It's autumn, according to Ayurveda a perfect time to cleanse your body! Indian health doctrine recommends detoxing twice a year to ensure a healthy body and mind.
Eline van Dandelien offers coaching in the field of Ayurveda, Reiki and Aromatherapy. She helps women and children to regain balance during 1-1 programs, but also gives workshops and training to introduce you to Ayurveda or to get started with an Ayurvedic detox. As a mother of three, she knows better than anyone how to use Ayurveda easily and effectively.
She wrote an article especially for Your Way of Life about Ayurveda and how to detox responsibly!
What is Ayurveda?
Ayurveda is a holistic healing method from India. It has been practiced worldwide for over 5000 years and is therefore recognized as one of the oldest health sciences in existence. It is based on the theory of the five elements: ether, air, fire, water and earth.
These five elements are divided into the three doshas:
• Vata – air and ether
• Pitta – fire and water
• Kapha – water and earth
For a healthy body and mind it is important that these doshas are in balance and that your digestive fire works well. Ayurveda is a preventive medicine that considers everyone unique and attaches great value to living in balance. When you take good care of yourself and know which diet & lifestyle suits you, you can prevent diseases. That is why a biennial detox is so important.
An MOT for your body
How does an Ayurvedic detox work? During an Ayurvedic detox you eliminate waste products (this is called ama in Ayurveda) and ensure a well-functioning digestive fire. This is also ideal to combine with the Intermittent Fasting Matchapolitan Lifestyle and the Intermittent Living Lifestyle .
Ama is the main cause of imbalance and imbalance can result in illness, we want to prevent this of course. If you have few waste products in your body, your body can react as it should react. Think of it as a glass lens through which you can see clearly. With a lot of waste products, you look through a lens that is dirty with butter. You see cloudy and therefore cannot react adequately. This costs your body a lot of energy and can lead to unpleasant complaints and allergies.
A good digestive fire (in Ayurvedic terms agni) enables you to digest well. Imagine you and your partner go to visit your sick sister. Your partner gets sick and you have no problems. This means that your agni is working well and your partner's agni could use some support.
In short: when there are few waste products in your body and your digestive fire is working properly, your body can function well so that you can enjoy life in balance!
Ama checklist
Do you recognize yourself in one of the points below? This is a sign that there are too many waste products in your body:
• You can't get out of bed in the morning.
• You have little energy.
• You suffer from PMS symptoms.
• You have an irritated skin.
• You have little appetite.
• There is plaque on the tongue (examine your tongue before brushing your teeth).
• You have an upset stomach and/or a bloated stomach.
• You have difficulty going to the toilet.
• Your body feels stiff.
• You have a painful lower back.
• You don't feel well in your body and/or sometimes feel a bit depressed.
A detox is also the perfect preparation for pregnancy and a great way to get to know Ayurveda!
' NEW SEASON, FRESH START' AYURVEDIC AUTUMN DETOX
Would you also like to detox Ayurvedically and would you like to do this under supervision?
Then join the Dandelien autumn detox including webinar, e-book and personal coaching call.
Why do we detox in the fall?
The beginning of fall is a perfect time for cleansing.
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Autumn is called the vata season in Ayurveda and consists of the elements ether & air, one of the characteristics is dryness.
The heat of the summer has made the fire burn so hard that it has also caused dryness. Compare it to a warm summer day where you forget to put on sunscreen. The result is: dry skin. Dryness in your body can be noticed by creaking joints, constipation and dry skin. With a Vata imbalance you will also feel restless, suffer from thoughts that are all over the place and experience insomnia.
By giving your body rest in the form of this mono-diet, you stimulate its self-healing capacity and cleanse your digestive system. You get rid of the excess heat and dryness and digest your waste so that your body comes into balance. In this way you can cope with the coldness and dryness of autumn and winter.
You also digest mental impressions and emotions during the detox, these can surface when you follow the mono diet and it is therefore recommended to plan rest on these days. Clearing out mental waste contributes to a carefree autumn and ensures that you are (again) happy with yourself. 
Mung beans and spices
An Ayurvedic detox is characterized by the use of mung beans and spices. The focus is namely on maintaining and obtaining a good digestive fire. In this way all waste products can be digested well. You eat full hot meals so you do not suffer from a feeling of hunger.
Mung beans are green beans that have a scraping effect in your intestines. They scrape waste products loose and these leave your body through the stool. The word mung beans probably doesn't ring a bell, but when they germinate you get bean sprouts. You may be familiar with that. You use mung beans in mung bean soup and the one-pot dish kitchari.
CLICK HERE FOR THE KITCHERI RECIPE!
Let's get started!
There are many ways to detox. You can start with one day, three days or even do a detox of several weeks. It is important that on those detox days you only eat soup and dishes based on mung beans, spices and vegetables and drink herbal infusion or warm water. & don't forget... this is also completely Intermittent Fasting Matchapolitan Lifestyle and Intermittent Living proof.
Especially for the autumn season, Eline van Dandelien has the Ayurvedic autumn detox: New Season, Fresh Start composed. A detox consisting of a reduction phase (3 days), detox phase (3 days) and build-up phase (3 days). You will receive an e-book, webinar and personal coaching call with Eline so that the detox is tailored to your needs.
If you participate in the program and order the detox box with durable ingredients, you will receive tea blends from the Ayurveda collection of Cafe Couture.
For more information about Eline & Dandelien's practice, go to: www.dandelien.com or follow Eline on Instagram for easy Ayurveda tips & recipes.
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