As complimentary
sciences,
and
originated from the same source and share a common history, language, and cultural foundation. Integrating Ayurveda into your practice can bring about a greater sense of balance, harmony, self-awareness, and health.
These guides demonstrate how you can make slight
adjustments to your yoga practice to increase energy and endurance, bring about a deeper state of relaxation and mental calm, and achieve and maintain optimal weight.
Select the
that you would like to focus on while building a supportive yoga practice.
A yoga practice for a pitta individual should encourage compassion, acceptance, relaxed effort, and be cooling in nature. Pittas can cultivate this by following some basic guidelines.
A yoga practice for a kapha individual should be one creating space, stimulation, warmth, and buoyancy. Kaphas can cultivate this by following some basic guidelines.
A Sanskrit word that literally means “to yoke” or “to bind” together—“to unite;” the practice of yoga is a collection of physical, mental, and spiritual disciplines intended to transform and liberate the mind-body organism. In the West, the word yoga usually refers to the third limb of yoga, as described in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras: the practice of asanas (physical postures).
Of or pertaining to the Vedic period in ancient India, from approximately 1750–500 BCE; the time during which the Vedas were composed, including the oldest ancient texts of Ayurveda and Yoga.
A five thousand year old system of healing with origins in the Vedic culture of ancient India. The Sanskrit word Ayurveda is derived from the root words ayuh, meaning “life” or “longevity,” and veda, meaning “science” or “knowledge.” Ayurveda therefore means the “science of life.”
One of three functional energies in nature: vata, pitta, and kapha. In the body, it is the unique ratio of these three humors that determines an individual’s prakriti (constitution). When the doshas are present in appropriate quantities, they support the health and integrity of the body; when they are out of balance, they can cause illness and disease.