Yoga For Pitta Dosha
If you are a Pitta type or have excess Pitta, should have a regular yoga practice that is gentle, cooling, relaxing, forgiving and surrendering in nature.
The right yoga postures help you maintain good strength, flexibility and circulation without over-heating themselves.
The yoga postures will also helps you calm your mind, release aggressiveness, decrease competitiveness and channel any anger or irritation if practiced properly.
Tips for practicing yoga asana – Pitta Dosha.
1. You should perform asanas in a way that is cooling, nurturing and restoring.
2. You should be careful not to turn your full practice into a strong workout in which too much sweating or heating occurs.
3. You can have a strong practice but should compensate it with cooling postures and Pranayama (breathing exercises).
4. You should practice asana that emphasizes the middle abdomen area, the small intestine, and the liver – the main sites of Pitta accumulation
Types of postures for Pitta dosha
Inversions – (except headstand) but especially Shoulder stand and plow. They allow for the reversal of energy; moving from the navel to the soft palate (salivary secretions) where a cooling and moistening effect creates more lunar energy rather than solar energy Continue reading
How To Balance Pitta Dosha
If you have some Pitta in your constitution then the information presented in this article will be extremely important for you to maintain your Pitta balance.
Even if you don’t have much Pitta in your dosha or constitution you can still have a Pitta imbalance so these tips and strategies can be very beneficial.
Due to your lifestyle, eating habits and external environments Pitta can easily be accumulated in excess which can affect your health and wellness in a negative way.
Pitta is the most easily aggravated by having too much fire or heat in the body.
Balancing Pitta requires changing specific habits that tend to increase Pitta. Therefore, measures need to be taken so you can reduce the amount of pitta you have.
Before you take the appropriate action to reduce the amount of Pitta within you, you should first know and understand the main causes of high Pitta.
Causes of high Pitta
Exposure to hot & moist weather
Eating a diet consisting of hot and warm foods & spices including too many hot beverages
Eating too many cooked foods and meat; not eating enough fruits and vegetables
Eating too many oily and fried foods
Not eating enough meals throughout the day
Exercising too excessively – especially aerobic activity where the body gets overheated.
Being too competitive
Working in an environment that goal oriented and over-working
Lack of sleep and rest. Continue reading
Pitta Dosha Qualities & Characteristics
Pitta represents the element of fire.
Pitta people have average builds and bodily frames (often muscular) with good circulation and warm extremities.
They tend to overheat and are therefore drawn to food and beverages that are cool and wet in nature.
Pitta people have high metabolisms and can easily burn themselves out and feel depleted.
The main qualities of Pitta are oily, sharp, hot, light, unpleasant or fleshy smelling, mobile and liquid.
So, having a Pitta dosha means that these qualities express themselves greatly through their mental, emotional and physical make up.
The oily quality allows for soft skin but, in excess, can result as oily skin causing acne.
The sharp quality manifests as sharp and penetrating features such as their eyes. Their sharp minds make them bright and intellectual individuals.
The hot quality often manifests as a warm and rosy complexion along with warm body temperature, strong metabolism and strong appetite. Excess heat in them causes ulcers, rashes, heartburn or a hot temper.
The light quality may manifest as a slender or skinny body type and they may become light-headed if they miss a meal.
The unpleasant or “fleshy-smelling” quality manifests as a strong body odor, often sour in nature.
The mobile quality may cause them to influence their power or opinions towards others. This quality can also be responsible for the spreading of certain conditions like rashes around your body.
The liquid quality manifests as excess sweating; when it’s mixed with the hot quality it can present as bleeding disorders or excess stomach acid. Continue reading
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