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

co-host Ananga Civier. Following on from last week's episode where we were talking about how springtime can help us

nourish our mental and physical health, we're exploring the Ayurvedic body clock and how we can

use this understanding of the energies at play at different times of the day to build a routine that helps calm anxiety.

Hello Ananga, nation. It's good to be with you again for another episode.

And to learn more from you about the Ayurvedic body clock,

because I know a little bit, but you are definitely the expert here.

I don't know about expert but it's something that's been very interesting and helpful to me

and since we were talking about routine recently on the

podcast and healing routine I thought it might be interesting to our

listeners. So we've talked before about Aire Vader and the three different body types Vata, Ita and Kafa.

And if you're new to the podcast please go through our archives on our website and have a

list and if this is a subject that's interesting to you we have

lots of introductory discussions. So these three energies that affect us as mind and body types, Vata, Pita Kafa, are also there in different timings in our life.

They're there in different stages of our life.

Kafa is childhood stage of life if you think of kids with all their energy

and beautiful squishy skin and shiny abundant fast growing hair and beautiful eyes that energy and beauty and stamina of

children is from that kaffa time of life and pitter is the energy that governs us through our youth, through our career years, towards our retirement years.

Pitter is a very dynamic energy, it's governed by the elements, fire and water, so that's our career, study achieving years.

And then Vutter comes in more in our autumn and winter years, and Vutter has an energy of wisdom and detachment and meditative nature.

So there's some wonderful properties available to us in Vata in our later years, it can also bring dryness and other things into the body as well.

So it's helpful to know along with our mind-body type that we have how there are these different stages

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