How can Ayurveda help you embrace the Vata stage of life and look and feel younger?
Updated: Apr 19
Dosha means that which darkens, that which accelerates aging. When we restore balance to the vata, pitta, and kapha dosha, we are slowing down the aging process at the root cause. We can consider Ayurveda, the knowledge of life, the original holistic, anti-aging system.
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Vata Stage of Life: Look and Feel Younger with Ayurveda
As we age, there are a handful of health concerns that seem to get more pronounced. Wrinkles, lack of energy, and dry skin are just a few of the issues that can leave us feeling less confident about ourselves than ever before.
But what if you could have more confidence and enjoy life more than ever before? Is that even possible? Absolutely!
For starters, it’s best to figure out some of the causes of aging and plan your preventative (and reparative) measures for them. Oftentimes, the biggest factors of aging include poor digestion (due to not knowing how to eat correctly), the presence of toxins (also known as ama) in the body and mind, and an overall lack of wellbeing. The good news is, there are many ways to fight wrinkles and one of the best ways is by using the principles of Ayurveda.
A 5,000-year-old form of natural medicine that originated in India, Ayurveda's principles include tapping into your mind-body connection for remedying aging. It's based on your dosha or your body type which can help you specifically identify what your body needs in order to age gracefully.
Let's take a closer look at how Ayurveda can help you in your journey to anti-aging.
Ayurvedic Anti-Aging Tip One: Use Food as Medicine
The choices you make about what you eat will determine your health and ultimately, your quality of life. Most people don’t know what it means to be healthy — not just outwardly, but inwardly too.
Food should be used as fuel for energy, to give us not only the body we desire, but also provide optimal wellbeing, immune support, and a balanced state of mind.
Contrary to what you might find online, including fad diets or recommendations by self-proclaimed nutrition experts, the reality is what you eat should be customized to you — and you alone.
Your constitution is unique, as such the way you feed your body should be too. By tailoring your lifestyle to your specific needs, you’ll feel more energized, healthy, and happy throughout every stage of life.
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Ayurvedic Anti-Aging Tip Two: Practice Ayurvedic Massage
Known as Abhyanga, Ayurvedic self-massage is a complete oil treatment for your body that rejuvenates and supports healthy muscles, nerves, ligaments, hormones, glands, organs, blood, and skin. As such, it has powerful anti-aging benefits when practiced regularly.
Here’s how Abhyanga help with anti-aging:
It stimulates healthy elimination - the warm oil and circular strokes help activate all functions of the body. As such, your body can eliminate toxins and waste with more efficiency and ease, thereby improving your overall wellbeing and appearance.
It brings in the moisturizing quality of the oils, and it delivers herbs directly through the largest organ of digestion—your skin.
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Ayurvedic Anti-Aging Tip Three: Meditate Regularly
Stress is one of the biggest contributors to aging. When we feel chronically stressed, the cortisol levels in our body increase, and as such our skin may become inflamed, red, dry, or irritated leading to wrinkles and a loss in elasticity.
The simple act of meditating regularly can help you quickly calm an overactive mind, reduce stress and boost your mood. This will keep your skin happy and healthy while allowing your mind to relax.
Use our simple two-step program to reduce stress and increase vitality.
1. Make daily use of our popular and free guided practices as part of your Ayurvedic morning and evenng routines.
Ayurvedic Morning Routine | 6 Rituals for a Calm and Centered Day 10 Ayurvedic Evening Rituals for a Calming Night
Saumya Ayurveda's Two Minute Meditation
“Veena has been an incredible resource to help me get aligned on food, herbs, and mind, body, and soul exercises to feel more grounded and present. I love the daily guided practices, a routine that feels EMBODYING. She has made an outsized impact on my life in a short amount of time.” –Mark Fishman, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ayurvedic Anti-Aging Tip Four: Use our Kukumadi Facial Oil
Kukumadi Oil, the name originates from its leading ingredient red-gold saffron, the world's costliest spice by weight. We are pleased to now be able to offer our customers this precious formulation.
According to Ayurveda, facial massage with Kukumadi Oil creates a face glow like gold. Following an ancient Ayurvedic recipe for radiant skin, our Kukumadi Oil evens skin tone and texture, repairs early signs of aging, minimize dark circles, and treat blemishes and scars.
A precious formulation with over twenty ingredients, our formula includes, red sandalwood, lotus flower, saffron, goats milk, and rosewater. This light, fragrant, rich oil is pleasing to the senses, mind, and skin.
How Do I Know If I Have a Dosha Imbalance?
Peruse these comprehensive and convenient lists of signs and symptoms of dosha imbalances.
