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# Six Simple Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body
- URL: https://www.readsouveraine.com/five-simple-ways-to-rejuvenate-your-body/
- Published: 2026-09-17T20:19:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-23T22:20:05.000Z
- Description: Six practices for refilling what the day takes out of you, drawn from the oldest teachings on Soma, the body's own nectar.
- Author: House of Souveraine
- Tags: Ayurveda, Feminine Wisdom, Wellbeing, #issue001

*The practices that build Soma, the body's own nectar.*

[Soma](https://www.readsouveraine.com/soma-the-nectar-of-rejuvenation/) is one of the oldest words we have for nourishment. It is the nectar of rejuvenation.

In the Vedic tradition, it is described as nectar: the cooling and moonlike quality of life, everything in you that swells and replenishes rather than burns. Rain is Soma. Sleep is Soma. Milk is Soma. Being held is Soma. When there is enough of it, there is a sense of fullness that does not depend much on your circumstances. When it runs low, you begin living off the reserves, and no amount of pushing makes more of it.

> The traditional image is of a moon seated above the crown of the head, its face turned downward, pouring nectar continually. It descends along the central column of the spine, cooling and nourishing the body as it travels. Where fire rises, Soma comes down.

It can sound mystical when we first meet it: moonlight, sacred lakes, blue lotus at midnight.

But building it is surprisingly ordinary.

None of them involve adding much to your life. Mostly they are a matter of making the conditions in which the body can stop spending its reserves and start putting them back.

Here are five places to begin.

## 1\. Fresh, nourishing, juicy food

Food that builds Soma is fresh, soft, nourishing and easy to receive.

Warm cooked meals. Whole ingredients. Enough moisture and enough substance to actually satisfy you.

In the traditional teaching, freshly prepared food is favoured over food that is stale or repeatedly reheated. "Juicy" does not necessarily mean literally wet. It means food that carries qualities of softness and nourishment rather than dryness and depletion.

This is not another invitation to make eating complicated.

Quite the opposite.

> **Soma is built when food feels like nourishment rather than another form of control.**

## 2\. Rhythm

The body loves knowing what comes next.

Meals at roughly the same times, and a day that lets daylight and darkness influence its shape rather than ignoring them.

Ayurveda places enormous value on rhythm because nature itself moves rhythmically. The sun rises and sets. The moon waxes and wanes. Seasons arrive and leave, and your body belongs to that same world even when modern life encourages you to behave as though it does not.

A rhythmic life may not look particularly exciting from the outside.

But a body that knows roughly what is coming has far fewer reasons to keep adapting, and adapting is expensive.

> **Rejuvenation loves rhythm.**

## 3\. Time in Nature

Ayurveda holds that everything in existence is made of five great elements: earth, water, fire, air and space. Not as a metaphor. It is the framework the whole system is built on, and it applies to a mountain and to a body in exactly the same way.

Which means the elements are not somewhere out there to be sought out. You are already made of them. Going outside is simply meeting them in their undiluted form.

A walk gives you several at once without any arranging. Ground under the feet. Moving air. Warmth on the skin. Water in the air after rain, or under your hands in a cold river.

Space is the one modern life removes most completely, and the one we notice least. Indoors, your eyes rarely focus on anything further away than an arm's length. Standing somewhere with a long view, or under a night sky, gives them the distance they were built for. It is the cheapest thing on this list and the one most of us have not done in weeks.

You do not need wilderness for this. A garden works. So does the same tree, looked at properly, on the same walk you already take.

**A body kept away from the elements it is made of will eventually let you know.**

## 4\. Yoga nidra

Yoga nidra is one of the most accessible Soma practices because its direction is the opposite of striving.

You lie down and you are supported. There is nothing to achieve with the body, and the whole thing arrives through a voice, which is worth noticing. Sound is a way in. Most of what reaches our ears in a day asks something of us, and this does not.

You can also make the sound yourself. Bhramari, the bee breath, is a low hum on a long exhale with the mouth closed, repeated a handful of times. It is the least ceremonial thing in this issue and it costs nothing at all. In the car before you get out of it, or sitting on the edge of the bed.

The hum is felt more than it is heard. That is most of the point.

You are led gradually toward release, and effort is the one thing that gets in the way.

That matters because so much of modern life asks us to remain slightly activated at all times. Even when the body stops moving, the mind is planning, analysing, scrolling or anticipating what comes next.

> Yoga nidra offers another experience: **I do not have to do anything right now.**

That is deeply Soma-building.

## 5.Oil on the skin

Abhyanga is the practice of oiling the body, and it is the oldest answer the tradition has to dryness.

Warm the oil. Sesame is traditional, though coconut suits a hot climate or a hot temperament. Work from the feet upward, slowly, with enough time that it stops feeling like a task. Let it sit for a while before you wash.

If that is more than the evening allows, the feet alone will do. Ten minutes of oil on the soles before bed is the version I come back to most, and it is the one I would give a woman who tells me she has no time for any of this.

What makes it Soma-building is not only the oil. It is that abhyanga is receiving, even though your own hands are doing it. Very little else in a day is like that.

> Touch is one of the ways nourishment reaches us, and it is the one most of us go longest without. **A dry life cannot be fixed from the inside alone.**

*Sesame oil is a nut and seed allergen. If you are unsure, patch test, or use coconut.*

## 6\. Sleep

> Of all the ways to build Soma, sleep may be the simplest and the most important.

Not because good sleep is always easy to come by, but because it is one of the few times each day when the body and the mind are given permission to stop effort almost completely. Ayurveda treats it as one of the pillars a life rests on rather than as time recovered from something more useful.

Going to sleep and waking at approximately the same hours gives the body a reliable pattern to organise restoration around. It is the least glamorous item on this list, and nothing else here can make up for its absence.

There is no Himalayan lake in it, and no rare herb.

Just darkness and enough time. Though if you want one small thing to make the hour before bed feel different, warm sesame oil on the feet and something quiet to smell will do more than most of what is sold for the purpose. Scent is the sense that reaches furthest into memory, and the body learns an evening by it.

Perhaps that is the larger teaching of Soma.

We are accustomed to believing that something powerful must also be difficult. But rejuvenation often works in the opposite direction.

Fresh food.  
Rhythm.  
Time in Nature.  
Yoga nidra.  
Oil.  
Sleep.

When I look at that list, what strikes me is how little of it is achievement. Not one of those things will make you better at anything.

The question most of us carry into the day is how much more can I do.

> *Soma asks a quieter one. *What refills me?**