i am
We are each unique. Like snowflakes.
Vata
Air & Space
Physical & Emotional Characteristics
✓ Light, thinner build with good agility
✓ Quick with bursts of energy
✓ Often have dry skin and cold hands & feet
✓ Irregular hunger & digestion
✓ Love excitement & new experiences
✓ Enthusiastic, love making new friends
✓Quick to learn, quick to forget
✓ Quick to anger, quick to forgive
✓ Energetic, creative & flexible
✓ Love conversation often leaping from one thing to another
✓ Tend toward nervousness & anxiety
✓ Tend towards constipation & dry skin
✓ Tend toward light & interrupted sleep
✓ Sensitive, can feel overwhelmed & prone to fatigue
Pitta
Physical & Emotional Characteristics
✓Medium build & speed
✓Red quality to hair, often balding or thinning early
✓Warm soft skin
✓Feels the heat
✓Excellent digestion (sometimes leads Pittas to believe they can eat anything)
✓Can’t skip meals, strong appetite, gets hangry
✓Medium to learn, medium memory
✓Good intellect & concentration
✓Precise, sharp, competitive
✓Good decision makers, direct & sharp witted
✓Natural leaders, may be good public speakers
✓May be a perfectionist, strong opinions
✓Tend towards irritability & anger
✓Can be argumentative & short-tempered
✓Tends towards skin rashes or acne
Kapha
Physical & Emotional Characteristics
✓Solid, heavier build
✓Strong with great endurance & stamina
✓Slow & methodical thinker & learner
✓Large, soft eyes, smooth, cool radiant skin
✓Thick lustrous hair
✓Sleep heavy & long
✓Calm with a solid, steady personality
✓Loyal, patient & supportive
✓Unconfrontational with many friends
✓Slow to learn, slow to forget
✓Tends to gain weight easily
✓Tends towards congestion & mucous
✓Tends towards stubbornness, and resists change