Navratri 2025: Do’s, Don’ts, Fasting & Wellness Tips

Do you know a festival that honors and celebrates the 9 powers of the divine feminine?

Yes, you guessed it right.

It’s Navratri 2025!

Navratri 2025 begins on September 22 (Monday) and ends on October 1 (Wednesday), with Vijayadashami/Dussehra on October 2, 2025 (Thursday). The air is filled with devotion, divine feminine energy, Garba dance, and colors as you honor Goddess Durga and her nine forms. These nine nights are beyond rituals; they are about celebrating women’s strength, love, and nurturing spirit.

Immerse yourself in Navratri 2025 Garba nights, fasting, and prayers. But remember a few essentials, such as eating light, sattvic foods to keep your energy high, staying hydrated, and avoiding excessive fried or heavy meals that make you feel sluggish.

Yes, it's important to celebrate with joy with no restrictions in your mind, but taking care of your health is also crucial. Let this Navratri 2025 bring new beginnings of health and spirituality into your life.

Read this article to know:

What are the Navratri 2025 Don’ts
Navratri do’s and don’ts
Navratri Spiritual Significance
Healthy Navratri tips
Navratri food to eat
Navratri food to avoid

What are the Navratri 2025 Don’ts

Navratri fasting is not just about abstaining from certain foods; it gives a chance to adopt healthy lifestyle practices in your life.

Here are a few don’ts of Navratri 2025 that you can follow:

1. Avoid eating non-vegetarian food, onions, & garlic for 9 days.
Why: This helps promote spiritual focus and physical detoxification.

2. Don’t consume alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs.
Why: This helps preserve mental clarity and self-control.

3. Avoid wearing black clothes.
Why: This helps keep negative energy away and promote positive vibrations

4. Avoid cutting hair, nails, or shaving.
Why: This helps maintain bodily integrity and respect.

5. Practice managing your anger and negative thoughts/arguments.
Why: This helps keep the mind peaceful, calm and receptive to divine blessings

6. Avoid using abusive language.
Why: To help cultivate harmony and goodwill for others.

7. Don’t cause harm to living beings.
Why: Because you can get the same reaction in your life.

8. Avoid eating heavy, oily, or processed foods.
Why: This helps support body purification and maintains optimal energy for rituals.

9. Avoid buying or using sharp objects like knives & scissors.
Why: This helps prevent accidents. It also symbolizes the end of destructive influences during this time.

What are the Navratri 2025 Do’s?

Here are a few do’s of Navratri 2025 that you can follow:

1. Begin each 9 days with a cleansing bath.
Why: This helps prepare you for spiritual focus and devotion.

2. Put on bright and auspicious colors.
Why: This aligns your energies with the goddess's divine qualities.

3. Offer daily prayers dedicated to Maa Durga’s nine forms.
Why: This helps build spiritual connection and invoke the goddess’s blessings in your life.

4. Offer homemade bhog/prasad.
Why: Homemade bhog of fruits, milk, and sweets symbolizes gratitude. This invites divine blessings into your life.

5. Eat a sattvic vegetarian meal with light meals.
Why: This helps facilitate bodily detox and keeps the mind calm.

6. Keep your home and worship area clean and clutter-free.
Why: This helps attract positive energy and honors the sacred space.

7. Visit temples & participate in community rituals.
Why: Visiting temples and attending community rituals like Garba promotes unity. This also enhances collective spiritual energy.

8. Celebrate young girls through Kanya Puja.
Why: Honoring young girls in Kanya Puja means offering respect and welcoming feminine divine energy in your life. It nurtures humility and respect.

Navratri Spiritual Significance

Navratri is the spiritual way to honor nine forms of Goddess Durga:

Let's break down the spiritual significance of each of the 9 days:

Day 1: Shailputri (The daughter of the mountains)

Symbolizes strength and devotion.

Day 2: Devi Brahmacharini (form of Devi Parvati)

Symbolizes divine awareness.

Day 3: Chandraghanta (Parvati’s form at her marriage to Shiva)

This day reminds you to let go of all the negative thoughts that are going through your mind.

Day 4: Kushmanda

Kushmanda means "pumpkin," "egg," "little," and "energy." It symbolizes the creator of the universe or prana.

Day 5: Skandamata (motherly side of Devi Parvati)

She is the mother of Lord Kartikeya. This day represents motherhood and nurturing.

Day 6: Katyayani
fierce warrior form of Mother Divine to defeat evil forces in the world.

Day 7: Kalaratri (the dominant form of Devi)
This represents two different ends:

One is devastating and terrible
The other one is lovely and peaceful

Day 8: Mahagauri
This day stands for the peaceful and beautiful side of nature. A power to move your lives forward.

Day 9: Siddhidhatri (makes all impossible things possible)
Represent a power for your logical minds to explore the worlds beyond time and space

Navratri 2025: Navratri Wellness Tips

This Navratri 2025, explore ways to connect to your divine feminine energy and food plays a vital role in this spiritual journey:

Explore which food to avoid or eat this Navratri.

A. Navratri Food to Eat

These foods give you the required energy and nutrition so that you can stay focused in your spiritual practices.

Sabudana khichdi
Sabudana vada
Amaranth (Rajgara) grains and flour
Dry fruits, seeds and nuts
Atta puri made from Rajgara/Kuttu
Singhare (water chestnut) flour preparations for pakoras and puris
Dairy products like milk, yogurt, and paneer
Light vegetable sabzis made with no onion or garlic
Roasted makhana
Coconut ladoos and kheer made with fasting-friendly ingredients
Potato with mild spices
Simpler spices such as cumin and black pepper

B. Navratri Food to Avoid

Avoid these foods, as they can interfere with your spiritual practices and connecting to divine energy.

Wheat, rice, and refined flour products such as maida and sooji, as they are heavy on the stomach.
Lentils, beans, and legumes keep the diet light.
Onion and garlic come under tamasic foods. They can increase negative energy and disrupt mental peace.
Meat, fish, eggs, and all non-vegetarian foods.
Alcohol, tobacco, and processed or packaged foods to avoid polluting your body and mind.
Heavy, oily, and fried foods in excess because they lead to improper digestion and make your body lethargic.
Spices like mustard seeds, turmeric, and asafoetida because they are heat generating.

Conclusion

Navratri 2025 is a time to reset your energy and connect with your higher self. Surya Hospitals says celebrate this Navaratri with devotion, enjoy sweets in moderation, and embrace wellness tips to keep your body and mind calm. Dance through Garba nights, pray for community well-being, and let these nine nights bring out a healthier, happier version of you.

FAQs

Q1: When is Shardiya Navratri 2025?
A: Shardiya Navratri 2025 starts on Monday, 22 September. It ends on Thursday, 2 October, ending with Vijayadashami/Dussehra.

Q2: What are the 9 days colours of Navratri 2025?
A: The 9 colors of Navratri 2025 are: