Welcoming November: A Long Hello

The view from my corner of paradise as we make our way into deep fall (and a maybe overdue "just what am I doing here on Substack?" post.)

Hi readers (and movers, meditators, and mageirocophiles),

This morning, I’m pausing my regularly-scheduled posts for a somewhat-overdue introduction, having realized that the last two months on here I’ve been a little like the party guest who slips in without saying “hello.” She’s over there at 10 pm casually helping herself to chips and guacamole before you turn to a friend and say “hey, do we know her?”

I’m Havala - a West Virginia transplant, farmer, recently-former U.S. federal government employee, health coach, yoga teacher, and cook. I’ve been playing in the kitchen since I was a toddler “helping” in my parents’ bakery, and I’ve practiced yoga, in one form or another, ever since finding my mom’s old volume of Light on Yoga in the attic when I was a teenager, nearly thirty years ago now. In 2022 I finally made it “official” with yoga teacher training; this summer, finding myself with what I came to call an Unplanned Sabbatical on my hands, I added an Integrative Nutrition Health Co…