July is when summer's hot, dry, light qualities are at their peak. The earth is producing juicy fruits filled with electrolytes, the body is sweating more, and the liver is working harder than it does the rest of the year. Ayurveda's July p…
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Monthly seasonal teachings, recipes from Susan's kitchen, lineage notes, and the practices that matter this month. Same material Susan teaches her current cohort, rendered as one essay a month for the wider community.
June is when summer's heat starts to deplete the body. Every one-degree rise in body temperature makes your heart beat ten extra beats per m…
May is the last month to release any trapped heat before summer locks the body into its hot pattern. The spring dampness is still around, an…
April symptoms can include a runny nose, itchy eyes (often due to trapped heat from the winter), rashes, and sore throats. This is the seaso…
March is when your layer of winter fat begins to melt on your body due to the increasing temperatures outside. That can often result in cong…
January is a month of transition from Vata season to Kapha season. The qualities of light, dry, and cold increase. Do you notice your cuticl…
October is the last chance to alkalize before the winter. To alkalize, in Susan's teaching, means to open the channels and release. October …
September is when autumn arrives in earnest. The cool mornings are showing up, the body is asking for warm breakfasts and grounding food, an…
Around the middle of August the weather starts to change. There is a change at the core of the earth, and the body feels it. The first cool …
"Ayurveda: The Genes of God" is Susan Bass's coffee-table introduction to the ancient science of Ayurveda. Twenty years of teaching, distill…
December is the time of year when the cold air hits the lungs first. If you've ever felt that contracting pain in your chest on a frigid mor…
Eclipses, full moons, and high-energy astrological days intensify everything you say and do. Ayurveda's response is specific: ground vata in…
November is sweet, sour, salty season in Ayurveda. The cold weather has driven your heat deep, which means your digestive fire is strong and…
In Ayurveda, your spice cabinet is your medicine cabinet. Autumn raises the cold, rough, dry qualities of Vata in the body. The right spices…
When you are thinking, the neurons in your brain fire away, and they need minerals to do it. A LOT of minerals. Fresh-cut culinary herbs are…
Prabhav is the Ayurvedic word for a food's special, unique, and unexplainable quality. The superpower. Camels have a prabhav for surviving t…
Ayurveda is based on terrain theory. Your terrain is your microbiome, roughly 30 trillion microorganisms living in and on your body. Most of…
Should you do a spring cleanse? In Ayurveda, the answer is almost always yes. Spring is nature's cleansing season, and the body knows. The q…
We teach the integration of Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy. They are not taught as separate entities. Below is the story of why I started teachin…
Summer is Pitta season in Ayurveda. The fire element accumulates and gets trapped, leading to irritability, skin inflammation, acid indigest…
Tejas is the Ayurvedic word for the inner radiance some people carry. The glow. The lightness of being. The "magic about them" quality that …
Ayurveda is about moving with the rhythms and cycles of nature. Get ahead of seasonal imbalance and Doshic accumulation with our month-by-month seasonal blog. Join us for seasonal teachings, recipes from my kitchen, lineage notes, and the practices that matter this month.
One email a month from Susan with the next month's seasonal pulse, a recipe or practice, and a note on what's coming up at the Institute.