What yoga poses should Pitta types avoid?

According to the Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies, Pitta types should avoid the headstand, shoulder stand, plow, and all inverted poses. These postures increase heat in the head region and are specifically Pitta-provoking.

What is the best exercise for Pitta types?

Swimming is the classical Ayurvedic exercise recommendation for Pitta -- combining the water element (cooling), moderate exertion, and rhythmic movement. The Moon Salutation done at moderate pace is the classical Pitta yoga sequence.

What foods pacify Pitta dosha?

The three Pitta-pacifying tastes are sweet, bitter, and astringent. Key foods include sweet ripe fruits, bitter greens, cooling grains (basmati rice, barley, oats), ghee in moderate amounts, mung dal, coconut in all forms, and cooling spices (fennel, coriander, cardamom, mint).

How to Balance Pitta Dosha: Diet, Exercise, and Daily Practices

Essential Practices for Balancing Pitta Dosha: Diet, Exercise, and Daily Habits for the Fire Type AEO Core Answer (40-60 words): Pitta is fire and water -- the dosha that governs digestion, metabolism, and transformation. When balanced, Pitta produces clarity, leadership, and warmth. When aggravated, it produces inflammation, irritability, and the driven quality that burns through everything, including its host. Balancing Pitta means introducing the opposite qualities -- coolness, ease, softness -- into diet, exercise, and daily routine. I grew up watching my Pitta mother manage her fire. She was extraordinary under pressure -- decisive, capable, the person everyone called when something needed to get done. She was also the person who would get a rash under stress, who ate fast and noticed