A few years ago, I was introduced to Ayyveda by today's guest, Kate Sarage, whose my go-to

Ayurvedic practitioner, and it's been a real eye-opener. Ioveda is an ancient system of health

that helps you understand your mind and body type, what's known as your dosha, and how to stay in

balance. For me, it helped explain quite a lot, things like my energy, my sleep, digestion, even how

my mind works.

So in this episode, we talked through the basics, especially Varta, which is the dosha linked

to fast minds and bursts of creativity, which can tip over into racing thoughts and a sense of feeling ungrounded.

Kate, it's lovely to see you. How are you?

Oh, well, thanks. Thanks for having me on.

It's a pleasure. I am very grateful to you because if it wasn't for you, I would not be so familiar with the humble mung bean.

We love a mong bean.

Yeah, they've become a staple of my diet and I've never heard of them before I came to see you.

So I think I came to see you in about 2019, before which I didn't really know

anything about Iyveda. When did you get into it? Oh, 2004 is when I started doing my degree

in Ioveda and a little bit before that, just sort of understanding where it was, you know,

what it was and so on. But yeah, it started studying study my degree in 2004. And what drew you to it?

Well, I was, I was brought up in a family who were really into some Vedic tradition,

non-duality, Advaita Vedanta, lots of meditation and stuff, which was deeply embarrassing at

that age, you know, sort of growing up

with that, like, what are your parents doing? What are they saying? But it sort of seeped in. There

was something there about the Vedic tradition that really resonated. So there seemed to make, a lot of

things made sense. I've also seen the shadow sides of some of that since then as well, but it's,

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