Understanding Your Body’s Natural Rhythms [EP. #968]

Topic: The Body’s Natural Rhythms

Hi everyone and welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show. I hope you’re having a lovely week so far, taking great care of yourself. And our topic this week, which is around rhythms, and specifically understanding your body’s rhythms and using this whole very natural process of rhythms to elevate your energy, your vitality, your wellness, is really top of mind for me as well.

We are in winter, those of us in the Northern Hemisphere coming into spring. So I think about these rhythms as I walk around and I start to see the buds coming. I am still in process of processing all that happened during the fires recently. Those of you that follow me on social media may see I’ve shared that the fire came within 1 mile on three sides and it was really intense energy and we were in evacuation for several weeks. So my rhythms were really thrown off in a way. But as I come back, I do feel rebirthed into something even stronger and more resilient. And I do feel very grounded into my routines and practices, which I’ll share about today. And I think that rhythms in nature show us how important they are for our bodies. We digest better, we sleep better, our immunity can get higher. Rhythms are really part of our ability to really deeply take care of ourselves. It’s a really big part of self-care in general, especially when we incorporate the four cornerstones, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth with, I say, the golden thread, the centerpiece, which is the heart and heart-led living so that we may stay really centered as we move through these different rhythms, as we move through life, we move through the different cycles.

Episode Summary:

In this episode, Kimberly Snyder discusses the importance of understanding and aligning with our body’s natural rhythms for improved wellness. She explores various types of rhythms, including circadian, seasonal, and menstrual, and emphasizes the need for self-care practices that support these natural cycles. The conversation highlights the impact of modern life on our rhythms and offers practical tips for creating regularity in our daily routines. Snyder also touches on the significance of nutrition and stillness in maintaining balance and vitality.

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Episode Chapters

00:00 Understanding Rhythms for Wellness
03:04 The Importance of Circadian Rhythms
05:47 Aligning with Natural Rhythms
08:57 Menstrual Cycles and Their Impact
11:57 Seasonal Changes and Body Rhythms
14:48 The Role of Stillness in Modern Life
18:05 Nutrition and Rhythms
20:50 Practical Tips for Syncing with Rhythms
24:11 Conclusion and Community Engagement

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STUDIES AND RESEARCH

A 2022 study led by University College London and published in the in the journal BMJ Mental Health analyzed data from nearly 50,000 adults over two years, finding that mental health and well-being are generally better in the morning and decline towards midnight. Participants reported higher happiness and life satisfaction ratings on Mondays, Fridays, and Tuesdays compared to Sundays. Seasonal influences also played a role, with mental health peaking in the summer. The researchers suggest that physiological changes linked to the body clock might explain these daily variations.

A 2025 groundbreaking study in the journal Scientific Reports revealed that modern Scots experience similar winter declines in vitamin D levels as their medieval ancestors, despite advancements in lifestyle and diet. Researchers employed a novel method of measuring vitamin D in human hair, comparing samples from the 16th or 17th centuries with those of modern-day residents. The findings highlight the persistence of low winter vitamin D levels, underscoring the importance of addressing seasonal deficiencies for optimal health.

A 2023 Study in the Journal of Sleep and Circadian Rhythm indicated that circadian rhythms significantly impact hormonal balance, influencing the regulation of melatonin, cortisol, insulin, and other hormones. Disruptions in these rhythms have been linked to various health issues, including mood disorders and cardiometabolic dysfunctions. Aligning daily activities with natural circadian patterns can support hormonal health and overall well-being.

2023 study in the journal of Nature and Mental Health showed that hormonal fluctuations during the menstrual cycle can lead to structural changes across the entire brain. A study focusing on the impact of hormones like estradiol, progesterone, luteinizing hormone (LH), and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) found that these fluctuations are linked to variations in brain structure, which may influence cognitive functions and mood.

A 2024 study in the journal of Clinical Medicine showed that regular physical activity helped to alleviate menopausal symptoms such as weight gain, mood swings, and sleep disturbances. Engaging in strength training and aerobic exercises can help manage these symptoms by improving metabolism, maintaining bone density, and enhancing emotional well-being.

