autumn diary.
Added 2025-09-11 16:34:49 +0000 UTCAutumn is a time of letting go, of yin, rhythms, of preservation of the space at the end of the exhale. Of change, of the wind, and the sunlight becomes more golden still. “Yin teaches us the wisdom of surrender. Yin chooses to yield even when everyone else is getting ahead. Like an inner earth, yin is the soil in which we gestate our dreams, refine our intuition, listen to our bodies, and come into the stillness of our centre. When actions arise from the receptive still point they have real meaning. Ideas that emerge from this level of imagination serve more than the individual: they serve the great ecosystem from which our wellbeing is drawn."
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Toko-pa Turner
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Breathe
let your lungs fill up
expand your belly like a balloon
go all the way up underneath your collarbones
hold, so full of life … exhale slowly … completely empty. Empty… empty… pause. Rest here. Repeat.
