Spring and the Body: an Ayurvedic Approach to Transition

Embrace the Season:

Transition smoothly by opting for easily digestible foods. Avoid cold, sweet, and heavy (oily foods, wheat, dairy, and sugar are hard to digest) items that may slow down your digestion this spring.

Nourish Wisely:

Opt for lighter meals with bitter, pungent, and astringent flavors. Include lemon, dark leafy greens, honey, legumes, radishes, and berries in your diet for a refreshing change.

Go Light on Grains:

Experiment with lighter grains like millet, quinoa, and barley to support your digestive function during the seasonal shift.

Spice It Up:

Enhance your dishes with immunity-boosting spices such as black pepper, turmeric, ginger, cumin, and mustard seeds for added flavor and health benefits.

Explore Wild Greens:

Embrace spring by foraging for wild greens or visiting the farmers' market to discover new nutritious additions to your meals.

About the Author

Tara Mitra is a C-IAYT certified yoga therapist and lineage teacher within the Krishnamacharya-Desikachar tradition with 23 years of practice and 17 years of teaching. She offers mentorship programs for advanced yoga teachers alongside Dr Vigneshwar Bhat (Vedic priest and scholar), Dr Padmini (classical Āyurvedic physician), and Dr Robert Lamport (Gonstead chiropractor). Her teaching draws on Patanjali’s Yoga Sūtras, yoga therapy, Vedic chanting and Āyurveda. Her work is rooted in the transmission of authentic Indic knowledge within a living lineage.

Mentorship, courses, and programs at taramitrayoga.com