Intuitive Ayurveda to Reset your Health with Nidhi Pandya [Episode #983]

 

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In this episode Kimberly interviews Ayurvedic expert Dr. Nidhi Pandya about her new book, ‘Your Body Already Knows Intuitive Ayurveda.’ They explore the relevance of Ayurveda in modern life, emphasizing the importance of understanding natural rhythms and patterns for overall well-being. Nidhi shares practical steps for integrating Ayurvedic principles into daily life, including meal timing, the significance of intuition, and self-care practices like scalp massage. The discussion also delves into nutritional factors affecting hair health and the healing properties of warm foods, highlighting the holistic approach of Ayurveda to health and wellness. In this enlightening conversation, Nidhi discusses the profound impact of cooking on human evolution, emphasizing the importance of warm and moist foods for our microbiome and overall health. She explores the balance between raw and cooked foods, the significance of fats and spices in cooking, and how Ayurvedic principles can be adapted to various cuisines. Nidhi also shares insights on creating a personal toolkit for maintaining balance in life, the power of breath as a tool for well-being, and the wisdom of aging in relation to biohacking. Ultimately, she empowers listeners to reconnect with their inner wisdom and embrace a holistic approach to health and nutrition.

About Nidhi Pandya

Nidhi Pandya is an Ayurvedic Doctor based in NYC and creator of the Inner Climate® Framework. This groundbreaking approach, which merges ancient wisdom with modern science, represents the essence of her 15 years of dedicated practice and deep understanding of Ayurvedic principles.

Raised in India, Nidhi was immersed in Vedic wisdom from birth, drawing inspiration from her grandfather, a respected Ayurvedic healer. Her journey led her to formal education in holistic health, culminating in her becoming an Ayurvedic Doctor. However, Nidhi soon realized the limitations of a strictly prescriptive approach to health. This insight spurred her to reinterpret Ayurveda through a transformative lens, making ancient knowledge accessible and relevant in today’s world.

Nidhi’s passion lies in empowering women to become self-aware and live intuitively, achieving Mind-Body Balance. She excels in distilling complex ancient scriptures into practical wisdom, applicable to modern lifestyles. Her method, taught globally, focuses on realigning the mind and body, fostering radical transformation in the lives of her students.

An international teacher, coach, speaker and author, Nidhi contributes to various publications and serves as a faculty member at the Shakti School. Her strength lies in her unique ability to bridge the gap between traditional Ayurvedic teachings and the needs of contemporary women, guiding them towards a balanced, empowered life.

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Guest Resources

Book:  Your Body Already Knows

Website: https://www.nidhi.me/

Episode Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Ayurveda and Its Relevance Today

03:05 Understanding Rhythms and Patterns in Ayurveda

05:48 Practical Steps to an Ayurvedic Lifestyle

08:53 Intuition vs. Conditioning in Health Choices

11:59 The Importance of Scalp Massage and Hair Care

14:53 Nutritional Factors Affecting Hair Health

17:53 The Role of Warm Foods in Healing

21:00 Balancing Nutritional Intake for Optimal Health

26:10 The Warmth of Cooking and Its Impact on Humanity

28:59 Balancing Raw and Cooked Foods

32:03 The Importance of Fats and Spices in Cooking

34:48 Adapting Ayurvedic Principles to Different Cuisines

37:12 Creating a Personal Toolkit for Balance

40:06 Breath as a Tool for Well-Being

42:55 The Wisdom of Aging and Biohacking

48:57 Empowerment Through Ayurvedic Practices

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Transcript:

Kimberly Snyder (00:01.102)
Hi everyone and welcome back to our Monday interview show. I am so excited for our very special guest here today, Nidhi Bansali Pandya and she has the wonderful new book just out called Your Body Already Knows Intuitive Ayurveda. Nidhi is a Ayurvedic doctor and she has this amazing approach which I appreciate very much of making Ayurveda very accessible for the modern day. She has different coaching programs and she has done an Ayurvedic nutrition course at onecommune.com where I also have a course Nidhi and I, the Commune Center is not so far from here. So it is so wonderful to be connected. Thank you so much for coming on and congratulations on your new book.

Nidhi (00:48.923)
Thank you so much for having me, Kim. It’s such an honor to be here and to be talking to you over your podcast.

Kimberly Snyder (00:54.932)
know, Nidhi, this book is so beautifully written. I love the cover. And there’s just this way that you subdivide this incredibly deep philosophy of Ayurveda in two very doable steps. Can you share before we dive in just a little bit about why you think Ayurveda is really important for our wellbeing in today’s age? We know it’s thousands of years old. It’s the oldest medical science.

Why now in a world where there seems to be so much around biohacking and measurables and wearable devices and blood work? And there’s a place for that too. But where can Ayurveda really come in and create such balance in our lives?

Nidhi (01:43.255)
Absolutely, such a great question. I can say there’s two main reasons for this. And Kim, the first reason is us understanding that what differentiates an animate object from an inanimate object? It’s a rhythm and pattern, whether it’s the vibration of a cell, whether it’s the breath, whether it’s the pumping of a heart, whether it’s the rotation of our planet, the revolution, anything that’s out there in the universe, which has a life of its own, there is a rhythm and there is a pattern. And now more than

ever before mankind. We’ve lost the understanding of these rhythms and patterns. I mean, when you look at anything from weather global warming, when you have a snowfall in spring, or whether you have untimely menopause, or whether we are staying up all night and missing our bowel movements, or we are skipping periods or infertility. Honestly, the underlying basis of all of that is the loss of a certain rhythmic pattern.

Kimberly Snyder (02:37.742)
Bye.

Nidhi (02:38.705)
And Ayurveda is a science that deeply understands that everything that’s living can only be in order when it’s following its rhythmic patterns. Not the rhythmic patterns of the universe and how they connect with each other. I think that is one of the main, you know, and we all realize that somewhere or the other, I see every disorder and it’s things have gone out of rhythm, you know? I mean, that’s one way of saying it, whether somebody has missed a period or…

Kimberly Snyder (02:48.385)
Yes.

Nidhi (03:05.521)
cannot sleep at night or has this kind of fatigue in the middle of the day, it’s untimeliness of our experience. And I would say there is definitely a second reason which I find so important. And most of Ayurveda, unfortunately, start very academically. So most Ayurveda today has lost connection with this main principle of Ayurveda, which says that disease is caused through the loss of wisdom.

Kimberly Snyder (03:12.522)
Bye.

Kimberly Snyder (03:30.487)
Hmm.

Nidhi (03:31.589)
which means that today there is so much information. mean, can you imagine our grandparents, when they had a question about health, they couldn’t type it in in Google or GPT now and get answers, right? But all of that is information. What they had, what we don’t is wisdom. Wisdom is what’s within you. The knowing that you had as a baby that I need to drink from my mother’s breast. Babies never use its mouth. Like a deer doesn’t wake up saying, my God, I have to wake up again in the morning and go to the same jungle and eat the same grass.

