Erin Casperson
Lead Kripalu Faculty
Erin Casperson is Lead Kripalu Faculty and the director of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda. As an Ayurvedic Health Counselor and Ayurveda yoga teacher, Erin loves to share how ancient wisdom of yoga and Ayurveda is practiced in modern day life. An enthusiastic and heartfelt teacher and student, she has continued her studies in Ayurveda both at Kripalu and in India. What Erin has come to most appreciate about the practices of Ayurveda, yoga, and mindfulness is the inquiry into how simplicity of daily practices done over long periods of time generate enormous internal transformation. A student of planet earth and the universe, she spends as much time outdoors as possible walking the path in her backyard, gardening, or navigating the New England woods—even summiting all 48 4,000 foot mountains in New Hampshire. Erin invites others to develop awe and wonder of our natural habitat. When not geeking out on Ayurveda or hiking with her dog and partner, you will find her in the kitchen, reading a book, or finding a spot in the sun to keep warm.
Upcoming Programs
The Ayurvedic Art of Cooking Water with Erin Casperson
Resources
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Eat Local, Eat Relaxed
There is no "Ayurvedic diet," says Erin Casperson, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda. The key to health is to eat what grows in your region—in season, and in a peaceful environment and state of body and mind.
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Ayurvedic Self-Care for the Holidays
During the holidays, maintain the practices that keep you well-rested.
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A Warming Yoga Flow for Fall
Erin Casperson, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, offers a slow, rhythmic, fluid practice for fall that evokes the water and earth elements.
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Dear Coffee, I Love You, But We Have to Break Up
Erin Casperson, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, loved everything about coffee—except how it made her feel.
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Can’t Decide What Color to Paint Your Walls? Ayurveda Can Help
The colors you choose for your walls can either balance or intensify the qualities associated with your dosha, affecting your mood and energy. Kripalu's Erin Casperson offers an Ayurvedic guide to keep you on track.
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Ayurveda for Bringing Sexy Back During Quarantine
With the stress and anxiety we’re all experiencing, it’s natural for the libido to take a hit. The wisdom of Ayurveda can help you navigate through the sexy-time drought.
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The Power of Stopping in a Time of Pause
Do you find yourself responding to anxiety by filling your time with distractions and long to-do lists? Erin Casperson, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, invites you to slow down and see what happens.
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Ayurveda for Warding Off Seasonal Affective Disorder
Ayurveda is based in the five elements, and follows the rhythms of the sun and moon, inviting us to live in closer attunement with nature. Here are four ways to align with winter.
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The Vata Stage of Life: 10 Tips for Aging Better with Ayurveda
In a world that wants to sell us Botox, facelifts, and miracle cream, and considers us irrelevant once the bloom is off the rose, how can we take back the wisdom years and celebrate aging?
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What Does an Ayurvedic Health Counselor Do?
Erin Casperson, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, shares how our graduates have carved out unique career paths in this burgeoning field.
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A Is for Apple…and Ayurveda
Ayurveda recommends eating seasonally so, in the fall, if you live where apples grow, eat apples. Lots of them.
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Your Spending Style According to Your Dosha
The ancient health science of Ayurveda offers clues into how we spend and save, according to our dosha.
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The Season of Pitta
Erin Casperson, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, offers tips for balancing the qualities of pitta dosha, which rules the summer season.
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A Warming Yoga Flow for Winter
This is the time of year to indulge in a slow, rhythmic, fluid practice that evokes the water element, with lots of grounding poses that connect to the earth element.
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Ayurveda and the Quest for Longevity
Ayurveda is our guidebook for attaining lifelong health and self-realization, says Erin Casperson, Dean of the Kripalu School of Yoga.
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Ayurvedic Wisdom for Night Owls: How to Reset Your Sleep Clock
Are you a dyed-in-the-wool night owl? It might be time to make a change. According to Ayurveda, your happiness depends on how much sleep you get.
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The Geography of Emotion
The practice of feeling into the connection of shared emotions can create a sense of greater connection with the larger web of humankind.
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Ayurveda for Anytime: Get More Ojas in Your Life!
