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Ep 29: Ayurvedic Spring Cleanse Q&A — How to Move Through Seasonal Transitions with Clarity and Self-Attunement

Seasonal change is not just something that happens around us — in Ayurveda, it is something that happens within us.

In this episode, I answer the most common questions I receive every year about Ayurvedic seasonal cleanses, with a special focus on the Spring Cleanse. Whether this is your first cleanse or you already live a “clean” lifestyle, this conversation invites you to look beyond food rules and into the deeper purpose of seasonal reset practices.

We explore why Ayurvedic cleanses are traditionally done at seasonal thresholds, how to approach them gently and intelligently, and why the real gift of cleansing is not kitchari or herbs — but learning to listen to your body.

I also recorded this episode during eclipse season, a time traditionally associated with heightened sensitivity and the need for more intentional living. If you’re feeling foggy, overstimulated, or inwardly restless, this episode is especially supportive.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why seasonal junctures are considered powerful (and vulnerable) thresholds in Ayurveda
• How spring relates to Kapha dosha, and why congestion, heaviness, and lethargy often arise this time of year
• The real purpose of Ayurvedic cleansing — and why it’s not about perfection
• How supporting Agni (digestive fire) helps you move through seasonal change with more stability
• Why timing a cleanse is less about fixed dates and more about observing nature
• What actually happens during the Spring Cleanse (preparation, cleanse days, and re-nourishment)
• How much time you realistically need each day (and why rest matters just as much as food)
• What to expect if this is your first cleanse — including discomfort, clarity, and self-trust
• Whether you “need” a cleanse if you already eat clean
• How seasonal cleanses help cultivate self-attunement, not just symptom relief

Mentioned in this episode

• 🎧 Ep 19: Cosmic Rhythms and Mental/Emotional Clarity: Ayurvedic Wisdom for Eclipse Seasons
• A supportive listen for navigating eclipse season with more steadiness and clarity.
  👉 Link to Episode 19
• 🌱 Ayurvedic Community Spring Cleanse
  A gentle, guided seasonal reset focused on digestion, lymphatic health, and self-attunement.
  👉 Sign up for the Spring Cleanse here

A note from me

If there’s one thing I hope you take from this episode, it’s this:
Wanting to feel better is not the same as wanting to listen to your body.

Seasonal cleanses are not about getting it right — they are about showing up, imperfectly and honestly, to create space for listening. Over time, that practi

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Episode 28: Partner Support on the Ayurvedic Path

Why decisiveness, self-leadership, and clarity change everything

In this episode of the Lean on Ayurveda Podcast, we explore a topic many of us quietly struggle with:
feeling supported (or not) by our partner when we choose to care for ourselves differently.

Drawing from Ayurveda, lived experience, and conversations with clients and listeners, this episode gently reframes “partner support” and reveals why clarity and decisiveness are often the missing piece—not more convincing, explaining, or negotiating.

Whether you feel fully supported, somewhat supported, or quietly resentful, this conversation offers relief, insight, and practical guidance.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why partner support has less to do with your partner and more to do with your own clarity
• How indecision quietly creates resentment (even when no one does anything “wrong”)
• Why we sometimes use our partner as an exit strategy when we don’t fully trust our own yes or no
• Why self-leadership and personal responsibility are where it's at
• How to articulate the real return on investment of your Ayurvedic practices
• Why investing in your well-being is never selfish—and how your whole family benefits
• How seasonal cleanses, structure, and rhythm support not only the body, but relationships

A key takeaway:

Your Ayurvedic journey is not about changing your partner.
It’s about becoming more rooted in yourself.

When you are clear, grounded, and decisive about what supports your health and fulfillment, collaboration becomes possible, often naturally. Support grows over time as the benefits become visible and embodied.

You don’t need perfect support to begin. Support evolves as self-trust deepens.

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Join Our Community Spring Cleanse 🌱

If this episode resonated and you’re feeling the call to reset with the season, you’re warmly invited to join the Community Spring Cleanse.