They’re just so connected, right? And that’s wisdom. That’s your innate wisdom. And Ayurveda has a way to bring you back to that innate wisdom. And in this era of information overrun, we need that more than we did ever before.

Kimberly Snyder (04:15.38)
I agree. So beautifully said. And correct me if I’m saying this term, is it pranya parata? Crime against wisdom, my future would say. Because again, it’s easy to say, let me just do this, you know, one biohacking tool or I’ll do this or get the IV done. But it doesn’t correct, as you said, this underlying holistic lifestyle approach.

Nidhi (04:21.349)
Yes. Yes. Yes.

Kimberly Snyder (04:42.2)
So today, as you mentioned, people are missing periods. seems like a lot of people are doing IVF or technology. People can’t sleep chronically. There’s so many sleeping pills. There’s so many energy drinks. People are pumped up with caffeine. So what are some of the, and you talk about in the book, meal times, adjusting for seasons. What are some of the, if someone’s listening to this right now and saying, yeah, that’s me. What are some of the very first practices?

that we want to look at to come back to a more balanced, RU-Vedic-inspired lifestyle.

Nidhi (05:18.647)
That’s such a practical question. I love it. But the first thing that I’ll say, it’s just so that anybody who’s listening to this does not take this as just one more prescription. I say the deeper understanding that we are diurnal mammals, which means we are not bats or tigers and or owls. And we have no nighttime vision, which means that before electricity came into urban homes, which is 1930s, we kind of followed the cycle of the sun. You know, when the sun was up, we’re up. You’re not staying with like a million lanterns hosting dinner parties at 10 p.m. We were not.

Kimberly Snyder (05:26.7)
Yes.

Nidhi (05:48.389)
So the first thing to understand is that we are diurnal mammals. And if there’s one thing you want to change is you want to start moving your clock and the way you live and eat. I’ll tell you what more what that looks like according to the cycle of the sun. Remembering that even plants do not they cannot photosynthesize unless the sun is out. So we as human beings have a lot of courage to think that we can actually metabolize at all different hours. So basically, what does that look like is the understanding that in the morning

when the sun is emerging and the earth is still a little cold, a little damp. That’s how our body is. Exactly. That’s how our body is. And our experience of nasal congestion, eye boogers, sluggish joints, you can’t really show off in a yoga class early in the morning because of the sogginess in the body. It’s the same. So morning time is that perfect time to warm up the body, to exercise and eat a light breakfast, not a heavy breakfast. It’s the light.

Kimberly Snyder (06:43.915)
Thank

Nidhi (06:44.485)
warm breakfast because we are warm blooded mammals and you want to support that firing up of your metabolic activity. So you do a light breakfast, warm always. Lunchtime 10 to 2 is when the sun is high, your insulin sensitivity is the highest, your metabolic juices like gastrin and other enzymes are at their peak. Indulge in it. Eat your biggest meal. Whatever it is you want to fantasize about the previous day. Don’t deprive fantasize is what I always say.

fantasize and eat that biggest meal between the hours of 10 and two. As the sun starts to set, you wanna know that your body is setting. It does not want to function, has, have its day times functions. So you wanna reserve the lightest work. And then around six o’clock, you wanna eat a small, you wanna eat your soup, you wanna eat a supper, you wanna eat a light meal. And as many days as possible, you wanna call that a day so you can go to bed by 10 p.m.

Kimberly Snyder (07:15.939)
Yeah.

Kimberly Snyder (07:40.226)
Mm.

Nidhi (07:40.355)
And can just rearrange the order of how you live your day, what you do when you do it. You set one rhythm. And when you set one rhythm, all rhythms fall into place. Eventually, of course, and you want to eat warm foods, and that’s a whole different conversation where we can have that as well. If you do these two things, you’ll see that everything starts falling in place. And one of the first things people notice is that they sleep better. They have a bowel movement in the AM.

Kimberly Snyder (07:44.962)
Yes.

Kimberly Snyder (07:51.118)
Mmm.

Nidhi (08:07.173)
you know, sooner or later, within three to five weeks, they’ll have a bowel movement in the AM. They’ll be like, my God, this is regular and this is timely every single day. And then they’ll start noticing if you’re a woman, you’ll start noticing your period cycles and then you’ll start noticing your moods getting better and then your energy levels getting better. But I’ve always seen that there is a certain math to this madness.

Kimberly Snyder (08:26.226)
Mm-hmm. I love that it feels, for me, it feels very comforting to have a sense of a pattern. And I can see, for example, not to throw him under the bus, but my husband is very, like all over the place. And I try to say, he’s very pit-a, he’s got a lot of fire energy. And he’s like, well, my work is, I have a meeting this hour and then so I don’t need till here and there.

But what would you say to someone, Nidhi, if they’re like, well, I like this idea of rhythm and pattern, but I’ve also heard about listening to your body. so sometimes the different parts of my menstrual cycle, I may not want to eat a lot in the morning or like, there’s shifts and changes based on like individuality. What would Arju Veda say to balance that intuitive, the flux, a little bit of intuitive flux?

Nidhi (09:22.903)
Yeah. So you know, the problem is how far we are from my intuition. I highly value intuition. mean, come on, my book is called Your Body Already Knows. But our intuition is covered with layers of conditioning and denial.

Kimberly Snyder (09:30.294)
Yeah, exactly.

Kimberly Snyder (09:36.982)
Mmm.

Nidhi (09:38.573)
and triggers and just we don’t have access to our intuition the same way simply because you know like for example you know when you know people you may say listen I just want to stay up and watch Netflix and that’s what my intuition says till 2 p.m. but underlying that is actually a procrastination of sorts the the lack of inspiration to get into the bed and get up for your day so usually right somewhere within us we know that that’s not the right

But we say, I’m craving sugar. And there’s an intensity in that craving. There’s not an equilibrium in that craving. So in that lack of equilibrium, in that lack of flow, in that lack of being present in the present moment, anything you experience or you think your intuition is speaking, at that time, it’s probably either it’s a trigger or an anxiety or a conditioning of thoughts that’s coming up. But when you’ve lost sense of time and space, when you’re in flow, when there is no intellect,

Kimberly Snyder (10:30.52)
Right.

Nidhi (10:36.079)
When you know just from a very deep place and there are no thoughts racing in your head, that is intuition. And what my book actually gives you is a framework to actually tap into that understanding of your body. And what is that state where you can actually know that we’re speaking the same language?

Kimberly Snyder (10:49.262)
Right.

Kimberly Snyder (10:57.26)
Yeah, and there’s even, you know, going into some of the, you know, really practical, like how detailed your book is. There was this section and I think a lot, we had a lot of questions even about hair, right? And people are concerned about, you know, there’s stress, there’s hair loss, there’s thinning. And there’s this whole section you have about, you know, hair abianga. And when I read this section, it also reminded me of connecting to your body, even touching.

