https://www.wilderandsageayurveda.com/custom-404 daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://www.wilderandsageayurveda.com/social daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://www.wilderandsageayurveda.com/ayurdoula daily 0.75 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/557f4dfd-d2d2-4e89-a210-7c4e83433fe7/IMG_7251.JPG Ayurdoula - With your baby, a mother was born. Caring for your babe starts with taking care of yourself. I am your postpartum doula, here to take care of YOU so that you are free to bond with your little precious one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/01341b9b-a26e-4834-9005-8d79dbf36cfd/P3116775.JPG Ayurdoula - An ayurdoula is your postpartum bff An Ayudoula is a certified Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula who focuses on taking care of mama for at least 6 weeks post birth so that she can properly heal and therefore bond with her babe. While mama is mothering her new babe, an Ayurdoula mothers the mother using the 4 pillars of health. When mama gives birth, a huge amount of vata (space + air) is introduced into her being (from all those contractions and now the empty womb space). If the excess vata is not properly eliminated in the 6 weeks following birth, it can manifest into dis-ease showing up as constipation, poor digestion, postpartum anxiety/depression, auto-immune disease, mastitis, disengagement, disturbed sleep, poor milk production, disconnection from her support system, and a host of other issues that can affect both mama and child for a lifetime. Pregnancy and giving birth are incredibly transformational. You created, grew, and can sustain your baby all from within your body. There are 3 sacred windows when a woman can undergo HUGE transformation and this includes menarche, birthing, and menopause, when the veil between this world and the spiritual world are thin - where a woman can change the trajectory of her life. The fragile 42 day period post birth is SO important for the mother to be properly nourished so that she is able to form a secure and loving bond with her babe. The saying is “42 days for 42 years,” meaning that if mama is able experience selfless devotion to her babe and is properly nourished, she can even heal past physical and mental challenges that were present, even prior to birth. Those 6 weeks postpartum can give us a glimpse into what to expect for her health for the next 42 years — whether she will have heal concerns or have a healthy life. Postpartum work is preventative medicine. Check out my Ayurvedic offerings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/1153b141-e215-42ba-9aa3-40f1a10bfed5/wildcraft-squarespace%2Btemplate-calendula-seeds-rowan.jfif Ayurdoula - How I work with you as an Ayurdoula I care for mama and her family following birth to nourish her back to health by reducing excess vata dosha and increasing digestive fire (agni) using the 4 pillars of Ayurvedic postpartum health: Proper Nourishment — Mama’s digestive fire is compromised as all of her energy was moved from digestion to give birth. Delicious Ayurvedic meals, medicated ghees, tinctures, teas, and herbal allies are all handcrafted by me and delivered to you up to 3x/week to increase digestion and reduce vata. I teach you and your family how to cook simple and easy to digest Ayurvedic meals so that you continue to be nourished between our sessions. Body Care — Warm medicated oil application (abyangha), vaginal and uterus herbal steam (yoni steam), acupressure (marma therapy), enema (basti - as needed) are a few of the therapies I use to help restore mama’s nervous system. I teach you how to wrap your belly to support your shrinking uterus, how to give your baby an abyangha for better sleep and digestion (best way to prevent and combat colic), and help with breastfeeding concerns. Mindfulness — I hold sacred non-judgmental space during our time together so that you’re able to grow into your new version of you. I handcraft all your goodies and do our treatments together while internally chanting mantra. I can use our time together to guide pranayama, yoga nidra, or light asana. I absolutely love this work and feel so honored and revered to be in the presence of a mama and new babe. Rest — I got you. I am here so that you can rest, heal, and regenerate. I will watch your child(ren), run errands, prepare meals, do light housekeeping. I am a trained Ayurvedic Doctor, meaning that I can administer herbs and treatments as part of my scope. If you are trying to get pregnant, are pregnant, or need support beyond postpartum, check out my Ayurvedic offerings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/8c4ca41d-5ec1-4ede-b325-78dd40da3e51/P4086884.JPG Ayurdoula https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/ea3ccc7e-2f9e-4430-ade2-18de2d232f5a/1.jpg Ayurdoula https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/b81b9672-f9b3-47c6-9d1c-499930772001/pexels-anastasia-shuraeva-6015548.jpg Ayurdoula https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/bb1e9e36-a652-4864-bd44-4ad242cc6764/P3116707.JPG Ayurdoula https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/0086e3aa-a939-4490-a9a2-642aa792ce21/Puja%28108of165%29+%281%29.jpg Ayurdoula https://www.wilderandsageayurveda.