Discovering Your Dosha

"Ayurveda is a healing art rooted in Vedic culture, the ancestry of modern-day India, that dates back at least 5000 years. How is something that is 5000 years old relevant to you today? Because the principles that Ayurveda is based on are unchanging and universal. Throughout the centuries, people have continued to find truth and benefit from the teachings of Ayurveda.

The Sanskrit word Ayurveda translates as the “knowledge and wisdom of life.” As its name indicates, Ayurveda is not merely a system to address illness. Rather, it is fundamentally about how to live, and through this provides the means of preventing ill health.

In Ayurveda, health is defined as the well-being of body, mind, and spirit, and all three are integrally related. In other words, whatever is happening in the mind, with the emotions, and in the spirit, will eventually impact the physical body.

Ayurveda is rooted in the idea that each person has a unique balanced constitution, and it is imbalance in this constitution that leads to ill health.

To communicate about these individual balances and imbalances, Ayurveda uses something called the doshas: the elemental principles of vata, pitta, and kapha."

“Health is known as happiness, while disorder is unhappiness.” (1)—Caraka Samhita (classic Ayurvedic text)

Want to know where your Dosha strengths are and how to balance them?

Join me as we dive into this topic of mind, body and spirit!