A 2004 study in the Physiology & Behavior Research indicated that humans exhibit seasonal changes in metabolic rates and temperature regulation. In colder months, there’s an increase in metabolic heat production to maintain core body temperature. This adaptation involves both metabolic adjustments and insulative mechanisms, such as vasoconstriction to reduce heat loss.

A 2020 Study in the Journal of Endocrinology showed how seasonal variations in daylight affect circadian rhythms, influencing sleep patterns, mood, and hormonal secretions. Longer daylight hours in summer can enhance mood and energy levels, while shorter days in winter are associated with increased production of melatonin, potentially leading to lethargy and mood declines.

A 2023 study in the Journal of Nutritional Epidemiology showed that seasonal changes can influence eating behaviors. The study suggested that increased energy intake during colder months may be due to evolutionary adaptations encouraging higher calorie consumption in anticipation of scarcer resources, as well as hormonal changes affecting hunger and satiety.

TRANSCRIPT

Kimberly Snyder (00:00.738)
Hi everyone and welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show. I hope you’re having a lovely week so far, taking great care of yourself. And our topic this week, which is around rhythms, and specifically understanding your body’s rhythms and using this whole very natural process of rhythms to elevate your energy, your vitality, your wellness, is really top of mind for me as well.

half a mile and on one side of my house and then within one mile on two sides. So basically within a mile on three sides and it was really intense energy and we were in evacuation for several weeks. So my rhythms were really thrown off in a way. But as I come back, I do feel rebirthed into something even stronger and more resilient. And I do feel very grounded into my routines and practices, which I’ll share about today. And I think that

Rhythms in nature show us how important rhythms really are and our uvata has really taught Dhinacharya our daily routine how important it is for our bodies to be in a natural rhythm. Therefore we digest better, we sleep better, our immunity can get higher. Rhythms are really part of our

ability to really deeply take care of ourselves. It’s a really big part of self-care in general, especially when we incorporate the four cornerstones, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth with, I say, the golden thread, the centerpiece, which is the heart and heart-led living so that we may stay really centered as we move through these different rhythms, as we move through life, we move through the different cycles.

Kimberly Snyder (02:05.216)
So really excited to get into today’s show with research and very tangible tips. We’re going to be talking about seasonal rhythms. We’re going to be talking about menstrual rhythms. We’re going to be talking about all different types of rhythms today. Before we go deeper, reminder to please leave us a review for this Feel Good podcast. It is a huge support to us and it keeps the show going. So thank you in advance. It could literally be one sentence wherever you listen to our show. Please also forward this episode or the show in general.

to anyone you think would benefit. We’re here in community to support and to share, and it’s a wonderful thing to do to share this information, which could really change and hopefully upgrade someone’s life, which is the purpose of our show. Also reminder that the show notes are over at mysaluna.com, where you can sign up for our newsletter. You can see all our many offerings, our articles, our recipes, and we have tons of resources. We have our amazing digestion-focused

supplements such as our SBO probiotics, our detoxi, our digestive enzymes, our amazing glowing greens powder, which is really popular right now in the Los Angeles area because it contains a mix of spirulina and chlorella, really powerful plants, ashitaba, amalaki. There’s a lot of airborne

Toxins from the fires including lead asbestos and chlorine and so I know a lot of people are using it even doubling the amount to help to chelate or chelate the heavy metals from their system so if you know anyone that has been in LA for the fires and is concerned about Lead exposure toxicity exposure, please recommend our glowing greens powder. I know it’s been helping a lot of people so Everything again is at my saloon a calm our show question comes today from Sally

who lives in Berlin, Germany. Sally, thank you so much for writing into us with this very important topic. My mother’s name was Sally. Actually, her full name was Illuminada Salvacion, very Spanish name, the light and salvation, but everybody called her Sally. So that name is very close to my heart. You write Kimberly, I love the podcast in your books. I have a question about the body’s natural circadian rhythms and how it affects

Kimberly Snyder (04:24.682)
our health and energy. So Sally, thank you for bringing this up. And I think that the closer we live to our natural potential, the more naturally beautiful we become, the more naturally healthy, the more naturally energetic we become. This means eating natural whole foods, having natural practices like walking, being in the sunlight, having time for

know, downtime and stillness and rest, having time for play, right? There’s these natural rhythms which you see in nature. You see how the squirrels and chickens have playtime and they go to bed at a certain time and they wake up at a certain time. We see that the modern world is very not conducive to natural rhythms. There are 24-hour fitness gyms that are open. There are artificial lights.

