Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my good friend and co-host

Ananga Sivir. Today we're discussing how springtime nourishes and supports our mental and physical health.

Spring is the season that brings hope and energy as nature blossoms around us and the air begins to warm up.

This is the time when we're invited to go outside and stretch and move and breathe and

and it's also the time that encourages reflection on our personal growth, how we live our life and if we're in step with our aspirations.

And of course, Iurveda is a part of all of this as well.

Following the seasons, Ayurvedically is something that's incredibly intelligent.

And Ananga, would you like to speak to that a little bit?

Yeah, Aravader recommends seasonal adjustments and self-care.

In Aravader, that's called Rittucharya, being in step with the season, noticing the changes as the season comes around adjusting

our lifestyle and our nutrition, not massive changes, just little adjustments and alignments, and today we're going to be sharing

some herbs and spices that support these adjustments and set us up for good health

in the spring. The more I learn about Iurveda, the more I study it, the more I live it, the more I am so incredibly

grateful for all of this knowledge to be right in my lap.

I've just picked up a couple new books recently and I've had my nose in them and

Higherveda is, it's like a road map isn't it a

roadmap for healthy living yeah how to protect our health, our well-being and

mind yeah to understand our psychophysiological makeup, how to really know ourselves,

know our mind, know how the mind as a thing works, but how ours works as well because we're not all the same.

The first thing I learned and loved about Aravada was how it honors our individual nature

and how that helps us develop compassion for ourselves but also for those

around us how we can understand ourselves and others more. Here we are in

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