Dear Friend

How are you adjusting to these rainy, cold, blustery days?  Have you been spending more hours indoors, more time sitting?   

Indoor gentle morning Yoga stretching and Pranayama breathing exercises can help maintain healthy metabolism and immunity at this time of change of season, especially when done just before sunrise.  Pranayama done at this more Kapha-dominant time of day, can help disperse the longer nights’ inertia and cold accumulation.  

Lifestyle adjustment means to rest early to support arising early for pranayama, nasya, abhyanga and other morning practices that promote disease-free living according to Ayurveda.

For example, a Kapha-pacifying nasya: Morning and evening on an empty stomach, self-administer nose drops made of 1 oz. pure unrefined sesame oil and 5 drops of pure eucalyptus oil. Insufflate while reclining with head well back, continue to insufflate for about 5 mins. each nostril.  Nasya helps maintain clear upper respiratory channels such as sinuses, nostrils, sensory and brain pathways.  

Kapha-pacifying adjustment can also mean to take lighter foods such as teas and soups, such as:

Kapha-pacifying tea recipe:  

Boil sliced ginger root in a pan of 3 cups pure water for 3 mins.

Remove from heat.  

Add a pinch of black pepper, a pinch of cinnamon and one tsp. of lime juice.  

Cover. Cool until comfortably hot. Stir. Strain. Sip.  

Optional:  Add 1 tsp. local honey at serving.

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Hearty Kapha pacifying soup recipe to serve about 10:  

1 cup chopped leeks, celery,

1 cup cubed beets, yams, purple potatoes or other veggie

1.5 cups wild Canadian rice(soaked 24 hrs., rinsed, drained)

1.5 cups red rice (pre-soaked 1 hr., rinsed, drained)

1.5 cups yellow split moong dahl (soaked 1-4 hrs., drained)

Method:  

In a large pot, put enough sunflower oil to coat the pan lightly.  When at medium heat, add 1 tablespoon freshly ground ginger root and stir.  When beginning to brown, add 1 tsp. black mustard seeds and stir.  When the mustard seeds are popping, quickly add 1 tsp. cumin seeds and stir.  

Now add the leeks and celery.  Stir to coat all particles with the spice mixture.  After about 2 minutes, add the other vegetables and stir until all pieces are well coated with the spice mixture.  Now quickly add the wild rice and stir, then the red rice and stir and lastly the yellow split moong dahl and stir.  Sprinkle with 2 tsp. of turmeric powder and stir.  Quickly add sufficient water to come within 1 ½” of the pot top.  

Stir gently and leave your spoon in the pot while the soup comes to a boil.  Simmer for 15 mins.  Cover.  Cool.  Blend half of the soup mixture into a puree and add back into the remainder of the soup batch.   Salt and pepper to taste at the time of serving.  Garnish with fresh cilantro and lime juice.  

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