by Luisa Rounds | Jan 5, 2024 | blog, daily routine, earth, exercise, five elements, fruits, heal, heal your relationship to food, healthy options, Heart Chakra, individuality, sattvic, Solar Plexus, summer, Taste, urges, vagus nerve, Wellness, winter, winter seasonal diet, winter solstice, winter squash
The longest night of the year, marked by winter solstice, is also a turning point toward warmth; every day to come is longer. Yet as our days slowly get longer, it is still winter: dry, cold, and stormy! This is the season to eat hearty foods such as bananas,...
by Manish Chandra | Jun 28, 2023 | apana vayu, arthritis, awareness, Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Healing, bhrajaka pitta, blog, earth, joint health, joint lubrication, shleshaka kapha, skin, unresolved emotions
by Sheyna Haisman-Holmes When we look at the three main doshas (Vata, Pitta, Kapha, or VPK), they each have five subdoshas that hold the hand of an element. Each dosha has ether, air, fire, water and earth elements in their subdoshas and they all serve a specific...
by Manish Chandra | Mar 22, 2023 | allergies, Ayurveda, ayurvedic approach, ayurvediccooking, balance, blog, body constitution, cleanse, cold, colds, diets, digestion, dosha, earth, elimination, holistic healing, immunity, kapha, kitchari, ostara, rejuvenation, ritusandhi, seasonal diet, spring, spring cleaning, spring cleansing, spring detoxification, spring diet, spring equinox, spring nutrition, springdetox, water, weight loss
by Sheyna Haisman-Holmes On Monday March 20th, we called in the Spring Equinox! This equinox is a day of equal daytime and nighttime that marks the beginning of spring. This day is also the pagan holiday of Ostara, celebrating the arrival of spring and the fertility...
by Manish Chandra | Mar 15, 2023 | Ayurveda, balance, blog, body constitution, cleanse, Consciousness, crystals of emotion, detox, dosha, earth, five elements, joint health, joint lubrication, kapha, Ojas, pain prevention, spring, spring detoxification, water
by Sheyna Haisman-Holmes Kapha dosha is composed of water and earth elements. As we approach the Spring Equinox next week, we are currently transitioning into Kapha season. The earth is saturated with water from the winter rains, where liquid, cold and heavy are...
by Manish Chandra | Nov 30, 2022 | Air, Ayurveda, blog, body constitution, Consciousness, earth, ether, fire, water
By Sheyna Haisman-Holmes The Pancha Mahabhūtas (5 Elements) exist within the entire universe, the Earth and within our bodies. Also referred to as the mahabhūtas, these 5 elements consist of ether, air, fire, water and earth. They manifest in our physical makeup,...
by Manish Chandra | Apr 13, 2022 | agni, Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Healing, blog, body constitution, Detoxification, doshas, earth, Gut Health, holistic health, kapha, pitta, scienceoflife, seasonal and daily routines, seasonalhealth, spring, spring detoxification, spring nutrition, vata, weight loss, yoga
The warm weather and renewal of spring is a wonderful time to shed weight that is no longer serving us from winter. However, we want to emphasize that Ayurveda views each person as a reflection of the universe. Because of this, there is no “right” or...