I just had my Yoga workshop this weekend! I have been looking forward to this for a long time. I first started playing with Yoga 20 years ago and Ayurveda 10 years ago so the interest has been building for a very long time. I learned my Kapha is outta whack and blocking my other two doshas which is why I feel so off (and thanks to monster doses of Synthroid I might add). It also turns out that my crazy lifestyle, late to bed, early up, skipping meals, eating fast and so on are killer on my stability craving digestion/body….so here goes the journey!

Anyway thanks to this weekend I really learned to hear my digestion. So that burp (or worse) is really a bad sign, not just funny like we all thought in grade school. How sad it that that we would think such would be funny because it is so prevalent in our society….but I digress. As I was sitting at a great vegetarian restaurant I had to figure out what I could and couldn’t eat happily (for my digestion). After 10 minutes of relentless debate I happily settled for one of my favorites knowing I would have to deal with the effects of the gluten. An hour later as I looked in the mirror my face was all red, I broke out into a sweat and a bunch of little white heads appeared. Hint, hint–not good for tummy! 2 cups of ginger tea later and I was finally pacified. Lesson – know what works. There was a great quote this weekend…the first voice you hear is it a seduction of what you want, or your body talking to you out of love telling you what you need…

If we looked at all our food choices, or for that matter all our choices that way what an amazing life we would have! Wow, just let the mind contemplate that….if we made all of our choices based on what was good for us……how amazing would your life be?

This made me sit mindfully in my kitchen tonight and figure out what would be good for me, I was already told aim for a light broth so how to prepare it was solved, and what flavors to put together was purely by instinct. Since this was a valiant effort all around I thought I would share it:

Spicy Kale soup recipe

Handful red lentils (my protein source, and best lentil for Kapha)

Handful jasmine Rice (fragrance and smooth texture + warming / drying to digestion)

paprika, saffron, garlic pepper, chili flakes, curry powder (all of these are warming spices, that lighten the load on digestion

toast all above lightly and add in veges of choice (I chose onion, carrot, summer squash, zucchini – veges that aren’t too wet and have seeds are best for Kapha) and simmer to very soft in

no chicken chicken stock for me

then add in kale torn into bits (astringent, bitter awesome for Kapha)

Looks like I hit a winner of this both in taste and what’s good for me! So if you are also a kapha, enjoy!