Key dates:

• Preparation begins: March 15 (live Zoom call)
• Cleansing days: March 20–22
• Integration phase: through March 25

What’s included:

• Guided preparation (phasing out caffeine, alcohol & refined sugar)
• Optional digital detox
• 3 days of Ayurvedic mono-diet (kitchari)
• Gentle integration support (including a live Zoom closing circle on 22 March)
• A nourishing, supportive community experience
• Done fully from home

This cleanse is ideal if you:

• Want to align with the seasonal rhythms of Ayurveda
• Are returning to a practice that already supports you
• Are new to Ayurveda and want a grounded, accessible entry point

✨ Early bird pricing is currently available!

👉 Save your seat

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In this episode, I'm joined by Osi Mizrahi, founder of Osi Oils - for a deep conversation on abhyanga (self-oil massage), slow beauty, and aging with vitality and grace.

Together, we explore how ancient Ayurvedic rituals can become a powerful antidote to modern stress, hormonal transitions, and the pressure to “fix” our bodies — inviting us instead into practices of self-love, sensuality, and nervous system regulation.

This episode is a beautiful entry point for anyone curious about Ayurvedic self-care, especially women navigating perimenopause, menopause, burnout, or a longing to reconnect with ritual in everyday life.

In this episode, we explore:

• What abhyanga really is — and why oiling the body is considered an act of love (sneha) in Ayurveda
• How beauty rituals can support the nervous system, hormones, and emotional healing
• The connection between vata dosha, aging, dryness, and stress
• Why slow beauty is inseparable from slow aging
• How small, realistic rituals (even 10 seconds!) can make a profound difference
• The role of pleasure (kama) as a legitimate and healing aim of life
• How oiling the skin supports ojas, radiance, and inner vitality
• Why aging is not the problem — urgency is
• Practical ways to begin Ayurvedic rituals without overwhelm

👉 Learn more about Osi and her oils here: https://osioils.com

🎁 Listener discount: Use code LEANON20 for 20% off your order

Spring Cleanse with Vytaute

If you’re feeling the call to reset, rebalance your doshas, and gently support digestion, hormones, and energy levels, I will be hosting the next Community Ayurvedic Spring Cleanse on:

🗓 March 20–22, 2026 (more info will follow!)

A beautiful way to support vata and kapha as we transition into spring.

Key Ayurvedic concepts mentioned:

• Abhyanga — daily self-oil massage
• Sneha — oil, love, affection
• Vata dosha — movement, dryness, aging, nervous system
• Ojas — vitality, immunity, inner glow
• Panchakarma — deep Ayurvedic cleansing and rejuvenation
• Slow beauty / slow aging — ritual over urgency

Resources & links

• Osi Oils website: https://osioils.com
• Discount code: LEANON20 (20% off)
• Spring Cleanse dates: March 20–22

✨ If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and share the Lean on Ayurveda Podcast — and consider passing it on to a woman who could benefit from more softness, ritual, and nourishment in her life.

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In this deep conversation, I’m joined by my beloved teacher Angela Perger, founder of Simple Ayurveda, to explore how ancient Ayurvedic wisdom can meet modern trauma awareness - and why, for many of us, healing requires more than food, herbs, and routines alone.

Together, we dive into trauma-informed Ayurveda, emotional digestion, and the role of community in healing chronic conditions. Angela shares her own powerful health journey, how she integrates German New Medicine (GNM) with Ayurveda, and why learning to live with paradox may be one of the most important skills on a healing path.

