Stay Healthy in the Fall with Ayurveda
How can we use Ayurveda’s ancient principles to stay resilient and healthy as we move from the heat of summer into fall and prepare for winter? Kate O’Donnell, author of The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook, shares the importance of shifting our diet and routines with the seasons.
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Kate O’Donnell is a nationally certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and the founder of the Ayurvedic Living Institute. Kate is a nationally certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, senior yoga teacher, and the author of multiple Ayurvedic books including The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care and The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook: A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well. She studied in India for twenty years and continues to travel there annually for study. She is a contributor to many publications including Yoga Journal, Women’s Health Magazine, and NPR. She teaches trainings, cooking classes, seasonal cleanses, retreats, and online programs.
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THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: Kate O’Donnell’s explanation of doshas (the energies that define each individual person’s make up) and their relation to the five elements clearly explains how our health is dependent on keeping all these in balance. She shared the idea that we become the five elements of the universe through the foods that we take into our body. The discussion on changing our diet and our daily routines as we move from summer through fall into winter made it easier to see how we can use the Kriya Yoga practice of self-study to comprehend how food and routines effect our body. She also emphasizes that we don’t have to be perfect and “do it all”. Any amount of self-care that works in the direction of balance will change the trajectory towards our health and wellness.
DR. TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: I found our conversation very engaging and informative. Kate O’Donnell makes Ayurveda easy to understand and her enthusiasm is contagious. I love her focus on the whole, how we are each made up of the same elements that are in everything in nature. Therefore, any changes in the world such as seasonal differences also impact us, the macrocosm affecting the microcosm since we are all part of the same whole. I especially appreciated her advice to choose one behavior or food to change, and then do it, since any shift toward balance counts and helps us to change the trajectory that might otherwise result in an imbalance that affects our health.