What’s my Dosha?

In Ayurveda, it is believed that everyhting is made of the 5 great elements (panchabhutas) substances in nature which consist of ether, air, fire, water, earth. akasha, vayu, agni, jala, prithvi

given these elements prakruti is found at birth which is the nature of your being. How you naturally show up in the world. Prakruti come in three main variations, vata pitta kapha.

vata is ether and air

pitta is fire and water

kapha is earth and water

There are several subdoshas and people are obivouslt very complex they can show up as pitta-vata vata-kapha kapha-pitta, etc etc subdoshas. but prakruti describes how you naturally show up.

What does that mean how you naturally show up? well our consitutions (prakruti) contian a multitide of qualities that accompany each dosha.

vata: dry, light, mobile, subtle, clear, rough,