Nidhi (10:58.106)
Thank

Kimberly Snyder (11:26.092)
our body because it’s very easy to be very mental, right? To go through the day and to look in the mirror, to weigh yourself and to have all these numbers. But something like actually massaging your scalp is such a beautiful practice. And can you talk about that practice on all the layers, like energetically what it does and also practically for hair growth? Because it’s again, these simple practices that feel like real self care to me.

Nidhi (11:52.419)
Absolutely. you know, so this understanding, right, we care so much for our bodies neck down, right? You eat what you’re doing, you’re exercising, et cetera, et cetera. I face yoga is just very new. the other way that we, and the way we care for everything above our neck is always through like cosmetic procedures or even topical applications, even if it’s natural, right? It’s like, what can I put on my skin? What can I do to my face? You know, but

Kimberly Snyder (11:54.83)
Thank

Kimberly Snyder (11:59.374)
Mm.

Kimberly Snyder (12:16.6)
Yeah.

Nidhi (12:20.667)
We don’t understand that there’s a whole system going on here. There’s like this whole ENT, it’s the sinus irrigation system that’s happening here for your mucus and which goes through your eyes, nose, throat. And there’s a brain and the brain is covered by the skull. There’s a hypothalamus, there’s a lot of happening there. And right, so like a whole earth, like think of it as a round earth and there’s so much happening within it.

And right at the edge, right, like is your hair. Think of them as trees coming out of the, you know, out of this whole system that’s within. And that needs to be nourished, right? Like literally every single pore in your hair, in your scalp can have the potential for hair growth that can happen, right? And what happens is that as we start aging, we start losing the oil, you know, the moisture that keeps our hair intact, but we also stop living in a way that

creates raw material for new hair or stronger hair. So this practice, which is essentially using warm oil as far as possible warm, if you can’t do warm, that’s fine. Sesame oil is usually the best, but if you have a medicated hair Abhyanga or hair oiling oil, that’s even better. When I say medicated, I don’t mean chemical medication. What I mean is like herbal, know, like.

Kimberly Snyder (13:35.694)
Yes.

Nidhi (13:36.753)
or bring Raj oil or neem oil. And you basically would apply it to your scalp. Everywhere you say you part your hair, you apply it to the various partings. And then you lovingly massage it in. And this is not only a very loving practice, what it does, and I’m gonna say at the most superficial level, what it does, it replenishes the sebum in your hair follicles. So think of it like a tree which has kind of lost its moisture. It’s so wibbly wobbly, it can just.

lose its roots and fall anytime. And that can happen to us. And that’s what often happens to us as we age. So this kind of goes back. It replenishes that. it also goes and restores the melanin in the cells. You don’t lose color. Your head doesn’t burn out as quickly. But beyond that, it nourishes the brain. It nourishes your, you know, if you all love somebody, most people love somebody running their fingers through their hair.

because it’s such a relaxing practice. So it calms your nervous system. It promotes better sleep. It enhances your memory. You feel more grounded and connected. It lowers anxiety. There’s innumerable benefits. But the one you’ll see very, very quickly is the quality of hair loss, as well as prevention of hair grain.

Kimberly Snyder (14:53.858)
Hmm. And then do we, I’ve heard, you know, sometimes people listen to this and, or hear this and I’ve heard it. I’m like, Whoa, but what if my hair gets really oily and how often do I wash out the oil? it makes me just want to touch my scalp right now as well. It’s so simple. But yeah, but what do we do? Like, do we, are we just oiling our hair and leaving it in?

Nidhi (15:08.562)
Yeah.

Nidhi (15:16.355)
Yeah, no, that’s a great question. So you want to do it, you can do it in many other ways. I’ll be honest with you. When I grew up, like my aunt still, my 74 year old aunt who has pretty much all dark hair still, she would oil her hair and keep it on like a little bit all day long. And you would see her, I’ve never seen her without oil. And she just, she loves that look, that whole shiny look. To her, that’s her job. But I wouldn’t do that. So.

Kimberly Snyder (15:37.55)
Ha

Nidhi (15:41.391)
somebody like me, is what I would do, right? Or this is a good starting place is oil your hair, keep it on for 20 minutes and wash it out. If you don’t mind that, keep it for two hours. So on the day that you’re washing your hair, keep it, you oil your hair, let’s say in the morning and you want to keep it for 20 minutes, stretch it to two hours. If you don’t mind that, you want to start trying to keep it overnight if you can. So you may not step out that day. I mean, if you’re brave enough like me, I’ll occasionally step out with oil in my hair, but

You can oil it at night in that case, and you can get very peaceful, restful sleep. And then you want to wake up the next morning, and then you want to wash your hair. So you can keep it for a couple of nights to one night to 20 minutes to two hours. The idea is to start somewhere and continue to build up your practice. I also tell people that start with just one tablespoon of oil. And even if you want to start with just a few drops, you want to create this relationship with oil, because it is such a

almost all Ayurvedic practices, and that’s a whole different conversation, use oil on this. It’s very scientific why they use oil. But it also promotes the microbiome. Most healthy microbiome is lipophilic, which means they love good fats. So you want to start developing that relationship, but you be gentle. You start with a gentle booing and let it go into a full-fledged relationship. I also want to say one more thing. Oil is detoxifying. It’s beautiful. If anybody who’s tried oil pulling knows that when they’re…

Kimberly Snyder (16:42.211)
Yes.

Kimberly Snyder (16:58.627)
Mm.

Nidhi (17:06.757)
consume thick oil, but by the time they’re swishing, suddenly the oil feels like water. It doesn’t feel like thick, dense oil anymore. And why is that? mean, oil, this is oil. So this is what oil does. Oil has this powerful ability to enter your pores and detox, which means all the grime will be pulled out and the moisture component of the oil will actually stay inside the pores and moisturize. It’s such a cleansing mechanism and a hydrating mechanism altogether.

Kimberly Snyder (17:31.171)
No.

Nidhi (17:36.293)
which is such a rare combination. And the same thing for your hair follicles, it actually cleanses the hair. It’ll bring the grime to the surface and then you can wash it off. I mean, I’ve done this practice. I’m 43 years old. I don’t have a single gray hair and I can attribute it just to hair oil.

Kimberly Snyder (17:45.454)
What?

Kimberly Snyder (17:53.452)
Wow. And I love how you said it’s sort of mix and match, do what you can, because I can say for myself as a busy working mom, I don’t have time to wash my hair that much, but I’ll put the oil in and then if I can leave it in a day or two, it’s more like free flow. And I know there’s rhythms and so I try to do it somewhat regularly, but it’s not so rigid.

Nidhi (18:18.319)
Basically, no, no, very true. And you know what, Kim, I have two daughters as well. So I usually will apply my oil at night and I’ll wash it off in the morning. Or occasionally I’ll do it first thing in the morning. I’ll keep it all day long if I don’t have a lot of meetings and then I’ll keep it at night and I’ll wash it the next day.

