Summer Series Ep 6: Summer Self Care Using Ayurveda with Niika Quistgard

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast, we talk to our favorite Ayurvedic expert, Niika Quistgard, all about how to use principles from Ayurveda to bring our bodies back into balance in the heat of summer.

She shares:

* How to adapt your lifestyle during pitta season--we get into how to approach your yoga practice, meditation, breathing techniques, and which foods to eat (and avoid) during Pitta season

* A few specific poses and practices that are calming for Pitta

* The one thing that's even more important than you dominant Ayurvedic constitution. (It's all about balance, baby!)

* What Niika means when she talks about taking "self-leadership" on your yoga mat and in your life

*BONUS: Enjoy the soothing sounds of nature throughout this interview as Niika is talking to us outdoors among some particularly melodious birds.

Show notes: http://jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode112

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 112 of Yoga Land.
0:08.0	So today I have what I feel like is a special treat because I don't talk about Iireveda a whole ton on the podcast,
0:15.9	so I'm excited to have Nika Kiskard back.
0:20.3	Nika is really my go-to person for Ayurveda.
0:23.0	She's one of the most knowledgeable Ayurvedic practitioners in the US.
0:28.0	She spent years in Kerala while she was there, she was the founder and director of Rasa Iireveda Traditional And she now runs her own consulting business and you can find her at Ayerama.com.
0:46.9	I'll put it on the show notes page but it's a y-u-r-mama dot com. Nika's been on two past episodes with me.
0:55.0	If you want to go back and listen to those,
0:57.0	she was on episode 17 where we talked about Vata season
1:01.0	and Ayurvedic ideas for staying calm and grounded in the fall.
1:05.3	And then she was on episode 81, which was part of my holiday series where we talked about
1:10.5	nourishing yourself during the holidays and cultivating your vital essence, which is called
1:15.8	Ojas in Ayurveda. So on this episode, I wanted her to talk about how we can approach a sustainable yoga practice through the lens of
1:25.9	Ayurveda and it's summer so we talk about pit a season. Summer is pit a season.
1:32.2	And one of the things that Nika points out
1:34.9	is that even if you don't feel like you are very
1:38.6	pita dominant in your everyday life,
1:42.1	we all carry all of the different doshas within us and they can go out of balance more easily according to season.
1:52.0	So since it's pit to season, even if you're not
1:53.9	like a pure, pure, pure pita, you're more likely
1:56.9	to go out of balance in the pitadocia.
2:00.8	So I had Nika just offer ideas on how to calm Pitta or stimulate Pitta on your mat, specific
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