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/4c4294d4-d8b0-421b-979f-382a6331f157/IMG_9156.JPG Contact + FAQ - Contact Wilder + Sage Ayurveda Thanks so much for trusting me in your process. After you reach out, I’ll find a time for us to connect to understand your goals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/98f159f3-ec2c-4826-b980-453bf4e8016e/Puja%28108of165%29+%281%29.jpg Contact + FAQ https://www.wilderandsageayurveda.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/ffaef4e6-8f93-406c-be8b-110af76d3daa/PA025826.png About - Who we BE. At Wilder + Sage, I believe that healing is a return to your natural state of belonging. My work is a bridge between the precision of the scientist and the grace of the healer through a collaborative journey to decode the language of your body and lead you back to center. My path to Ayurveda was paved by my children, Forrest Wylder and Juniper Sage, but it was forged in a personal reclamation of my own light. For years, I modeled a life of "smallness," dimming my own worth and ignoring my intuition until I reachTo align a paragraph toed a threshold. Through Ayurveda, I learned that self-care is not a luxury but an act of liberation. My mission is to help you shed the layers of your own unworthiness and step into your true creative nature. I want you to be so deeply attuned to your own vitality that even when the world feels chaotic, you have an internal compass that always knows the way home. I believe that the way we treat a mother in the wake of birth changes the frequency of the world. The "Sacred Window" of postpartum is a threshold where a woman is as newborn as her babe. When we nourish the mother, we heal the collective. By protecting these 42 days with lineage-based care, we break generational cycles of depletion and create a foundation of secure attachment in modeling for our children what it looks like to be truly cared for. True transformation is a slow, sacred ripening. I don’t offer quick fixes and I don’t stick to only Ayurvedic solutions; I offer a steady container and utilize tools I’ve collected along the way. We partner over several months to give your nervous system the time it needs to unfurl and your body the space it needs to remember its own wisdom. I work with the seekers who are tired of being told their "common" ailments are "normal". If you are ready to stop living small and start living in the fullness of your power, let’s begin this investigation together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/fa8f92c2-d1d4-411b-9f10-9f9682860df2/P6182035.JPG About - Me? I’m Cara and my greatest gifts are curiosity and exploration. The Path of Service: My work is a bridge between the molecular and the medicinal. As a world explorer, meditator, yogi, formerengineerand now an Ayurvedic Doctor, I’ve navigated both the high-pressure corporate world of large-scale food production and the deep stillness of Himalayan ashrams. I know the heavy weight of the "working mama" juggle. I spent decades living so far in my head that I lost the frequency of my own body, silencing her messages just to get through the day. I’ve been both fulfilled and burnt, and I know exactly what it’s like to not feel safe in your own skin. Today, I use my scientific lens to help you stop the white-knuckling and start the journey back to yourself. The Toolbox: I am an Enneagram7w6, which means I am a natural seeker. My curiosity has led me through an endless candy jar of seemingly unrelated trainings from personality typing to reiki all of which I’ve gathered to better serve you. I use these various lenses to see you clearly and provide the exact tool you need for your unique healing journey. The Vision: When I’m not working, I am rediscovering the world through the eyes of my two children, Forrest and Juniper. We spend our days playing in the mountains and the water, dreaming of a future on our healing homestead. I envision a world where we wild-craft our own medicines, live in community, and lift our voices together. I dream of a world where women are properly cared for. When a mother is supported, her children begin their journey on solid ground, securely attached, nourished, and able to be their full creative BEings. The Connection: Like many healers, I was drawn to this work to navigate my own suffering. When I became pregnant, that "seeking" turned inward. I knew I needed to heal my own roots so I wouldn't pass my trauma down to my children. I know in my bones that if we find ourselves working together, there is a sacred reason for our paths to cross. 