In this episode, we explore:

• What trauma-informed Ayurveda really means - and why it’s not a one-size-fits-all approach
• How unresolved emotional experiences can show up as physical symptoms
• Angela’s personal journey with autoimmune conditions and long-term healing
• An introduction to German New Medicine (GNM) and how it complements Ayurveda
• Why “doing everything right” still isn’t always enough - especially for Western nervous systems
• Emotional digestion and how the body processes unresolved experiences
• Working with health-related fear, medical anxiety, and chronic illness
• Ritualizing medication and medical appointments as a form of nervous system support
• The power of healing in community (and why it’s often missing today)
• Why sharing our stories in safe groups can be profoundly transformative
• Living in paradox: the wisdom of “yes, and” instead of “either/or”
• Creativity, improv, and joy as unexpected healing tools
• What it means to find - or create - a modern village for healing

About Angela Perger

Angela Perger is an Ayurvedic practitioner, educator, and the founder of Simple Ayurveda. With a background in education and decades of lived experience navigating chronic illness, Angela brings a deeply compassionate, nuanced lens to healing.

Her work integrates classical Ayurveda with trauma awareness, emotional digestion, ancestral inquiry, and German New Medicine - supporting people who feel they’ve “done all the right things” but are still searching for deeper resolution.

Angela is also the host of the Simple Ayurveda Podcast, where she shares grounded, practical wisdom for living in rhythm with nature and the body.

Explore Angela’s work:

🌿 Website: https://simpleayurveda.com
🎧 Podcast: Simple Ayurveda (available on all podcast platforms)

Her Programme Ayurveda Encompassed starts in February 2026!

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In the final episode of 2025, we’re closing the year with a special Q&A, featuring questions submitted by my current clients. We explore everything from the truth about ghee and inflammation, to navigating the emotional weight of the world, to finding your way out of procrastination patterns.

In this episode, we cover:

• Is ghee inflammatory?
We look at what modern sources say, where confusion often arises, how ghee behaves in the body according to Ayurveda, the role of butyrate in gut health, and what the classical texts tell us about using ghee therapeutically.

• How to feel harmony in a world that feels harsh.
We explore the lens of Kali Yuga, the deeper perspective of yogic philosophy, how to hold both agency and surrender, and the two practices that can keep you rooted when the world feels overwhelming: rhythm and prayer.

• “I keep procrastinating. What do I do?”
A practical Ayurvedic take on procrastination. We differentiate between tamasic (inert) procrastination and rajasic (busy but avoidant) procrastination — and how to shift each one using sattva, rajas, or both.

End-of-Year Offering: Ayurvedic Holiday Support Sessions

For the month of December, I’m opening up something I rarely offer — single one-on-one sessions to support you through the holiday season.

These 60-minute focused sessions can support you with:

• digestion and food rhythm while traveling or hosting
• stress, sensory load, and overwhelm
• emotional tenderness that often arises this time of year

We choose 1–2 priorities and build a simple, personalized support system so you can enter the new year feeling grounded, nourished, and clear.

→ Book your session here.

Resources Mentioned in this episode:

• WebMD nutritional overview of ghee
• Research on the anti-inflammatory effects of butyrate: Canani RB, Costanzo MD, Leone L, Pedata M, Meli R, Calignano A. Potential beneficial effects of butyrate in intestinal and extraintestinal diseases. World J Gastroenterol. 2011 Mar 28;17(12):1519-28. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v17.i12.1519. PMID: 21472114; PMCID: PMC3070119.
• Charaka Samhita passages on ghee (ghṛta)
• Simple Ayurveda Podcast ep 169: Time from a Vedic Perspective: A Deep Dive into the Yugas.

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Episode 24 — Winter Foods: How to Nourish Your Body and Build Strength This Season

In today’s episode, we explore how to nourish yourself during winter (Hemanta) using the principles of Ayurveda.
This is the season of strong digestive fire, deeper nourishment, and building the tissues that carry you through the colder months. Think: sweet, sour, salty, warm, grounding, and deeply supportive foods.

Before we dive in, I’m also sharing a special offering available only in November and December — my 1:1 Ayurvedic Holiday Support Sessions, a single 60-minute session designed to help you create a simple system of support for the very real challenges of this season. If you’ve been curious about what Ayurvedic coaching feels like, this is the perfect taster.

