Creating a Sacred Routine [Replay]

Thank you to everyone who joined me today for our Healthy Happy Sexy discussion. I loved hearing how each of you is thinking about health, creativity, spirituality, and the routines that support you in your particular season of life.

Today, we focused on dinacharya, the Ayurvedic practice of daily routine. Rather than thinking of routine as a rigid list of things we should do, I like to think of it as deciding consciously what we want to prioritize. If we say that our health, creativity, relationships, and spiritual lives matter to us, our routines help us actually make space for them so they can flourish.

We also talked about protecting the beginning and end of the day, becoming more discerning about what we allow into our consciousness, and looking at our habits not simply as “good” or “bad,” but by asking: Does this bring me closer to the woman I want to become and closer to God—or further away?

Most importantly, your routine should support your life, not control it. Ayurveda is not one-size-fits-all, and your needs will change with your body, circumstances, and season of life.

If you’re new to Ayurveda, please don’t look at the Dinacharya Checklist below and decide you need to do everything on it tomorrow morning! Start with one practice that feels nourishing and let it become part of your life. Maybe it’s tongue scraping. Maybe it’s stretching before you get out of bed. Maybe it’s eating breakfast without looking at your phone. Maybe it’s five minutes of prayer.

Small rituals, practiced consistently, can profoundly change the texture of our days, and moreover, our lives.

If you’d like to explore Ayurveda more deeply, Katie Silcox, author of Healthy Happy Sexy, will be joining us for an Author Talk on Tuesday, September 15th at 10 AM ET. Paid subscribers also have access to Ayurveda Goddess, my complete 10-lesson Ayurveda program inside This Enchanted Life.

The full workshop replay and Dinacharya Daily Routine Checklist are below for paid subscribers. 👇🏻