The Art of Letting Go: Fall, The Metal Element and Yin Yoga

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Hi Jennis, and welcome to a Jenny Yoga. Podcast

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you are new around here, welcome.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you are familiar, welcome back and thanks for coming back.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Today we are going to talk about the

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Nyk Danu Yoga: fall, the metal element in Tcm. And Taoism. And we’ll dive into that in just a moment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But before we do.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I just want to read a

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Nyk Danu Yoga: podcast review that I have received.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And, dear listener, if you have been listening to this for many, many episodes, and you’ve been finding them helpful.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I would be endlessly grateful if you would take 2 min out of your time. You could even just pause this right now, pop into your app.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Both spotify and apple. Have the option for you to give stars. If you can give me a 5 stars I’d be super grateful for that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And in Apple you can also leave a written review. So if you don’t mind taking 2 min to do that for those of you who are repeat listeners who are big fans of the show. I’d be very grateful for that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It really helps the algorithm understand that people are actually paying attention to it. But also, more importantly, it helps me

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to know that you’re out there listening.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Sometimes I’m like.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Hello, Hello! Is anybody out there? Am I speaking into the void? So those of you that leave me podcast reviews, or that message me on instagram and send me little messages about the podcast super appreciate that endlessly grateful for you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this is one of those such reviews on the podcast

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Nyk Danu Yoga: now, this is by lady.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I don’t know if it’s chetty.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it’s CHET. IE.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: 5, stars. I am happy to give this podcast.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: 5 short stars.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Many thanks to Nick, I am a qualified yin yoga teacher in the Uk, and I love Nick’s down to earth. Approach on the subject

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Nyk Danu Yoga: with all her experience in Yoga therapy and Tcm. I have learned so much through her podcast I wish, I lived in Vancouver, because I bet her classes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and trainings are great.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Well, thank you very much, Lady Chatty. I don’t actually live in Vancouver. I live on Vancouver Island.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in a city called Victoria.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: which I realize is confusing, because there’s a city called Vancouver, which is like

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m on a little island just off the west coast, and Vancouver is like

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Nyk Danu Yoga: let on land. But it’s the the coast of Canada, and then pop over to a little island which is called, oddly enough, Vancouver Island. I don’t know how that makes any sense, and I live in Victoria, so I know it can be kind of confusing

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Vancouver, Vancouver Island. So that’s where I live. And, by the way, if you’re listening any of y’all

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Nyk Danu Yoga: regular listeners.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you’re ever in Victoria, British Columbia, in Canada, and you would like to come see me for a class. Please send me a message, and I will hook you up with the pass. We could come do some yin together. I would love that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s happened before, actually.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: where someone from Scotland messaged me and said, Hey, I’m coming. And I said, I will hook you up with a class pass.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So please know if you’re gonna be around message me on Instagram, and I’ll I’ll hook you up.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, friends, let’s dive into today’s topic. So first, st I want to do a bit of an overview. Just kind of like bullet pointy.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Let’s dive into today’s topic. So 1st I’m just going to talk about the fall and the metal element in general, and then I’ll kind of give some additional bullet points. I have done a

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Nyk Danu Yoga: 1 0, 1 episode 5 elements, 1 0, 1 episode recorded already. I don’t know if it’s going to be coming out before this one or after this one. If it has come out already, I will include a link in the show notes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: which are on my blog. So if you just go over there if I haven’t made it live yet, then stay tuned. Make sure you have subscribed and it will be coming up where I kind of do a bit of an overview of all the 5 elements, and that was requested

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Nyk Danu Yoga: by one of you listeners, and I love getting your requests so again. Feel free to message those to me as well. If you have yin topic ideas or questions, I love to have those.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So as it sits right now, we’re just starting to transition

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Nyk Danu Yoga: into fall.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: we’re not obviously at winter yet, but we’re no longer in summer.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: We’ve moved away from this sort of ultimate

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Nyk Danu Yoga: sorry. We’ve moved away from the ultimate, extroverted young fire element of summer, which for some of you is a big transition to make

