04/01/2026
Day Ten: October
Withdrawal & Rest
“Today, honour the hard work with time for rest. Celebrate dusk, draw inwards.
By Day Ten, the movement turns inward. Today marks a retreat, a necessary return to shelter.
After the shedding of what no longer fits, and the careful reorientation that followed, there is a quieter need now: to stop moving, to stop adjusting, and to allow what has changed to be held. This, too, is part of the cycle.
Rest is not an absence of work. It is where the work begins to settle.
Today, do not rush out. You have worked so hard. Today, rest. Rest and wait, even perhaps until dusk. And only then go out, if you want. Or you prefer and you might be feeling lazy (like me), sit by a window and witness the light slowly bleed from the day.
There might be a quiet settling within you, and urge to explain less, to engage less with what pulls at you from the outside. This is not withdrawal from life, but a turning toward its deeper rhythms. Energy that has been spent must be restored again.”
Read The Omen Days on my Substack: The Yoga Almanac, link in bio
