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Spring Rejuvenation Guide Nourish Your Entire Being Now is a great time to offer your system a little extra support in the way of deeply nutritious rejuvenatives. If you just completed or intend to complete a cleanse this spring, your body will be craving deep nourishment in the coming months. If you haven’t done a cleanse, you can still benefit from the Ayurvedic tradition of rejuvenation. Ayurvedic Rejuvenation  Improves strength, energy and vitality  Bolsters immunity  Promotes courage, confidence, and success  Slows the aging process  Increases longevity  Improves memory  Promotes cellular intelligence  Brings balance, awareness, joy, and clarity into one’s life and relationships Select your constitution for specific information on rejuvenation for Spring. Spring Rejuvenation for Vata Customer Service rep, Jennifer (Vata type), enjoys spending time in the garden. Rejuvenation: A Constitution Specific Guide for Spring By its very nature, spring is wet, fertile, nutritive, and revitalizing. Everywhere around us, the natural world is re- emerging to embrace the sense of renewal that the spring season has to offer. Given this context, now is truly a perfect time of year to invite deep nourishment, love, and abundance into our lives. Ayurvedic rejuvenation is aimed at doing just that, and the process helps our bodies repair and revitalize on a very deep level – body, mind, and spirit. As a vata-predominant type, the spring and summer months are a particularly wonderful time for you to consider a rejuvenation program because the practices involved can help to ground and soothe vata after the more challenging fall and winter months. For those of you who recently completed (or intend to complete) a cleanse, rejuvenation is the final component of the cleanse itself. After working so hard to purify and reset your physiology, you are prepared for deep nourishment on all levels. And even if you did not do a spring cleanse, rejuvenation alone can strengthen and tone your physical, mental, and emotional spheres. What’s An Appropriate Period of Time? As with many things in Ayurveda, the length of an appropriate rejuvenation program varies from one person to the next. Rejuvenation therapies are typically implemented for a set period of time – usually at least one month and up to three months. While this may strike you as a long time, keep in mind that rejuvenation should feel nourishing and enjoyable to you. And, it can really be as simple as adding one practice or one herb to your daily routine.  If you completed a full seven-day cleanse, your body will benefit from a longer period of rejuvenation (about three months), starting as soon after you complete your cleanse as possible. If that timeframe feels overwhelming to you, commit to at least one month of rejuvenation.  If you completed a shorter cleanse, be sure to do at least one month of rejuvenation. Or, if you like, you too can rejuvenate for up to 3 months.  Even if you did not complete a cleanse at all, vata-types normally benefit from a longer period of rejuvenation – about three months. However, there may be some instances where this would not be appropriate.  If you have a known kapha imbalance (especially if it is of greater concern than any vata imbalances you may have), you’ll want to go easy on rejuvenation so as not to further aggravate kapha.  Similarly, if you have a lot of toxicity in your system, which can be identified by a thick coating on the tongue, you’ll want to keep your rejuvenation routine very simple so that you don’t inadvertently nourish the toxins.  In either case, a simple rejuvenation program (of 1-3 therapies) for about a month is probably sufficient – and it might be helpful to think about choosing therapies because they are seasonally appropriate and vata-pacifying rather than focusing on their rejuvenative properties. You could also favor kapha-type rejuvenatives, which are lighter and less likely to aggravate either of the above conditions. Pathways Toward Rejuvenation What follows is a list of many possible rejuvenative therapies. Please don’t feel overwhelmed. The idea is not to do all of these things, but to pick and choose those recipes and practices that most resonate with you. As you consider each therapy, remember that your rejuvenation process needs to feel beneficial. It should not add stress to your life but should instead add a sense of groundedness, contentment, and joy. If several possibilities peak your interest, consider starting with 1-3 therapies and then gradually expand your repertoire of rejuvenatives only if and when it feels appropriate. Dietary