There are events and dinners that start very late at night, especially in cities like New York City. I remember that sometimes we get a reservation at a restaurant for 9.30 at night, right? So there’s a lot of ways in which we can ramp up our system unnaturally. We can be on social media in our beds at 10.30 at night. And of course we see on a societal level, there’s so much around caffeine and caffeine pills.

even like little gums and mints that people take, there’s coffee. And then on the other side, to calm down, there’s all these melatonin-infused beverages. There are a lot of sleep aids because people’s rhythms are really thrown off. So as we start the show, and before we get into the research, it’s very telling how we look at the product usage today and we just see how very much people’s health and wellness is affected.

when we need to take a lot of substances for these natural processes, like getting through the day or going to sleep, we know that something is amiss, something is off. And so today we wanna talk about routines and rhythms and grounding into our natural circadian rhythms, as well as our seasonal and monthly rhythms. So one study I wanna call out is from 2022 by University College in London.

Kimberly Snyder (06:46.114)
and it was published in the journal BMJ Mental Health. And this analyzed 50,000 adults over two years. And it found that their mental health and wellbeing were better in the morning and declined towards midnight. So there was this freshness in the morning. They found that seasonal influences played a big role with mental health actually peaking in the summer.

The researchers suggested that physiological changes linked to the body clock might explain these daily variations. So what does it mean? It means that knowing that we’re meant to be primed in the morning and we’re meant to start to come towards rest in the evening means that we would be better suited doing our workouts in the morning perhaps or by midday. I like to go for a midday walk.

This is the time where we want to really focus on creative projects. My last book was written around 3.30 in the morning, The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts, because I did feel very uplifted, very attuned to nature, very inspired. I think there’s a naturalness to that. And we see that in nature when everything’s starting to uplift and rise up with the morning light. It means that we want to be a little bit more gentle with ourselves in the evening. We want to self…

Soothe, we want to help our bodies regulate. It’s been exposed to a lot during the day, especially if we’re working, we’re running around, we’re taking care of our kids. So this is the time for soothing. I’ve been drinking a lot of Telsey tea in the evenings, a lot of nice warm showers, scalp massage, oiling the feet. Time for our skincare. We have amazing non-toxic saloonist skincare as well.

I always start with that vitamin C serum to create brightness, right? Just really soothing practices. And for me, it’s about going to bed earlier and to rise up earlier if we need to have more space in our day for work versus trying to accelerate against our natural rhythms and stay up later to cram more in, right? So this morning, I have to share, went to bed so early last night, I went to bed at eight o’clock, felt amazing. I got up.

Kimberly Snyder (08:57.262)
I was on it. I got so much work done before my kids were even, you know, sort of rousing up. got texts done. I got clear. made lists. I even sent an email. It was felt, it feels really wonderful to be more alive and to take that morning energy, that sun energy inside of us to the morning. Now, when we are in sync,

As I mentioned, with going to bed earlier, waking up earlier, we start to sync up our normal sleep-wake cycles. And this is really great for our digestion and also our hormone production. Melatonin rises in the evening and cortisol peaks in the morning. Eating in the day and sync with daylight hours supports digestion and metabolism.

One of the things that is great for our evening rest and the melatonin is to get some of that natural sunlight in the morning. So as I mentioned, if you can get outside, if you can do a walk, if you can do some of your workout outside before noon, it’s a very healthy practice because your body realizes that, it’s daytime, I’m awake, I’m out in the world. And then by the time the evening comes, it’s time to rest and to shift into more of that downtime. What it also means

besides exposing ourselves to natural light in the morning, is to try to get off blue light screens before bedtime, or at least to use blue light blocking glasses, which is what I do if I happen to be on screens in the evening. I almost always wear them.

keep them in my bedside table and that way I don’t feel like it’s impacting me as much. It’s very stimulating the devices and I know it’s not always realistic to think we’re not gonna be on our phones at all while the sun goes down, but at least we can create some of that natural buffer if we have to work, if we have to do something on our phones or iPads or whatever in the evenings to have those glasses. It’s a very important support in the modern day, I feel like.