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Ayurveda provides the integrative tools to listen to that inner guidance in a way that modern medicine alone cannot. So many of us live in a state of quiet disconnect, accepting fatigue or years of hormonal imbalance as our baseline. We’ve been taught to ignore the body’s whispers until they become screams. By realigning with your natural circadian rhythms and honoring your unique constitution, we don’t just treat symptoms, we rebuild your intuition, creating a sustainable path back to the person you were always meant to be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/2568938e-c41b-416f-9fc4-823fc6341097/P3146827.png HOME - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/1aed70c1-14c1-4078-bb97-ccd9340b689d/P4086884.png HOME - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/8ce379c8-7239-4d2a-89a8-7e8c85189ac1/P3116707.png HOME - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/2387bee5-b265-489d-b820-220d50e6e41e/IMG_9156.JPG HOME - I've always believed that we meet every soul for a reason, and I’m so glad yours led you here. I’m Cara, the heart and 'detective' behind Wilder + Sage. Wilder + Sage is a sanctuary born from my own path of reclamation as a journey of shedding the need to stay 'small' and overdo to embrace a life of wholeness. My approach is a unique alchemy of technical insight and energetic awareness, ensuring your path to health is never a one-size-fits-all map. Together, we’ll weave ancient wisdom into modern life, building a sustainable ritual of care that nourishes your true nature and fuels your purpose. https://www.wilderandsageayurveda.com/ayurdoula-copy daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/179ee842-38f1-4e7d-a8d9-4348957a3d41/wildcraft-squarespace%2Btemplate-ritual-tarot-mug-smoke.jfif Ayurdoula (Copy) - To achieve one’s purpose, one needs a long life. Discipline is the most important quality one must possess to learn the science of Ayurveda. Ayurveda explains how to achieve your life purpose. -Ashtanga Hridayam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/1153b141-e215-42ba-9aa3-40f1a10bfed5/wildcraft-squarespace%2Btemplate-calendula-seeds-rowan.jfif Ayurdoula (Copy) - What is Ayurveda? Ayurveda is the science of life and is the oldest known medical system dating back to over 5,000 years ago. It is believed that this knowledge was transmitted to a group of sages who meditated and communicated with Vedic gods in the Himalayas. These sages were given all the knowledge of everything from daily care to how to build a home to surgical procedures. I mean they learned how to do surgery 5000+ years ago while putting the patient in a meditative trance — how amazing is that? This knowledge was transmitted through an oral tradition and was later transcribed into 3 main texts. Ayurveda is a healing system. If one understands their true unique nature - of body, mind, and spirit - and how all things in this universe also have their own true nature, from herbs to weather to locations - they can master their own health to live a fulfilled and happy life. Ayurveda works by creating a lifestyle of routines unique to a person’s nature (the microcosm) in balance with the nature around us (the macrocosm). As above, so below - meaning that everything happening in nature around us, from war to pandemics, to fires, to chaos, to love, to balance is all a reflection of what is happening within us. We are what we eat - meaning that everything we digest from food to thoughts will impact who we are, and what we don’t digest will manifest into toxins of the mind, body, and spirit. This makes a lot of sense when you think how not processing traumas will ultimately show up in the physical body. Here are 8 points that I want you to know about Ayurveda: You are a unique blend of the 5 elements of air + space (vata), fire + water (pitta) and water + earth (kapha). Vata, pitta and kapha are doshas. The unique combination of your doshas at the time of your birth is your baseline health - or your prakruti. Health is when you are at your baseline level. When you move away from your baseline, dis-ease shows up. If you are in a state of dis- ease for a long time, the accumulated dosha will spread to other parts of your body, like an overfilled bucket will spill over into surrounding areas. Your present doshic state is your vikruti and the role of a practitioner is to get your vikrukti back to your prakruti state, or balance. The 3 doshas (vata, pitta, kapha) show up in everything around us — body types, times of the day, seasons, times of your life, foods, etc. — like increases like and opposites balance. For example, if you are congested (heavy/wet/cold), drinking milk can increase mucous (like) where as eating bone broth with millet (opposite) can help to rid the cold with its opposite qualities (light/dry/heating). If your prakruti