Peruse these comprehensive and convenient lists of signs and symptoms of dosha imbalances. As we are comprised of all Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, there can be an imbalance in any of the doshas, or a combination of dosha imbalances. Read all three lists and see if anything looks familiar.
There is a saying, "The mind is more in the body, than the body is in the mind." The Saumya 3 step meditation process shifts us from fight-flight-freeze mode, to rest-restore-relax mode. Give it a try for forty days and observe the changes. The more grounded and relaxed we are, the smoother life flows.
"The breath is the connection between the mind and body, so by training the breath, we become calm, focused, and grounded, we slow down the aging process by decreasing stress. These practices are so simple and easy to have as part of our daily life. We actually feel and look younger."
- Veena, Saumya Ayurveda
1. Learn Diaphragmatic Breathing and Change Your Life. When we re-learn to breath diaphragmatically, we move from the flight-fight-freeze mode, to rest, restore, relaxation mode from where we want and need to live.
2. Daily Guided Practices: 11 minutes in the morning and in the evening, as anchors of your daily Ayurveda routine.
3. Ayurveda Daily Routines: --Ayurvedic Morning Routine | 6 Rituals for a Calm and Centered Day
"Choose a couple of practices from the routines that provide you with the greatest support. Perform them while applying our two minute meditation technique and your mundane tasks, just transformed into a mellifluous meditation. This is meditation applied to daily life." - Veena, Saumya Ayurveda
"Veena was able to help me regain my energy in just a few months and I’m feeling like my “young” self again! I love the food plan she designed for me, and all the supporting practices (am/pm routines, breathing techniques, herbs, and spice mixes) are so enjoyable to incorporate into my day. I highly recommend Saumya Ayurveda if you want to feel better and have more vitality.”
-Molly Rossini, Minnesota
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“Veena was able to help me regain my energy in just a few months and I’m feeling like my “young” self again!
I love the food plan she designed for me, and all the supporting practices (am/pm routines, breathing techniques, herbs, and spice mixes) are so enjoyable to incorporate into my day. I highly recommend Saumya Ayurveda if you want to feel better and have more vitality.” -Molly Rossini, Minnesota
“Veena has helped me so much! I had been struggling with fatigue for many years. I tried many things, read lots of books, advice, etc. Nothing worked, or very slight positive change over the years, but I was still struggling with the everyday. Then a couple months with Veena, I was stunned at how Ayurveda and her customized approach worked! Not only did the fatigue go away, but I actually have renewed energy and feel so physically and mentally energetic! I am so grateful. I feel like I got living my life back.”
--Michelle Cheuk, USA
“Veena has helped me several times at various stages of my life to rebalance my doshas, and to bring me back to greater vitality. Veena’s herbal protocols and food recommendations are easy to follow and effective.
Combined with her beautifully guided relaxation and meditation practices, Veena offers a truly holistic to achieving and maintaining harmony in body, mind, and spirit—and living more peacefully and joyfully in an increasingly more erratic world.”
-Gabrielle Allen, California
Ready to Look and Feel Younger with Ayurveda?
Vata Stage of Life: Look and Feel Younger with Ayurveda by using these Ayurveda practices to reverse signs of aging in your 50’s, 60’s and beyond! Imagine waking up refreshed, feeling calm and focused, falling asleep easily (and staying asleep), feeling energized, healthy, and balanced. Sounds nice, right? Perhaps even too good to be true. But it's not. The change you've just imagined for yourself is possible – with personalized, experienced guidance from Saumya Ayurveda.
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We all want to be heard, understood, and cared for as whole beings, not a set of isolated symptoms. True health is more than the absence of disease, which is why Western medicine so often leaves us feeling hopeless and unseen.
Deep down, you already know what you’re searching for: a new framework for living – one that brings your entire being back into balance. With Saumya Ayurveda, you’ll receive individualized guidance to create the physically, mentally, and spiritually vibrant life you crave.
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Veena is a Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and meditation teacher, and monk.
She is President Emeritus and teaching faculty of the Meditation Center.
Veena fell in love with the traditional medicine used in her family’s home, learning herbal remedies at her grandmother's knee.
These childhood experiences were the seeds of a lifelong passion. For over 30 years, Veena has dedicated her life to the world’s oldest healing system: Ayurveda.
She draws on this ancient wisdom to help others find their compass to a healthy life – and support those left wanting by Western medicine.
An experienced Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, Veena’s deep, intuitive knowledge of Ayurveda empowers her clients to reclaim their fullest, most vibrant lives –mentally, physically, and spiritually. Veena individualizes treatment plans to each person, rather than offering a one-size-fits-all approach, so it fits your life and becomes woven in your lifestyle, naturally.
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