If you are struggling to have more energy, to feel more alive, to have more vitality in your system, you are definitely not alone. Since we have more and more industrialized food in the supermarket and getting into our homes, the less vitality we have been gathering through the body. Why? Because one key source […]
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What are the 6 tastes in Ayurveda? The 6 tastes in Ayurveda refer to the concept of 6 rasas, which is a very unique and special concept that can be used to balance our body and mind. The 6 rasas relate to different combinations of the 5 elements, and in this way, we get to
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Ayurveda offers guidelines for how to live one day on Earth healthily and if you can do that for multiple days and make it a habit, you are guaranteed to elongate your years of good health in life. A healthy routine generally includes a combination of good habits that promote both physical and mental well-being.
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Everybody has different proportions of vata, pitta and kapha in the body, which are three bioenergetic principles in Ayurveda. Vata, being composed of ether and air elements, is responsible for all the movements that happen in our body – from breathing to singing to urinating. Because of its subtle nature, vata is the principle that
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Ayurveda places great importance on the use of spices in cooking, as they are believed to have both culinary and medicinal properties. Learning to use spices will level up your cooking almost effortlessly and it will make your meals more interesting. Here are some of the most commonly used Ayurvedic spices (that are not hard
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This question might sound ridiculous for some, while for others it is a valid and genuine question (if you see health as a trade-off for something you must sacrifice), it all depends on how you look at life. For those who think this is a ridiculous question, you are probably someone relatively healthy already, and
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The 5 elements, or Panchamahabhutas (‘the five great elements’) in Ayurveda are: space, air, fire, water and earth. Sometimes you will see the word ‘ether’ instead of ‘space’, and ‘wind’ instead of ‘air’, but they refer to the same thing. In transliteration of Sanskrit, it would be: akash (space), vayu (air), agni (fire), jala (water)
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Ayurveda, being a system that looks at each individual as unique, does not recommend any specific diet as universal. Veganism, vegetarianism, carnivorous, pescatarianism, raw food diet, ketogenic diet.. you name it. They all have worked and not worked for some people. It’s really not rare to hear someone say ‘I’ve tried so-and-so diet but it
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First let me tell you why you should develop body awareness. The body is constantly communicating with us what it needs, what it lacks. We can learn how to read these symptoms to provide our body with what it needs. But for that we need to consistently pay attention to it. The earlier we learn
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Even though Ayurveda uses a lot of herbal medicine in its treatments, I like to go with a different approach and first try to manage imbalances through a change of diet and lifestyle habits (considering that the imbalance they are facing is not too serious yet or is not a fully manifested disease). Ayurveda places
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