What We Explore in This Episode

🌬️ Early Winter & Your Body’s Intelligence

• Why your digestive fire naturally strengthens when the weather turns cold
• How Ayurveda understands this season as a time of containment, nourishment, and steadying the system
• What happens if you don’t feed your digestive fire properly during winter (hint: depletion)

🥣 The Ayurvedic Tastes That Support You Most Now

You’ll learn which of the six tastes build strength and stability in winter and how to naturally bring them into your meals.

We discuss the sweet taste present in grains, dairy products and the use of meat as medicine.

We also cover sour and salty tastes and their roles in supporting digestion of heavier winter foods.

We talk about warm hydration rituals and their role in strengthening agni - our digestive fire.

🌱 What Winter Is Really About in Ayurveda

Winter is the season of building kapha on purpose.
Build wisely now → feel strong in spring.
Under-nourish now → deplete deeply later.

Book your Winter Holiday Support Session with Lean on Ayurveda here.

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Feeling the pull to slow down while the world speeds up?

In this episode, I share how introverts and sensitive souls can navigate the end-of-year season with more peace, groundedness, and intention — using Ayurveda’s timeless tools for nourishment & rest.

As the year begins to wind down, the world around us tends to speed up — parties, deadlines, and a swirl of activity pulling us outward. Yet, nature — and often our inner world — call for stillness, reflection, and warmth.

In this episode, we explore the paradox of being an introvert (or simply a sensitive soul) in an extroverted season, and how Ayurveda invites us to meet this threshold with grace, nourishment, and truthfulness.

You’ll learn:
🌙 Why this time of year naturally calls for inward reflection — and how to honor that pull
🔥 What Ayurveda recommends for the winter season (nourishment, coziness, intimacy, and truthfulness)
🪞How to work with Vata energy and reverse the momentum of anxiety or overactivity
💬 The importance of saying truthful “yeses” — and peaceful “nos”
💗 How to create sacred pauses and design a more harmonious, heart-led season
💌 Why solitude and depth might be your greatest sources of connection

Whether you identify as an introvert, an empath, or simply someone craving more peace at the end of the year — this episode will help you soften into the wisdom of the season.

Work with me this Season:

I’m offering two ways to receive Ayurvedic support this winter:

1. 🌿 Holiday Support Sessions — Single 1:1 sessions to help you feel grounded, clear, and centered through the holiday season. Available only through November and December.
   👉 Book your Holiday Support Session
   
   
2. ✨ Awaken Your Health (12-Week Journey) — My signature Ayurvedic mentorship program designed to help you understand your body, align your daily rhythm, and finally feel better.
   👉 Book a Free Consult for Awaken Your Health

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What if the power you’re chasing is already yours, but buried under constant striving? We take a clear-eyed look at women’s empowerment through the Ayurvedic lens and ask the braver question: what changes when we stop gripping outcomes and start trusting right action paired with real rest. The answer is not passivity—it’s stronger agency, steadier hormones, and choices that match our true capacity.

I share a pivotal story about learning surrender during my son’s hospital stay and how that moment reframed my idea of strength. From there, we unpack the patterns Ayurveda often reveals in driven women: pitta pushing for control and vata fueling fear, leading to overplanning, rigid timelines, mental dryness, and joy that depends on external wins. We connect these patterns to fertility and reproductive health, exploring why softening resistance can free prana, support the sacral center, and bring back creativity and libido.

You’ll hear practical ways to live this balance. We talk about designing weeks for the energy you actually have, not the energy you wish you had. We explore oiling the system—sleep, nourishment, gentle movement—as soma to stabilize agni, your inner fire. We practice allowing other people to be as they are to end the hidden battles that drain you. And we lean into trusted guidance—from teachers to the quiet intelligence of your own body. Along the way, the Gita’s teaching lands with fresh clarity: you have the right to action, not to the fruits of action. That single shift calms the timeline and makes space for mystery.

If empowerment without surrender breeds anxiety, empowerment with surrender breeds grounded confidence. From that place, decisions feel clean, boundaries land with grace, and timelines soften without losing momentum. Press play to reclaim a form of power that nourishes you back. If this conversation speaks to you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a woman who could use a little less fight and a lot more flow.

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