Like many of you, I am excited for autumn. As I’ve mentioned in my classes lately, autumn and early winter are vata season. Vata is one of the doshas (or constitutions/mind-body energies) in Ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine).
Sometimes stress shows up as a buzzing, moving feeling; other times we get so overwhelmed we feel stuck, unable to do anything. These are just two ways our nervous system can respond to stress (flight and freeze states)...