Your Inner Garden

We each have an Inner Garden within us that relies on the soil of our gut microbiome to thrive. Our Inner Garden is something with which we are born and that we are given the opportunity to tend and cultivate throughout our life. Our Inner Gardens are unique to our individual – no two gardens are the same.

As a way to provide an accessible process for learning about, nourishing, and caring for our gut microbiomes, the Inner Garden framework builds on the scientific principles of Ayurvedic constitutions. The Inner Garden framework has 32 constitution categories which offers individuals a very close approximation of their inner environment and what is needed to keep this inner environment in balance. This inner environment (or Inner Garden) is called one’s ‘dosha’ or ‘constitution’ in Ayurveda. While an individual’s constitution is typically determined by an Ayurvedic practitioner in a one-on-on consultation, it can also be obtained by looking at the individual’s astrological birth data (date, time & geographical location).



Take the Inner Garden Quiz

Your Inner Garden’s Biome, Soil, & Flower Type

The Inner Garden framework shares the same focus as Ayurveda’s holistic wellness framework… that we are each uniquely expressed as aspects of Mother Earth herself and that our unique composition and ways of being – when understood – can be aligned with Mother Earth’s own seasons and rhythms to promote our balance and thriving. The Inner Garden framework, however, depicts the constitutions as Mother Earth’s own biomes and flora to reinforce our connection with her.

Every individual has a unique Inner Garden – however, just like within Mother Earth’s ecosystems – there are ways to categorize similarities across these inner ecosystems. The Inner Garden framework does this by categorizing one’s Biome Type, Soil Type, & Flower Type.

  • Your BIOME TYPE highlights your overarching physical and emotional landscape, providing a glimpse into the requirements needed to balance your body, mind, and spirit. The 6 Inner Garden biomes include the Desert, Snow Forest, Savannah, Woods, Prairie, and Rainforest.
  • Your SOIL TYPE highlights your approximate Ayurvedic constitution (vata, pitta, and kapha %s) that gives you a closer approximation of your Inner Garden’s characteristics (your elemental composition of air, ether, fire, water, and earth). Your soil type informs the best way to care for your gut microbiome in addition to guiding you on the best foods to consume to help keep your gut microbiome in balance.
  • Your FLOWER TYPE highlights characteristics of your person that most want to be expressed in this lifetime in addition to further refining your Ayurvedic constitution. Addressing the weeds in your garden (limiting beliefs) further enables your flowers to blossom. The Inner Garden framework has 32 flower types, actual plants that reside within the 6 biomes.

Knowing what your Inner Garden profile is empowers you to better understand the physical, emotional, and spiritual self care practices that enable you to thrive and flourish. A deep dive into Ayurveda can offer you the same understanding, however, The Inner Garden framework offers you an individualized profile in an expedient and affordable way.

Backyard Beauty presently offers a few ways to support your Inner Garden journey:

#1: Take the Inner Garden quiz which offers you a free, quick, and high-level overview of your constitution (your physical, emotional, and spiritual nature).

#2: Obtain your Inner Garden Profile which offers you a multi-paged, more-dialed-in and detailed overview of your unique constitution in addition to year-round food guidance.

#3: Get The Inner Garden Book and Card Deck to access insights on how to live in alignment with your best-feeling self. 

#4: Join the Inner Garden Online Community to access more support with the company of others also on the wellness and self-awareness journeys. [In development!]