Support your yoga practice with Ayurveda

Ayurveda, a 5000 year-old sister science to the more popular yoga, has a robust culture in India, its country of origin. Best defined as the art of living in harmony with nature, over the last decade an influx of Westerners in search of greater self-awareness have embraced this holistic lifestyle approach on their quest for total wellness.

One of the elegant features of Ayurveda is that, in combination with yoga, it can empower us to manage our health and achieve a heightened sense of body-mind balance.

Ayurveda can also help us understand our individual doshas a combination of subtle energies that make up our individual constitutions. Dynamic in nature, doshas are constantly shifting and have a tendency to become imbalanced when one dominates over the other. This dosha imbalance can produce varied physical and mental symptoms. Ayurvedic herbs, in conjunction with a proper diet, exercise, and meditation, can help us regain doshic balance and support a lifestyle of optimum wellness.

To understand more about your doshas, and how to balance them with herbs, diet, yoga, and meditation, take our dosha quiz.

If you already know your constitution, click on the dosha type below for tips on supporting your practice.

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