Is your child naturally slow or quick? Competitive or laid back? Methodical or intuitive? When it comes to children, you can’t really do much about their essential nature, but as parents, you can learn to understand them better, and help them grow to their full potential. In Ayurveda, your child’s preferences and tendencies are reflections of different body types. We spoke to Dr Nisha Manikantan, founder, and director of Sri Sri College of Ayurvedic Science and Research, about the different body types.
HOW DOES ONE DETERMINE A CHILD’S BODY TYPE?
According to Ayurveda, the living body is an assembly of three doshas or energies (vãta, pitta and kapha) and seven dhãtus (rasa, rakta, mãmsa, meda, asthi, majja and ukra). Doshas determine the characteristics, traits, and features of the child. Broadly,…