The Secret To Improving Your Relationship

In Today's Email:

• The Secret To Improving Your Relationship: Doshas and how they affect your love life...

• Did You Know? Bhastrika (Bellows Breath)...

• Yoga Pose Of The Day: Diamond Pose...

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The Secret To Improving Your Relationship?

Enhance your understanding of yourself and your partner.

IF YOU’RE FACING challenges in your relationship, there’s no shortage of advice out there for you. Friends, family, podcast hosts, best-selling book authors, and Instagram poets all have ideas about how you should think, feel, and act in order to better understand your partner and be understood by them. But there’s another resource you might want to consult about how to show up in your relationships: one of the world’s oldest health systems, Ayurveda.

Ayurveda is based on the mind-body connection and the concept of doshas, or energy archetypes. Each of us is born with a combination of the three doshas— Vata (air and ether), pitta (fire and water), and Kapha (earth and water)—in varying amounts, although there is typically a primary dosha that influences most of your decisions and interactions, including how you react when your relationship hits a rough patch.

Understanding your dominant dosha —and that of your romantic partner—can bring empathy as well as balance to your relationship. This in turn brings harmony to every day and helps you evolve as a couple, since a committed, long-term relationship needs some creativity and spontaneity (Vata), passion and purpose (pitta), and stability and comfort (Kapha).

✨ YOUR PRIMARY DOSHA IS VATA...

What You Bring To Relationships

Vatas are airy, a little ungrounded, and love the thrill of adventure and starting something new. If your dominant doshais vata, you’re probably always the one in your relationship coming up with new places and experiences to explore together.

Vatas enjoy being loved on—you probably like surprise text messages, hugs, and physical displays of action. You show your better half love by finding unique ways to remind them of your enthusiasm for being in a partnership, such as leaving notes on the mirror or making their lunch for work.

Your ideal partner Vatas benefit from the grounding nature of homebody Kaphas and the take-charge personality of pittas—archetypes that encourage a relationship to move along and develop into something more serious. Connections with these grounding doshas create balance and a foundation that can keep the relationship stable over time. If your partner is also Vata dominant, remember to make compromises.

✨ YOUR PRIMARY DOSHA IS PITTA...

What You Bring To Relationships

You’re likely determined, organized, and know what you want out of your partnership. Because you like to always have a sense of direction, you don’t like to play a relationship by ear. Knowing early on what your love interest would like from you—whether something long-term or a fling—helps you relax around that person.

Your ideal partnerVata-dominant partners help a pitta embrace spontaneity and release perfection. A grounding, Kapha-dominant mate can balance out your drive to achieve by encouraging you to spend time together without the need for any purpose beyond being in each other’s space. If both of you are predominantly pitta, take time to listen to and respect the other’s opinions—even when you do not agree. Knowing when to drop a disagreement is key.

✨ YOUR PRIMARY DOSHA IS KAPHA...

What You Bring To Relationships

Kaphas are very much the cuddle bunnies. You likely want to stay home, watch movies, and love on your partner—and feel loved in return. Your grounding nature helps remind your partner to slow down and revel in the benefit and comfort of everyday moments that might otherwise be overlooked. Because you are a natural nurturer, you accept your partner exactly as they are and are considerate of their needs.

Your ideal partnerA Vata-dominant partner can help you to get out of your comfort zone and experience all the world has to offer. Similarly, someone who is predominantly pitta will encourage you to find something that stirs your passion and fire or brings you movement and drive. Just make sure they don’t push you too far—there are times when you should try new adventures, but other times you may need to stay back and encourage your partner to have fun without you. A fellow Kapha-dominant partner can feel great—someone to stay at home with you!

🧐 DID YOU KNOW?

When you need to flow toward a personal or creative goal, Bhastrika (Bellows Breath) can help clear the mind. Sit comfortably on a chair, or cross-legged on the floor or on a cushion. Place your palms on your navel. Close your eyes and breathe in deeply then out fully, feeling the breath move. On the next inhalation through the nose, stop the breath halfway and exhale sharply, drawing your navel to your spine. Repeat 27 times—short inhalations halfway into the belly and forceful exhalations quickly pulling your navel to the spine. When you’ve finished, slow down the breath gradually until you exhale completely. Breathe in and out fully and comfortably, noticing heat in the body. Repeat 1–2 more times.

Yoga Pose Of The Day:

Vajrasana (Diamond Pose)

Vajra in Sanskrit means "diamond," which is why this pose is often referred to as the "Diamond Pose." When you practice this pose, it keeps your mind calm, improves concentration, and makes your body as strong as the "Vajra." To begin, get down on the floor on your knee. Get your knees, toes, and ankles to touch the ground and align with each other. Rest your buttocks on your heels as they touch. Now, rest your hands on your knees. Get your back straight. Close your eyes, look straight in front of you, and then take a deep breath and relax.

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