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to the more introverted, yin-like time of autumn.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this is where we start to move from the yong of summer, which is the youngest of the young into yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s not the yinest of the yin yet, that’s winter, but we’re starting to get more yin like in autumn.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I will include also in the show notes a fall. Themed practice. That I did on zoom a while ago, couple of years back. Keep in mind it is zoom quality, but that will be also in the the notes. If you would like to practice that please feel free.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Fall in traditional Chinese medicine, and Taoism is a time for letting go.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It is also connected to the emotion of grief.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So for those of you that love summer, it’s typically grieving the loss of summer.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I actually love fall. It is my second favorite season, spring being number one

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the only reason it’s probably number 2 is because, although I love fall.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I love the leaves

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I love, especially now that I live somewhere where we actually have fall, where I was born and raised, you get fall for like 3 days, and then it’s winter. But here in Victoria we get like an actual fall season. It’s so beautiful with all the leaves.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I love

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Nyk Danu Yoga: this time of year. I love getting my sweaters out and my scarves and my boots, and I love misty, rainy beach walks and little walks through the through the woods, but I also do grieve a little bit, even though I really love fall, and for me it’s grieving the daylight, so I’m not a fan of sun per se hot sun of summer. It gets too much for me.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But as a Canadian I know it’s not going to be long before it’s getting dark at 4 pm. And that part of fall I don’t love. I do grieve a little bit. The daylight not so much bright sun, but just having

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the daylight.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So as the sun starts to set earlier and the sunrise starts to become later, I do find that is a bit of an adjustment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So here are some things that we could keep in mind for fall.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I’ll do some more bullet point stuff after this. But this is a great time of year for rest and reflection.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Fall is the time to start to let go of unneeded energies of your life. This could be relationships or friendships, or just habits that aren’t serving you. Fall is the time of letting go. It is the time to let go

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Nyk Danu Yoga: also a fantastic time to purge your home of any unused clothing or physical clutter that is kicking around.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I know I’ve been doing this. I tend to be a

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Nyk Danu Yoga: paper Piler, one of the things, and book Piler one of the things I do in my organizational style is anything that I’m currently using. I don’t want to put out of sight because out of sight is out of mind for me, and so I’ll have these little piles, you know, sort of on my dining room, or on the little ottoman in the living room where I work, and so I have been going through and getting rid of those piles and organizing things and putting them where they need to need to be.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Filing things away.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ve been doing that. I’ve also been cleaning out my desktop on my computer. I’m about to go through all of my sort of downloads and anything that I don’t need. I’m just gonna delete.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m also gonna go through my desktop and just delete anything that doesn’t need to be there. I’m even going to go through all my downloads

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and delete those, put them in the trash and then empty my trash on my computer. I’ll go through my email inboxes slowly, too, over the course of the fall, and just get rid of anything that kind of ended up lagging behind that I don’t need anymore. You know, sometimes we open these things. And we we need that email for a month or a season or something. And then, you know, it gets lost in the shuffle. Or maybe I’m the only one that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: as email overwhelm. But so I’ll be going through and deleting all of those emails that I don’t need any receipts or anything that’s in there. I’ll be filing. So fall is a fantastic time to let go to get rid of clutter, whether that’s physical clutter.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or, you know, digital clutter

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Nyk Danu Yoga: fantastic time to purge your home of unused clothing. So one little trick that I do. If you want to nerd out on organizing is, I turn all of my hangers in my closet backwards, so that, like the hooky part, is actually pointing out.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then, as the season goes by, anything that I actually wear and use, I turn it back the proper way, so that the hooky part points in.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So at the end of a season. It’s super easy for me to add a glance. Look at which hangers are turned the wrong way still, and know that I went a whole year without wearing that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: now. Sometimes I need to hang on to it, because it’s you know it’s formal wear. It’s a dress I’d wear to a wedding or something, so of course I haven’t worn it. But if it’s like just stuff that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know, either I have too much of, or isn’t my favorite, so it never gets worn. That’s my opportunity to take that stuff off the hanger, fold it up, and either consign it or donate it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I also do the same thing with my books, which is much harder for me than clothing. But I go around and I look at my books. And I’m like, okay, which ones do I wanna take off the shelf and add to my to read pile, because fall and winter are the ideal time to dive into some more reading.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And which ones have I read that I’m probably never going to revisit, and I want to let go of, and

