ROOTED IN THE SEASONS BLOG
The Rooted in the Seasons Blog is your weekly dose of Ayurveda, Yoga, and seasonal wisdom to help you move from overwhelm and feeling out of rhythm into balance and confidence. Here, you’ll discover which foods and spices to favour each season, how to adapt your yoga practice throughout the year, and gentle ways to reduce stress by tuning into nature’s cycles.
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Start here: Ayurvedic tools for winter immunity, digestion, and clarity
Here’s a small, seasonal selection to help you begin to steady your mind, support digestion, and strengthen your immunity.
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Self-Doubt and the Mind: A Yogic Map Through Uncertainty
Self-doubt is a familiar pattern of the mind — one that often returns in different forms. Drawing on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, this post offers a grounded, compassionate way to understand doubt and work with it through steady practice and rhythm.
Winter Vata Imbalances: How to Stay Nourished, Calm, and Grounded in the Cold Months
Winter can amplify dryness, restlessness, digestive issues, and disturbed sleep, especially during Vata season. This guide explores common winter Vata imbalances and simple, nourishing ways to restore warmth, rhythm, and calm through daily habits, food, and routine.
Why Sleep Isn’t a Technique — It’s a Rhythm
Sleep isn’t something we fix at night. It’s something that emerges when the nervous system feels safe. In this reflective post, based on a conversation with Miss Meg, we explore rhythm, regulation, and how rest becomes available across all ages.
A Winter Breath Guide: Creating Space, Calm, and Steadiness in the Season of Vata
Winter can affect how we breathe, digest, and sleep — often without us realising. This gentle winter breath guide explores how Vata influences the nervous system and why creating space for the breath matters before technique. A seasonal approach to breathing that supports steadiness, warmth, and calm.
Sankalpa: Why Intentions Often Fail — and What Yoga Has Always Known
Many intentions fail not because we lack discipline, but because they don’t address the habits and conditioning underneath our behaviour. Sankalpa, an ancient yogic practice, works differently, not by forcing change, but by revealing what needs attention and alignment.
How Food Becomes You: Understanding the 7 Dhatus in Ayurveda
A simple guide to the seven tissues in Ayurveda — and how they shape energy, immunity and wellbeing.
Why We Get Knocked Off Centre — and a Yogic Fix That Actually Works
Ever feel like the smallest thing can throw you off centre? In this post, I’m sharing a simple Yogic practice that helps steady the mind when life feels loud — a gentle mindset shift from Yoga Sūtra 1.33 that actually works.
Ayurvedic Winter Immunity: Digestion, Rhythm and the Microbiome
How Ayurveda builds winter immunity through digestion, rhythm and seasonal nourishment.
Ayurvedic Eating: Joyful, Simple, Seasonal & Stress-Free
Discover how seasonal, local eating supports digestion, the microbiome and everyday resilience.
What Is Calm — and How the Mind Works in Yoga and Ayurveda
Discover the Ayurvedic definition of calm — and why modern stress relief often fails. Learn the simple inner shift that actually settles your mind and nervous system.
Adapting Your Yoga to Autumn (Vata Season)
As autumn’s winds pick up and the air turns dry, your yoga practice can become your anchor. Discover how to adapt your routine with grounding poses, slower vinyasa, mindful drishti, and breathwork to balance Vata and stay centred, steady, and warm through the season.
Finding Ease: The Yoga Sutra That Changed How I See Stress
Stress is part of life — but suffering doesn’t have to be.
In this post, we explore Patañjali’s Yoga Sutra 2.16 — “Future suffering can be avoided.”
You’ll learn how awareness, gentle redirection of thought, and steady practice (abhyāsa) can prevent stress before it takes hold.
It’s not about forced positivity — it’s about retraining the mind to move toward calm, one breath and one choice at a time.
How Ayurveda builds winter immunity through digestion, rhythm and seasonal nourishment.