Reading Time: 2 minutes Everybody wants good digestion. Here are top 5 Ayurvedic digestive tips to improve digestion and live a better life. Tip 1: Stimulate Your digestive System Before You Eat Certain poses are ideal for the digestive system because the twists create agony or fire. The twisting creates the Agni that gets our gastric juices flowing. One of the stretches you can …
Self Love in Every Season
Reading Time: 4 minutes Now that the annual energetic explosion of Valentine’s day is over, are you going to wait until next year to love on yourself? What if I tell you can Self Love in Every Season. It is a beautiful intention and opportunity to devote a day to love – loving on those around you, loving on yourself, your children, your partner, …
How to Balance Your Dosha For Better Sleep
Reading Time: 5 minutes Sleep. It’s one of the most important protective processes our body goes through — just as important as eating! Sleep is crucial for our bodies to rest, rejuvenate and detoxify. Not getting enough sleep can lead to a whole host of problems, including poor immunity, issues with concentration, alertness and a build-up of waste materials and toxins (ama) in the …
Ayurveda and Relationships
Reading Time: 3 minutes Relationships are an inherent part of life, for better or worse. We all have relationships with friends, significant others, family members, and co-workers among many other individuals in our lives. However, these relationships can be quite tumultuous at times. Luckily there is a way to maximize the health of these interactions using Ayurveda. Every relationship has its give and take, …
Brahmacharya – The Pillar of Energy Management
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Ayurveda, Brahmacharya is the third pillar of life; it is awareness of your choices; so it is important to learn to manage our energies. In Sanskrit language Brahmacharya means movement in a higher awareness. Brahmachrarya has dual meaning: it is also knows as the control of sexual intercourse in Ayurvedic medicine. As humans we have emotional bodies, and a …
The Importance of Sleep
Reading Time: 4 minutes We all know how easy it is to stay up late – and how pervasive the (conditioned – let’s be honest here) urge to check our phones, or do *just* one more thing, or catch up on that next episode. The truth is, we are diurnal beings – we sleep when it’s dark! Biologically, evolutionary, that is what we were …
A Healthy Gut = A Happy You
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Ayurveda, the root of all disease begins in the gut. When one dosha is out of balance (Vata (colon), pitta (small intestines), or Kapha (stomach)), the first signs and symptoms of imbalance arise in the corresponding organ. From there, if not addressed, imbalances travel through the bloodstream to the most vulnerable organs in the body and take root, causing …
How To Improve Memory With Ayurveda
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ayurveda is an ancient Indian system of natural medicine that has been preserving the health and lives of people for at least 5000 years. Unlike conventional medicine, it treats the symptoms and the root cause of any disease, which often deals with just one specific symptom. Moreover, it is based on a holistic approach towards well-being, rather than focusing on …
Ayurveda and Menopause
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is a lot of information available about menopause, but much of it is based on Western medicine and treatments. Ayurveda offers a different perspective on menopause and how to deal with the symptoms. In Ayurveda, menopause is considered a natural process that happens as women age. It is a time for women to take a step back and reflect …
Breast Care as A Journey
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Breast Care Program is a great journey to the soul through relaxation and pleasure. In this process, your mind can be trained, your emotions can be acknowledged, your body can find itself again with long-forgotten sensations, and if you allow yourself to open up… you will experience self-love. In most western traditions of medicine, breast care does not make …