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The Importance of Timing in Ayurveda

       We have 24 hours, two hands. It’s something I’ve heard one of my Ayurvedic teachers say and boy did that hit home. Let me give you a little background on myself. I’ve always been an ambitious person. Goals and plans to help myself, family and the people in my community feel their best! Some of them are quite lofty, but I also think they are fully attainable. I’m a hairstylist, massage therapist, business owner and a few months away from completing my Ayurvedic Health Counselor certification. I spend time with a lot of people in my community. Seeing them leave my chair or office with confidence, relief from pain and tension, and knowing they’ve been heard brings me great joy. With the many things I enjoy doing, I’m also a very busy person. Like many of my clients, we all wear multiple hats to get things accomplished and have been ingrained into the hustle mentality. Family, taking care of your home, varying work schedules and tasks, people who need you fully pr...
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Journey Update

       Since embarking on this Ayurvedic journey in October of 2023, life has been busy! I've been captivated by my studies and have not fully committed to updating this blog. Along with work and life, writing down my thoughts in a helpful way got a little overwhelming. I do love sharing this information though! With graduation on the horizon, my goal is to give you all a little more insight into the holistic world. I appreciate everyone who takes time out of their day to read a little of what I have to say.      My goal is to fuse together my knowledge of Ayurveda with massage therapy and cosmetology, while adding other things I love to work on at home. Food, plants, books, self care and more! I love sharing information I learn and the ways I incorporate it into my life. Interacting with so many of my clients I also get to learn what is important to my community and what their lives are like. What good are suggestions if you can't utilize them?  ...
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Prevention Science

      Svasthavrtta is the science of Ayurvedic prevention, creating balance for complete physical, sensory, mental and spiritual wellbeing. The goal is to achieve, maintain and preserve health and to prevent disease.      We do this by utilizing daily routines, seasonal routines, and living a pure lifestyle. Pure in the sense of the right diet, water, air, proper exercise, hygiene, a healthy livelihood, meditation and not bringing harm to yourself & others. The right lifestyle doesn't mean to suppress our nature, but bring out its deeper powers. To live in harmony. This is unique to each person, as is everything in Ayurveda. There are only a few guidelines that are standard for all.      Timing is one of the guidelines. Nature is a cycle. Our bodies also work best in a cycle. What time we wake, eat and sleep is very important. It can be a hard adjustment with changing work schedules and our tasks throughout the day. But working towards th...
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Ayurvedic Nutrition

        Nutrition through an Ayurvedic lens is quite different from the conventional view. The conventional view is we eat for personal preference, by habit, for body image and because of emotions. Calories are taken into consideration along with different food groups. The saying 'You are what you eat' comes to mind. Through the Ayurvedic lens we view food as life sustaining, with focus on the panca mahabutas (the five elements) and how the body processes what we eat, or agni (digestion). It's based on our individual constitution (prakriti) and the sadrasatmaka ahara (the six tastes). Food is considered Ahara, or anything we take in to nourish our body and mind. This includes food, water, breath and perceptions/senses/emotions. The saying is 'You are what you digest'. No food is bad, but it depends on the context and the need to understand yourself and your digestion. Ayurveda's interesting approach to include the mind, senses and breath is like nothing we'v...
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Ayurvedic Psychology

      The holiday season was a tough one with schooling. Extra work, busy schedules and the feeling of time slipping away but we made it through! I hope 2024 brings you good health, wellness and balance! I love choosing a word of the year and mine is BALANCE. It seems most fitting after an overloaded end to 2023. So let's get into learning a little more about the mind.     We are composed of Sarira (physical body), Manas (mind), and Atma (soul). When these three things are in balance or harmony there is health. The function of body & soul depends on the mind. Mind care is life care. There is no separation of mind and body. It's a cycle that affects each other. The mind could have anxiety or depression which can alter the immunity, create metabolic disorders, and the inflammatory response. The opposite is the same. Altered immunity, metabolic disorders and inflammatory responses can create more problems in the mind like anxiety and depression.    ...
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Doshas

      Doshas translates to 'that which can go out of balance'. There are three of them - Vata, Pitta and Kapha, and they govern the functions of the body. All three are present in everyone, but the combination is unique only to you. Prakriti is the state of dosha predominance in the nature of each person, established at the time of conception and does not change, although it can be modified. There are daily, seasonal and lifetime changes that can affect you Prakriti. You can have a single dosha predominance, dual dosha predominance, and rarely we find a tridosha (all three) predominance.      Knowing your Prakriti helps you know yourself better. Preventative and treatment plans are dependent upon this information. Maintaining physical balance, harmony at the subtle levels, appropriate regimens, understanding disorder tendencies, proper diet & herbs, exercise routines, safe and effective treatments and adding life to our living - are many of the things k...
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Ayurvedic Physiology

     I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Spending time, taking pause, and being grateful for all that we have. I know it goes so fast and then we are thrown into the hustle of the holidays hours later. But remember to keep a piece of that with you. It's needed for our body and mind.      November has been another intense month of studying in Ayurveda. Easily a lifelong practice and study! I'm taking it all in! So much information and concepts are being covered and tested. We covered physiology, a branch of biology that deals with the normal functions of living organisms and their parts. Most notably, taking into consideration that the human body is a mirror of our physical surroundings. The space we inhabit, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the heat of the sun, and the earth underneath our feet. These are some examples of the physiological structures outside the body reflected in our elemental compositions.     I've learned about ...
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