A Simple Guide to Finding Balance

Ever feel too hot, too cold, too heavy, or too restless? According to Ayurveda, everything in life has qualities—known as the 20 Gunas—that affect our body and mind. The secret to feeling great? Balance!

These Gunas come in 10 pairs of opposites, kind of like yin and yang. Understanding them can help us make better choices in food, movement, and daily life. Let’s break them down!

A Kapha-balancing Ayurvedic diet focuses on foods that are light, warm, dry, and stimulating to counterbalance Kapha’s heavy, cold, and damp qualities. The goal is to increase digestion, reduce stagnation, and invigorate energy levels.

Kapha Pacifying Recipe: Quinoa Asparagus Pilaf

The warm quinoa and cooling asparagus balance each other to create a beneficial lunch or dinner for all constitutions. (Serves 4–6)

Ayruvedic Cooking for Kapha Season

Dreaming of bowls packed full of Sattvic goodness. Sometimes all you need is a bowl of steamed veggies!

Steamed carrots and spinach on top of quinoa - spiced with mustard seed, fennel, and turmeric. Hidden below is an Avocado dressing!

Rejuvenate your calm, loving, supportive nature this Spring!

The common translation of Kapha is “that which binds things” or “that which holds things together.” Kapha is heavy, cold, dull, oily, smooth, dense, soft, static, liquid, cloudy, hard, and gross (in the sense of dense or thick). According to Ayurveda, this is the dosha responsible for the stability, lubrication, substance, and support of our physical body.

Chapatis with a 4-Bean Hummus

It’s a late winter, snowy day and I was planning on making something tasty to share with some friends at a fun gathering but our plans got canceled due to winter road conditions. My original plan was to make an Avocado Mash to go with the Chapatis but I scratched that idea because I needed a few avocados from the grocery store and I joyfully opted to stay home in my cozy slippers.