Cooling cucumber coconut bowl
Pitta dosha is a fiery dosha! If you know or suspect your dominant dosha is pitta, this recipe will help you cool down.
About Pitta dosha
People with lots of pitta in them can have freckles, red hair, or a skin with impurities such as pimples. Inflammation in the body is also a pitta thing. They often feel warm or sweaty and tend to cross their own and others boundaries. They can be competitive and crave a strong vinyasa practice, although this usually just turns up the heat even more. If that happens, pittas can be aggressive, easily irritated and dominant.
People with pitta as their main dosha also love structure and making lists. Because of all this fire, they are the best planners, organizers and leaders.
Pitta dosha on the yoga mat
To bring balance to pitta dosha, a cooling yoga practice is best. Also, it’s best to eat a diet that helps to lower pitta:
Recommended diet for Pitta dosha
Don’t eat hot, spicy and salty foods. Do eat cooling, dry and a few heavy foods. No oily foods, that can aggravate this dosha.
Grapes, blueberries, broccoli, cucumbers, zucchini, lettuce, pak choi, grains, beans, basil, oregano, turmeric, coriander & mint are great for this dosha.
So this lovely pitta reducing dish is for you!
Cooling Cucumber Coconut Bowl
- 1 pak choi
- dash of tamari (wheat free soy sauce)
- 1 block of tempeh
- ½ cucumber
- fresh coriander
- rice or buckwheat noodles
- fresh mint
- coconut flakes
- coconut milk
Watch Irina make this
Class: Pitta balancing noodle bowl with Irina Verwer
You can watch the video for instructions and more about pitta dosha. Please let me know how you like it and any variations you've tried. The class is available for all subscribers to EkhartYoga.
Irina Verwer is a yoga teacher, Somatic therapist, intimacy coach, and Ayurvedic practitioner. Her focus is on understanding how past abuse and trauma affect our present, addressing medical challenges, exercising boundaries in life and work, and supporting people as they build stronger, more intimate connections.