Vata-Balancing Asana

Introduction

For those with a vata constitution, vata imbalance, and/or during the vata season, practices that encourage warmth, stability, grounding and focus can help to bring balance.

• See Doshas for details about the vata constitution and links to quizzes for determining one’s dosha make-up.
• See Seasonal Dosha-Balancing for information and planning related to vata seasons in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

Vata in Balance

Vata is a mix of air and ether elements.

• When vata dosha is in balance, you are imaginative, creative, sensitive, spontaneous, and exhilarated.
• The mind is peaceful and enters meditation spontaneously, developing intuitive insights and understanding of others and self.
• The feeling of balanced vata in the body is refreshed and relaxed. Breath is subtle yet moving deeply and fully into the lower abdomen.
• In balance, the colon is regular and there is absence of pain in the body.

VATA REPRESENTS MOVEMENT

Vata represents the wind, the ethers, and movement.  To pacify we want to ground and to connect to the strong earth energy that supports us. Tricky, fickle vata likes us to believe that our challenges are bigger than us, and oftentimes manifests as creating issues and making up stories. It’s mental trickery. With the aid of yoga and Ayurveda we can become our own caretakers, prescribing ourselves with the tools and techniques to maintain optimal health and to live life fully, and more joyfully. – Kim Smith