Avoiding Summer Burn Out!

International Yoga Day@UNHQ June, 2025

This year’s hot summer has begun. To maintain our wellbeing, it is essential for everyone (not just Pitta-types) to live lifestyles that calm your Pitta dosha and avoid aggravating it. Pitta aggravation promotes oxidation in the body, which can lead to fatigue, irritability, and indigestion.

For true balance, we need to maintain our external, internal and emotional Pitta elements.

Rapidfire tips to avoid exploding Pitta in Summer

(The photo of Sitali breathing is from "Ayurveda the science of self healing" by Dr. Vasant Lads.)

Cool, cold shade

refreshing, clear

Space around you

calm

Coconut water, coconut milk, coconut,

sweet, bitter, astringent 

Sky blue, blue

Silver
pearls

Cool baths

Using an eye mask while sleeping

Uttita Trikonasana

Arda Matsyendrasana

Setu Bandhasana

Bhujangasana

Dhanurasana

Matsyasana

Balasana

Sheetali breathing: 

Use your tongue as a straw to inhale slowly and exhale through your 
nose

Sheekari breathing: 

Open your mouth slightly, bring your upper and lower teeth together, and breathe in through the gaps between your teeth

Sweet fruits, mango, pear, Brussels sprouts, asparagus

Vetiver, neem, jasmine, lavender, peppermint essential oils

CCF Tea: Cumin, coriander and fennel tea. Regulates digestion

I would like to encourage people who are spending a lot of time with energetic children during the summer vacation and to avoid yelling "Hey!"

Ayurvedic treatment for this summer, book here

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International Yoga Day Event by Government of India

Dr. Deepak Chopra　

I was able to have yoga and meditation time on the lawn of the UNHQ garden on International Yoga Day. (Thank you, Ms. K, as always.)

I was waiting on the mat an hour and a half before the event started, when all of a sudden, Dr. Deepak Chopra and his team arrived! I was so excited that I instinctively sat upright on the mat and put my hands together in prayer, and he ushered to the chair behind me and sat down! People hadn't noticed him yet, so now was the perfect time to say hello! I thought, mustering up what little courage I had, which I didn't even have,

"Dr Chopra, I came from Japan and have been studying Ayurveda for almost 20 years. I opened my salon in New York 18 years ago."

I said... self-introduction 😅.

What am I doing!? I should have said something like thanking for the books that inspired me or the workshops I learned from, or tell him about Dr. Naina or something that would keep the conversation going, but instead of introduced herself 😅.

Dr.Chopra said,

"I see, that's wonderful." 😭

I reflexively leaned over to down to give pranam (an act of respect, in which the teacher allows me to touch his toes) to him, but he stopped me, saying "No, no," and shook my hand.

His voice was fresh and full of Ojas when he led the meditation on stage. Also, next to Dr. Chopra was Yogmata Keiko Aikawa, who had a big smile and seemed to be having fun with the people around her. She was also shining brightly. 

Oh. Namaste 🙏