Sleep starts at breakfast, not bedtime.
Ayurveda has always treated the whole day as the preparation for the night. The daily rhythm (Dinacharya) is that day arc — how you wake, when you eat, how you move, how you wind down. Get the arc right and the night tends to follow. The app turns it into a living rhythm tuned to your body type, not a rigid timetable.
Most sleep advice begins at 10pm. Ayurveda begins at dawn. The reasons a night breaks — a misplaced main meal, no movement, a heavy late dinner, an over-busy mind — are set hours earlier. The daily rhythm puts the levers back where they belong: across the whole day, with the evening as the lever, not the entire prescription.
Your day, in order.
Six slots from morning to bedtime. The order matters more than the exact clock.
Morning grounding
A grounding practice and a warm, light breakfast. Waking near the same time each day is the single anchor the rest of the rhythm hangs on.
Lunch — the largest meal
Digestive fire (agni) peaks at midday, so the main meal sits at noon. A heavy late dinner is one of the most common reasons sleep breaks — moving the load to lunch is itself a sleep lever.
A little movement
A light walk or gentle movement in the late afternoon settles the body for the evening without over-stimulating it close to bed.
A light, early dinner
Dinner kept light and finished early — ideally by 7pm — so digestion is done well before you lie down. Warm and grounding for Vata, cooling for Pitta.
Foot massage (Padabhyanga)
A five-minute warm-oil foot massage to draw a busy mind downward and signal the body that the day is closing. Gentle, classical, and safe to do yourself — guided in the app.
Yoga Nidra
The day's last slot is its own practice, not an add-on to the foot massage. A guided yogic-sleep session, body-type-matched, that lands the nervous system before bed.
A rhythm, not a timetable.
On the Today screen, your daily rhythm shows up as a ribbon of these slots, tuned to your body type and your current state. It adapts to your real wake and sleep times rather than imposing fixed hours — tap any slot to see what's recommended for you, and tap the 10pm slot to play the Yoga Nidra matched to your body type.
It's read-only and never a checklist to feel guilty about. The point is to make the day's shape visible, so the night has something to land on.
Daily rhythm (dinacharya) is the classical Ayurvedic daily routine — the idea that aligning your day with the body's natural cycles is the foundation of health, including sleep. It runs from how you wake to how you wind down, and treats the whole day as the preparation for the night.
Because sleep starts long before bedtime. In Ayurveda the largest meal belongs at midday when digestive fire is strongest; a heavy late dinner is a classic cause of broken sleep. Anchoring lunch and keeping dinner light and early is one of the most effective levers for the night — which is why the daily rhythm leads with the meals, not just the bedtime.
No. The daily rhythm is an educational guide, not a strict schedule. In the app it adapts to your actual wake and sleep times, and it shows what's recommended for your body type at each point in the day rather than imposing fixed clock times.
On the Today screen, the daily rhythm appears as a ribbon of the day's slots — morning grounding, lunch as the largest meal, a little afternoon movement, a light early dinner, a pre-sleep foot massage, and a 10pm Yoga Nidra. Each slot is tappable to see what's recommended for you, and the Yoga Nidra slot plays the session matched to your body type.
No. This is educational — the classical Ayurvedic view of a daily routine and how the app surfaces it. It's a lifestyle rhythm, not medical care. Check with your doctor if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, on medication, or unwell.
Build the rhythm around your day.
Find your sleep pattern in a 3-minute body-type quiz. Vaidya turns the daily rhythm into a plan that fits your actual day — and adapts as your state changes.