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Ep. 176 Kapha Mama! How to Release the Heavy

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If you’ve been feeling a little out of sorts, heavy, and lethargic you’re not alone! According to Ayurvedic wisdom, we’ve entered into the kapha season when the wet, muddy environment outside often exacerbates feelings of sadness, grief, and heaviness within our minds and bodies. In today’s solo episode, Katie shares her favorite self-care practices and tips to help you navigate the kapha season with ease.

From red light therapy to kapha balancing foods, tune in to learn how to release the heavy and lean into the life-affirming qualities of the kapha season!

In this episode, you’ll hear:

~ How kapha dosha feels in the body when in balance and out of balance

~ Tips to reduce seasonal depression

~ How the waters of your environment influence the waters of your body

~ What is sattvic light?

~ Sunlight practices to support your circadian rhythms

~ The main mama medicine in Ayurveda

~ The spring energetics of transition, birth, and baby

~ How the kapha season is a portal into sadness, grief, and attachment

~ The best type of movement and exercise for this time of year

~ Ayurvedic herbs and foods to eat during the kapha season

~ Tastes to favor and avoid to balance kapha

~ Ready to go deeper? Our Level 2 Ayurvedic Health Counselor training program starts on April 9th, 2024!

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~ Ep. 40 To Sunscreen or Not to Sunscreen? How About Natural?

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May this episode support you in thriving this kapha season!

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Have you ever felt like something going on in your Have you ever felt like something going on in your life was just, “too much to digest?” 

Our bodies respond not only to physical signals, but also to psychoemotional ones.

In Ayurveda, Agni - our metabolic fire and capacity to digest and assimilate food - is more than just physical. 🔥

Agni is the sacred fire that transforms what we take in. Yes that includes food, but it also speaks to our relationships, experiences, creative projects, and even the thoughts and ideas we take in.

When our agni is strong, we don’t just digest our food more smoothly… we metabolize our experiences, emotions, life challenges and the whole messy beautiful ride of being human with more grace and power.

When agni is thriving, the stuck places in our psyches (and yes, also our digestive systems!) begin to move again.

Healing isn’t just about what we eat. It’s about what we’re able to digest in life.

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Kapha season is here, sisters. That late winter/ea Kapha season is here, sisters. That late winter/early spring transition when the world starts to thaw, everything feels wet and our bodies can feel a little… slow, heavy or sleepy. ⁠
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Kapha dosha is made of earth + water, which means the qualities of this season are cool, dense, damp and grounding. Early spring has the potential to melt our hearts - but if we’re not mindful, it can also leave us feeling foggy, unmotivated or stuck in the mud.⁠
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The antidote? Here are some simple shifts. 👇🏼⁠
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🌀 First: move your body more than you think you need to. Kapha loves momentum, heat and circulation.⁠
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🥦 Second: eat lighter, spicier, warming foods (think ginger, greens, soups and less heavy dairy and sugar).⁠
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💡 Third: invite novelty and inspiration into your life, because Kapha balance thrives on stimulation, creativity and fresh energy.⁠
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If you’ve been feeling like you’re waking up from winter hibernation… this is your Ayurvedic roadmap back to clarity, lightness and vitality. 🌿⁠
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Ready to dive deeper?⁠
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💧 Comment RELEASE for my podcast episode Ep. 176 Kapha Mama! How to Release the Heavy to learn more about how to balance Kapha dosha.
You wanna’ know the super secret SIMPLE recipe f You wanna’ know the super secret SIMPLE recipe for a Kapha-balancing morning routine? 

⚡️ Move your body, build some heat and get the energy flowing. 💃🏻

Sometimes balancing the doshas is really that simple. Especially when it comes to early spring and balancing an excess of Kapha dosha in the atmosphere or your body.

Think light, heating and momentum. Kapha season loves movement, stimulation and a little sweat, because late winter and early spring can otherwise leave us feeling slow and foggy.

At The Shakti School we wholeheartedly believe that sometimes the most Ayurvedic thing you can do is dance it out. 😉

✨ Ready to go deeper? Calling all Shakti students who are ready to deepen in Ayurvedic theory and practice! Our Level 2 training begins April 21st. In Level 2, you’ll take your skills (and your healing) to a whole new level. 📚

🌿 And if you’re brand new, comment WISDOM and we’ll send you our free Divine Feminine Ayurveda mini-course to get started.
Living from the heart with a capacity to hold dept Living from the heart with a capacity to hold depth of experience is one of the greatest revolutionary acts we can undertake. 

When the heart chakra (Anahata) is vibrant and open, we step into our most powerful self: embodied, grounded and in right relationship with ourselves and others.

This center is not just about emotions. It’s about the integration of lower and higher energies, the way experience is processed through the subtle body, and how our field of compassion literally shapes our relationships and nervous system.

This sacred center holds the alchemy of love and strength, and when supported, becomes a source of resilience, wise boundaries, surrender and authentic connection.

This same principle of integration, resonance and embodied insight is the heart of Level 2 Ayurveda School.

After completing Level 1, your foundation in Ayurvedic rhythms, elemental intelligence and feminine-form medicine has begun to reveal your prakruti, who you are at a deeper level. 

In Level 2, we take it even further:

💗 Explore the pathways of dis-ease and how imbalance unfolds from subtle energetic layers into physical manifestation.

💗 Learn diagnostic skills like pulse, tongue and eye assessment. These tools that help you read subtle information the body reveals.

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This year-long certification is more than a curriculum. It’s a journey into the intelligence of life itself, where the profound meets the practical and ancient medicine becomes living medicine.

If you’ve felt the call to help yourself and others live more fully, more awake and more like YOU, this is your next step.

DM us any questions you have. We’re here to support you. ✨
That first warm day hits and suddenly your life fo That first warm day hits and suddenly your life force is BACK. ☀️

In Ayurveda, early spring is Kapha season. The earthy, watery energy that can build up through winter as heaviness, stagnation and a little extra “meh.” But when the sun returns and temperatures start to rise, nature begins to melt… and so do we. Movement, dancing, walking, shaking it all off - this is the season for stirring prana and getting things flowing again.

Translation: your sudden urge to dance with joy when you see the sun come out?

Perfectly seasonally appropriate, according to Ayurveda. 😉💃🌱

Video: codyrogersdance

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