Rejuvenatives At the most fundamental level, a healthy, balanced diet supports deep rejuvenation. All of your tissues, organs, and systems draw directly from the nourishment contained within the food you eat every day. A diet primarily composed of freshly cooked, whole foods is quite rejuvenative. On the other hand, processed foods and old, stale foods have little life force, are difficult to digest, and often contain toxins. As a vata-predominant type in the midst of kapha season, focus on eating a healthy and balanced kapha-pacifying diet, being careful not to aggravate vata in the process. Eating cooked foods over raw choices can be very helpful in this respect. You can compliment these broad strokes with some especially rejuvenative foods:  Almonds, Soaked and Peeled Soaked almonds are very grounding, nourishing, and energizing. Soaking and peeling them makes them more digestible and more beneficial to the body. As such, almonds are a highly revered rejuvenative in Ayurveda.  Soaked Cashews Cashews – which are oily, nutritive, and building – can also be used in a rejuvenation program. They actually share many qualities with soaked almonds, including the fact that soaking them makes them more digestible.  Rejuvenative Almond Milk This very restorative drink provides another delicious way to ingest soaked and peeled almonds. You can cook with it or drink it plain. It is especially useful in fall and winter, or after a period of major exertion.  Dr. Lad’s Date & Almond Shake This shake is a warm, nourishing, and deliciously sweet breakfast or snack. It is very nutritious, grounding, and the dates, soaked almonds, and milk make it an excellent rejuvenative.  Alakananda Ma’s Non-Dairy Ojas Drink This restorative almond drink is lighter and more subtle than the date and almond shake and is a nice spring and summer rejuvenative. Ingredients like soaked almonds, rose petals, ghee, and saffron make it a potent rejuvenative.  Dream Date Balls A very good and sumptuous rejuvenative. In ancient India, these would have been considered an aphrodisiac of sorts. Very yummy.  Saffron Asparagus Kitchari This light and subtle tridoshic dish is filled with nourishing ingredients that are perfect for spring and summer periods of rejuvenation. Originally designed to tonify both the female and male reproductive systems, it is especially useful for promoting fertility, potency and menstrual health.  Urad Dal This legume soup detoxifies the system and nourishes the muscle, bone, and reproductive fluids while energizing the whole body. Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) Rejuvenative Herbs There are many different types of rejuvenating herbs – each with a distinct purpose. The most widely used Ayurvedic rejuvenatives work simultaneously on all of the body’s tissues. Below are several herbal rejuvenatives well suited for your constitution and for the spring and summer seasons. Taking these herbs and formulas with a catalytic agent such as ghee, honey, or ginger tea helps to deliver the benefits deep into the tissues, increasing the potency and efficacy of the herbs. Instructions for using each of these specifically as a rejuvenative are provided, but if you prefer to take your herbs in water or without ghee and honey, they will still be beneficial.  Triphala With Ghee and Honey - Triphala is a tridoshic formula that naturally rejuvenates all of the tissues in the body (while encouraging the elimination of toxins). It is an especially potent rejuvenative when taken with ghee and honey – usually first thing in the morning. Mix ½ teaspoon of powdered triphala with ½ teaspoon of ghee and ½ teaspoon of raw honey. Or, if powdered herbs aren’t your thing, take one triphala herbal tablet, followed by a mixture of ½ teaspoon ghee and ½ teaspoon raw honey.  Choose One: Healthy Kapha or Healthy Vata Tablets  Healthy Kapha Tablets – This warming and astringent formula is designed to restore and maintain balanced kapha, without aggravating vata or pitta. In particular, Healthy Kapha supports a clear respiratory system, a robust immune system, and helps support the maintenance of a healthy weight. Healthy Kapha is an excellent formula for the winter and spring seasons, when the cool, wet weather tends to disturb kapha. If you are doing a longer rejuvenation program, you might consider switching from Healthy Kapha to Healthy Pitta in the late spring or summer – whenever the weather heats up enough to make balancing pitta a higher priority. Take 1-2 Healthy Kapha Tablets, once or twice daily, or uploads/Geographie/ spring-rejuvenation-guide.pdf

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