Dru Ayurveda (2025)

16/10/2025

Join our free Q&A session Friday 17 October, 18.30 to discover how Ayurveda can help with everyday health challenges — from anxiety and poor sleep to joint pain and digestion issues.

We’ll explore the five key pathways of Dru Ayurveda to help you create a personalised approach to lasting health.

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03/10/2025

Abhyanga is the ancient art of oil massage — a daily ritual that nourishes both body and mind. Warm, herb-infused oils glide across the skin, soothing tension, calming the nervous system, and restoring balance.

Especially in Vata season 🍂, when the air is cool and dry, this gentle practice brings warmth, grounding, and ease. It softens the body, opens energy pathways, and invites a mindful pause.

Even a few minutes a day can leave you feeling lighter, calmer, and more connected to yourself. Abhyanga is more than massage — it’s a quiet act of self-care, a way to nurture your energy, and a step toward lasting vitality.

✨ Do you practice Abhyanga? Share your favorite ritual in the comments below! ✨

23/09/2025

Come join us at the Snowdonia Mountain Lodge this October! 🏔️🍂

There are just a few opportunities left for you to nourish yourself 🌿, restore balance ⚖️, and welcome the season with warmth and care ✨ at our Nourish & Align Ayurveda retreat.

We’d love to see you there! 💕

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14/09/2025

⛰️ Come join us in the Welsh mountains this October for our Nourish & Align Ayurveda retreat.

🌿 Nourish yourself, restore balance, and welcome the season with warmth and care. We can’t wait to greet you!

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05/09/2025

🍂 Join us for our Nourish & Align autumn Ayurveda retreat, where each day flows with intention:

🧘 Yoga to awaken your energy

🌬️ Guided breathwork + mindful walks in nature

🌙 Simple rituals to support deep sleep + digestion

🥗 Warm, seasonal meals to nourish you from the inside out

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26/08/2025

✨ “Your face holds hidden points of calm + radiance… have you found them yet?” ✨

If you’ve been following this series on marma points, you might be wondering when we’d get to the point (pun intended! 😉).

This October, we invite you to join us for a calming, heart-centred ritual designed to:

💖 support your natural radiance
🌿 ease emotional tension
🕊️ encourage a deep sense of peace from within

The best part? You can enjoy this journey right from the comfort of your own home 🏡.

Stay tuned — in our next post, we’ll explore how to massage the three points you learned today for even deeper benefits.

19/08/2025

✨ You’ll learn the sacred art of Ayurvedic marma face massage — a soothing, heart-opening ritual that awakens your natural glow 🌸, releases emotional tension, and brings deep inner peace 🕊️.

Don’t miss your chance to experience this beautiful journey from the comfort of your home. In the next post, we'll delve into some of the most important marma points.

16/08/2025

🌿 Mantra, Meditation & Your Dosha 🕉️
Discover how your Ayurvedic type — Vata, Pitta, or Kapha — shapes your mind, emotions & energy.

✨ In this 1-hour live masterclass, learn:
✨ Mantras for stress, anxiety, fatigue & low motivation
✨ Practices tailored to your dosha & the seasons
✨ Simple tools to re-centre, uplift & soothe anytime 🕊️

📅 Practical wisdom for daily balance & inner harmony.

12/08/2025

🌿 According to Ayurveda, you have vital energy centers located throughout your body. These are marma points, and stimulating them can promote healing, restore balance, and improve your mood. ✨

📜 Marma means “secret” or “vital” in Sanskrit, and the marma points are said to serve as gateways between your body and consciousness. You'll find them all over your body, at the points where muscles, veins, ligaments, bones, and joints intersect. Ayurvedic texts mention 108 primary marma points, each associated with specific organs, tissues, and systems.

🍂 This October, we’re running a beautiful, two-day online course to teach you the sacred art of Ayurvedic marma face massage — a calming, heart-opening practice for radiance, emotional release, and inner peace. 💆‍♀️

🤲 All you need is your own hands, a bit of oil, and some guided time to reconnect with yourself.

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⚖️ In the next post, we'll look at what happens when the marma points become unbalanced.

05/08/2025

Herbs are the fifth Dru Ayurveda pathway, and if you like cooking, you can have great fun with them. Herbs give life to your food, making the kitchen smell wonderful. Not only that, but Ayurveda also teaches us that each ingredient has its own properties. Be warned: Delving into the science of cooking can be addictive! 🌿

Summer is also a wonderful time to experiment with herbal drinks. Sip cool drinks throughout the way, and try infusing them with herbs for extra flavour and cooling effects.🌱

Here are our top cooling ingredients to add to your drink this summer:

🍃Mint;

💚Saffron;

🍃Coriander;

☕Cumin seeds;

Mint, coriander and saffron can be added to fresh water. Try boiling cumin seeds for a few minutes and then cooling the tea and sipping throughout the day. 🥤

And if you really can't do without your coffee, add a little cardamom to the mix to counteract the effects of the caffeine on your nervous system. 😀

21/07/2025

Yoga and meditation make up the third Dru Ayurvedic pathway

🧘‍♀️To balance pitta dosha, fight the urge to just keep on going and allow yourself to slow down at this time of year. Invite a sense of luxuriousness into your movements, allowing your body to flow, unled by the mind.

🚶Avoid competitiveness—even with yourself. Instead, move with gentleness and joy, with eyes downcast or even closed.

☀️And if you don't yet have a yoga and meditation practice, summer is the best time to start!

🐢You don't need to spend an hour twisting and stretching on the mat to call it a yoga practice. Just a few minutes a day or mindful movement is all that it takes to make you feel more at home in your body as you move through your day.

🧘‍♂️You also don't need to sit in meditation for a long time to make it worthwhile. If you have a pitta constitution, you probably like a challenge. So here's the challenge:

Slow down. Do less. Sit quietly.

Find it hard? Check out this free breath awareness video.

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In the next post, we'll be looking at other methods of inducing relaxation and that sense of ease within the body.

11/07/2025

The first ‘Pathway of Dru Ayurveda’ is DIET.

If you're a strong pitta type, you might tend to fall back on spicy foods and sour tastes as your staple, but Ayurvedic wisdom recommends two main rules for when your pitta is high:

🍋 Avoid salty, pungent and sour foods;

🥬Choose sweet, bitter and astringent foods.

In practice, this means reducing:

🌶️Hot spices

☕Coffee

🍺Alcohol

and choosing plenty of:

🥦Green vegetables

🥕Roots

🥥Other cooling foods such as coconut-infused rice.

If you find the very suggestion of reducing your favourite foods alarming, hold that thought! You don't need to completely overhaul your diet to find more balance (at least, not all at once).

On a particularly hot day, take the opportunity to get to know what works and what doesn't. Perhaps this would be a good day to say no to that oily, spicy dish for dinner, and opt instead for a cooling mung bean kitchari. Maybe it's also a good time to limit caffeine and alcohol. It doesn't mean you can't ever have them again, but choose your moments.

We love teaching and learning about Ayurvedic cuisine. Want to know more about eating in alignment with your dosha? Consider joining us for our NOURISH & ALIGN AUTUMN RETREAT.

https://druyoga.com/event/nourish-and-align-2025-reset-your-circadian-rhythm-with-ayurveda-and-yoga-in-nature/

Much as we love food, Ayurveda's not all about food, and in the next article, we'll be looking at the second Dru Ayurvedic pathway: Lifestyle.

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