The autumn season is known as Vata season - when it’s easy to go out of balance in what Ayurveda calls Vata. Vata dosha is comprised of air and ether, and it’s characterized by these qualities: dry, light, cool, and mobile.

If our lifestyle and basic constitution create too much of these qualities, we can go out of balance. This shows up as scattered mind, doing 10 things at once, too much anxiety or stress, constant "doing" to the point of exhaustion, dryness, feeling cold often, flightiness, and overstimulating the sympathetic nervous system (fight-flight-freeze response, among other things).