Discover Your Menstrual Dosha to Achieve Balance and Wellness
Updated: Jul 7
“My personal goal is for every menstruating human to know what a balanced cycle is… and what it is NOT. By balancing the cycle off the bat–I’m talking as early as the first period–we can avoid a lifetime of physical, mental, and emotional suffering.
Let’s not accept discomfort, pain, anxiety, acne, mood issues as an inevitable part of the process. We can do better than suppress symptoms and suffer. Ayurveda offers 5,000 years’ worth of tools and wisdom to create and maintain a balanced cycle.” - Veena, Saumya Ayurveda
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Discover Your Menstrual Dosha to Achieve Balance and Wellness
When we understand how the doshas influence our menstrual cycle, it’s easy to see how problems arise when we become imbalanced. If a dosha becomes inflamed, stuck, or irregular – it’s reflected in our monthly cycle.
When the doshas are balanced overall-- including mind and body, and all of our systems--we feel good, resilient, vibrant, and energetic.
We're comprised of the three doshas and we can go out of balance in any of them, and in any combination. This means we can experience and endure a plethora of seemingly unconnected symptoms. (Do you ever feel like you’re chasing one issue after another? Like everything is falling apart from digestion to your hair and everything in between?)
Wonder what that dry skin, thinning hair, anxiety, and acne have to do with your cycle? Ayurveda looks at the whole person and the root cause of imbalances and restores balance using food as medicine, herbs, and Ayurveda lifestyle practices.
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Vata Type Menstrual Cycle
Vata: Scant, irregular, or absent flow. When your period is present, imbalanced Vata manifests emotionally as anxiety, fear, nervousness, panic attacks, poor sleep, depletion, and insomnia. Physically Vata shows up as sharp or stinging cramps in the lower abdomen and back, stiffness, constipation, and spams. Flow of blood is thin, dry, dark colored.
Learn more with Wild List of Vata Imbalances
Pitta Type Menstrual Cycle
·Pitta: Burning sensations physically and mentally. Pitta manifests in the mind as fiery emotions like anger and irritability. Physically the flow may be clotty, hot, foul odor, heavy flow. Severe menstrual hemorrhaging may even require blood transfusions. Whew! Feeling hot, swollen, headaches, migraines, acne, upset stomach, and diarrhea may all be part of a Pitta dominated cycle.
See if you're experiencing Pitta imbalances with Hot List of Common Pitta Imbalances
Kapha Type Menstrual Cycle
Kapha: Heavy or long-lasting periods, with water retention, bloating, vaginal discharge, and yeast infections. In the mind, Kapha manifests as feeling sluggish, depressed, dull, demotivated, and increased sleep– preferring food (and Netflix) binges to a regular routine, and emotional eating. The flow may be mucousy, heavier and longer flow.
The Ayurvedic Approach to Menstrual Health
Rather than treating individual symptoms, Ayurveda treats the whole person. In Ayurveda, menstrual health is a window into your overall well-being. The goal is not to control and suppress your symptoms, but to use them as guideposts pointing to the root of your dosha imbalance.
Your menstrual cycle influences how you feel in your body, mind, and emotions throughout your entire life. Ayurveda helps bring your reproductive system back into balance, which can bring balance back to your entire life – sounds nice, right?
Ayurveda is a path to a lifetime of greater balance. Uncover the root cause of troubling symptoms, restore vitality through customized Ayurveda treatment.
According to Healthy Children, "Within a year or two of their first period, 50 to 75 percent of young women begin to experience painful menstrual cramps, or dysmenorrhea." That's a staggering statistic.
"We spend six or more decades in one stage or another, from menses through menopause. We want and need balanced menstrual cycles out of the gate. If you've been enduring issues or outright suffering, it's time for a change. Anxiety, acne, constipation, diarrhea, migraines....so many health concerns are improved or eliminated when the balance of the doshas is restored, and the moon cycle is healthy."
-Veena, Saumya Ayurveda
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With Veena’s guidance, with herbs and diet changes, I soon realized that my symptoms were very real. After making the changes, I made small victories along the way, and became better with each appointment with her.
Now almost 6 months later, I am a completely different person. I still have some things to work on, but with Veena’s help, I know I will be able to take control of my health and not leave it to Western medicine that was giving me little to no help and covering up my symptoms with another medication.
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How Do I Know If I Have a Dosha Imbalance?
Peruse these comprehensive and convenient lists of signs and symptoms of dosha imbalances.
As we are all comprised of 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.
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With Veena’s help, things are getting aligned. I am now a firm believer that: A.) She definitely knows what is talking about and B.) Ayurvedic medicine can be trusted. I am grateful to have found Veena!”
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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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