Agni

It influences energy, clarity, appetite, and how we feel in our bodies.

In this episode, we're exploring what can happen when we simplify, support Agni, our digestive fire, and give our digestion a little more space.

Welcome to the Elements of Ayurveda podcast.

I'm your host, Colette.

Because when we talk about a seasonal reset or digestive cleanse, it's easy to focus on the food.

What can I eat? What can't I eat? How long should I do it? What will it do for my body? But Ayurveda asks us to look at something a little deeper.

What happens when we simply give the digestive system a break? What happens when, for a period of time, we stop constantly asking the body to process more, digest more, adapt to more, and instead create the conditions for digestion to become a little more simple? And this is where we come back to one of the foundational concepts in Ayurveda, Agni.

Because digestion in Ayurveda is about so much more than food.

So it governs circulation and movement within us.

Agni, fire.

If you think about fire, what does fire do? It heats and it transforms.

So our digestion, metabolism, energy levels are governed by the principle of fire.

The work that requires the most thinking or analyzing or intense, you know, you have meetings where you got to be on top of things.

That's when you do that work.

And also because it's the time of Pitta, your Agni is the strongest, your digestive fire is strong because the sun is at its highest point.

And so you want to eat your biggest meal of the day also at lunch.