Practical Ayurveda: Wisdom Wednesdays

Determining Your Dosha! Working with Your Prakruti & Vikruti

Let’s take a deep look at the three doshas, known as vata, pitta, and kapha.

These are the three operating principles used in Ayurveda to determine our state of physical and mental health over time. Each one represents a tendency towards a certain excess, such as nervousness, inflammation or congestion.

The overall balance of these three principles when we’re born determines our body-mind constitution, known as our Prakruti, our original nature.

Over time, this balance can change, giving us our current condition, or Vikruti.

Nature and Nurture.