Kimberly Snyder (18:33.418)
Okay, okay, I love that. And then you also talked about the material that we need for healthy hair, for bones, just for our dachas, like all the different structures in the body. Maybe we talk about oils and fats a little bit and then other materials that would be needed as well.

Nidhi (18:35.29)
Yeah.

Nidhi (18:53.517)
Yeah. So should we talk about oils? Is that what you want me to talk about right now?

Kimberly Snyder (18:57.132)
Yeah, oils and also before we get off this topic about, because I read this statistic recently, it was one of the well and good, you know, trends about how hair loss in women is growing exponentially, right? To the point where we’re off rhythms, I’m sure it’s multifactorial, but what are some of the nutritional reasons you think, besides obviously modern life and stress, what do you think is going on in people’s diets that…

Nidhi (19:04.441)
Yeah. Yeah.

Kimberly Snyder (19:23.372)
you know, into their even 30s, late 20s and beyond 40s, 50s, what’s going on with people’s diets and their hair.

Nidhi (19:30.277)
Yeah, so I will say one thing that in my practice, I’ve seen hair loss to be a result usually of what I call a hot and dry in air climate, which means excessive staying up, excessive working, excessive stress, excessive anxiety. I always rule those out first because most of the times I can find the answer there. However, that being said, yes, you are correct.

Kimberly Snyder (19:44.952)
Mmm.

Nidhi (19:53.889)
There’s a whole second layer of problems. And I consider that the second layer of problems, the nutritional deficiencies, because sometimes you may be eating well, but if you have all of these, like the stress and the anxiety and the staying up on caffeine, you probably cannot absorb your nutrients as well. But now there’s the second level of things, which in terms of nutritional deficiencies, I say lack of a balanced diet. Now, just what does that mean? It’s not only lack of protein, but it’s also excessive.

Kimberly Snyder (20:04.385)
Yes.

Nidhi (20:20.305)
protein, right? It’s on both sides, right? We say, my God, I have less iron. Let me go all out on iron until like literally my liver cannot do the work anymore. Or let me eat so much protein till my testosterone rises. And then as a female, I have this hair loss, right? I mean, it’s a known fact that T levels support, know, so body does constantly check their protein intake and their T levels, their testosterone levels. And they’re very linked to each other. And I see often women who

Kimberly Snyder (20:20.941)
Yes.

Kimberly Snyder (20:39.148)
Yes.

Nidhi (20:47.557)
really gone to town on protein morning, night, evening, afternoon, especially isolate proteins. And they come with hair loss on their scalp, like male balding hair, you know, male, like balding hair loss patterns, just men bald. And they start balding like that, but they also have hair in unwanted places, know, hercotism. And then it’s usually excessive, excessive protein consumption, which has resulted in a rise in their androgens or male hormones in their body.

Kimberly Snyder (21:00.046)
Wow.

Nidhi (21:14.001)
And this can be seen across the spectrum. let’s say, you say, hey, I’m deficient in iron. I’m going to get the most powerful iron that I can on Amazon or another pharmacy. And I’m to double down on those units. Your liver is going to get really toxic. And then again, that can happen. So iron, protein, good fats, magnesium, these are definitely some of the known culprits. But my ask is don’t just double down on your supplements. You want to see how you can…

Kimberly Snyder (21:23.298)
you

Kimberly Snyder (21:41.357)
Yes.

Nidhi (21:41.969)
include these in your foods in a way your ancestors did, in a very balanced nutritional manner. And all the way is like, I love looking at traditional diets because I see, even though Ayurveda, the science of life, the name emerged in India, but I see a lot of traditional cultures that knew a thing or two about well-being, eat in the same way. They followed the same exact principle. So go back to your tradition, go back to what your great grandparents ate and try to eat like that as much as you can.

Kimberly Snyder (22:02.199)
Yes.

Nidhi (22:10.097)
And bring in those special foods. If you think it’s iron that you’re lacking, bring in those greens, bring in whatever that is, which is going to support you. But these are usually the few that I see iron, iron protein, magnesium and good fats.

Kimberly Snyder (22:20.077)
Yeah.

Kimberly Snyder (22:23.328)
So, know, Nidhi, when I love the wisdom is backed up, sometimes we want the proof. And I’ve been following, you know, very similar protocols. I make a lot of khichri, I make a lot of dal, we have a lot of rices, we have lot of, you know, stewy things. And I recently got my blood work done and it was great. The doctor was like, this is such great blood work. The calcium was on point, the iron, you know, on my hormone levels.

Nidhi (22:29.838)
Absolutely.

Kimberly Snyder (22:49.516)
And so anyways, it shows that when you live in this intuitive, natural way, we don’t have to be so hyper-focused. I mean, so many people, and I’m sure you get this question as well, am I getting enough protein? Like, da-da-da-da, like over and over this fixation, this constant, like these products and every protein bars, like everything’s like processed, these cold foods just to hit those numbers. And I’m sure you see this with your clients as well. Back to…

There’s something very traditional and loving about stirring a bowl of soup or stew together. there’s, can you talk about the energetics of, know, because our event has so much energy in teachings about what that does from a digestive standpoint. It’s not just the numbers, for example.

Nidhi (23:35.287)
Yeah. Yeah. So in terms of warm food, is that what you’re asking me?

Kimberly Snyder (23:39.16)
Yeah, or just, you we say there’s a lot of recipes in our uvata cooking that have this like soupy cooked quality and what that does for healing the body and nourishing the body.

Nidhi (23:43.013)
Yeah.

No. No. No.

Yeah, yeah. So basically, you know, one of the concepts that I deeply work with, and I’m going to go into that and a little bit of science of around that, is that we are warm-blooded mammals. And there’s an environment in our body which the body just seeks to maintain that environment. And the minute it goes off that basic optimum climate, it gets into disease. So now what is that climate? The climate is warm and moist. are warm-blooded mammals. Our breath is warm and moist. Mother’s milk is warm and moist.

Kimberly Snyder (24:11.086)
Mm.

Nidhi (24:19.375)
reproductive fluids are warm and moist, our ejaculate is warm and moist, our urine is warm and moist, the environment of our gut, is constantly metabolizing, is warm and moist. We like warm people, love, gratitude, compassion are warm and moist. Everything else, inflammation is too hot, anger is too hot, depression is too sluggish, obesity is too sluggish. Any deviation from this warm and moist leads to disease, right?

Kimberly Snyder (24:43.01)
Hmm.

