Ayurveda reads the soreness that lingers once mornings turn cold and dry as a Vata pattern, not a sign that something has gone wrong. This piece lines up Abhyanga, the full body oil massage, against an ordinary training week, and names Janu Basti and Ishtaka Swedana, the warm oil and heated brick therapies, for the knee and low back that carry most of the load. It closes with how one of these actually fits around a hard training block, through a consultation.
