Nourishing Spring Greens Broth Recipe
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Nourishing Spring Greens Broth Recipe

This nourishing broth features mineral-rich greens and offers a source of dense nutrition that requires very little work for the body to break down and absorb.

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Springtime Green Mung Bean Soup Recipe
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Springtime Green Mung Bean Soup Recipe

Wondering how to use your extra green mung beans? This delicious spiced mung bean soup recipe is the perfect tridoshic recipe for your spring rejuvenation.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Spring Cleansing
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A Beginner’s Guide to Spring Cleansing

When we think of spring cleaning, we often think of our homes. But what about cleaning the accumulated toxins in our minds and bodies? Start your spring cleanse here. 

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Amaranth Porridge Recipe: The Breakfast of Champions
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Amaranth Porridge Recipe: The Breakfast of Champions

Amaranth is one of the most protein-rich plant-based foods out there. When cooked just right—like this tasty porridge recipe—it yields a creamy consistency with a hint of crunch. 

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Perfectly Chai Spiced Granola Recipe
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Perfectly Chai Spiced Granola Recipe

Crunchy, light, and delicious, granola can be reinvented in seemingly endless variations. This one—featuring Chai Spiced Ghee—is sure to be a new alltime favorite.

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6 Herbs for a Bright and Healthy Spring
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6 Herbs for a Bright and Healthy Spring

If you experience seasonal irritants, it’s a good idea to build up your body’s resilience ahead of time. These six herbal allies will help you prep for a healthy spring. 

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Tending Home Base: 6 Ways to Balance Kapha
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Tending Home Base: 6 Ways to Balance Kapha

Late winter and spring are the season of kapha dosha. Learn about kapha's home base in the stomach and how to stay balanced and vibrant this spring.  

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Seasonal Recipe: Creamy Greens with Turmeric & Fenugreek
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Seasonal Recipe: Creamy Greens with Turmeric & Fenugreek

This is a great spring dish for all doshas, but especially kapha. Versatile and delicious, these creamy greens and pungent spices will stimulate your digestion and nourish your health.

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This Brothy Farro Kale Soup Recipe Is the Perfect Late Spring Meal
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This Brothy Farro Kale Soup Recipe Is the Perfect Late Spring Meal

Light enough for kapha but still deeply nourishing to soothe and sustain pitta, this brothy farro kale soup recipe is the perfect follow up to your spring cleanse.

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Ginger Lemon Cornmeal Cake Recipe with Honey Lavender Glaze
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Ginger Lemon Cornmeal Cake Recipe with Honey Lavender Glaze

Perfect for Spring or any time the kapha in you craves a treat, this cake is not too sweet or too spicy, making it a lovely choice for dessert, breakfast,...

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Delectable Spring Dandelion Greens Recipe to Balance Kapha
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Delectable Spring Dandelion Greens Recipe to Balance Kapha

Edible from the root to the tips of the long, jagged leaves, the dandelion is a powerful healer, pleasantly bitter in taste and wonderful for reducing kapha. 

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How to Use Your Spring Cleanse to Clear Out Mental Clutter and Find Inner Clarity
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How to Use Your Spring Cleanse to Clear Out Mental Clutter and Find Inner Clarity

Ayurveda suggests we do a seasonal cleanse every spring. This spring, take your cleanse beyond your physical body and clean out your mental closet too.

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What Is Ayurvedic Dry Massage and Why You Should Try It
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What Is Ayurvedic Dry Massage and Why You Should Try It

Ayurvedic dry brushing, called garshana (pronounced gar-shun-uh), promotes lymphatic cleansing and is a powerful way to support the removal of ama (cellular waste products) from the body.

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4 Ways to Access Kapha's Gifts of Strength and Resiliency This Spring
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4 Ways to Access Kapha's Gifts of Strength and Resiliency This Spring

When kapha is well tended, it offers an abundance of gifts. These practical ways will help you harness the gifts of kapha for increased strength, health, and resiliency.

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Roasted Kabocha Squash Soup Recipe with Fennel and Ginger [video]
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Roasted Kabocha Squash Soup Recipe with Fennel and Ginger [video]

This vegan-friendly Ayurvedic roasted kabocha squash soup is light, nourishing, and spicy-sweet—the perfect soup to revitalize your body and soul.

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Seasonal Recipe: Sattvic Green Soup for Spring
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Seasonal Recipe: Sattvic Green Soup for Spring

This simple sattvic soup blends spring’s vibrant asparagus, bright bitter greens, and hints of warming spices to leave you feeling light, clean, and energized.

