I go to a really awesome yoga class once a week which has a ‘yoga teaching’ at the end of each session. A couple of weeks ago we learnt about a particular Asana (yoga position) that is good for reducing the Ayurvedic constitution ‘vata pitta’.
For those of you who think I’m talking in some weird yoga code, ‘Ayurveda’ or ‘Ayurvedic medicine’ is an ancient Indian form of medicine and healing that I guess is similar in a way to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). In Ayurveda, there are three ‘doshas’ – vata (air), pitta (fire) and kapha (water). Everyone is a combination of these three doshas, and ideally the three should be balanced. Often one or two will be out of whack, and will cause disturbances and possible illness in your body.
When you do a dosha constitution test (to decipher what imbalances you have), your predominant dosha isn’t necessarily just ‘vata’ or ‘kapha’, it may be a combination of two, such as ‘vata kapha’ or ‘pitta kapha’.
