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Ayurveda: Recipes for Summer
Recipes for Summer By Dr. Light Miller According to Ayurveda, as the days lengthen, we enter into a cycle dominated by the energy of the fiery pitta dosha. This is a time for outdoor activities:...
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Ayurveda Q & A
Ayurveda has been practiced in the US for only about 30 years, yet it is one of the systems of medicine native to India and is thousands of years old. Readers are invited to submit questions for...
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Ayurvedic Secrets for Daily Well-Being
Being well is a daily practice that requires regular maintenance to our body, mind, heart, and spirit. Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine are best known for their use of herbal remedies and body...
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Strengthen your Immune System
Five practices for greater vitality As we enter the cold and flu season, it is necessary for us to take steps to boost our immunity. What do we do if we come down with a runny nose, body aches, sore...
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Warm Up and Let Go
Balance the heavy, earthy, wet kapha energy of the spring season When people ask me what Ayurveda is, I like to describe it as an awareness. Simply stated, the practice of Ayurveda is the practice of...
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Ayurvedic Suggestions for New Mothers
A mother-centered approach to balancing health and well-being In Ayurveda, the journey of becoming a mother is acknowledged as a great transition. As in any transition, vata dosha, the energy of air...
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Guidelines for Stress-Free Travel
While the positive aspects of travel include seeing new places, meeting new people, and many other joyful experiences, we have to find ways to cope with the mind/body stress and anxiety associated...
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Staying Cool (sheeta) This Summer
The energy of the pitta dosha, according to Ayurveda, embodies qualities similar to fire. For any of us with a dominant amount of pitta in our constitution, researching decisions and operating in a way...
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Cleaning up the House: Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual Detox
At some point in our lives, mostly at the least opportune time, we come to a sudden recognition of ill health. Be it fatigue, lack of mental clarity, weight gain, lethargy, a sloppy inefficient liver,...
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Alleviating Anxiety with Ayurveda
In Ayurveda, vata is one of the three doshas, or organizational constituents that maintain homeostasis in the body. Vata dosha embodies the energy represented by the element of air and space (think...
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Remedies for Radiation: The Greener, the Better, for Mineral Balance and...
By Dr. Gabriel Cousens The Fukushima meltdown, and possible melt-through, is the largest ecological disaster of the last 6,000 years. From a yogic perspective, humanity’s asana, broadly interpreted as...
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Ayurvedic Winter Skin Care
While we are in the tail end of Winter, we’re feeling the accumulated effects of months of dryness. This brings up a few important questions: How does your skin feels now? Are you experiencing any...
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Cycling through the Day for Mindful Practice – The Doshas
According to Ayurveda, the energetic qualities of the doshas (vata, pitta, and kapha) rotate throughout the day so that different influences predominate in different portions of the day. They can...
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Ayurveda – Cycles of Shedding
Cultivating the energy of Spring cleaning allows us to let go and release. The meaning of the Super Moon we experienced at the launch of 2014, I am told, was all about killing off or releasing...
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Using Flower Essences to Heal Feminine Cycles
Blossoming in to the Feminine: Using Flower Essences to Heal our Cycles Pain can happen in an instant. We tend to think of physical, emotional, or energetic scarring as a result of significant...
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Summer Ritam
Aligning Yourself with the Rhythms of Summer Around the world, celebrations are synched with the Summer Solstice, June 21, the peak of the light, the longest day of the year. Around the world, sites...
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Ayurveda: Soothe Summer Skin
We tend to associate a sun-kissed glow with healthy skin, but it may not always be that simple. Sometimes healthy skin is protected skin that has been sheltered from the elements for the ultimate in...
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In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go? Siddhartha Gautama In the Fall Equinox, or Alban Elfed in the Celtic tradition, we...
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Gratitude: 6 Superpowers of Healthy Practice of Giving Thanks
We may take gratitude for granted, or feel it is overplayed. Yet according to the teachings of Yoga and Ayurveda, gratitude is not only essential for our well-being, it actually endows us with...
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Morning Ayurveda: Balance with Ancient Rituals
Simple daily practices create intentions for wellness. By Vasavi Kumar The holidays are known to exacerbate anxiety, stress, and an overall imbalance in one’s mental, emotional, and physical...
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