What if autumn in yoga isn’t about letting go at all?

Every autumn we say the same thing.

The leaves are falling.
What can you release?
What do you need to let go of?

But I think autumn has another story to tell.

Autumn is harvest.

It is what has grown through spring and summer becoming ripe enough to gather.

Pumpkins. Squash. Mushrooms. Apples and pears. Richer colours. Changing light. Cooler air. Different sounds. Food, scent, texture and warmth.

Before winter draws the landscape inward, autumn gives us an extraordinary amount to receive.

So rather than asking:

What can I let go of?

this collection asks:

What is here to take in?

What can nourish the Five Senses: the Watcher, the Listener, the Boundary Keeper, the Gatekeeper and the Memory Keeper before the quieter months arrive?

And if you teach yoga, that opens up a much richer seasonal vocabulary than another six weeks of falling leaves and “release what no longer serves you.”

What’s inside your Teacher Collection? 

🌕 Śarad–Pūrṇimā Namaskār

The original autumn/full-moon Namaskār, with guided practice and illustrated sequence, ready to explore and teach.

🍂 Full Practitioner Collection included

You receive all of the practitioner material too — Five Senses, Āhāra, Sensory Kitchen, seasonal practice-space ideas, recipes, Word Bombs & Feather Words, and the autumn verse.

📚 Expanded teaching context

More on Śarad Pūrṇimā, Kṛṣṇa and the Rāsa Līlā, plus guidance for using mythology as a doorway without reducing the story to one neat “meaning.”

🧭 Layer, Don’t Label

Ideas for weaving moonlight, jasmine, flute, rasa, earth and the Five Senses through class without narrating every symbol or telling students what they should experience.

🧘 60- and 90-minute class builders

Practical structures showing how the material can become complete seasonal classes.

🗓️ Six weeks of teaching inspiration

Different autumn doorways through altered light, the flute, Bhūmi/earth, jasmine and memory, rasa, and full-moon integration.

🌍 Bhūmi as another autumn doorway

A separate earth/support route for teachers who want to bring in ground, harvest, weight and support without relying on the usual “letting go” theme.

🗣️ People-aware teaching language

Ways to preserve sensory choice and avoid telling students that scent will calm them, the moon will bring clarity, or a practice will regulate their nervous system.

📜 A long closing verse

Under the Śarad Moon — an original contemporary closing reading that can be used in full or in sections at the end of class.

Six weeks of autumn classes — without six weeks of planning from scratch 

This collection is designed to give you material to work with, not a script you have to copy.

Use the full Namaskār.
Take one sensory doorway.
Build around Bhūmi.
Use the story.
Use the verse.
Use one class-builder.
Or take a single idea and make it your own.

The moon can be full
without asking us to be. 

Nothing here needs to prove
that we have healed, released
or become a better version of ourselves.

A little doorway into Indriya Yoga 

This seasonal collection gives you a small taste of the wider Indriya Yoga approach inside Making Yoga Make SENSE – The Journey Within.

Inside the full course, the Five Senses become a way of exploring:
Āhāra, language, boundaries, nervous-system responses, yoga philosophy, story, sensory choice and the way we make meaning from experience.

This Autumn Teachers Collection stands on its own — you do not need to have taken The Journey Within to use it.

But if this way of approaching teaching yoga speaks to you, there is much more waiting inside the full programme.

👉The Journey Within