The Reading Room
Volume 1
Burlington, Ontario
Updated May 2026
The Journal.
Essays, recipes, seasonal notes, and clinical observations — written whenever there is something worth saying.
Edited by Dr. Arlini Singh
The featured piece
Vata, pitta, kapha — and why typology isn't horoscope.
A practitioner's argument against the dosha quiz; on prakruti and vikruti, and the eight observations the consultation makes that no questionnaire can.
Recently written.
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May 2026
Spring
What the blue violet is for.
7 min 02 May 2026 From the ClinicBefore the seedlings, the body.
6 min 03 May 2026 Reading ListBooks through an Ayurvedic lens — The Dutch House.
8 minMore pieces are added to the archive as they are written.
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