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I start to get rid of books, take them to my local used bookstore, shout out to Russell’s books for anyone who’s local and they buy them, and then I get some store credit for new books when I need them. But books for me is much harder.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so great time to do a physical purge, whether that’s your stuff

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or an you know digital purge, but also an energetic purge. What

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Nyk Danu Yoga: habits are not serving you that you could just let go of. Now, I’m not talking about New Year’s resolutions and bringing new things in. I’m just talking about like.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is there stuff you can let go of.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this is the time of year for letting go.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that sometimes does involve a certain amount of sadness or grief.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Fall is the time of the metal element in Chinese medicine, and the organs associated with fall are the lungs, which is the yin, and the large intestine, which is its young paired.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and, according to Chinese medicine. Fall weather is mostly dry, and this dryness can damage both our lungs and our large intestines if we’re not careful.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So increasing your warm, fluid intake is ideal this time of year, and I’m not just talking about coffee.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m not knocking coffee. I love coffee, too, but I’m just saying, don’t be like awesome fall way more espresso. Let’s do it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I love to. I always tend to consume bone broth. But, for example, in the fall and winter I like amp that up way more so broths and soups and warm teas, nourishing teas even just warm water in the morning. I just

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Nyk Danu Yoga: put my tea kettle on the same temperature. I would make tea and put water in a mason jar, and my 1st beverage of the day before I dip into my matcha is just a big jar of warm water.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I do that most of the year, except in the heat of summer.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s a great way to just sort of warm things up and get things moving.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Also a great time of year to eat your seasonal foods like pears and

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Nyk Danu Yoga: squash. And I know in Canada, for example, apples are really only coming into season now in the fall.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Squash, pumpkin, I love cooked kale and broccoli that are. Those are vegetables that can help to nourish the fluids in your body. I love walnuts and hemp seeds as well

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for the large intestine and the lungs.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It is a time of year to favor cooked food over raw.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So for me, now that I actually have 4 seasons, it’s a lot easier for me to kind of make these sort of transition times on my calendar of like. Okay, now, I’m letting go of my salad.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I’m going to start doing more roasted veggies and soups and stews.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s also time to let yourself sleep more.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Did you hear that, dear listener?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: This is the time to let yourself sleep more

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so dim, the lights cozy up.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You know, if we were following nature as the Taoists do, the Taoist view of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: of being in harmony is to look at, look to nature for the wisdom of nature, and if we were to look to the other critters

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that are around

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Nyk Danu Yoga: at this time of year, what are they starting to do? They’re starting to gather food right? They’re harvesting.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I feed the squirrels regularly.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and crows and all kinds of other birds. This is part of my regular routine in life, and I’ve noticed that just in the last few days, because it’s starting to get cooler. The squirrels are not just taking the peanut that I give them and eating it right away. They’re like taking one and burying it and then eating one.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Pretty soon it’ll be very to eat one. So if we can start to take that wisdom from nature, too, of like this is the time to to start to kind of harvest, and to grab some of these extra things to get us ready for the winter.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So, and one of these things is also sleeping more. If you notice the animals are a lot less energetic at this time of year, right? I mean, bears will be getting ready to hibernate. So when it is naturally darker outside. This is the time that we should also be resting more.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I realize in our modern culture, because we have electricity and lamps and computers and all the things that we can just ignore the fact that it’s dark outside and keep going until late into the evening. But I would encourage you to try as an experiment once the sun sets, and for me, I realize it’s not entirely possible, because in Canada that’s 4 pm. At a point in the autumn?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But can you switch wherever possible to dim lights if you’re going to use overhead lighting at all? Can you dim them? Or can you get some candles out.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or I love those little like golden colored fairy lights. So my living room’s got a bunch of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: battery operated candles that are on a timer that will just turn on. I set the timer according to when it starts to get dark, and they’ll start to turn on on their own, and I’ll plug in some little fairy lights, and I’ve got my Himalayan salt lamps that I’ll turn on and turn off kind of overhead light.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: even if I am up past 4 Pm. Which, of course, I am

