Learn How To Thrive This SPRING KAPHA SEASON

Digestion is naturally at its strongest in winter. This is because the body fires up its agni or digestive fire to combat the cold weather, meaning you can better handle heavy foods such as desserts and cheese. But the digestive fire begins to lower as the weather warms with spring. So Spring food choices will reflect with this natural miracle cycle.

Somebody in good health will be intuitively guided by healthy choices and intuitively toward the foods that bring balance. For example, your desire for heavy, oily foods decreases in the spring, and instead, you’ll begin to crave salads, greens, and vegetables because the body knows when it’s time to detox.

Come spring, choose foods that are light and easy to digest. Shopping at the farmer’s market to take advantage of all the seasonal bounty Mother Nature has provided, rocket, kale, broccoli, baby greens, spinach, and chard. Also, bring lentils and mung beans into your diet to benefit from their astringent taste, which helps dry up excess kapha dosha.

Eat fewer large beans, yoghurt, cheese, and heavy sweets because these foods tend to clog the subtle channels of the body and counteract the body’s natural desire to cleanse and detox. Instead, think light, warm, and playful for optimal healthy this spring.

As kapha dosha is primarily seated in the chest, your yoga practice should focus on heart-opening poses. Bring more backbends into postures such as Camel, Bow, Reverse Warrior, and Crescent Lunge. Shine the heart upward in traditional backbend postures such as Cobra pose, Fish pose, Bridge pose, Bow pose, to stimulate the heart and chest to open. Pranayama is excellent for spring yoga, too; practices such as kapalabhati and bhastrika help the body to detoxify.

This is the time for fun, playful so go on long walks with your family or pets. Challenge yourself to visit unusual places as a general rule; an upbeat, lively activity that brings joy and light that the mind and body crave during this time of year.

Kapha dosha time is from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., meaning that practising yoga, doing squats and fast-paced walking within these hours can help balance the sluggishness of kapha and boost energy throughout the rest of the day.

Being light and playful helps balance kapha’s slow, sluggish, downward qualities. Changing things up in your routine, such as replacing a monotonous workout with an ecstatic dance session. You will feel light in relationships by socializing and reconnecting with long-lost friends. You can even be playful in your routine by not necessarily abandoning your healthy daily rhythms but inviting in newness and freshness with intermittent fasting in your meal plans.