Reset Your Kitchen for Spring the Ayurvedic Way: Spices, Seasonal Foods & Sacred Space

When your kitchen is aligned with the season, everything else follows — from digestion to daily nourishment. It's the perfect time to invite Lakshmi and Annapurna in to your home.

Hi Alchemist in Training

Happy Spring Navaratri! Nine nights of the Goddess. The kitchen is a great place to invite the Goddesses Lakshmi (wealth, beauty) & Annapurna (food abundance ) to your home.

Time to throw open the windows, let in some fresh air in the spirit of renewal. Your kitchen could use some renewal too! I’ll putting on a fresh coat of paint in the kitchen. You don’t have to do this but you will certainly want to look at your pantry and spices to bring in fresh flavors to the spring foods arriving.

Spring is the season when kapha melts and vāta has increased irregular motion (internal and external winds).

As winter releases its hold increased light and heat liquidifies kapha and warms vāta.

Ayurvedic spring renewal with a bit of whimsy, lightness and flexibility.

Spring weather is unpredictable and so are our expectations for spring renewals.

My last trip to the produce aisle had more varieties of dark leafy greens such as dandelion and mustard greens. Spring onions are available too.

Spring produce have the qualities needed for spring health. Unfortunately, we no longer know what seasonal foods are because most produce are available throughout the year.

Sometimes its easier to just refresh your herb and spice drawer so you don’t have to think about it when shopping.

Spring is the time to also switch up your styles of cooking. Winter was more about soups, stews which are moist and heavy. Spring is about lightening and drying foods. Roasting and air frying are excellent choices for spring meals.

If you’re looking to improve your health by making better food choices with Ayurveda or any spring cleanse, the kitchen is going to be the cornerstone to setting yourself up to reach those health goals.

A kitchen refresh and/or clean out is great anytime you’re looking to make any changes or upgrades to your diet.

Having a place that supports the changes you’re making in diet and lifestyle drastically improves your results and follow-through.

According to Vastu Shastra - the Vedic version of Feng Shui is the most sacred part of the home next to your altar is your kitchen.

The kitchen is the location where your health, wealth and nourishment live. The kitchen is the home of external agni which supports your internal agni (digestive capacity).

If you are consistently frustrated in the kitchen then you may be frustrated in the most basic areas of your life too.

This spring reduce kitchen friction so that you can enjoy the benefits of any dietary changes you want to make this year.

If your kitchen is already optimized the challenge helps you understand which spices and herbs do for you digestion during the upcoming seasons.

THE AYURVEDIC KITCHEN SPRING CLEAN & SET UP CHALLENGE IS OPEN TO ALL PAID ALCHEMY & AYURVEDA WITH CHITRA SUBSCRIBERS.

Paid subscribers, there’s nothing you need to do to participate. You’ll automatically receive the daily emails and invitations to our live Zoom session.

Upgrade to join both Spring Kitchen Refresh and Spring 7-Day Reset.

Know someone who would like to do the Spring Refresh and Reset with you?

(They also get 20% off future yearly subscriptions)

Want to Spring Refresh with your circle of friends? It’s 25% off for you and each of your friends forever.

Sale ends March 29th Only available for yearly subscriptions

(As a paid subscriber, you’ll receive invitations to all future Challenges and get discounts on consultations, group programs and memberships.)

DETAILS FOR SPRING AYURVEDIC CLEAN OUT CHALLENGE

• A daily email from that contains a video or audio for the topic of the day.

• A daily action step.

• An invitation to a LIVE Zoom session on April 3rd at 12pm ET / 9am PT (replay available)

PREVIEW OF THE DAILIES

Mon, March 30th
Taking Inventory: Best practices for setting your kitchen up for healthy living and eating.

Tue, March 31st
Surface Cleanse and Purification The kitchen is the most sacred section of the home its cleanliness is symbolic of path to health and wealth.

Wed, April 1st
Replace and Restock Provisions to keep your Ayurvedic kitchen cooking this spring.

Thu, April 2nd
Kitchen Organization Day Location, Location, Location. Cooking is simpler when food and utensils are where they are supposed to be.

Fri, April 3rd (LIVE Zoom call at 12pm ET / 9am PT )
You Did it! A Renewed Spring Kitchen! Celebration Giveaways! Where do we go from here?

---

Best Meal Practices and Takeaways for Spring

1. Add some more cooked bitter foods into your diet - Dandelion and other Dark Leafy Greens.

2. Use turmeric, fenugreek, oregano, marjoram for some of your spices.

3. Switch up your cooking methods combine soups and stews with roasting. Air fryer over instant pot. (I’m a huge fan of the instant pot and its time to switch it up a bit.)

4. Its tempting to start eating raw foods, salads and ice cream now but wait until its consistently hot. Indulge occasionally but only if you know your digestion is up for it (I have a hack to help but not sharing until mid summer). Avoid these at all costs especially if you have an urge to live a good food memory.

Peace

Sending you BIG HUGS 😻 Time for me to head out to my garden and see if my kale made it through the winter or if my arugula has self seeded.

Ayurveda and Alchemy is fueled by you. Your ❤️’s, comments inspire me to keep writing. As always I would love to know your thoughts, challenges and questions.

Alchemy & Ayurveda Homepage | Supporters Homepage | Community Chat | Upcoming Events Calendar | Manage your subscription