Nidhi (24:43.189)
And no wonder today we’re all like these solarized, inflamed human beings because we’re all going to go eat, eat, eat, right? So it’s like you want to bring everything. My entire work’s focus is on bringing us back into that warm and moist. And all traditional cultures, not only Ayurveda, really focuses, if you go back and I looked at a lot of these diets, they really are bringing this back into what they’re consuming, the warm and the moist. But the warm and the moist is not just through their foods, it’s also their actions. So it’s the loving experience of

So firstly that you have to out with warmth. So it’s the loving experience, know, saying a little prayer, you come back to that place of flow, which is also warm and moist. No river can flow when it’s dry or overly stagnant. So you come back to that flow, you get into your cooking and then there’s a use of good fats moist. Then there are spices added to it warm, right? So you start off meals with that warm and moist right there. And then you add, and that semi-solid

Kimberly Snyder (25:13.932)
Yes.

Nidhi (25:42.001)
nature of foods, right, which are going to flow down your body and all its beautiful channels and have ease of consumption and have ease of digestion because that’s really we are these fluid beings with 80 % water and this warmth inside that we carry. want as much one of the biggest principles of Ayurveda is replicate what you want inside replicated through your foods and action. It’s called Samayya Siddhanta. So if you want something, you eat something that will support that.

Kimberly Snyder (26:05.761)
Hmm.

Nidhi (26:10.969)
And really what we want is that warm and moist environment. Also cooking has allowed us to become the species we were. When we were like, as we were just like apes and chimpanzees and everybody else in that whole, no, really, if you look at when we started using fire to cook our foods, became this, we became the sapiens that we are today because our gut changed and we got this new lovely microbiome. And it’s basically a microbiome.

that thrives in this warm and moist environment. all that it’s the Mujadara from Middle East, whether it’s a paella, whether it is a khichdi, whether it is a nice warm bowl of chickpea stew, they all have the same exact quality of warm and moist. And cultures that didn’t, they usually slightly fermented their foods, which is again warm and moist, right? The process of fermentation includes this multiplication of bacteria, which is warm.

Kimberly Snyder (26:42.733)
Yeah.

Nidhi (27:04.241)
And it’s aerobic, which is moist. So you’ll always see droplets of water when there is fermentation. So all the lectures understood that. And there is a great loving experience about bringing this on. That’s why when I see people consuming extremely cold foods and putting it in their warm gut, it saddens me, right? Because they’re like, oh, I just had a big shake in the morning and this big protein shake. And it’s so great. It’s 300 calories. But I’m not hungry for lunch. Of course you won’t be hungry. You’ve just

killed your fire, you’ve killed that warm place, which was so ready, you’ve killed the spring summer, you you’ve gone back to winter in your gut. so Ayurveda and a lot of other cultures have this warm aspect, this loving aspect of cooking in your actions and in your food. And there’s this idea of prana, life, how does life flow? The life does not flow in Alaska, sorry, nothing grows there. You know, is present, like not Alaska in the winter, sorry Alaskans, but Alaska in the winter.

Kimberly Snyder (27:41.358)
Yeah.

Nidhi (28:03.249)
But life grows in warm and moist belts on the planet, like Florida and March. And that is prana. Prana is what is the flow of life that’s present in the food. The more fresh it is, the more warm it is, the spiced, not spicy, but spiced with good spices. is more spices help to release the prana from foods. Cooking helps to release the prana from foods. And you want to be eating those foods as much as possible. And prana is the life force, the essential chi that our food is.

Kimberly Snyder (28:31.329)
Yes.

You know, Nadia, when I learned about Ayurveda for the first time, it was like, yeah, like this makes sense. All the cooking and the stews. I have my family, make soup for dinner at least four times a week. My kids really love it. And for me in the morning, it’s always hot water with lemon to start. There’s that warming. But for me in my constitution, I do like a lot of the raw fruit as well. I know there’s like the prawn quality and we live part of the time in Hawaii.

Nidhi (28:34.199)
No, isn’t. It’s a wonderful time.

Nidhi (28:59.473)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Kimberly Snyder (29:03.064)
half Filipina. And so just we walk around the yard and there’s, you know, there’s coconuts and coconut water and oranges and guavas. So I went from eating a lot of raw food to then being like Ayurvedic. And then for me, it’s, it’s the combination as well, because I agree, like we do need a lot of warming food, but there is a lot of energy and like berries and seasonal fruits as well. So I guess, person is a balance. Yeah.

Nidhi (29:26.107)
Can I say something about that?

Fruit is ripened by the sun. So when I’m talking about raw, I’m talking mainly about vegetables because the fruit goes through a full process of ripening through the sun. It doesn’t work like vegetables. like, for example, if you leave an apple on your counter and if it’s fully ripened, it will go into decay the next day. But if you keep a piece of zucchini, a vegetable zucchini, and you keep it on your counter and you’ve gone off for five days, the zucchini will be a little bit withery, but it’s not going to be decayed like the apple, right? Because the apple has already come to its…

Kimberly Snyder (29:33.144)
No,

Nidhi (29:58.959)
peak of ripening and it doesn’t need be cooked all the time. So fruits are a different beast and I’m glad you brought it up because we can clarify that. We’re talking about eating just completely raw foods and even those have their place. with what? With warm and moist, with olive oil and vinegar, with olive oil and lemon. Warm and moist is added to everything, you know, because that helps to start the metabolic process.

Kimberly Snyder (30:00.11)
Hmm.

Kimberly Snyder (30:11.084)
Yes.

Nidhi (30:22.871)
But fruits have their great place and especially coconut water, one of my favorite things to consume. When I was in Kauai last year, my God, I went to town. I, you know, they have their place.

Kimberly Snyder (30:33.474)
Yeah. You know, it’s funny how, you know, this moistness and these oils, I think about these prior times where people were scared of oils and fats. And now, you know, again, it’s back to balance because then there’s people that eat all fat and then they’re scared of carbs on the other hand. You know, my good friend, Dan Buettner, who’s been on here many times and talking about traditional diets, he says, you know, people weren’t scared of eating

the, you know, whatever it was, the rice or the sourdough bread, there was this balance to it. And I find in my diet, when I’m not obsessed, you know, I’m eating soup and we, I do love rice. eat basmati rice, I eat brown rice, I love quinoa, I love millet for different seasons. I feel more fulfilled and I don’t know, again, I just got my blood work done. It’s balanced. I feel like my digestion functions really well. So, you know, back to your book, which is intuitive, RU VEDA, it feels

Nidhi (31:23.28)
it.

Kimberly Snyder (31:30.186)
not intuitive to cut out a whole food group.

Nidhi (31:34.115)
Yeah, it’s basically unless you have a condition. I will say merit, right? Like there for certain people for a certain period of time, there may be merit to cut out a certain food group. And you want to work with somebody to understand that there’s no guesswork. But otherwise, really, that it’s really about going back. You know, like, for example, fats and spices go well together because fats create a lot of metabolic waste and ability to have free radicals in your body. And the spices now there’s more and more research being done that I mean, like a lot of spices are antioxidants, they’re anti-inflammatory.

Kimberly Snyder (31:36.782)
Sure.

