Slow and steady kapha wins the race

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Slow and steady kapha wins the race

We have five kapha subdoshas and understanding them will help us to cultivate a subtle rebalance where necessary.

These five subdoshas take care of various organs (plasma, blood, fat, muscle, bone, marrow reproductive tissues), actions (weight, growth lung lubrication) and emotions (calm and compassion) and when these get imbalanced they can be responsible for dis-ease and eventually disease, so establishing balance early on can be highly transformative.

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Getting through the winter lockdown

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Getting through the winter lockdown

Lockdown 1 caught us off guard but lockdown 2.0 bring it on and let’s do this! Lets keep it simple today and dive in my 10 current tips/reminders to get you through the next 4 weeks and beyond during the winter lockdown. Let’s keep the focus wellness and building inner strength.

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Feeling hot hot hot?

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Feeling hot hot hot?

Our mind-body is governed by three bio-energetic forces, vata, pitta and kapha and each has their role and they have a unique balance within us. Vata is the energy of movement and kapha is the energy of stability.

Pitta is the energy of transformation and heat of the trilogy. Pitta is formed of the fire and water elements and guess what? We have five of them within us (pachaka, sadhaka, ranjaka, alochaka, brajaka). We can see the obvious fire in our digestion but here is how pitta plays a role in other area.

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Nourish the Five Vata Sub-Doshas

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Nourish the Five Vata Sub-Doshas

So if you’ve been introduced to Ayurveda already you for sure will have heard of the doshas, Vata, Pitta and Kapha. But did you know there were five members in each dosha family? Just as in Yoga philosophy, there are five energy sheaths called koshas, there are five vayu’s, taking care of our creative, enthusiastic breezy selves. Each of the five vata sub dosha takes care of a specific area or function of our mind-body.

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Habits that lead to a weakened digestive fire and rise in toxins

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Habits that lead to a weakened digestive fire and rise in toxins

Diseases don’t form overnight but begin when we are not living aligned to our mind-body type (prakruti). Disease is the result of a collective of irregular diet and lifestyle habits and cumulative patterns that allows ama to form over time and thrive. What are the types of habits that lead to an increase in toxins? Read more …

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