your friends.