Kimberly Snyder (32:03.533)
Yes.

Nidhi (32:03.889)
So they are paired together because you’re consuming the fat, you’re consuming the spices. That is required that when the metabolic activity happens, the spices will neutralize that activity. So the traditional foods were designed like that for all of this to be paired in that manner. And when we kind of isolate ingredients, that’s when they create havoc in our body because now we’re not helping our body to digest what we’re consuming. I say like, if you have to cook your potatoes without fat in the oven, you’re gonna burn them.

Kimberly Snyder (32:33.262)
Yeah.

Nidhi (32:33.969)
The fat is an essential food, few or many times. And it doesn’t mean you always consume fat through your mouth only. That’s why oiling is such a big part of Ayurveda. I’d hang on your body and everywhere because you have skin as a general consumption as well.

Kimberly Snyder (32:42.839)
Yes.

Kimberly Snyder (32:48.376)
So I love how you also have recipes in the back to get people started, but if someone’s listening to this, Nidhi, and they’re like, well, I don’t personally like Indian food or Indian spices. I like my traditional Italian herbs and spices. Can they still modify and live this Ayurvedic lifestyle?

Nidhi (33:09.049)
It’s the science of life. You can be anywhere on the planet and eat anything that grows there. And you never have to eat turmeric in your entire life or ginger or any of these things.

Kimberly Snyder (33:17.482)
My dad is like that. He’s like, I don’t like your cumin and your spices. And so, you know, I’ll make other foods, but it doesn’t have to be the, I even though these herbs are really powerful, there’s other ways.

Nidhi (33:28.069)
For sure, Kim, know, 100%. I tell everybody that, listen, as long as you have a good fat, which is not refined oil, refined oils are like fossil fuels in your body. So you have good fat, whether it’s ghee, whether it’s olive oil. You have using good spices and herbs, whether you’re using oregano or you’re using cumin or you’re using sumac, you know, you’re fine. And you want to cook your foods. You want to have them fresh. You want to have them warm. You want to do a heavy lunch. You want to do a light dinner.

I myself, three days a week, I have daughters, teenage daughters, and three days a week, we don’t do Indian foods at all, three, four, five days a week. But I’ll have a mix of all which has nice beans, which has rice, which has a little bit of guacamole, which has cumin, because that’s also used in that culture, and which has other seasonings, but it may not have any Ayurvedic component to it, like terms of academic Ayurvedic component. The fact that it’s…

Kimberly Snyder (34:02.605)
YEEE!

Nidhi (34:20.995)
it’s balanced, makes it Ayurvedic. I say even turmeric when done wrong is not Ayurvedic and even chocolate when done right can be made Ayurvedic. The idea is how do you keep it as close to the environment you want in your body? So I don’t eat Indian foods every day. I’d be bored of it. I live in New York City and my daughter is when I eat fun foods, but we just have to put the same principles and knock on wood, all of us are perfectly healthy, allergy free. We don’t get it close. We don’t get sick with seasons. We just…

This works, it really, really works.

Kimberly Snyder (34:50.67)
I love that. So you raised your daughters with this Ayurvedic lifestyle and had they always embraced it or there are times of rebellion?

Nidhi (35:03.089)
Oh Kim, you have to speak to them. I feel like where do you learn all of this? That’s crazy. And yet it’s beautiful to see my 17 year old having her moments of like, like my younger one complaining, mom, Suhani is buying vanilla chai on the way to school every day. I see that mom, look, she’s buying vanilla chai. And then I was like, Suhani. And then she was like, mama, I’m 17. You complaining about me buying vanilla chai. Do know what my friends are doing? I was like, you know what?

I was like, you know what, you are right. And it’s lovely. know, Kim, I grew up with this and I had my periods of transgressions when I was in college. I wanted to eat wrong. And it was so important for to experience that for me to come back because the deviation can never be that large when you’re raised with it without rigidity. So I’m not a rigid mother.

It’s very loving. It’s very fluid. will make food that is like the Ayurvedic principles. And Ayurveda is taught as a first language. That’s how I learned it, which doesn’t mean according to Ayurveda. It’s like Ayurveda is not like this police standing in the house. But it’s more like, Suhani, it’s nighttime. Let’s eat light. We can eat this pasta tomorrow for lunch if you want to eat it. Or like we make this tomorrow morning.

Kimberly Snyder (35:50.414)
You’re welcome.

Nidhi (36:10.065)
the girls want to have some dessert. I’m like, let’s save it for lunchtime. So now they’re understanding that there’s a pattern, there’s a rhythm, and maybe dessert is heavy and that’s why lunchtime we eat it. Because lunchtime, our fire is better. So they’re learning these things subconsciously. And that’s how I first, got an academic, say a seven year education in Irana, but my first learning was at home because my grandfather was a healer. And I see my daughters and I’m just, I’m amazed that they are, they’ve got it. You know, they understand it. They’ll explain it better to somebody who’s had four years of training.

because they have learned it not as Agriva that being the police, but just subconsciously.

Kimberly Snyder (36:43.726)
Yeah, embodying it, having a mother that’s living it in the household is so beautiful to actually, again, not just knowing about it, but to live it in everyday life. And I’m sure explaining to them, this is why we do this and this season. And I also love, Nidhi, how you live in New York City, because sometimes we think, like these natural practices, like you’re on some farm picking herbs in the beautiful country.

but to be so connected to nature in a very urban environment. So to your point, you can practice this anywhere. And in the midst of such a busy place and there’s noises, know Dr. Suhas talks about this as well. We’re digesting everything, like all the senses and there’s a lot of pit, there’s a lot of hurry pace and a lot of fire. How does your Ayurvedic life, what are some of the practices to balance that? And how does, yeah, how does your Ayurvedic lifestyle and what you teach in the book?

keep us balanced when a lot of us are in that type of environment.

Nidhi (37:47.555)
Absolutely. I, you know, so, so the book also has, and I asked most of my clients to create a toolkit. And I think without that toolkit, I would, I would not exist. And I say the only three types of tools, preventative tools, something that you do every single day, that before you get onto the battlefield of life to start feeling safe, it could be Abhyanga, it could be listening to a certain type of music, a breath or a meditation practice, whatever it is, right? And now your body already knows how to feel safe, how to come back to safety because it has, it has had that.

practice. Then you have battlefield tools. Battlefield tools are like when you’re in that moment of trigger and when you’re losing equilibrium and your body is getting hot, intense, solarized. What are you going to do? For me, for example, it’s humming, it’s breath. Exhaling is, I say inhaling is solar. takes you to the sympathetic mode. Exhaling brings you into rest and digest parasympathetic. So for me, it’s humming and humming does the same because humming is basically an exhale.

Kimberly Snyder (38:30.542)
Mmm.

