Discover Your Ayurvedic Constitution

Ayurveda recognises three biological energies — Vata, Pitta, and Kapha — that exist in everyone in varying proportions. Together, these doshas shape your physical body, your mental tendencies, your relationship with food and sleep, your response to stress, and your patterns of wellness and imbalance throughout life.

• Vata — Air and Space. The energy of movement, breath, circulation, and the impulses of thought.
• Pitta — Fire and Water. The energy of transformation, digestion, metabolism, and intelligence.
• Kapha — Earth and Water. The energy of structure, stability, strength, and endurance.

Most people are not purely one dosha. The majority are dual-dosha — meaning two of the three predominate, with the third quieter in the background. A smaller number are tridoshic, with all three in approximate balance. A few are single-dosha dominant.

This quiz will help you identify which pattern best describes you.

In Ayurveda, two distinct concepts shape constitutional understanding:

• Prakriti — the constitutional pattern you were born with. It is fixed at birth and remains your essential nature throughout life.
• Vikriti — your current state of imbalance. This shifts based on stress, season, diet, lifestyle, and life events.

When answering this quiz, try to describe your prakriti — your steady, lifelong nature — not your vikriti — how you may feel temporarily disturbed. If you are currently in a particularly stressful or imbalanced period, your answers may skew toward one dosha (often Vata). Try to remember your patterns from calmer times in your life.

A consultation with Vaidya Vaishali assesses both prakriti and vikriti — the constitution you were born with and the imbalance you may be carrying now. The wellness protocol is shaped to bring vikriti back toward prakriti.

When choosing an answer, consider which option describes you most consistently across your life — not how you feel today, not how you were in a particularly stressful period, but the steady pattern that holds across years.

If two options seem to fit, choose the one that fits more often. If none of the three feels like a perfect fit, choose the closest. The quiz is designed to read your overall pattern, not to capture every nuance.

After 15 questions, you will receive your dosha result — one of the following patterns:

• Single-dosha dominant
• Vata-dominant, Pitta-dominant, or Kapha-dominant
• Dual-dosha — Vata-Pitta, Pitta-Vata, Pitta-Kapha, Kapha-Pitta, Vata-Kapha, or Kapha-Vata
• Tridoshic — all three doshas in approximate balance
• Close balance — when patterns are too closely matched to identify clearly, with guidance on the next step

The order matters in dual-dosha results: Vata-Pitta and Pitta-Vata are different constitutions, even though they involve the same two doshas. The first dosha named is the more dominant one.

Each result includes a personalised explanation of what your constitutional pattern means and what supports it.