Like everything living, people are seasonal, tuned by dualities: the swing of breathing in and out, the blossoming of warmth yielding to the shedding and introspection of colder months. Now that the bounty and expansion of summer is coming to a close, it’s time to embrace the inward turning energy.
A Simple Sequence For the Transition to Fall
“Reading about yoga without physically testing the ideas is like reading about food without getting to eat.”
“Reading about yoga without physically testing the ideas is like reading about food without getting to eat.”
Meet Jane
Jane Carlsen writes fiction and poetry deeply rooted in her decades-long yoga practice and thirty years as a shepherd and timberland steward in Oregon’s fertile Willamette Valley. Her work has appeared in Windfall Press, Paper Gardens, Clinton Street Quarterly, and Oregon Magazine. Bridging her creative and scientific interests, Carlsen’s yoga research has been published in academic journals including Neurology and The International Journal of Yoga Therapy. Sweet Constance, her debut novel, weaves together her intimate knowledge of the land with profound questions of belonging and stewardship. Since her move to Portland, Jane can usually be found with dirt under her fingernails, rewilding the vacant lot next door.