Nidhi (38:45.147)
But everybody needs battlefield tools. When you’re in the moment, what do you need? So you’ve already practiced it, your body knows how to come back to it. So you can use a tool, any other tool, and come back to it in the middle of a conversation. And then we need repair tools. We all need to heal from the day. Alcoholics are made at night. Binge watchers, binge eaters are made at night. Sex addicts are made at night because we all need to heal from the day. And you need a repair practice every day, whether it’s journaling, whether it’s putting your legs up against the wall. And I say, if you have…

Kimberly Snyder (39:01.507)
Bye.

Nidhi (39:10.415)
I create an alaqat menu for all my clients for all of these tools. And you work to say which ones work for you. And when you have these tools, trust me, you cannot deviate that much. I travel a ton. I live in the city raising two teenage daughters. And I know that just keeping myself. And for me, breadth is my biggest tool. I actually do a ton of work. I’m a certified Pranayam teacher. And I’ve done Pranayam for the last 35 years since I was maybe 10 years old.

Kimberly Snyder (39:21.72)
Yeah.

Nidhi (39:40.305)
And that is the biggest tool in my personal toolkit, as well as oiling my body. And they’re so easy, they’re free. mean, oiling is not free, but it’s not super expensive either. But the breath is free. So I tell everybody, learn to understand your breath. And there’s a whole science to it. I can talk about it for like days. With the right, the left nostril, the inhales, exhales, there’s a complete science to it. And it’s very easy to train yourself.

Kimberly Snyder (39:43.576)
you

Nidhi (40:06.149)
But be best friends with your breath. And when you’re best friends with your breath, it becomes your tool that can be used just anywhere and anytime. But that’s not your thing for now. Know that you can create, but everybody needs these three tools in your toolkit. Just saying, you know what, I have therapy or I meditate in the morning or I journal at night. It’s not enough. You can reduce the time that you’re doing that by one fifth, but you need three types of tools and they’re all, know, you need to mark out which one is which.

Kimberly Snyder (40:36.206)
Well, and I think you offer so many great tools to choose from the way that you divide the book as well through the principles and living, you VEDA? And again, I think what’s great about your book is the sections. I mean, you know, you could read it all the way through, but I like, actually jumped around a little bit, because it’s so well organized in that way. So, thank you for writing a book that’s so well organized.

Nidhi (40:36.529)
Nice to see you.

Kimberly Snyder (41:02.094)
And you know, it’s so funny, Nidhi, I was really drawn to your book as well on this point because I love this idea of working with the elements that RU VEDA really teaches. And you know, me and many people in our direct community went through so much with these recent fires and our kids’ school burned down and just seeing the fire come over the ridge. you know, there was like a trauma, like when we were in evacuation.

even turning on the stove and seeing a fire to make tea kind of made me react like anything that was fire-based. It was like the vision of fire, seeing fire, and then the stress it caused and just the worry about everything. So it was the practices that really helped me during evacuation and just I needed really cooling foods and like forward bends and to your point, like really cooling breath practices. And I don’t think I would have that.

healing knowledge if it was just Western, I don’t know, just keep going and do like a hardcore workout. I was like, no, there’s a lot of fire energy in my life right now and I need to cool this.

Nidhi (42:11.695)
No, I am so glad that you had that, right? You had access to all of it so you could use it in these times. And that’s why I people that, unfortunately, we are going through life not for the good moments. also want to be, the more you train for those difficult moments, the more joy you experience in your moments today. Otherwise, most people on the other side of their 30s are just worrying about the rest of their lives. And these days, actually, it starts early. It starts at like 10, 12. Kids start worrying about it.

Kimberly Snyder (42:24.876)
Yeah.

Kimberly Snyder (42:38.19)
Thank you.

Nidhi (42:39.919)
their future. But the more tools you have, the less worried you are. The more you understand that you’ve got life, like you’re a warrior. like a real warrior is one who’s practiced enough so he’s not afraid on the battlefield. And that’s what you’ve got to keep doing all the time. I tell my daughters this, like, what is in your toolkit? What is in your toolkit? Like, they’re like, at this point, they’re like, Mom, I don’t want to hear the word breath anymore. But I know that they use it. And I know that it supports.

Kimberly Snyder (42:55.31)
Mmm, mmm.

Nidhi (43:08.623)
And they use it all the time. They come back and tell me, you mom, was feeling this on my test. And then I went back to my breath and mom, you’re right. You know, this happened. so really, I mean, we talk about this. We talk about food. We talk about practices. I talk about rituals and I do all of it. But I will say, and I tell this to my clients as well, if you can do it through your mind, if you can do it through your toolkit, your body wants to stay healthy. Your life wants life. Four and a half billion years, our planet, we didn’t need.

Kimberly Snyder (43:15.48)
Beautiful.

Nidhi (43:33.731)
any intervention. know, we just like single cell organisms became these full blown intellectual mammals just because the climate was right. You go back and create that correct climate, which you can create through breath. You can create through practices. You can create through food. You can create through a combination of all of this. But if you can do it through the easiest ways, the breath and the mind, just do it and your body will support itself. You know, it is so possible. You don’t have to buy into crazy complex ideas.

Kimberly Snyder (43:54.412)
Mm.

Kimberly Snyder (44:01.304)
Beautiful.

Nidhi (44:01.745)
I just want to say one more thing before you have anything else to say and ask me anything else, but I’ll tell you, I’m studying centenarians in India, people who live, know, centenarians. And the one thing that we found is that firstly, almost everybody is free of chronic disease. So like they don’t have high blood pressure, diabetes or anything else, very low inflammation markers, but most of them live in lower socioeconomic strata, which means that they have no refrigeration. They are preserving their electricity. They may live close to factories, so they may have toxic.

build up in their farms and in their ecosystem. But they’re living this kind of rhythmic life and they don’t know enough about the world. They’re not living with their televisions. They don’t know enough about the world. So they’re not living in everyday anxiety. And they’re living so well. And they’re like 100 years old and they’re like still like going into their farms and picking their berries and cooking their foods. So it doesn’t have to be complexed.

Kimberly Snyder (44:44.056)
Right.

Nidhi (44:56.783)
And I don’t know you have a few moments, I’d love to talk about biohacking and that I read out opinion about biohacking and my personal opinion about biohacking, but we can get into that. Yeah.

Kimberly Snyder (44:58.626)
Yes.

Kimberly Snyder (45:05.12)
Yeah, no, thank you for reinforcing that message because sometimes it can feel like, like you said, information overload. And anybody that’s on TikTok will be like, this fad and then this fad. then, you know, it’s just unnatural. it’s just like, there’s so many things. And again, what I love about your message is this wisdom inside, this connection to nature. So yes, I love to hear about that balance with.

biohacking, even the term just feels like this energy.

