Summer Digestion

Nutrition
Written By Leanne de Groot
 

Often when we are in the fiery summer season, we can be stimulated by the element “Pitta” and some of us will move deeply into our pitta nature (focusing intently, task-mastering, multitasking, and generally burning up with hunger) that by the time we sit down to eat, we practically inhale our food (guilty!).

Rather than inhaling your food while standing to save time, assist your body by cultivating your sattvic (balanced) ayurvedic eating etiquette, so that digestion can occur in a relaxed and settled state.

Sit down, be calm, chew your food, look at your food, be soft in conversation or be silent, and sit still for a spell after you eat to give yourself space to begin to fully absorb and assimilate your nourishment. Allow your body the benefits that we are searching for from your food. Eat as though you absolutely love your body - nutrify and nourish it!!

I've just completed my Ayurvedic Nutrition training and I'm so excited to permeate this through my current holistic health and nutrition practice!! I am now offering an incredible Initial Consultation (1hr) at $60 for the month of Feb 2021.

Comment below to book your virtual or in-person consultation.

 
Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

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