Ayurveda and Everyday Life

Foundations of Ayurveda Module 7: Ayurveda and Everyday Life
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When it comes to incorporating ru VEDA into our everyday life, we want to work smarter not harder. When we are already under pressure busy, stressed or fatigued, adhering to a new already Vedic lifestyle can seem like just another thing to the to the to the to do list. This is counterproductive and should not be thought of as another thing to do, but simply a different way to do what you are already doing. To get you started on this journey, there are two PDFs included with this course. Are you Vedic rituals and two week guide. Your ru Vedic rituals PDF will guide you through six different ru Vedic rituals that you can add to your routine for optimal health.

Your two week guide PDF has been specifically designed to help you incorporate these rituals and all that you learn to your life without feeling over whelmed and or deprived. While it might seem like there is a lot to do, remember, there are so many tiny and easy things that you can start with that are going to make a huge impact. Let's start with routine. If you don't yet have any type of routine, I recommend starting with choosing a time that you want to go to bed at and wake up that every day. If you can swing it going to bed by 10pm and waking up by 6am is ideal according to ru VEDA. From there you can add in other things such as one of your ru Vedic rituals.

Remember, do one thing at a time until it truly becomes part of your routine until it no longer feels like a task but part of the rhythm of your day. Now looking at food, for those of you just getting started with ru VEDA the two tips around food that I always suggest are one Take a sacred pause before you eat. Check in with how you're feeling. This usually allows a deep breath or a sigh to occur which immediately helps relieve any stress we are carrying, and eating while stress is one of the leading causes of bloating, gas and other digestive issues. Tip two, try to eat your meals in the same one to two hour window every day. Our body is made up of the five elements.

It loves rhythm and it benefits from a rhythm. When our body knows that it's going to be sad if better absorbs nutrients and removes waves. When our body's not sure what or when it's going to be fed. It goes into survival mode, survival mode producing more cortisol, which actually causes the body to hold on to fat, especially around the belly and the hips. If it helps set a reoccurring alarm on your phone. For the ideal times that you'd like to eat each day exercise, you don't have to go big or go home.

Choose an activity that you enjoy doing. Choose an activity that makes you feel good and energized afterward, not depleted. Throughout this course, we talked about the three ru basic body types or doses. So each of these body types also needs a specific kind of exercise to maintain optimal health and we'll go over those exercises for the three doses here. Those that are not too dominant, they tend to have a smaller body frame. They tend to have weaker joints have issues with their lower back and hips.

And because they're more prone to being unfocused, when they're imbalanced, they're more prone to injury because there's not that mindfulness behind their movement. So boxes do best with activities that are more relaxing and rhythmic. Some examples here are rollerblading, dancing, Tai Chi, hiking, leisurely bike rides, walking, swimming, and then Hata yoga. And if you're not familiar with this type of yoga, it is more static yoga so there is more holding poses building strength and cultivating heat, which can be really beneficial to help baht to cultivate that focus in the mind as well as stabilizing the muscles around the joints just building more strength in the areas where Vata tends to be weak. Pitta and Pitt's a balancing exercises. Quetta is predominantly that fire element.

So people that are pizza dominant they are are very competitive or they can be very competitive. They're very muscular, they really like exercises, exercising and they usually thrive at it. So, one Pitta is exercising activities that are activities that are more cooling in nature in competitive activities in moderation are good for Pitta. So, if there's too much fire, we maybe want to back off of those competitive activity. So if Pitts is in balance, however, this is where pits of thrives. pitta, likes to be competitive and is good at it.

So a little bit of competition is good to continue to feel that fire. But again, it should be fueled in moderation. Some examples of good exercises or activities for pizza or any water activities such as swimming, kayaking, surfing more competitive activities such as basketball, baseball, tennis, racquetball, and then for yoga, I like to recommend a restorative yoga or yin yoga. And this is usually when Pitta is more imbalanced, so there's too much fire. And these types of yoga keep us closer to the earth. And they're more about nurturing the body.

So there's more stillness, less competition and less opportunity to really explore the poses and push or perfect the poses. Casa balancing exercise in Casa Casa tend to be bigger in their bone structure, they tend to be more prone to that stagnant so that heaviness, they're more prone to gaining weight. However, it is our I'm sorry, coffee or Earth and water and they also Have a lot of strength and a lot of endurance. So while they might not like to exercise, once they get going, they're the ones that can keep going and going and going. Again, they have that strength and endurance. The best activities to balance Casa are ones that are more cardiovascular or involve weight training and involve more exploration so they can get out of those habitual patterns and start awakening different parts of their body to reduce any type of stagnant or heaviness.

Some examples of Casa balancing activities are hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking, running, and vinyasa yoga. And then yassa Yoga is more of a movement based yoga where there's lots of ups and downs and it does actually get the heart rate going with the amount of movement that is involved.

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