is vata (dry/cold) and it is the fall season (windy and dry), you will likely have a vata imbalance (could show up as constipation, anxiety, dry skin) unless you use the opposite qualities to balance it such as by eating cooked foods with warming spices or oiling your skin. You are what you digest. This is so important. All disease stems from improper digestion. If you are not having good bowel movements and not properly digesting, any food you take in no matter how healthy it is, can turn into toxins or ama, blocking channels and creating doshic imbalance. Your digestive fire - agni - must be addressed. This goes for unprocessed or undigested emotions. As people start to do the work and change their lifestyle, they may also start to process past traumas and find that they shed many pounds as they process traumas. Another important point is hunger. If someone doesn’t have proper hunger - too little or too much - this is a sign of improper agni. If you’re stressed for prolonged periods, your body will move energy away from digestion and slow down hunger cues to move into fight or flight - flooding your system with hormones. Incorporating mindfulness is helpful for everyone because who isn’t in a state of some stress? The 7 bodily tissues (plasma, blood, muscle, fat, bone, nervous tissue, reproductive tissue) are nourished successively, taking about 30 days. So, the food you eat today will nourish plasma, and plasma will nourish blood 3 days later, so on and so forth. If you have ama blocking certain channels or a doshic imbalance, tissues will be improperly nourished and therefore will not function properly. Think about it: Your reproductive tissues are at the end of the food chain and if you’re having trouble conceiving, have missed menses, premature ejaculation, low libido - you need to look at how the preceding tissues are doing and address the overall cause. After the 7 tissues are nourished, a few drops of life force, or OJAS, is released bringing vitality and immunity to your body, mind, and spirit. We all want more OJAS. The mind (manas) plays a huge part in making change — we must treat the mind to ensure that you will want to and can stick to your new routine. Ayurveda is a lifestyle, not a diet. Once you understand and embody the principles, you won’t be able to look back. You got this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/fa8f92c2-d1d4-411b-9f10-9f9682860df2/P6182035.JPG Ayurdoula (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/1641960447331-ZNSCIXV4URNRIW5E68YS/pexels-polina-kovaleva-5430813.jpg Ayurdoula (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/b81b9672-f9b3-47c6-9d1c-499930772001/pexels-anastasia-shuraeva-6015548.jpg Ayurdoula (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/bb1e9e36-a652-4864-bd44-4ad242cc6764/P3116707.JPG Ayurdoula (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/c7554e02-9d9d-4222-af3e-0ddb7fa676e9/food.jpg Ayurdoula (Copy) https://www.wilderandsageayurveda.com/ayurveda daily 0.75 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/7208a3b3-2e43-4d2c-bb60-3c76e098786b/wildcraft-squarespace+template-mug-coffee.png Ayurveda - Ayurveda teaches us that our health is a reflection of our harmony with nature. It is not merely the absence of disease, but the presence of a vital, rhythmic connection between the body, mind, and soul. — Charaka Samhita https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/58c80caf-e6d1-4469-9847-29128040e523/wildcraft-squarespace%2Btemplate-calendula-seeds-rowan.png Ayurveda - What is Ayurveda? Ayurveda is the science of life and is the oldest known medical system dating back to over 5,000 years ago. It is believed that this knowledge was transmitted to a group of sages who meditated and communicated with Vedic gods in the Himalayas. These sages were given all the knowledge of everything from daily care to how to build a home to surgical procedures. I mean they learned how to do surgery 5000+ years ago while putting the patient in a meditative trance — how amazing is that? This knowledge was transmitted through an oral tradition and was later transcribed into 3 main texts. Ayurveda is a healing system. If one understands their true unique nature - of body, mind, and spirit - and how all things in this universe also have their own true nature, from herbs to weather to locations - they can master their own health to live a fulfilled and happy life. Ayurveda works by creating a lifestyle of routines unique to a person’s nature (the microcosm) in balance with the nature around us (the macrocosm). As above, so below - meaning that everything happening in nature around us, from war to pandemics, to fires, to chaos, to love, to balance is all a reflection of what is happening within us. We are what we eat - meaning that everything we digest from food to thoughts will impact who we are, and what we don’t digest will manifest into toxins