Kimberly Snyder (10:59.286)
So another thing, going back to the light for a moment, some of us don’t live in a place that has a lot of sunlight in the winter. I’m grateful that we do live in California and Hawaii, so we do have a lot of light and I can just feel how good it feels in my body, mentally, emotionally, spiritually to be in the light almost every day. That being said, I also grew up in Connecticut on the East Coast where there would be a lot of gray days. And so know what it’s like to feel

cut off from the light to an extent. And that’s why there’s wonderful red light therapies and sunlight mimicking light boxes you can get, especially if you find yourself more prone to seasonal affective disorders. A 2020-23 study in the Journal of Sleep and Circadian Rhythm found that hormonal balance, including melatonin, cortisol, insulin, was very much regulated when there were these natural rhythms.

aligning daily activities to these natural rhythms such as eating at regular times, going to bed at regular schedule, and getting up at a regular time. Created that alignment in our hormones, also in our cardio metabolic health, and also regulated moods. Now I’m laughing or I’m smiling because there’s been such an emphasis on these natural protocols in Ayurveda for thousands of years.

And it’s easy to ignore, I think, some of the things that feel simpler, like just, you know, getting your day set up and really attuning to that. And sometimes people just want to believe in the latest biohacking product, or they need to take, you know, get a, yet another sort of device or, you know, whatever it is. But the truth is that because our bodies are part of nature.

and we’re meant to be in this natural rhythm. If we don’t get that part sorted, I don’t care how many devices or different pills or IVs you do, it’s like you’re backtracking against the flow of life, the flow of your body. So it’s very important that we start to look at our daily schedule and we start to look at our routines and we start to become aware of what things throw us off.

Kimberly Snyder (13:21.39)
Maybe we’re just paying so much attention to our phones or we don’t create enough space in our work day so that we often end up skipping lunch or we don’t make time for a workout so we end up working out at eight or nine at night versus really prioritizing our health and wellness and also knowing that by doing this, we’re able to actually be more effective and more productive. So along those lines,

I want to read you a verse from the Tao that I was reading last night actually. And this comes from a book called Real Power Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching by James Eltery and Stephen Mitchell. And you guys who’ve been with me a while know how much I love the Tao. I think there’s so much deep wisdom. And I was really excited to find this book which took Tao verses and then applied them to a business setting. And of course, the business of running your life, the business of running your family, right? It doesn’t have to be so literal.

It says, this is from chapter nine in the Dao, fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. And what it says in the commentary is when people are really busy, busyness can be a substitute for creative thinking, or they hide behind how busy they are.

In other words, they’re so involved with the image of how busy they are, they don’t really get anything done. And he’s talking about this in a business context. How many times have you heard, I don’t even have time to think about that problem because of all the meetings, phone calls and correspondence or strategic thinking. I don’t have time to put out today’s fires. Nevermind three years from now. Has the quality of our work improved?

And then it goes on and on talking about the squeeze it in mentality. So when we try to squeeze everything in, we squash out the fertile grounds of stillness, which taking time to do your heart aligned meditation, for example, and just being with yourself, which allows creative ideas and guidance to come up. It allows you to be so coherent between your heart, your brain and your nervous system. You’re really guided in your communication. You can be truly effective.

Kimberly Snyder (15:43.586)
when you’re speaking to your child or at work, you have really deep guidance about what to write in an email or how to move a project forward, right? And so this chronic busyness, which is part of modern culture, really screws up our circadian rhythms, it depletes our health. And we question, is it really an effective way to live? You know, there’s ways in which you can fill your day.

back to back with calls. And so there’s no space between your calls, for example. know people at companies do this and it may seem like you’re really important and it may seem like you’re really busy, but the truth is, is it really moving things forward? Is it really an effective use of time or is it just, you know, Stephen Mitchell and James Altery, right? Is it really just hiding behind the busyness? Right? So we want to just be honest and say,

Maybe I don’t need to do all this stuff anyways. Maybe I can cut back. Maybe creating more stillness is really what my health needs right now. I know I’m often saying this to my husband who is on a lot of calls and then in between he’s on his phone a lot. And I just talk about how impactful real stillness can be. So sometimes I sit with him and I’ll hold his hand for 20 minutes.

