11/10/2025
Tea all day helps me stay hydrated and helps me integrate warming, stimulating herbs into my diet throughout the day.
Dates and nuts are nutrient dense, grounding and moistening snacks. They build ojas—the body’s vitality—and rasa—the Ayurvedic system of the body related to lymph and immune function that gives strength, resilience, radiance, and power.
Oil in everything. Fall is windy, cooling, dry, crackling—full of movement and releasing energy. In Ayurveda, opposites balance opposites. In fall, I put more oil in my food, on my hair and skin, in my bath water, and even into the air I breathe. Oil is the opposite of fall. Oil is snigda: unctious, smooth, lubricating, heavy, slow. It nourishes the body for the coming winter. It softens the skin and joints, making the body pliable and luscious. It protects against disease and stress.