of the mind, body, and spirit. This makes a lot of sense when you think how not processing traumas will ultimately show up in the physical body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/b5873e90-d538-4707-84d2-a9f48bea6d4e/wildcraft-squarespace+template-queen-annes-lace.png Ayurveda - Ayurveda 101: You are a unique blend of the 5 elements of air + space (vata), fire + water (pitta) and water + earth (kapha). Vata, pitta and kapha are doshas. The unique combination of your doshas at the time of your birth is your baseline health - or your prakruti. Health is when you are at your baseline level. When you move away from your baseline, dis-ease shows up. If you are in a state of dis- ease for a long time, the accumulated dosha will spread to other parts of your body, like an overfilled bucket will spill over into surrounding areas. Your present doshic state is your vikruti and the role of a practitioner is to get your vikrukti back to your prakruti state, or balance. The 3 doshas (vata, pitta, kapha) show up in everything around us — body types, times of the day, seasons, times of your life, foods, etc. — like increases like and opposites balance. For example, if you are congested (heavy/wet/cold), drinking milk can increase mucous (like) where as eating bone broth with millet (opposite) can help to rid the cold with its opposite qualities (light/dry/heating). If your prakruti is vata (dry/cold) and it is the fall season (windy and dry), you will likely have a vata imbalance (could show up as constipation, anxiety, dry skin) unless you use the opposite qualities to balance it such as by eating cooked foods with warming spices or oiling your skin. You are what you digest. This is so important. All disease stems from improper digestion. If you are not having good bowel movements and not properly digesting, any food you take in no matter how healthy it is, can turn into toxins or ama, blocking channels and creating doshic imbalance. Your digestive fire - agni - must be addressed. This goes for unprocessed or undigested emotions. As people start to do the work and change their lifestyle, they may also start to process past traumas and find that they shed many pounds as they process traumas. Another important point is hunger. If someone doesn’t have proper hunger - too little or too much - this is a sign of improper agni. If you’re stressed for prolonged periods, your body will move energy away from digestion and slow down hunger cues to move into fight or flight - flooding your system with hormones. Incorporating mindfulness is helpful for everyone because who isn’t in a state of some stress? The 7 bodily tissues (plasma, blood, muscle, fat, bone, nervous tissue, reproductive tissue) are nourished successively, taking about 30 days. So, the food you eat today will nourish plasma, and plasma will nourish blood 3 days later, so on and so forth. If you have ama blocking certain channels or a doshic imbalance, tissues will be improperly nourished and therefore will not function properly. Think about it: Your reproductive tissues are at the end of the food chain and if you’re having trouble conceiving, have missed menses, premature ejaculation, low libido - you need to look at how the preceding tissues are doing and address the overall cause. After the 7 tissues are nourished, a few drops of life force, or OJAS, is released bringing vitality and immunity to your body, mind, and spirit. We all want more OJAS. The mind (manas) plays a huge part in making change — we must treat the mind to ensure that you will want to and can stick to your new routine. Ayurveda is a lifestyle, not a diet. Once you understand and embody the principles, you won’t be able to look back. You got this.‍ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/0086e3aa-a939-4490-a9a2-642aa792ce21/Puja%28108of165%29+%281%29.jpg Ayurveda https://www.wilderandsageayurveda.com/ayurdoula-1-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/7208a3b3-2e43-4d2c-bb60-3c76e098786b/wildcraft-squarespace+template-mug-coffee.png Ayurdoula (Copy) (Copy) - Ayurveda teaches us that our health is a reflection of our harmony with nature. It is not merely the absence of disease, but the presence of a vital, rhythmic connection between the body, mind, and soul. — Charaka Samhita https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/58c80caf-e6d1-4469-9847-29128040e523/wildcraft-squarespace%2Btemplate-calendula-seeds-rowan.png Ayurdoula (Copy) (Copy) - What is Ayurveda? Ayurveda is the science of life and is the oldest known medical system dating back to over 5,000 years ago. It is believed that this knowledge was transmitted to a group of sages who meditated and communicated with Vedic gods in the Himalayas. These sages were given all the knowledge of everything from daily care to how to build a home to surgical procedures. I mean they learned how to do surgery 5000+ years ago while putting