Spring It On

This Ayurvedic prescription for springtime health will help you leap from winter to spring with grace and ease.

By Scott Blossom

The most insidious threat to sukha and agni is living in the 21st century. Today's world offers endless enticements and makes implicit cultural demands to work hard and play hard. The beeping-flashing-ringing technologies that we've become attached to can overwhelm and inundate our subtle digestive capacities.

When we're overstimulated, we experience the same problems emotionally and neurologically that we do if we overeat—we get filled beyond our capacity, to the point of weakening the entire system. Whether you turn off the TV, heal a relationship, go away on a retreat, or commit more time to just doing nothing, don't forget to create more positive space, or sukha, in your life. Ultimately, that will increase the flow of prana (stoking your agni and burning away excess kapha and ama), and you'll not only feel healthier and lighter, but ready to revel in the glory of spring.

An integrative yoga therapist, Scott Blossom, L.Ac., lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Chandra, and their daughter, Tara. He thanks Chandra, Dr. Robert Svoboda, and Shandor Remete for their input to this article. He can be contacted at www.shunyatayoga.com.

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