September Newsletter

I feel grateful for another blessed summer and the coming autumn. There’s something about fall I just love. Maybe it’s because I was born in September or that I grew up in Michigan with epic fall colors. Now a few decades later, in the mountains of Colorado, the wondrous show continues featuring Aspen, Bramble Oak and various shrubs with shades of yellow, orange, red and auburn. I love the cool, crisp and fresh air that autumn brings, offering a necessary reprieve from the smoke-filled haze of another fire season. 

Fall has several key note features—the change and transformation we all have the potential to experience and the abundance of another harvest. There’s also the opportunity to take stock of who we are, why we’re here and what we already have. 

While the ego never seems satisfied—always wanting more, better and different, on the more subtle spiritual plane of our existence, we gain access to a wholeness, completeness and connection that far exceeds the bells and whistles of the material plane. 

With five plus decades of grasping, struggling, learning and growing behind me, I am finding a deeper value in waking before the sun, deepening in my spiritual practices, and learning new things but most importantly connecting and sharing with myself and others.

As this summer comes to a close and mother nature dips her northern access away from the sun, may we all recognize that we already have all we need and we already are the person we seek to become. It’s not that we don’t have to play the game called life but rather we can come to understand that our life doesn’t depend upon the outcome. 

With love and affection, 

Eaden Shantay
Co-Founder/Co-President
True Nature Healing Arts
A 501c3, non-profit Foundation