the patient in a meditative trance — how amazing is that? This knowledge was transmitted through an oral tradition and was later transcribed into 3 main texts. Ayurveda is a healing system. If one understands their true unique nature - of body, mind, and spirit - and how all things in this universe also have their own true nature, from herbs to weather to locations - they can master their own health to live a fulfilled and happy life. Ayurveda works by creating a lifestyle of routines unique to a person’s nature (the microcosm) in balance with the nature around us (the macrocosm). As above, so below - meaning that everything happening in nature around us, from war to pandemics, to fires, to chaos, to love, to balance is all a reflection of what is happening within us. We are what we eat - meaning that everything we digest from food to thoughts will impact who we are, and what we don’t digest will manifest into toxins of the mind, body, and spirit. This makes a lot of sense when you think how not processing traumas will ultimately show up in the physical body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/b5873e90-d538-4707-84d2-a9f48bea6d4e/wildcraft-squarespace+template-queen-annes-lace.png Ayurdoula (Copy) (Copy) - Ayurveda 101: You are a unique blend of the 5 elements of air + space (vata), fire + water (pitta) and water + earth (kapha). Vata, pitta and kapha are doshas. The unique combination of your doshas at the time of your birth is your baseline health - or your prakruti. Health is when you are at your baseline level. When you move away from your baseline, dis-ease shows up. If you are in a state of dis- ease for a long time, the accumulated dosha will spread to other parts of your body, like an overfilled bucket will spill over into surrounding areas. Your present doshic state is your vikruti and the role of a practitioner is to get your vikrukti back to your prakruti state, or balance. The 3 doshas (vata, pitta, kapha) show up in everything around us — body types, times of the day, seasons, times of your life, foods, etc. — like increases like and opposites balance. For example, if you are congested (heavy/wet/cold), drinking milk can increase mucous (like) where as eating bone broth with millet (opposite) can help to rid the cold with its opposite qualities (light/dry/heating). If your prakruti is vata (dry/cold) and it is the fall season (windy and dry), you will likely have a vata imbalance (could show up as constipation, anxiety, dry skin) unless you use the opposite qualities to balance it such as by eating cooked foods with warming spices or oiling your skin. You are what you digest. This is so important. All disease stems from improper digestion. If you are not having good bowel movements and not properly digesting, any food you take in no matter how healthy it is, can turn into toxins or ama, blocking channels and creating doshic imbalance. Your digestive fire - agni - must be addressed. This goes for unprocessed or undigested emotions. As people start to do the work and change their lifestyle, they may also start to process past traumas and find that they shed many pounds as they process traumas. Another important point is hunger. If someone doesn’t have proper hunger - too little or too much - this is a sign of improper agni. If you’re stressed for prolonged periods, your body will move energy away from digestion and slow down hunger cues to move into fight or flight - flooding your system with hormones. Incorporating mindfulness is helpful for everyone because who isn’t in a state of some stress? The 7 bodily tissues (plasma, blood, muscle, fat, bone, nervous tissue, reproductive tissue) are nourished successively, taking about 30 days. So, the food you eat today will nourish plasma, and plasma will nourish blood 3 days later, so on and so forth. If you have ama blocking certain channels or a doshic imbalance, tissues will be improperly nourished and therefore will not function properly. Think about it: Your reproductive tissues are at the end of the food chain and if you’re having trouble conceiving, have missed menses, premature ejaculation, low libido - you need to look at how the preceding tissues are doing and address the overall cause. After the 7 tissues are nourished, a few drops of life force, or OJAS, is released bringing vitality and immunity to your body, mind, and spirit. We all want more OJAS. The mind (manas) plays a huge part in making change — we must treat the mind to ensure that you will want to and can stick to your new routine. Ayurveda is a lifestyle, not a diet. Once you understand and embody the principles, you won’t be able to look back. You got this.‍ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61de53b93e2596709a9704e6/0086e3aa-a939-4490-a9a2-642aa792ce21/Puja%28108of165%29+%281%29.jpg Ayurdoula (Copy) (Copy) https://www.wilderandsageayurveda.com/dosha-quiz daily 0.75 2026-03-27