↓ “When we do not listen to the signals of our bodies as they shift from season to season, we are causing a subtle, constant form of stress. Here are a few ways you can help your body rebalance during the winter season.” Living in cities with...
Read More↓ Which foods are best for your dosha at this time of year? Read on to find out. ↓ Wherever your location and local weather, a change in seasons is a time to proceed with caution. Watch your state of health and your needs carefully because they’ll likely...
Read More↓ Cumin has a robust flavor and an equally robust medicinal profile. Try a simple tea to get more cumin in your diet. ↓ A native of India and the Mediterranean, cumin seed has a medicinal profile every bit as robust as its flavor. In fact, of the...
Read MoreTry this recipe, perfect for lightening up during Spring. Spring is the season to lighten up. After winter’s chill, it is time to melt the inner freeze. The winter body tends to become stagnant, sluggish and tight. Just as spring’s warmer temperatures melt mountain snow, thaw...
Read MoreFoods like limes keep a cooling balance so we can stay strong, maintain energy, and fully enjoy summer. Have you ever wondered why it is hotter in August than in June when the sun was closer and the days were longest? There is an elegantly simple principle...
Read MoreAn excerpt from Ayurveda Cooking for Beginners: An Ayurvedic Cookbook to Balance and Heal With rice and beans as the primary ingredients, this delicate pancake offers a healthy dose of protein and fiber to help you start your morning strong. The orange honey syrup brightens it with...
Read MoreA clear vegetable soup with the warmth of ginger and the brightness of lemon adds punch to fresh, purifying produce. It is June, yes, but it is not too late to enjoy the healing foods of spring—like this clear vegetable soup with the agni stirring warmth of ginger...
Read MoreKapha, we may not say it often enough, but we need you. This is the third in a 3-part series on the doshas - an Ayurvedic term which refers to the fundamental bio-energies of life, based on the five elements of nature. Space and air combine for Vata dosha, fire...
Read MoreThis simple recipe is a formula to kindle the inner fires, promote healthy circulation, and hydrate the tissues. Remember when Grandma would make a home remedy of hot lemon and honey whenever someone was sick? Some grandmothers might have added ginger, others a dash of cinnamon, some...
Read MoreCumin has a robust flavor and an equally robust medicinal profile. Try a simple tea to get more cumin in your diet. A native of India and the Mediterranean, cumin seed has a medicinal profile every bit as robust as its flavor. In fact, of the...
Read MoreA love tonic dessert for love day. Bhakti is of the form of Supreme Love towards God. It is of the nature of Nectar. Attaining Bhakti, one becomes perfect, immortal and fully contented. ~ Narada Bhakti Sutras Ojas. Soma. Bhakti. How do we translate these Vedic terms, or convey...
Read MoreFoods to Help You Rest and Renew, plus a Recipe for Moon Milk It may be holiday season, but in the northern hemisphere it is autumn moving into winter, which is Vata season - and Vata calls for less doing and more rest! Yet, in this bubbly time...
Read MoreTry these three recipes for better digestion. The holidays can overwhelm. Whether it is our schedule, our nerves, our physical reserves, this is the time when the surge of seasonal joy can threaten to inundate. ↓ But nature is here to support you. Specifically, Ayurveda sees this as...
Read MoreThis mix combines zesty warming spices that boost aroma, flavor, healing wisdom, and most importantly, the fire in your foods, your belly, your life. Agni is the Sanskrit word for fire. In Ayurveda, it is a word generally used to describe our digestive fire. Agni digests and assimilates the nutrients in our food, and supports...
Read MoreHere are Ayurvedic therapies which can be done both internally and externally to reactivate your metabolism. by Ayurveda Next Door – November 8- 2018 ↓ At one point or another, just about all of us have tried to lose weight. With almost 75% of the American population either overweight or...
Read More↓ Stay in balance this Autumn season. ↓ In the northern hemisphere, where it is Autumn, it is the season when Vatadominates. Vata means “wind, air,” or “to flow, to move, or to command.” ↓ Vata is the underlying force that governs all movement in the body including circulation, muscular movement,...
Read More◊ The health benefits of balancing different tastes, plus a recipe for Coconut Almond Overnight Oats ◊ Nature’s evolutionary, self-regulating, generative intelligence is conveyed to us through her foods. Each flavor in the rainbow of nature’s abundance expresses a dazzling ray of this intelligence. Sweet gives us comfort, strength, and...
Read MoreOne of the easiest health tips you’ll ever hear to radically boost your health. ↓ ↓ We could not have been more excited when we saw this simple, quick health tip from The Chalkboard. Read on for this easy Ayurvedic practice, and the myriad health benefits it offers. The way...
Read MoreIf that weather report involves the term, “scorcher,” here are some natural ways to cool off. ↓ I thought it was hot the other day at my home in mid-city Los Angeles, with a reading of 105 degrees. Ha, chimed in my friends, who not far from...
Read More↓ If you haven’t heard about the new “in” ayurvedic cleansing technique called oil pulling, let me fill you in. Oil pulling, known as “Kavala” or “Gandusha” is one of the techniques that is highly regarded in Ayurveda. Though there have been only a few small...
Read More↓ If that weather report involves the term, “scorcher,” here are some natural ways to cool off. ↓ I thought it was hot the other day at my home in midcity Los Angeles, with a reading of 105 degrees. Ha, chimed in my friends, who not far from...
Read More↓ Discover the medicine in your kitchen. Summertime is a joy when the warm weather beckons us outdoors. But hot weather can be depleting. Too much heat internalized can create inflammation, irritation, burning, and tissue deterioration. In Ayurveda, this internal heat is called Pitta. ↓ As the science that promotes...
Read More↓ Chocolate, roses, and a poem for Mother's Day What I Learned From My Mother I learned from my mother how to love the living, to have plenty of vases on hand in case you have to rush to the hospital with peonies cut from the lawn, black ants still stuck to...
Read MorePlus a recipe: Spring into Summer Salad with Berries, Peach and Rose ↓ Spring is giving way to summer. Pungent, astringent, bitter greens like arugula, dandelion, mustard, purslane, and pea are yielding to summer’s sweet, cooling foods like strawberries, stone fruits, melons, and squash. As the season turns, there...
Read MoreWinter Practices To Support Your Inward Journey ⇓ This next month can be fertile ground for the renewal of spirit and for clarity of mind and heart. This is my favorite time of the year. It is not because of the gatherings nor the Christmas lights. It is...
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