Vata Dosha Balancing Ayurveda Mandala I Poster

Ayurveda is a 5,000 year old Indian science of life. It offers a body of wisdom designed to help people stay vital while realizing their full human potential. Ayurveda describes three fundamental energies that govern our inner and outer environments: movement, transformation, and structure. These bodily bio-elements or "doshas" (in Sanskrit, Vata [Wind], Pitta [Fire], and Kapha [Earth]) are responsible for the characteristics of our mind and body. (To determine your dosha, take this quiz: https://store.chopra.com/dosha-quiz) Each of us has a unique proportion of these three forces that shapes our nature. An important goal of Ayurveda is to identify a person’s ideal state of balance, determine where they are out of balance, and offer interventions using diet, herbs, aromatherapy, chromotherapy (color), massage treatments, music, and meditation to reestablish balance. Meditating on particular colors can help achieve or maintain balance. Vata dosha represents cosmic wind energies and therefore needs the grounding powers of yellows and golds, which are particularly beneficial, as well as blues and violets, to maintain balance. Using this personal-size mandala as a focus of your meditation or other spiritual practices can help bring balance to a Pitta individual. A tiny yin yang symbol is at the very center of the mandala as a reminder to keep balance at the center of your life. For more dosha balancing mandalas, and for non-dosha based meditation mandalas, go to the "Yoga/Buddhism/Hinduism/Spirituality" section of my store or my Collection, "Yen For Yoga." Namaste.