Flor de Agua & the Autumn
👉 Hello I am Sonia masseuse therapist and Reiki master in Flor de Agua Barcelona. Today I share with you my article about the autumn and the consequences on our body, emotions and mental wellness🍂🍁
September 2026 in Barcelona: a different end of summer
I don't know how you’ve experienced it, but this year, instead of feeling the typical September vibe — longing for summer and the extreme vitality of July and August — the experience has been different. Due to the heat, which was especially intense this summer, many of us have experienced a return to more dynamism and movement in September. This happens after an August in which, whether you were on vacation or not, I get the feeling that there wasn't much desire to walk, dance, or go for a run. Even for swimming or sunbathing at the beach, the feeling was that during the warmest hours of the day, there weren't as many people around.
That’s why I’ve seen this month of September as very accelerated around me. On one hand, the return to work routines, school for the children, the mental load, and the stress of going back (like every year). But on top of that, I’ve perceived a rushed energy to start new projects, play sports, and move the body physically. It’s as if something unconsciously were telling us: «Take advantage now, because when autumn and winter arrive, the physical, emotional, and mental energy will be affected by the cold and the shorter days».
How autumn can influence us on a corpo-emotional level
Even though many of us work in offices or live urban lives in Barcelona, we are always connected to nature: we are nature and, whether we like it or not, the seasons affect us. The more awareness we have of this and of natural cycles, the better we will live through these seasonal changes.
On a corpo-emotional level, this is what we usually feel with the arrival of autumn:
Feelings of sadness or nostalgia and looking back at the past.
A feeling of closing a life cycle.
A desire to feel cozy, stay home, and wake up later.
A physical sensation that it is harder to move in the mornings and a general lack of energy.
Searching for warmth and comforting food.
How I accompany you in sessions in Barcelona, taking into account the arrival of autumn
At Flor de Agua, my exclusive holistic space for women in Barcelona, I offer therapeutic support to help you integrate and release emotional memories stored in the body (such as wounds of the soul, stress, or burdens from the past).
Manual therapies are a way to care for your holistic health and connect with your emotions. With the arrival of autumn, I take special care of these details in every session:
Protection of the lower back: The lumbar area suffers a lot in autumn with the cold and humidity. There, we hold the postural tension of sitting and the environmental cold. In a session, I help you release the somatic and emotional tensions in that area so you can enter a state of deep relaxation and be receptive to holistic therapy.
Special care for the joints: With the drop in atmospheric pressure, synovial fluid becomes denser, and there can be vasoconstriction and hypertonia in the muscles. This discomfort in the joints caused by the cold can be observed when in the morning we feel our body a bit stiffer, with little ability to move. In sessions designed to care for the body in autumn, I perform gentle movements in circles, rotations, and special stretches to restore flexibility to your body. On a somatic level, it also allows you to let go emotionally, feeling a stronger mind-body connection without so much rigidity.
Opening of the shoulders and lungs for immunity: With the cold, shoulders unconsciously move up and forward, closing the rib cage. By unblocking this area, we support the respiratory system and prepare our defenses for winter viruses. This area is linked to the emotion of sadness, an emotion that may be more present in autumn and winter; by receiving holistic therapy in this area of the body, I help you rebalance the energy centers in this region.
Bringing heat to the body to restore vital energy: I work with vital energy and Reiki during therapies, which can help you maintain more internal heat in autumn and encourage you to move more, thus feeling greater physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
Skin hydration: In Manual Therapy, keeping the skin nourished after summer is key to your body’s health and for caring for your body barrier. Autumn is a time of year when the skin needs more nourishment because, unlike summer — where we tend to sweat a lot, which sometimes prevents oils from doing their hydrating job —, in autumn, with the work of suitable professionals, the oil penetrates the integumentary system without feeling heavy or sticky for the person receiving the treatment. Furthermore, in holistic therapy, protecting and caring for the skin, when looked at from a more philosophical dimension, is also about caring for the envelope that serves as the boundary between our inner world and the outer world: by caring for it, we bring reflection to the body and self-esteem.
Cocooning oils for the atmosphere: I use warm, enveloping scents like cinnamon. When you arrive at the room, unconsciously feeling these fragrances throughout the space will allow you a deeper relaxation to receive the body-mind treatments.
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