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so to start to bring. That sort of cozy, you know. Soft lighting in

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Nyk Danu Yoga: your lungs are responsible for your defensive Chi, your immunity.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So, taking some extra time this time of year can help us from picking up those seasonal colds and and bugs that are so common this time of year.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: One of the simplest ways that is so undervalued is to start wearing a scarf.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Keeping your neck warm is a great way to protect your body from the cold weather and from colds invading your defensive Chi. So in Chinese medicine you know the back of the neck

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is most easily where the wind enters the body through some of the acupuncture points there one example would be gall, bladder 20 Wind Pond, and so big thing that your acupuncturist will tell you, or medical Qigong practitioners. Anyone who’s kind of studied Tcm. Is get your scarf on. So now’s the time to pull out those cute scarfs. You can start with the lighter weight ones, for now, if it’s not cold and move your way up, this is one of the things I look forward to about fall the boots and the scarves.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so a recipe for more harmony this fall could be to take some more time to go inward. So maybe grab some books, and

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know journals and start to cultivate reading at night. Perhaps, instead of watching movies right until you go to bed

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to practice extra self-care.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to start to wear your scarves.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to stay hydrated with warm liquids, and to start to eat warm, nourishing, seasonal foods. So I gave the examples of bone, broth and soups and teas. I like to make some stews. I love roasting veggies in the oven. So any of that stuff that you can

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Nyk Danu Yoga: get going. I love nothing more in the fall than grabbing the crock pot and filling it up with all kinds of yummy veggies, and maybe some

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Nyk Danu Yoga: chicken or beef, or whatever. If you eat meat I eat chicken, so I put some chicken in there, and I love roasting that kind of in the crock pot over the course of the day, and then I eat it, and I can freeze some, so that I have that available for future meals. So, starting to again, I’m starting to harvest right? I’m starting to gather my food resources for the winter to come.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then letting go of unneeded energies and the stuff that no longer serves you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So some of these tips might kind of help you ease into this seasonal change and improve your health.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: both emotionally and physically, and your energy levels.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And again, as I mentioned, I’ll put a little in the notes. I’ll put a little link in there for a practice that you could do.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I have a former zoom class on

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in Yoga and autumn, so you’re welcome to use that. Just keep in mind. It is zoom quality. It’s not pro video.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then just a few other little things that I’ll touch on about this time of year before we wrap it up.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: fall is connected to the metal element

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in Chinese medicine, and the phase is Nu yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I mentioned that summer is like the youngest of the young. It’s the most extroverted, the most energetic, the most daylight. And now we’re starting to move into New Yin. This is where we start to transition from the young of summer into Yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The color is white.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the season is fall

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Nyk Danu Yoga: fall in, the metal element are connected. The climate is dry.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Many of us feel that with our skin and our hair and our nails.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the internal organs connected again, as I mentioned are the lungs, which is the yin, and the large intestine, which is the yong.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The direction is west. The emotion is sadness or grief, and the stage of development is harvest. So this is when we start to gather our resources for the winter to come, and whether those resources be, you know, batch cooking warm foods. So you have those ready, or maybe gathering your books and your journals and your scarves. So harvesting again doesn’t always just necessarily mean food, although that’s a vital part of it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The virtue is prosperity, and the sound is crying.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And again a reminder that scarves are an amazing thing

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to bring out at this time of year.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Get your cute scarves out.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s just a brief overview of the

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The Taoist or Tcm view of fall and the element of metal. I hope that you found that interesting. Again, I will include in the show notes a link to a practice. So if any of you want to kind of read a blog post that I wrote on this a while ago, and you know, do a video practice that will be in the notes, and if I have already done.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if I’ve already released the 5 elements, 101 episode that will also be in the show notes. If I haven’t yet.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: make sure you’ve subscribed or followed, and you will. You will get that as it comes out. It will be in this season of the pod.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: thank you so much for your time, and I hope that you found this interesting.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and until we meet again.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: bye, for now.