Kapha Season is a Time to Rejuvenate and Renew
YOGA FOR KAPHA SEASON
Practice yoga in the early morning hours of Kapha (6–10am) to help keep you more energized and motivated throughout the day. The best asanas for Kapha are invigorating standing poses, backbends and twists to open up the chest and circulate prana throughout the body. Try maintaining your asanas for up to 20 breaths and move through your flow sequences quickly (though always with conscious awareness) to lighten and warm your body. Stimulating and heat-building asanas are excellent for the prevention and treatment of congestive conditions like bronchitis and pneumonia as well as constrictive conditions such as asthma and emphysema.
One should come away feeling; warm, invigorated, light, energized circulation, lungs and chest open, mind and senses should be sharp and clear, emotional heaviness released and forgotten...feeling rejuvenated for meditation.
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Ground down to rise up.
The wind is rustling the leaves from its trees...fall is here...so enjoy these cool and colorful days with Vata pacifying morning yoga poses to strengthen circulation and elimination. Begin with a warming, grounding, and, stablizing yoga practice to balance the cool-dry-mobile element of Vata. Walk away feeling released tension in lower abdomen, peaceful mind, grounded, and emotionally stable with space and energy for meditation.
Upon awakening, do some gentle yoga asanas, including Apanasana, Salabhasana and, Twisted Balasana. The emphasis throughout your practice can be on softening your lower abdominal cavity, grounding your feet into the earth, building strength and stability, and allowing yourself sufficient rest after your practice.
Ayurvedic Tips For Vata
Pacifying Vata during the cool/dry fall-winter seasons requires living in harmony with the inherent rhythms of Nature and observing patience and compassion with ourselves, others, and the environment. Here are some practical suggestions for balancing the Vata person during the seasonal changes that occur in early fall to late winter.