And I know sometimes it gets uncomfortable for him and he, you he feels like he wants to get up and move or he gets restless or he wants to check, but it’s a really beautiful practice. think in training ourselves to be more still. And then I think it’s easier to get back in rhythm. does relate to this topic because if we’re chronically busy, we let many things take us off our rhythms. We say yes to every event, every phone call, every time someone asks us to do something.

and we push aside the things that are really important, like our wellness routines, our baths, our workouts, our walks, our time to make a home-cooked meal. Many things get pushed to the side. So, let us talk about sleep for a moment. There’s so much research here and it talks about how important vitamin D levels are for optimal health. And we need that light exposure.

Kimberly Snyder (18:05.422)
We need it in the morning, we need it regularly. So there’s again, more studies that we’ll talk about in the show notes if you want to read them. But one of the things that I’ll be sharing about soon, perhaps on here with a doctor I did this with and also on social media, is that I did my comprehensive blood work recently. It was a 15 page report and my vitamin D levels were really great as were by the way, iron, B12, so many…

factors in there were really great. And it was a testimony to how wonderful and how much our lifestyle really works. It’s simple and powerful and effective. Without micromanaging and overthinking and confusing formulas, everything was right there. And my CRP, which is your C-reactive protein, which can measure inflammation, was virtually nonexistent. So I had very low inflammation. And my DHEA levels, which is a measurement of vitality, we could say,

was the level of like an 18 year old woman. So I share this with you to say that it is really works and getting in rhythm and these simple practices and getting in the sunlight and making sure our diets are balanced. We really can create this beautiful balance that doesn’t have to come just from, you all the devices and taking all the stuff all the time.

I truly believe in our SBO probiotics. I truly believe in the few supplements we put out, the detoxing and the digestive enzymes, to really allow your body’s intelligence to work at its highest levels, right? To break down the food with the enzymes, to expel the waste really thoroughly with the detoxing, and also to really get your microbiome and check. So check it out if you haven’t already. And I also want to mention how important it is to stay.

on these protocols, which is why we have a really great subscription program. If you try something once or a month and you kind of bounce to something else or just for a few months, you don’t really get the deep benefit. It’s what we do week after week, day after day, long term. I’ve been on those probiotics for years. I take our glowing greens powder every day. You know, I’ll take it forever because if you jump around or you don’t stick with something, you don’t really get…

Kimberly Snyder (20:22.006)
the benefits for the long term, which is what we want. really builds. It’s like how the heart aligned meditation, your baseline builds and builds. I believe your baseline of vitality builds and builds the more you stay. So please check out our subscriptions, which are really advantageous from a shipping perspective and also just a health perspective. You don’t have to think about it. You stay on the program, which is what I would encourage for anyone like I do for my clients. Now let’s talk about our menstrual cycle.

for a moment. And it’s really important to tune into this as women. There’s the follicular part of the cycle, which happens from your period to when you ovulate. And you’re in the luteal phase, which is after ovulation and ends at your period. So I’m in the luteal phase right now. And the more I started tuning into my period as a part of the natural rhythm, you realize that you really do feel different in different parts of your cycle.

This is the part of the cycle where there would be more rest, more nourishment. You wouldn’t push as hard in your workouts. Whereas in the follicular phase, there’s more endurance, higher energy. You might notice that towards the beginning, right? In this time where we start to go inward after ovulation might be a really great time to journal and to think about ideas. And then when you’re in that follicular phase, you have more energy to actually create and be more extroverted and outward in your efforts, in your action steps.

You can also sync your workouts with these hormonal fluctuations, which is really wonderful to do. And also I’ll mention the men, for men testosterone levels peak in the morning and decline throughout the day influencing energy and performance. So knowing this, you know, whether you’re a man or a woman, you might want to do more of those tougher workouts in the follicular phase or for men more in the morning. This has also been shown to support adrenal and thyroid health to maintain balance.

