Ash & Honey Season 2-Episode 2: The Science of Life: An Introduction to Ayurveda

Close your eyes. Come with me somewhere.

We're standing at the foothills of the Himalayas. It's five thousand years ago — maybe more. In a clearing, sages sit in meditation, watching. Watching the stars and the seasons. The way certain plants heal and others harm. The way some people run hot while others run cold.

What they're building will become one of the oldest and most sophisticated medical systems in human history. They call it Ayurveda — the Science of Life.

In this episode of Ash & Honey, we leave ancient Greece behind and travel to ancient India. Host Alexandria Quinn Love, M.A., introduces the foundational concepts of Ayurveda: the five elements, the three doshas — Vata, Pitta, Kapha — and the revolutionary idea that what keeps you healthy is different from what keeps me healthy.

You'll learn about Prakriti (your original constitution) and Vikriti (your current imbalance). You'll discover Agni, the digestive fire that transforms not just food but experience itself. And you'll begin to see the echoes — the remarkable parallels between Greek Humorism and Indian Ayurveda, two traditions that never met yet arrived at strikingly similar truths.

Different map. Same territory.

🎧 In this episode:

• Why Ayurveda now: the echoes between Greek and Indian wisdom
• The five elements: Ether, Air, Fire, Water, Earth
• The three doshas: Vata (air + ether), Pitta (fire + water), Kapha (water + earth)
• Prakriti vs. Vikriti: who you are vs. where you are now
• Agni: the sacred digestive fire that determines everything
• Portraits of each dosha type — see yourself in the descriptions

This is personalized medicine — five thousand years before we invented the term.

Next Episode: Vata — the wind and space dosha, the artists and dreamers, the anxious ones who live in their heads.

Let the burn teach you. Let the honey keep you.
Until next time — be gentle with the body that carries you.