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
Yoga For Vata Dosha
If you are a Vata type person or have excess Vata, should have a consistent yoga practice that is slow, steady strong and grounding.
The right yoga postures will help you prevent and correct muscle imbalances, bone conditions, structural distortions and degeneration of bone tissue caused by excess Vata.
The yoga postures will also help you relieve forms of coldness, dryness, stress, nervousness, fear and anxiety held in the bones, nerves and joints.
Tips for practicing yoga asana – Vata dosha
1. You should never try to rush or hurry into asana practice.
2. You should always do gradual warm- ups for the body first that improves circulation and loosens your joints.
3. You should practice postures that are grounding and give you stability and strength.
4. You should practice gentle flowing movements and any exercise or yoga should only be done to the point of a mild sweat.
5. You should practice postures that emphasize the pelvic region and colon – the main sites of Vata.
6. You should practice postures that aim at releasing the tension from the hips, lumbar spine and sacroiliac joints Continue reading
A Healing Exercise For The Mind And Body – Kapalbhati Breathing And Benefits
Kapalbhati is a breathing technique known to heal the mind and body of many negative conditions and diseases.
When used in conjunction with Neti or Nasya Kapalbhati breathing can help to treat and prevent colds and other sinus, throat and lung conditions.
Kapalbhati increase your consumption of oxygen and elimination of carbon dioxide in the blood, purifying and cleansing your whole respiratory system.
The practice increases red blood cells and haemoglobin in your blood which in turn increases your heart rate, blood circulation and the concentration of oxygen – stimulating a greater level of whole body activity.
It is an excellent practice for Vata, Pitta and Kapha types but, especially for Kapha Dosha or those who have excess Kapha.
Kapalbhati is also practiced to enhance your nervous system, endocrine system, circulatory system and digestive system.
It balances both your sympathetic and para-sympathetic nervous system and revitalizes all the cells of your body.
The breathing technique brings a sense of calm, peace and tranquility to those who practice it.
It often leads to a thoughtless state of mind bringing balance and bliss. Continue reading
Breathe Your way Into Bliss
The science of Ayurveda helps us bring more happiness and bliss into our daily lives.
In order to find our bliss and follow our bliss we need to create that awareness or bliss consciousness.
The easiest and quickest way to do this is through a daily meditation practice that involves simple breathing techniques.
This article outlines some simple techniques on how to breathe your way into a state of bliss, harmony and balance, that can be practiced by almost anyone.
Simple Breathing Practices For Meditation
Stage one: 1:1 breathing.
The posture for this exercise can be done lying flat on the floor or in a seated position (for meditation purposes) keeping your head, neck and trunk in one line.
In one to one breathing you’re matching your inhalations to your exhalations.
For example if you are breathing in for a count of five then you need to breathe out for a count of five.
On your inhalation your belly rises (your diaphragm muscle contracts) such that the ribs flare out slightly, and pulls the bottom of your lungs downward to bring in air.
On your exhalation, your belly falls or draws inward to releases the air out. Continue reading
What Stage Of Life Are You In?
The stages of life relate to the three constitutions or dosha and are important in determining why we think and act in certain ways.
Knowing these stages of life can also be beneficial to our wellness because we can take the appropriate measures to stay balanced and healthy.
Most importantly, when we know what stage of life we are in, we can learn to accept ourselves more fully and embrace what we do in a more positive way.
Ayurveda stages of life
Kapha: From conception to late puberty (around age 15) is considered a Kapha stage of life because at this time we are still in the elements of water and earth, undergoing conception, growth and development.
Tissues are growing, expanding and becoming denser as we put on weight. Because Kapha is connected to emotions and feelings, it is at this time that we are emotionally dependent and receptive.
Our diet is more Kapha in nature so the body requires more dairy products and rich foods to provide nutrients for growth.
Most childhood diseases are of Kapha nature, with mucus, phlegm, colds, flu and swollen glands. Note: the elderly can also be Kapha in nature as they get more sluggish, put on weight, become less active and sometimes accumulate things. Continue reading
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