Everyday Ayurveda with Kate

Dr. Karen Kirkness has spent decades in the yoga world and the last ten-plus years in anatomy labs earning a master's in clinical anatomy and a PhD in medical sciences. In this episode she and Kate go straight into fascia — not as packing material, but as a signaling system — and into hyaluronan, the molecule that makes your tissue juicy. The surprise: more lubrication is not better. Fresh, long-chain hyaluronan tells your cells everything is regulated. But movement shears those chains into fra

If summer heat is leaving you irritable, bloated, broken out, or just plain wiped out, this solo episode is for you. Kate O'Donnell offers a midsummer check-in through the lens of Ayurveda — explaining why this particular point in the season is such an important juncture, and what to do now to keep summer's heat from setting the stage for a fall burnout. Kate walks through the Ayurvedic concept of samprapti — the slow, predictable way a dosha moves out of balance — and helps you recognize the e

If summer heat is leaving you irritable, bloated, broken out, or just plain wiped out, this solo episode is for you. Kate O'Donnell offers a midsummer check-in through the lens of Ayurveda — explaining why this particular point in the season is such an important juncture, and what to do now to keep summer's heat from setting the stage for a fall burnout. Kate walks through the Ayurvedic concept of samprapti — the slow, predictable way a dosha moves out of balance — and helps you recognize the e

This week, Kate is joined by Dr. Stephen Cabral, a board-certified naturopathic physician, bestselling author, and founder of EquiLife and the Integrative Health Practitioner Institute. Dr. Cabral shares the health crisis that launched his career — a cascade of autoimmune diagnoses at age 17 — and how naturopathic medicine, functional lab testing, and his clinical training in Ayurveda helped him fully recover. The heart of the episode is a live read of Kate's own hair minerals and metals test,

This week, Kate is joined by Dr. Stephen Cabral, a board-certified naturopathic physician, bestselling author, and founder of EquiLife and the Integrative Health Practitioner Institute. Dr. Cabral shares the health crisis that launched his career — a cascade of autoimmune diagnoses at age 17 — and how naturopathic medicine, functional lab testing, and his clinical training in Ayurveda helped him fully recover. The heart of the episode is a live read of Kate's own hair minerals and metals test,

Fruit has more Ayurvedic baggage than almost any other food group — and in this solo episode, Kate O'Donnell tackles it head-on. Prompted by one of the questions she hears most often from students around the world, Kate breaks down where the popular "fruit rules" actually come from, which ones hold up, and why timing and digestion — not willpower — are the real story. Along the way, she shares a personal (and slightly painful) lesson from a winter in India spent eating papaya and yogurt and lays