![]() ![]() Heating, energy-enhancing postures like Navasana, twists, backbends, and Sun Salutations can help relieve feelings of sluggishness. Pranayama techniques like Surya Bhedana (right nostril breathing) are also warming and stimulating. A cup of warm water with a teaspoon of honey may prove useful in balancing Kapha energies at this time of year. Honey can provide a ‘heating’ action in the body, and is useful to consume at this time of year in order to increase Agni, or ‘digestive fire’. (You may notice that many of these foods are also beginning to come into season!) These are all said to help detoxify the body, stimulate digestion and metabolism, and ‘dry up’ excess fats. Foods to favour include bitter, pungent and astringent tastes, like lemon, dark leafy greens, chilli, garlic, legumes, radishes, and berries. Cold drinks and dairy products are also best avoided. Vasant Lad advises against eating sour, sweet and overly salty foods, as they ‘provoke Kapha’. Heavy, oily food is best avoided at this time of year. Read more in Ayurvedic herbal teas for Spring. A particularly effective tea for relieving heaviness and bloating after meal times consists of cinnamon, black pepper, and ginger. Herbs such as ginger, pippali, cumin, coriander, and fennel are useful, and can also be made into a tea. Herbal helpĪdding various herbs to meals can be a wonderful and effective way to balance the body. Light oils like almond or grapeseed, and essential oils such as ginger, black pepper, lemon, bergamot, grapefruit or clove can all help boost circulation and mood levels during Spring, especially for those of a Kapha dosha. Self-massage and the use of oils are another important aspect of Ayurveda, but with this time of year already leaning towards oiliness and moistness, it’s important to choose your oils wisely. This can be a great way to enhance your energy and blood flow in the morning. Ayurvedic traditions often include various daily cleansing practices like this as part of a Dinacharya or morning routine. The practice of body brushing is intended to remove dead skin cells and increase circulation. Napping during the daytime is not recommended during Kapha season, as this can increase sluggishness and prevent a good night’s sleep. ![]() This is a great way to relieve feelings of sluggishness, to boost energy levels and reset the body clock, as the amount of daylight increases for those of us in the UK and Europe. Aim to wake with the sunrise and spend a portion of the morning (even if it’s just ten minutes) walking outside, breathing in the fresh air and exposing your eyes to the beneficial morning light. Rise with the sunĪs new life blooms all around us, this is a great time to get outside and enjoy nature as it flourishes. Potential signs of ‘imbalance’ include congestion, a loss of appetite, allergies, or lethargy, so if you’re experiencing any of these, an Ayurvedic Springtime routine may be able to help! Daily Springtime routines 1. It’s time to lighten things up and shed the many aspects of our ‘Winter coat’, to allow new growth and abundance. So it’s time to lighten things up, and shed the many aspects of our ‘Winter coat’, to allow new growth and abundance during the coming months. Whilst Winter may be all about getting cosy and filling up on comfort foods, we may enter into Spring feeling heavy and sluggish. ![]() Among all the trees I am the sacred Bodhi tree, and of the seasons, I am Spring”. “I am the Soul in the body, the Mind in the senses, the Eagle among birds, the Lion among animals. Allergies can become apparent at this time of year, and it’s easy to become more susceptible to mucus forming in the respiratory tract.Īyurvedic expert Vasant Lad refers to Spring as the ‘King of the seasons’, and in the Yogic text the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna reveals himself with various attributes: Spring is closely linked to Kapha, with the qualities of moistness, heaviness, abundance, but also lethargy – and related to the elements of earth and water. Just as each person has a predominant dosha, each time of day and each season is also governed by a particular dosha. To learn more about them and discover your own, take this dosha quiz. There are three doshas: Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. Living in alignment with the seasons is one of the best ways to help support health and wellbeing, helping to balance the immune system, digestive pathways, and each person’s dosha. Ayurveda, or ‘life knowledge’ is all about finding balance, and enabling each person’s internal environment (the body and mind) to work harmoniously with their external environment (the outside world). ![]()
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