Nidhi (45:36.465)
It’s anti-nature. It’s like you’re hacking biology. That’s a little crazy. So there two things, longevity is great and aging beautifully is great. I just give like there just two concepts, right? In all the work I’ve done, I’ve seen there’s just two concepts that really stand out to me. One is the number of breaths you come with are limited. And if you wear one of those devices, the WuPo, the Auraring, you’ll notice that when you’re stressed, we breathe.

up to sometimes 40 breaths a minute versus 12 to 20 when we are relaxed. And a yogi wants to get into four breaths per minute, like a true yogi. So the number of breaths, according to the Vedic wisdom, are limited when you come. They’re predetermined. How quickly do you use up your breaths? How fast-paced your life is? How much you’re doing all of that? So I find that beautiful. there’s a whole…

other conversation like I said to that. And the second thing is drying is dying. So, you know, as we lose our essential flu fuels in our body, which is the mucosal lining, your myelin sheath, you know, your moist eyes as we burn out, we are losing as autumn is is the end of the year’s harvest, you know, and winter is too. And when we get old, we get all dry hair gets dry, skin gets dry and we shrivel. That’s everywhere on the planet.

So if you want to enhance that, you don’t want to elongate your life in a graceful manner, you want to be careful. You don’t want to burn out your fuels, which can be done in many different ways before the time. Global warming outside, that burnout and the inflammation inside. this is one idea. But the whole idea of biohacking is that this planet is so beautiful and interconnected. And unfortunately, our physical role here, we have a lot of spiritual role, but our physical role here is

reproduction, like life wants more life. Like that’s just the from the larger universe, the universal perspective of our physical bodies. And just as we wouldn’t want cells on the other side of their reproductive age, you know, they eventually atrophy, they shrivel and they’re flushed out of our body. On the other side of a certain age, you know, and a purpose, we’re living a purpose. And when that alignment has been lost on the other side of that, we need to be flushed out so new space can be created.

Nidhi (47:53.211)
for new life. And how you would want that. So reverence, I say reverence for death due to aging is reverence for life, is reverence for life. And we want to create space so that this new life that emerges on the planet and this freshness that happens. And we want to get mixed with that soul and we want to just reincarnate in the best way possible again. And it’s really sad to me that we’ve really come down, a lot of the population to thinking of us as just our physical bodies.

Kimberly Snyder (48:02.722)
No.

Kimberly Snyder (48:21.484)
Yes.

Nidhi (48:22.159)
you lose the sad, it’s sad that you lose the great potential we have as human beings when we look at ourselves with this limited mindset.

Kimberly Snyder (48:30.03)
Oh, how powerful because when we are connected to that, I mean, it changes how we live when we’re connected to the true self and we’re not living in that fear and that trepidation that, you know, it’s all going to end and we’re so limited. It changes every moment, doesn’t it? And I love, back to the energy quality of Arubeda, it’s this whole other influx. It feels like to me of this.

Nidhi (48:48.717)
every single moment.

Kimberly Snyder (48:57.6)
nourishment and this inspiration of being more connected to energy inside us, around us, in others. And it’s such a way to elevate our life. So I want to commend you again. This book, Nida, is just so beautiful and accessible. Because to your point, sometimes our uvata can be very academic and a little bit dense, but this is, I feel like this is a guide that everyone can benefit from.

And I love how you have ingredients and it talks about topics that people are really interested in. It goes into more detail about the Ayurvedic perspective, again, of protein or seasonality. Is there anything we didn’t cover in your book, which again is called Your Body Already Knows, that you would like to share with our listeners, our community today?

Nidhi (49:29.467)
Thanks.

Nidhi (49:49.167)
No, I appreciate it. You’ve done a lot. I think that I think one of the first things for people to do if they get my book, when they get my book, is to read part one, which talks about these three principles, which talk about the patterns underlying all of human nature, including the optimum inner climate. And once you’ve really mastered that framework, you can actually apply it to all areas of your life. Your sleep, your food, your relationships, your spiritual practice.

Kimberly Snyder (50:09.698)
Hmm.

Nidhi (50:13.839)
And that really talks about how to look at and understand patterns everywhere in the universe. Because it’s tempting to move into pages and look at practices, and it’s very exciting to do it. But build that foundation, bring back your wisdom. And one last thing I’ll say, I primarily work with women, and I tell women all around the world is that

We’ve never had this chance before. Our grandmothers didn’t have this chance of the great undoing of ourselves. We’ve come from genetic frameworks, compromised genetic frameworks, generational trauma, crazy social conditioning, a threatening ecosystem, a threatened ecosystem. And yet we have this opportunity to start undoing. So what we pass on to our future generations is different from what we’ve received. Part of my book has is,

Kimberly Snyder (51:00.493)
Mmm.

Nidhi (51:05.301)
The main part of my work is actually to start creating that movement. And my book is a starting point. Even though it seems like it’s at a very physical place, it is meant for you to reconnect with your wisdom and not for you to connect with my intelligence. That’s not what the book is about. It’s for you to go back to what you know you carry within and start to yourself at every level.

Kimberly Snyder (51:23.83)
So beautifully said, so empowering. you talk about this undoing, to me, it’s like being present to what we choose, not just this trauma or you said the patterns that we’ve inherited and living this lifestyle supports that because we can say, I want this, but then having this foundation for daily routines and breath work and practices and foods gives us the energy to actually create the life that we want.

Nidhi (51:51.805)
Absolutely. And understanding the rhythms and the patterns. You know, that’s why I say part one, understanding that creates a liberation. Everything you do becomes, your subconscious mind, becomes effortless, does not feel dogmatic. And yeah, that’s my main message. Let it happen with ease, just like the deer wakes up in the morning to eat grass. And the baby who’s never eaten its mouth, used its mouth, opens its mouth to suckle at its mother’s breast. We have it all within us. And it’s loving and it’s connected. And we can all go back there.

Kimberly Snyder (51:54.755)
Yes.

Kimberly Snyder (52:03.33)
Beautiful.

Kimberly Snyder (52:21.292)
Beautiful. Well, thank you so much, love, for sharing your wisdom. Can you share with us where we can get your very newly published book and also where we can find out more about your work?

Nidhi (52:34.061)
Absolutely. So you can get my book on all the top book retailers, Barnes and Nobles, Amazon, any of these places with Gariyit. And you can find me on my website, nidhi.me. I also post, so that’s N-I-D-H-I, my first name, N-I-D-H-I dot M-E. I also have an Instagram channel called my underscore Ayurvedic underscore life, where I kind of infuse this wisdom day by day.

Kimberly Snyder (52:38.542)
Thank

Nidhi (53:04.004)
all the time.

Kimberly Snyder (53:06.564)
beautiful. Well, thank you again so much for sharing your wisdom. Thank you and congratulations on your beautiful book. And we will put in the show notes, everyone, a direct link to Nidhi’s book and her website and her Instagram. So you can check it out at mysaluna.com. We’ll be back here as always Thursday for our next Q &A show. Take great care till then. Sending you all so much love and see you back here soon.

Nidhi (53:09.585)
Thank you.