Anjali Deva, AP

Updated 2022

Ayurvedic Practitioner

Constitution: Vata-Pitta

Anjali Deva is an Ayurvedic practitioner, writer, and teacher in Los Angeles, California. Her private practice, Rooted Rasa, specializes in understanding anxiety, depression, PTSD, digestive disorders, and women’s health from a holistic and integrative understanding. Her strong passion for digestion and mental health provides others with a holistic approach to find their inner harmony and resilience for healing. Personally influenced by using food as medicine, daily and seasonal routines, western herbalism, Buddhist philosophy, and breath-based practices, her approach to Ayurveda is gentle and compassionate. Anjali believes strongly in the importance of connection and the need to heal in community. She is dedicated to sharing the Wisdom of Ayurveda for the benefit of all living beings. Find her at rootedrasa.com.

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Articles by Anjali Deva, AP

- Routines and Rhythms
- June 02, 2022
How to Support Balanced Hormones with Ayurveda
In Ayurveda, dealing with hormonal imbalance is all about supporting the emotional and physical body. Learn about herbs and lifestyle tips that can help.
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- Health and Wellness
- August 31, 2021
The Ayurvedic Perspective on Modern Diets
When it comes to food and diet, there are seemingly endless options and opinions. Here are some ways that you can use Ayurveda to find the modern diet for you.
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- Ayurveda Basics
- June 18, 2021
Honoring the Summer Solstice with Ayurveda
The summer solstice is an ideal time to set intentions for the upcoming seasons. In this article, we'll explore ways to harness the powers of this auspicious day.
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- Health and Wellness
- September 15, 2020
How Our Mood, Digestion, and Immune Strength Are Connected
One interesting intersection in the body is the way mood, digestion, and immunity all support one another. This process is governed by agni, our digestive fire.
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- Routines and Rhythms
- January 02, 2020
How My Daily Routine Changed My Life
Daily routines are a must in Ayurveda, but just how effective are they? Check out this personal account of how an Ayurvedic practitioner's daily routine changed her world for the better.
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- Health and Wellness
- February 19, 2019
How the Doshas Respond to Stress
Daily stress is inherent to life. Fortunately, Ayurveda teaches us to use preventative measures to lessen the toll it can take on one’s physical health. Each dosha, or individual constitution, will adapt to stress in its unique way, making the pathway to balance multilayered. Read this article learn more.
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- September 21, 2018
Ayurvedic Wisdom for Balancing the Hormones
The wisdom tradition of Ayurveda offers a healthy and discerning approach to wholeness that can help to illuminate the complex and often overwhelming subject of hormones. Grounded in a wise understanding of the natural world, Ayurveda provides a roadmap for navigating imbalances that is comprehensive, manageable, and meaningful. Below you will find a practical and personal approach to balancing hormones using Ayurveda as an Elder.
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Anjali’s Experience and Education

Anjali Deva has been greatly fortunate to have been introduced to Ayurveda and Yoga at a young age by her father and mentor, Arun Deva (and even started practicing yoga at age five!). Her familial lineage is rich with the desire to preserve and maintain these healing arts.

Driven by her aspiration to better understand the connection between food and mood, she has trained with Kerala Ayurveda Academy, Loyola Marymount’s Yoga and the Healing Sciences Program, and with various teachers both in the United States and India. Her clinical experience began at Hope Integrative Psychiatry overseen by Omid Naim, MD, where she worked from 2014–2019.

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Anjali offers individual courses as well as an integrative Ayurvedic wellness counselor program! Learn more.

Anjali's Point of View

When are you most likely to go out of balance and how do you bring yourself back in balance using Ayurveda?

Summertime is the hardest time of year for me because I have a constitution that favors pitta and I live in a climate that can get really hot in the summer! Since like increases like, the environment I live in challenges my balanced state, and can throw me into a more heated pitta type of imbalance in the summer months. To help bring me back into balance, I always take manjistha to prevent skin imbalances, I drink cucumber-infused water, and try to spend as much time in the water as I can!

Before Ayurveda, I found myself dehydrated and exhausted most of the summer months. I'm so grateful to this seasonal awareness so now I can really enjoy my summers by camping, hiking, and swimming in the ocean.

What does the future of Ayurveda look like to you?

To me, the future of Ayurveda has an Ayurvedic health care practitioner working alongside doctors of different backgrounds across medical fields. I see Ayurveda's future as being intimately tied to environmental activism and I hope that Ayurveda inspires many to live a more natural life where they grow their own food, become aware of seasonal changes, spend more time in nature, and realize the importance of safe and sustainable practices for us and our planet. Ayurveda teaches us to pay attention to the rhythms of nature and I believe our relationship to the natural world needs nourishment now more than ever.

What's one Ayurvedic practice anyone can implement to spur change in their life, right here, right now?

We're needed. As we move toward greater inclusivity at NAMA, we'll be able to meet the needs of broader populations. This is positive.

What's one Ayurvedic practice anyone can implement to spur change in their life, right here, right now?

Scrape your tongue! You'll never go back!

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