Erin Casperson, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, shares how to boost your ojas—the life-sustaining vitality that promotes immunity in the body.
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The True Essence of Ayurveda
Erin Casperson, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, counters the media's assumptions about the "science of life," and offers a deeper understanding, plus resources to learn more.
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How to Eat in Spring, According to Ayurveda
Erin Casperson, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, offers some basic principles for adjusting your diet to balance the qualities of the season.
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Six Ayurvedic Practices for a Better Sex Life
No matter how often you get it on, at any time of year, you can use Ayurveda to enhance your sex life and to preserve and build your ojas (vitality). Here’s how.
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Everything’s Coming Up Ayurveda!
With the growing season comes opportunities to plant, sprout, and grow—in our lives and in the earth. The Ayurvedic herb garden at Kripalu is a sacred space...
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Ayurvedic Tips for Sleeping Better on Hot Summer Nights
Ayurveda offers practices that will balance out the heat, so you can get a decent night’s rest.
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The Ayurvedic Art of Cooking Water
When you cook water, its qualities are transformed, making it more warming and easier to assimilate.
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Ayurveda and the Golden Goodness of Ghee
Ghee—especially when made from local, grass-fed, organic, unsalted butter—offers a wide range of benefits, ranging from clarity of mind to better digestion.
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Ayurveda for Moving into Spring
Adjusting our daily self-care rituals to seasonal changes helps us maintain balance and reminds us that we are a part of the natural world.
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Cooking Bone Broth in the Ayurvedic Kitchen
The Paleo diet made bone broth trendy, but it's long held a place in Ayurvedic medicinal cookery. The Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda shares the health benefits, and recipe for bone broth.
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Tending the Mind: Sattvic Practices for Addressing the Three Causes of Imbalance
Ayurveda teaches that imbalance causes disease, and that there are three main causes of imbalance—two of which originate in the mind.
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Ayurveda for Building Healthy Emotional Boundaries
Ayurveda can help us build healthy emotional boundaries that create a sense of freedom, personal space, and empowerment.
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Tips for Balancing Pitta in Summer
As August rolls on, pitta aggravation is in full force if your constitution is primarily pitta—one of the three Ayurvedic doshas.
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A Revitalizing Yoga Flow for Spring
Just as we adjust our diet in the springtime, we can adjust our yoga practice to balance the heavy, damp, cool qualities of the season.
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A Cooling Yoga Flow for Summer
This simple, accessible practice can be broken down into 15-minutes segments; the entire sequence takes about 45 minutes to complete.
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Kripalu Recipe: Orange Soup
A perfect wintertime comfort food, with the added benefit of health-promoting herbs and spices.
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Ayurveda for Health, Balance, and Digestion
Ayurveda, the “science of life,” emphasizes diet and lifestyle choices to maintain health and bring balance to the body and mind, while living in harmony...
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What to Expect from an Ayurvedic Consultation
The eightfold exam is a thorough process that reveals places of balance and imbalance in a client's constitution.
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Why Ayurveda Is Not a Trend, and How You Can Bring More of It into Your Life This Year
Learn tips on how you can bring the wisdom of this ancient health science into your life.
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You’re Already Practicing Ayurveda If …
You may already be practicing aspects of Ayurveda, but not using the language of this 5,000-year-old Indian health science, according to Erin Casperson, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda.
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The Fantastic Superpowers of Coconut Oil
From cooking to cozying up with your sweetheart, coconut oil is all the rage. If you’re ready to take coconut oil to the next level in your daily life, here are some recommendations drawn from the teachings of Ayurveda.
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The Healing Power of Meditation
The silence of meditation holds infinite power to soften and heal.
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Embracing Winter, Kripalu Style
Adapting to the coldest time of the year with a mindful approach.
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Self-Care the Ayurvedic Way
Explore at-home treatments with an Ayurvedic philosophy.
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5 Practices for Easing the Transition into Daylight Saving Time
These practices from Kripalu faculty and presenters will smooth your transition into spring and help you take advantage of the longer days.
