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Ancient wisdom, consciousness technology, and the deeper work.
Ayurveda & Pregnancy: Importance of Self Care
In conventional medicine, when a woman thinks she is pregnant, she goes to the doctor, is given a pregnancy test and her blood pressure, pulse rate, and weight are checked. Then she is advised to eat a generally healthy diet and to take some prenatal vitamins.
Your Simple Guide to Winter Foods + 4 Delicious Recipes
Do you know which foods are best to eat in winter? Or are winter foods making you wonder what to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? The winter foods dilemma lies in the fact that food is available to us both in and out of season.
11 Ayurvedic Steps to Maintaining Vata Balance this Fall
To remain healthy, we must make some changes in attitude, lifestyle, and wardrobe in order to start vata season fresh, cleansed, and vital. Ayurveda defines rutu sandhi as the transitioning between two seasons.
Bacopa: The Brain Boosting Herb for a Healthy Mind
You may have heard of Bacopa monnieri, a.k.a. Brahmi (named after one of the highest states of consciousness / Brahman / God consciousness), a.k.a. water hyssop; but did you know this herb restores mind, body, and soul?
Best Remedies For Dry Skin
According to Ayurveda, dry skin can be cured by limiting exposure to vata's qualities and increase exposure to those substances and experiences that are the opposite of vata.
4 Ways to Cleanse Your Colon with Ayurveda
It is universally known that proper elimination is an important link in the digestive process and is necessary for overall health. This is why it is important to cleanse your system from time to time. Recent craze over the colon cleanse has hit the mainstream.
Cooling Ayurvedic Yogurt Dip Recipe
The cucumbers in this recipe are good for counteracting the heavy properties of yogurt, breads, and even pastas. In Ayurveda, the summer season is a time for fresh, cooling, sweet fruits and fresh flowers! Cucumbers are a good summer food and they are also thirst-relieving.
Correct Any Autumnal Imbalances + an Ayurvedic Stew Recipe
Fall is here along with the cool and crisp air, beautiful colors in the leaves, and a harvest of delicious vegetables. These are all delightful changes the season brings. But along with those changes come the shorter, colder, and drier days of vata season.
Curcumin: the Herb That Is Taking the World by Storm
You may have heard of curcumin (a.k.a. turmeric) if you had some Indian curry for take-out the other night. And while turmeric is an important staple spice in many Indian dishes, it's got more to do with health than just for that flavorful curry.
How to Detox for Life: 8 Ways to Remove Ama
Ama wreaks havoc on the body. . . as it clogs internal bodily channels. It is formed through poor dietary habits and low digestive fire. Over time, it accumulates in the system and may block the channels of the body, causing a variety of ailments.
Digestive Health: The Gateway to Overall Wellbeing
Eating is a creative act; it is the process of selecting raw material from the world that will eventually be turned into you. Tuning into your digestive health is the gateway to tuning into your overall health.
How To Dry Brush Your Skin in 10 Easy Steps
You may not know this, but dry brushing the skin has long been a part of Ayurveda's cleansing philosophies. Ayurveda believes that your skin is an organ of elimination, just like your kidneys, liver, and colon, especially because it is so porous.
Easy Ways to Detox in a Toxic World
In daily life, we rarely ever stop to think of our organs, especially the liver. It's good to be reminded every now and again. Your liver works extremely hard to keep you healthy.
Fight Stubborn Fat- Ayurvedic Home Remedies For Weight Loss
Stubborn fats are stored fats that are extremely difficult to lose, like the pockets of fat around the stomach, hips and thighs. Also, as we grow older, it can be extremely challenging to lose fat just through diet and exercise.
The Five Elements of Ayurveda
In Ayurveda, the five elements are discussed but are more like philosophical concepts rather than elements in the scientific sense. They are the basic principles of the universe and therefore represent the primary components of all living things.
Top 3 Ayurvedic Food Principles
1. Eat the food nature provides you with, naturally. This may sound simple, but if you walk into an ordinary grocery store you will be hard-pressed to find real food, i.e. food that is grown by the forces of sun, soil, wind, and water.
How to Get Rid of Headaches the Ayurvedic Way
Headaches are no fun! The symptoms of a headache can range from dull to sharp, from debilitating to mild, from long-lasting to short lived. With the help of Ayurvedic philosophy, we look to understand the nature of the beast by classifying headaches in 3 broad categories.
The Golden Key to Health
We're not exaggerating when we say we know what the golden key to unlocking your ultimate health is. It's turmeric . . . hand's down. Turmeric has made its way into the mass media because of its amazing health benefits. We can understand why.
How to Heighten Your Healthy Gut-Brain Connection
The gut-brain connection is at the core of our overall well-being . . . when there's stress at one end, there will be stress at the opposite end as well. Your gut is totally in cahoots with your brain. There truly is a gut-brain connection.
3 Best Tested Super Herbs to Improve Your Overall Health
There are powerful, ancient herbs and spices used in Ayurvedic medicine for ultimate health and overall well-being. Today's modern world doesn't exactly help us stay free of toxins. We may start off with the best of intentions to eat well, exercise, and detox. But life gets in the way.
Ashwagandha: How the "Smell of a Horse" Can Heal You
In Sanskrit, ashwagandha means "the smell of a horse", indicating that the herb holds the strength of a stallion, and has traditionally been prescribed in ancient Ayurveda to help people strengthen their immune system after an illness.
How This Ancient Treatment Can Cure Your Insomnia
Imagine how amazing it would feel for a warm steady flow of oil flowing onto your forehead as you relax. This is what Shirodhara is. Dated back 5,000 years, this treatment is derived from Ayurveda, an ancient Indian healing system.
Incorporate a True Yoga Based Diet into Your Practice
When we think of yoga, we generally envision a room full of multicolored yoga mats and people inverted in downward facing dog pose, but we rarely think of what yogis eat. Yoga from the ancient Vedas, is translated as "union." It is derived from the Sanskrit root "yuj" (pronounced "yug").
Your Introductory Guide to Ayurvedic Herbal Medicine
Very broadly defined, medicine can be anything from a spice in your kitchen cabinet to the antiperspirant deodorant in your bathroom drawer. A medicine is an agent capable of producing biological responses within the body. Responses may be desirable or undesirable.