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Awakening New Beginnings
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Awakening New Beginnings

Spring is a time to make way for the new and plant seeds of possibility. Discover some simple ways to embrace the natural opportunities that this season brings.

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Springtime Rejuvenating Red Dal Recipe
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Springtime Rejuvenating Red Dal Recipe

In this tasty springtime recipe, red dal combines with vibrant, seasonal produce and carefully selected herbal allies to bring new life to your table.

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Kale Chips Recipe with Kitchari Spice Mix
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Kale Chips Recipe with Kitchari Spice Mix

Are you craving something crunchy and savory? Whip up these tasty kale-chips! This plant-based recipe is perfect any time you need a healthy, yum-worthy snack..

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5 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Cleansing
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5 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Cleansing

When done correctly, cleansing can rebuild your body from a place of nourishment and love. Here are five mistakes to avoid for a better cleansing experience. 

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Kapha-Balancing Recipe: Red Lentil Lemongrass Soup
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Kapha-Balancing Recipe: Red Lentil Lemongrass Soup

Red lentils cook quickly, nourish all doshas, and go with a variety of seasonings. Here, they're paired with a spicy lemongrass paste ideal for balancing kapha.

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Seasonal Recipe: Spring Kitchari & Crispy Okra Fries
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Seasonal Recipe: Spring Kitchari & Crispy Okra Fries

Spring season is about shedding, letting go of the prior season’s heaviness. Incorporating vegetables into kitchari adds more of the air element and necessary fiber, supporting digestion and adding more...

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The Springtime Secret for a Healthy Gut
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The Springtime Secret for a Healthy Gut

Ayurveda recommends adjusting one’s diet with the season. A seasonal diet changes the microbiome, which is responsible for balancing the gut, blood sugar levels, mood, and more.

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Easy Spring Greens Recipe with Kale and Cabbage
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Easy Spring Greens Recipe with Kale and Cabbage

Perfect for spring, this recipe combines greens with spices are not only tasty, but supportive of digestion, and balancing for kapha. And almost as good as this recipe is how little time...

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Spring Health & Recipes

Springtime—the season of rebirth, new life, and growth. After the cold and dark of winter, spring is quite literally that breath of fresh air we have been waiting for.

In Ayurveda, spring is considered kapha season and is especially marked by this dosha's characteristics—particularly in the form of wet weather, lingering cold, and the softness and growth we see around us.

These qualities aren't isolated to the natural world—as Nature transforms and transitions into the next season, we are also deeply affected by this change. Kapha can also increase within our own physiology, physically, mentally, and emotionally.

And for most of us, a bit of kapha accumulation after the long winter comes with the territory, which may only increase as we march steadily into the kapha season.

How can we ensure that excess kapha is balanced so we aren't riddled with health frustrations throughout the season? Ayurveda's answer is simple—focus on balancing excess kapha through daily routine and diet.

These articles focus on doing just that so you can stay balanced, healthy, and vibrant and enjoy all that this beautiful season has to offer. Knowing this inherent connection between kapha and spring, it will come as no surprise that there is often an overlap with kapha and spring in these article topics. But all doshas will find helpful tips and insights to make the most of this season.

A Spring Diet

Nature, in her infinite wisdom, provides us with what we need to align our meals with the season. Many of the fresh produce have bitter, astringent, and pungent tastes that naturally balance out kapha—for example, think of green onions, which are slightly pungent, and arugula, which is bitter, pungent, and astringent.

Stroll through your local farmer's market to see the foods of spring in your area. As you prepare your meals, focus on incorporating as many fresh foods as you can. Some examples of spring seasonal foods include strawberries, artichokes, asparagus, spring greens, and sprouts.

How you incorporate these seasonal foods is the fun part! These articles and recipes are full of inspiration to help you fill your plates with delicious, healthy, and seasonally appropriate meals. And just because they are healthy doesn't mean they can't double as perfect springtime party foods to share with friends and loved ones!

A Spring Routine

Your daily routine is one of the best ways balance your doshas throughout the year, and by making seasonal adjustments, you can keep all three doshas balanced and in harmony.

Knowing kapha has the qualities of slow, cold, and wet, you can bring in movement, warmth, and dryness into your day to counterbalance kapha. To take this out of the abstract and into application, this could mean enjoying more invigorating exercise and practicing a faster-paced abhyanga (or self-massage with oil) while using a kapha-balancing herbal massage oil. Enjoy activities that are stimulating and inspiring to keep your mind active, and align your routine to match the circadian rhythm around you—for example, don't oversleep (which increases kapha), and wake up by or before 6 a.m.

Of course, these are only a few examples. These articles hold more tips and inspiration to keep kapha and all your doshas happy throughout spring. Happy reading!