Stoke Your Agni, and Celebrate Your Inner Radiance.
Be kind to yourself, and nurture your inner flame... Let your light roar from within your belly like a sparkling fireplace lighting up a gloomy room.
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Ayurveda
The Labyrinth: A Series of Art. {Part Nine: Our Body, Our Temple}
Make joy your priority. Life is too heavy to not make it so, because it’s the body that suffers when we do not take this into account.
Lamplighter Wallah, I Am Forever in Your Debt.
I remember the lamplighter on the river Ganges in India. Every evening for over 50 years, this man has lit the lamps along the Ghats.
How Cultural Bias Affects Our Medical Choices.
Why was I so amazed that Ayurveda, a medical tradition formulated in India, a place famous for churning out brilliant scientists, could help me?
The Reveal: It’s Not Always as Sexy as It Sounds.
I have allowed myself to articulate core beliefs about worth and wounds, and not automatically shut them away for fear of anyone else's feelings about my (perceived) brokenness.
How The Seasons Affect Your Body.
I was blessed last week with the opportunity to teach at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat with many other wonderful teachers of Yoga, meditation and Ayurveda medicine. During one of the lectures, a student asked the teacher what he thought of coffee, whether it was good or bad. The teacher ...
A Writer’s Dilemma: Do We Fear Balance?
When I asked my Ayurvedic practitioner if, once balanced, I would lose the ability to write, she assured me that, on the contrary, I would uncover a deeper story within, that of my true self emerging. That sounds nice to me. But, even if that doesn’t happen, even if I never write another word ...