There’s a lot of, there’s a relationship between all these different glands. And I remember when we had some experts on here around periods and around PCOS and about women’s health, there was often a relationship we talk about between the ovaries, ovarian health, thyroid health. So everything is so interconnected. So if you’re feeling like, I’m gonna start to check my cycles more and I do wanna be more tuned in.

Kimberly Snyder (22:46.038)
This is a really potent example where pushing ourselves isn’t necessarily going to make us more healthy. Sure, we maybe burn more calories, but at the end of the day, this burnout, this wearing the body down because we’re not in alignment with natural rhythms doesn’t really serve us in the end. Now, one of the things that’s really interesting, a 2023 study in the Journal of Nature and Mental Health showed that hormonal fluctuations

during the menstrual cycle leads to structural changes across the entire brain. Now this is really interesting. This affects cognitive functions and mood. So I say, you know, don’t beat yourself up if there’s times in the month where you feel, you know, about PMS or you feel a little bit more moody. And also, you know, there’s luteinizing hormone LH and follicle stimulating hormone FSH. There’s a lot going on when we are in rhythm.

Right? And so there’s a time to rest. And for me, this is often around my period, the days leading up to my period. And I feel this incredible outward energy when I’m in that ovulation time. And when you tune in, you may notice that as well. And it’s not going to be like that the whole month. Right? One of the things about rhythms is that there’s a natural peak and then there’s a natural decline and there’s a natural flow. And again,

The reason that modern life can be so detrimental to our natural rhythms is we can very much with uppers, with caffeine, with artificial lights, feel like we have to be on all the time. And this diminishes our vitality, this diminishes our happiness, this diminishes our levels of peace and our fulfillment because this is just not natural. We need time for rest. We need time to be more outward.

So let’s talk about seasonality for a moment. 2004 study in the Physiology and Behavioral Research Journal found that in the colder months, there’s an increase in metabolic heat production to maintain core body temperatures. And in the cold months, of course, one of the things that our body naturally does is to shiver and to lower

Kimberly Snyder (25:07.102)
and just to keep our bodies more balanced. And so this is quite obvious, but also really important to remember when we’re choosing foods, when we’re choosing exercises, because we want to burn off a lot. Well, first of all, we feel naturally tuned. I do now, even though it’s not super cold in California, to have more coconut milk.

stews, soups, fatty foods. I’ve been having a lot of really milky foods lately because your body needs that for its natural rhythm to be warm, right? And so you’re shivering a lot, your body is burning off so much just to actually maintain itself. And this is why in the winter we naturally eat more fatty foods. And then in the spring we feel this rising energy, the sun starts to come up.

And this is a really powerful time for detoxification and renewal. This is why in Ayurveda, there tends to be more Panchakarma or five day cleansing protocols. This is where we want to eat a lot of raw food. This is where we could do our waterfall cleanse, which is an amazing program that we have for you. You could check it out on our website, mysaluna.com, with juices and smoothies and digging into these saluna supplements to cleanse, because there can be some heaviness.

and builds up from the winter months. And we wanna take time to clean that out and rebalance everything. And then summer, there’s this peak of energy. There’s a lot of, know, the fire element is very prevalent. There’s so much sun. So this is a time where we want a lot of light to cooling foods. This is the time for coconut water, not necessarily coconut milk. There’s longer daylight. We wanna make sure to cool off in water, naturally drawn to lakes, to pools, to the ocean.

to waterfalls to cool down that natural element, right? There’s a lot of balance of elements naturally that starts to happen. I’ll also mention because there’s such a pervasive fire element the last few weeks here around because of the destructive fire that burned through our area. I’m not drawn to fire at all right now. I used to light a lot of fires last winter. I just feel in my natural body’s rhythm.

Kimberly Snyder (27:31.662)
A lot of baths, long baths with my kids. I’m really excited to go back to Hawaii in a few weeks and to get into those waterfalls and to get back in the ocean. I’m drawn actually to a lot of teas and just drinking a lot of water right now. So there’s times where we can intuitively feel that we need to reset our own rhythm if we’ve been really exposed to one element really strongly for a time.

