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Ep. 179 The Three Doshas: Are you a bullfrog or an orchid?

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In this episode, Katie takes us back to Ayurveda 101! She shares how the five elements of nature and the three doshas (vata, pitta, and kapha) express themselves in nature, our bodies, and our minds. According to Ayurveda, we’re each born with a unique combination of the three doshas. Knowing your unique dosha makeup can help you embody your special gifts and keep your body and mind in balance! Want to discover your dosha? Take this free dosha quiz!

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In this episode, you’ll hear:

~ What is Ayurveda?

~ The origins of Ayurveda

~ What are the three mind-body types: vata, pitta, and kapha?

~ What does the word dosha mean?

~ The five elements of nature

~ The qualities and characteristics of each dosha

~ What do vata, pitta, and kapha look like when in balance?

~ How each dosha tends to go out of balance

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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. 😉

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🌿 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.

💗 Study emotion processing, sensual health, herbal remedies and movement for exactly where you are. These are the spaces where heart wisdom meets practical healing.

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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. 😉💃🌱

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Your tongue is a living mirror of your body’s ec Your tongue is a living mirror of your body’s ecosystem. 👅🌀⁠
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Ayurveda teaches that the tongue reflects digestion, detoxification, tissue health and even how well you’re processing life itself. ⁠
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When your digestive fire - aka your agni - is strong, the tongue tends to look clear, pink and vibrant. ⁠
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When things are sluggish or overloaded? The tongue often tells on us before our body does.⁠
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👇🏼 Here are three daily rituals you can implement to take care of your AGNI and AMA and therefore your tongue (and really, all the systems of your body!)⁠
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✨ Scrape your tongue! Tongue scraping gently removes overnight ama (toxins) and bacteria, supports fresher breath and gives your digestive fire a clean slate for the day.⁠
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💧 Drink warm water with lemon in the morning. Warm water in the morning hydrates tissues, gently stimulates elimination and helps flush what the tongue scraping brings to the surface.⁠
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🫖 Include spices in your diet. Support agni with warming spices like ginger, cinnamon or clove tea to kindle digestion so less residue accumulates in the first place.⁠
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These small rituals have a radiant ripple effect. ⁠
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🌹 Ready to go deeper into feminine-form Ayurveda?⁠
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Comment WISDOM and get instant access to our free Divine Feminine Ayurveda Mini-Course now.

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