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Rooted in the Seasons
Rooted in the Seasons is a weekly podcast for anyone wanting to feel more balanced, calm, and connected, without overhauling their life.
Hosted by Katja Patel, yoga teacher, Ayurvedic guide, and mum, each episode offers simple ways to support your wellbeing through the seasons. You’ll hear practical tips from Ayurveda, real-life reflections, and small seasonal shifts that make a big difference.
If you’re juggling work, family, and the feeling that life moves too fast, this podcast will help you find steadiness in the middle of it all — with a little more rhythm, ease, and nourishment.
Episodes
61 episodes
3 Cooling Breathing Techniques for Hot Days and Busy Minds
🎙️Show NotesSummer doesn't just bring warmer weather. It can also leave us feeling restless, irritable, impatient, and unable to switch off.In this episode of Rooted in the Seasons, Katja Patel explores how Ayurveda underst...
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Cooling Pitta Dosha: Why Summer Tips You Off Balance
🎙️Show NotesSummaryIn this episode, Katja Patel explores Pitta dosha and why summer often tips it out of balance — showing up as restless sleep, irritability, reactive skin, and a washed-out kind of tired. She explai...
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Eating and Cooking for Summer — Food, Spices and More
🎙️Show Notes Summary This episode explores why summer can feel heavier and more tiring than expected, and offers practical Ayurvedic guidance on the foods and spices that support digestion and keep the body cool th...
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The Tiredness That Sleep Doesn’t Fix
🎙️Show NotesSummaryHave you ever noticed a kind of tiredness that sleep doesn't fix? In this episode, I explore the hidden narrative that runs alongside the day — the comparing, second-guessing and self-doubt that qu...
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Why what you eat together matters as much as what you eat
🎙️ Show Notes SummaryExplore the impact of food combining according to Ayurveda, focusing on incompatible food pairings like fruit and dairy, and how these can affect digestion and overall health.
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Why You Still Feel Heavy After Light Meals
🎙️Show NotesSummaryYou choose lighter meals because you want more energy, yet sometimes you end up feeling heavy, foggy, tired, or hungry again soon after eating. In this episode we explore why digestion ...
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Why You're Tired by 3pm (Even When You Eat Well)
🎙️Show NotesSUMMARYThis week’s episode explores how irregular meals can affect digestion, energy, cravings, and nervous system steadiness.Katja shares how Ayurveda views meal timing through the lens...
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Why You Feel Bloated Even When You Eat Well — An Ayurvedic View
🎙️Show NotesSummaryThis episode explores why bloating can happen even when you’re eating healthy, and how Ayurveda views digestion through the lens of rhythm, warmth, and daily habits. Katja shares simple, practical ...
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How Yoga Philosophy Shows Up in Your Daily Life (Yama and Niyama Explained)
🎙️Show NotesSummarySome days feel slightly off — not because anything is wrong, but because something feels unsettled underneath.In this episode, I explore how the Yama and Niyama — often seen as philosophical...
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How Your Breath Can Help You Feel Clearer and Lighter This Spring
🎙️Show NotesSummarySpring can sometimes feel just a little slower — a little less clear — even when everything else is moving forward.In this episode, I share three simple breathing practices you can return to...
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Why Eating Light Doesn’t Always Work — An Ayurvedic Perspective
🎙️Show NotesSummaryIn this episode, I explore a pattern I see quite often — where something that looks like a simple imbalance on the surface turns out to have a different root underneath.We look at how eating...
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Feeling Heavy or Congested This Spring? Here’s Why — and What Helps
🎙️Show NotesSummaryFeeling heavy, foggy or congested this spring?In this episode, I explore why this happens from an Ayurvedic perspective — and how simple, practical shifts can help clear co...
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Why You Feel Out of Sync (and How to Find Your Way Back)
🎙️Show NotesSummaryIf your day feels slightly out of sync — even when everything looks fine on the surface — this episode explores why.Katja shares how patterns described in yoga philosophy (the kleshas...
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Spring Yoga: Why Your Practice Feels Heavier (and How to Shift It)
🎙️Show NotesSummarySpring often promises more energy — longer days, more light, a sense of renewal.And yet, many people experience the opposite.You might feel slower, heavier, less motivated… even your ...
Why You React to Stress the Way You Do (Vata, Pitta & Kapha Explained)
🎙️Show NotesSummaryStress doesn’t affect everyone in the same way. In this episode, we explore how Ayurveda explains different stress responses through the doshas — and what actually helps.In this episode, K...
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Why Spring Makes You Feel Heavy - 5 Ayurvedic Herbs That Bring Back Your Energy
🎙️Show NotesSummaryIn this episode of Rooted in the Seasons, Katja Patel explores why the transition from winter to spring can leave the body feeling heavy, sluggish, or congested.From an Ayurvedic pe...
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Kapha Dosha Explained: Why Spring Makes You Feel Heavy (and What Helps)
🎙️Show NotesSummarySpring is Kapha season in Ayurveda — and that can bring heaviness, puffiness, congestion, and lower motivation.In this episode, I explain why these changes happen and how understanding Kapha can ...
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I Just Want to Sleep — An Ayurvedic Guide to Restful Nights
🎙Show NotesSummary You crawl into bed exhausted… and your mind starts pacing.If you’re tired but can’t sleep — waking at 3am, replaying conversations, mentally organising tomorrow — this episode is for yo...
Living the Life You Wanted — But Feeling Drained
🎙️Show NotesKeywords Ayurveda, daily rhythm, women’s health, nervous system regulation, hormonal balance, digestion and circadian rhythm, stress and depletion, lifestyle rhythm, seasonal living, restorative rout...
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Stress-Free Meal Planning: Reducing Mental Load on Busy Days
🎙️Show NotesKeyword meal planning for busy women, mental load, decision fatigue, nervous system support, Ayurveda for everyday life, daily rhythm, stress reduction, family meal planning, gentle structure, health...
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The Gunas: How Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas Shape the Mind
🎙️Show NotesKeywords Several listeners have reached out saying this podcast put words to something they’ve been feeling for a while.If that’s you too, I’ve created a
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Self-Doubt and the Mind: A Yogic Map Through Uncertainty
🎙️Show NotesKeywordsself-doubt, yoga philosophy, mental resilience, rhythm and routine, mindfulness, Ayurvedic lifestyle, stress and the mind, daily rituals, nervous system support, women’s wellbeing
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Winter Vata Imbalances: How to Stay Nourished, Calm, and Grounded in the Cold Months
KeywordsAyurveda, winter wellness, Vata imbalance, seasonal living, daily rhythm, nervous system, digestion, self-care, women’s health, mindfulnessEpisode SummaryIn this episode of Rooted in the Seasons
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Why Sleep Isn’t a Technique — It’s a Rhythm
🎙️ Show NotesKeywordssleep, nervous system regulation, parenting, attachment, co-regulation, Ayurveda, rhythm, emotional regulation, intergenerational patternsSummarySleep isn’t something we fix ...
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A Winter Breath Guide: Creating Space, Calm, and Steadiness in the Season of Vata
🎙️Show NotesKeywords winter breathing, Vata, nervous system, three-part breath, Ujjayi breath, Brahmari, diaphragmatic breathing, Ayurveda, yoga breathing, seasonal living, relaxationSummary...
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