YOGA ASANA for KAPHA DOSHA and KAPHA SEASON

Spring is considered the Kapha season.

Keep Kapha Dosha happy and in balance with a suitable diet, lifestyle, treatments and yoga.

Yoga Asana for Kapha Dosha. You can find out more in our Lakshmi Yoga Ebook. 

A Kapha balancing yoga practice should be working on Kapha’s opposite qualities such as lightness, mobility and warmth to counter act on lack of motivation, complacency and feelings of excess of heaviness. Think of ways to increase heat and heart rate by breathing into the intensity of any pose. 

Chest opener asana are highly recommended to access the main sites of Kapha dosha which are mainly located in the lungs and the stomach.

Surya Namaskar is best when practices with more vigour and focus on the chest area.

Poses like extended side angle (parsvakonasana) will bring equally heat and lightness, especially when focussing on raising the gaze towards the sky; forward and back bends will be also very good at warming the chest to help expelling any excess of Kapha out of the body.

Inversions like Sirsasana are also a great place to cut through stagnancy in favour of lightness - at this point of practice Kapha stamina has kicked in and you can hold the inversion for bit longer as long as they are practiced safely.

While you want to progress to a stronger, faster, and more challenging practice in order to move feelings of denseness out of the body, you should always allow short breaks. Child’s pose is always Tridoshic and easing into the pace will help you maintain motivation and not become easily discouraged.

Savasana should be from 5-10 minutes to uplift the heavy, melancholy energy associated with Kapha dosha.

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