Life is a composition of deeply interconnected rhythms. Day moves into night and back into day. Spring transitions through summer and fall into winter, and returns. The patterns of the suns energy hitting the earth prompt and govern the biological processes of nearly all life on earth. In many ways, the sun is essentially our “conductor”.

For much of human history, our perception and tracking of time directly related to the seasons. This makes a great deal of sense, because no matter how our thinking or ideas evolve over time, we are biological creatures, and our biology is directly governed by nature and the sun. Even our circadian and temperature rhythms through the day mirror the seasonal progression from spring through winter.

Each season brings with it specific hormonal cues to initiate “programs” most suited for the demands of that time of year. The restless energy of spring fuels new growth, exploration, and renewal. Summer sharpens our drive toward productivity and expansion. Autumn signals preparation, harvesting, and fortification. Winter’s long nights call for rest, reflection, and integration. This cycle is not arbitrary—it is a pattern encoded into us, influencing our physical, emotional, and even our mental states.

The purpose of these complex systems of homeostatic functions is to calibrate our internal environments to be correctly suited to exist within the external environment. When we are in sync with the world around us we feel correct, but the further out of sync with nature and its cues we get, the worse we function, feel and look.

The ASEC cycle is a pattern, or template to help identify and tap back into the rhythms our bodies are designed for, while deepening understanding of how the body moves and operates. Each month organizes around focus on one of our bodies’ twelve movement lines and a related principle. These attentional lenses are meant to be ruminated on throughout the course of the month, noticing how and where they come into play during our daily lives.