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Morning Practices from the Kripalu Schools
The Deans of our four Schools share their morning routines and offer inspiration for building new habits to start your day.
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Holiday Rituals from Our Faculty
We asked a few of our Kripalu Schools of Yoga and Ayurveda faculty to share their favorite rituals for the season of celebration.
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Ayurvedic Tips for Thriving in Winter
Ayurveda’s first cardinal rule is to implement practices with the opposite qualities of the season. Try these tips to bring more warmth into your winter.
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The Benefits of Being Quiet in Nature
When we’re able to drop into nature’s silence, we can hear and know ourselves more clearly.
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10 Ayurvedic Stocking Stuffers for a Happy, Healthy Holiday
Erin Casperson, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, shares 10 of her favorite self-care items—guaranteed to keep your loved ones well-nourished all winter long.
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How to Love Winter
If you’d like to do more than simply endure another winter, here are some ways to thrive during the frostiest time of the year.
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How to Do a Spring Food Cleanse, Ayurveda Style
Have you ever been gung-ho about doing a cleanse, but found your willpower withering after a few days? Ayurveda has the recipe for success.
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Ayurvedic Wisdom for Better Digestion
According to yoga’s sister science, most digestive problems are due to diet and lifestyle choices. That’s actually good news, because it means that we can take our health into our own hands.
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Practices for the Season of Blossoming: Yoga and Ayurveda for Springtime
Yoga and Ayurveda teach us to be fully present and engaged as we shift seasons and open to new perspectives.
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What You’ll Get Out of a Silent Retreat, and How to Take It Home
Silence leaves us renewed, more awake to who we are and what we most need.
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Ayurvedic Eating Tips to Balance Energy and Emotions
These days, science supports what so many of us have intuitively known for a long time—that what and how we eat greatly impacts our mood, emotions, and overall health.
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An Ayurvedic Thanksgiving: Designing a Holiday Feast with All Six Tastes
How do we design a feast that leaves everyone feeling happy and satisfied rather than bloated and bogged down? Ayurveda has a secret formula.
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Drinking Tea for Good Health
Today, tea is one of the most widely consumed beverages on the planet, with many people and cultures ascribing to it benefits of tranquility and healing.
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7 Steps to Enhance Your Digital Wellness
When we put down our devices, we look up, engage, and come back to the world, and to ourselves.
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Five Yoga Poses for Staying Grounded During the Holidays
Twisting yourself into a pretzel this holiday season trying to get everything done? Come back to center with one of these practices from our Kripalu Schools faculty.
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Does Silence Scare You?
Silence can be frightening, because it opens the door to thoughts and emotions that noise keeps at bay.
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A Path to Freedom: An Unexpected Journey in the Kripalu School of Ayurveda
Daneen had been in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction for more than three years when she enrolled in the Ayurvedic Health Counselor training.
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Ayurveda to Balance Tech Overload
The ancient science of Ayurveda offers tips for creating a healthier relationship with technology.
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Practices to Bring Light Into Your Winter
We asked a selection of Kripalu teachers for practices that can bring warmth and wellness into your winter. Here are a few of their bright ideas.
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How to Eat in Summer, According to Ayurveda
In hot temperatures, pitta (one of the three Ayurvedic doshas, or qualities) can get out of balance, leading to skin irritation, indigestion, and frustration. Here are six tips for choosing foods that cool your body and calm your mood.
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Yoga and Parenting: Breath, Self-Care, and Letting Go
Parenting is an incredible and rewarding learning experience. And it’s not for the faint of heart. Yoga, mindfulness, and meditation can all support the journey.
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Great Summer Reads from Kripalu Schools Faculty and Staff
Need a great beach read? Here’s what our Schools faculty and staff are kicking back with this summer!
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Yoga and Ayurveda Go Prime Time
We asked a few yoga and Ayurveda experts to offer health- and happiness-enhancing practices for some very stressed-out small-screen personalities.
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Kripalu Recipe: Sweet Spice Blend
Consisting of cinnamon, cardamom, and ginger, this trifecta is a perfect accompaniment to any sweet dish, and it has tons of health benefits.
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