10 Ayurveda Lifestyle Tips from Sara Jane Garofalo
You may have noticed that Ayurveda is trending this summer!
If you’re unfamiliar, Ayurveda focuses on balancing different types of energy within your body, which is said to improve health. Unlike many other diets, the Ayurvedic diet provides personalized recommendations about which foods to eat and avoid based on your body type.
Ayurvedic medicine encourages whole-body healing, which includes physical, mental, and emotional health. This can include practices like yoga, meditation, mindful eating, sleep hygiene, spending time by yourself and with others, and managing your work-life balance
Italian native, Sara Jane Garofalo is the Founder of Love Holistic Living, Intuitive Health Coach, Ayurveda Counselor & RIM Facilitator. Sara helps busy women transform from continuous yo-yo dieting to finding the root cause of weight gain.
Sara’s goal is to help women break unhealthy (and subconscious) patterns and become more intuitive about their bodies through a sustainable holistic approach. Through a mind-body-soul transformation, Sara helps women definitely heal.
Sara finds it most beneficial to incorporate Ayurveda practices into everyday life. For those Ayurveda newbies that are curious, Sara has provided 10 great tips that are easily achievable:
- Begin your day by brushing your teeth with cooling herbs like mint and neem.
- A light, self-massage with coconut oil, washed off with lukewarm water.
- Enjoy walking barefoot on a cool dewy lawn.
- Frequent baths with cold water, sauna with cooling herbs (like sandal) and wearing of garlands of flowers are great for your soul.
- It is especially healthy to have an afternoon nap during summer.
- For calmness, adorn your house with roses and jasmine.
- Your summer should consist of sweet, bitter, and astringent flavors and be light and easy to digest.
- Breakfast: eat a nourishing cooling breakfast with plenty of liquids, such as almond milk.
- Lunch: eating around noon when the sun is at its peak is best.
- Dinner: have a light dinner with protein a bit of basmati rice and green leafy vegetables.
8. Avoid excess salt, sour and spicy foods, frequent sex and over exposure to sun.
9. When thirsty try drinking cool herbal teas of peppermint, licorice, fennel and rose. Another delicious delicacy is to collect a glass of fresh rose petals and cover them in sugar overnight (in the moonlight). In the morning you will have a delicious rose syrup elixir to mix in your almond milk or just dilute with water.
10. Before going to bed, rub the soles of the feet with coconut or castor oil to bring all the heat down to the feet.
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