All right, let’s say it’s a lot of wind in your area, a lot of vata energy, the grounding element of sweet potatoes and nuts can ground your body. There’s also some really great podcasts with Vidya J, my Arduvaitic teacher and doctor that we’ll link to in the show notes if you’re interested in learning more about these elemental concepts or what’s called Pancha Mahavuttha theory in Arduvaita, the five elements and how it really helps to interplay.

with rhythms and with your body’s health and wellness. And then in the fall, just to wrap that up, that it’s a wonderful time to prepare for winter and to have grounding foods and to increase your immune support. So this is a great time to have lots of fermented foods, raw sauerkraut, to make sure you’re consuming your detoxi regularly because you don’t want any sort of toxicity build up in your GI tract.

which can definitely affect your immunity, starts to recirculate, you start to feel a little bit heavier as we go into that more vulnerable time in the fall and winter. because your body is trying to maintain its natural weight right now and it needs to maintain its natural heat, it’s good to support your energy in other ways right now in the winter as well.

One thing is that you can wake up a little bit earlier. It’s easier to fall into that sluggish, more slothful kaffa, right? Which is like, just sleep in a little bit more. But Arya Veda says if you start to sleep in later and later, your energy doesn’t actually bounce back. So if you can get up a little bit earlier than usual, have some warming tea or hot water with lemons or to get the day going, you’ll start to warm your agni, your digestion and to warm your energy. So you go into the day.

Kimberly Snyder (29:47.976)
more boosted. It’s also really important when we’re talking about circadian rhythms and your body’s rhythms to really understand how your body works. I’m someone who loves to get up early. I’m a very light sleeper. I have a lot of vata energy in my body and I have friends and people around me who are very kaffa and could sleep, you know, stay up all night and then sleep in. My husband has a lot of pit-a-fire energy so he tends to

be a pretty good sleeper and he’s kind of right in the middle. He doesn’t wake up super early, he doesn’t wake up super late. He’s certainly not as light a sleeper as I am. So it’s important to know our tendencies and to know where our natural imbalances are. So for my husband, he could easily stay up really late. For me, if I stay up too late, even though I don’t really like it, but sometimes there’s things going on, it will throw me off because no matter what, I’m going to get up really early.

and I don’t get enough sleep. So last night, for instance, because I kind of stayed up later on the weekends, which ideally you would kind of stay around the same schedule, but we’re human and there’s gonna be times for fun and, you know, just being with friends. I just went to bed, as I mentioned earlier, at eight o’clock and it just really felt like what my body needed to get back on rhythm as the week started. And it was really, really important.

to rebalance for me for the week. So when we think about a day, when we think about a week, a season, know, month, the year, there’s rhythms upon rhythms, there’s circles upon circles. So what I would encourage you to take away from today’s show, today’s podcast, is to consider where your rhythms are really off for a day, you know, whether that’s, you know, jamming yourself up to stay up too late, or you stay up so late that you wake up the next day or you’re

Eating schedule is all over the place and you don’t eat your meals at regular times, same thing with your workouts. Think about where you can start to, even if it’s step by step, where you can create some more regularity with your actual daily rhythms. And then you can extend that to a week. Where do things get really out of whack? Is it towards the end of the week? You’re trying to finish things up or do the weekends really go off the rails?

Kimberly Snyder (32:08.321)
And then you can think about it seasonally, right? Sometimes I feel like we wanna go against the seasons. I don’t think for our nervous system, certainly not for my body type, cold plunges in the winter feel very nourishing and hot yoga classes in the summer can feel really draining, right? So we wanna go with what our bodies need seasonally and the foods that feel really great for our bodies in each season, heavier, more fatty, more nourishing, more warm in the winter and so on.

So we have lots of related shows to this topic and that includes menstrual rhythms, circadian rhythms, Ayurvedic seasonal eating. we’ll take a to those as well. So you can take a little peek at mysalooner.com. And as always, remember you can keep your questions coming. There is a tab on our website where you can submit your questions for these shows, anything you’re wondering. I can almost guarantee that other…

Amazing souls and beautiful hearts in our community are wondering the same thing Remember again to please leave us a review. It means so much So thank you so much from the bottom of my heart And if you haven’t yet joined our newsletter at mysalina.com, please do so you stay on top of all our wonderful happenings and news I’ll be back here Monday as always for our next show till then take great care and sending you so much love

Understanding Your Body’s Natural Rhythms [EP. #968]

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