Reading Time: 3 minutes When unexpected events occur, such as the current pandemic, how do you choose or create your own adventure? How do you find balance, making the most out of your situation? In what ways can you create a mindset that ultimately supports your overall health, well-being, and immunity? how do you naturally boost your health ? Ayurvedic medicine is a science …
To Fast or to Feast: Intermittent Fasting and Ayurveda
Reading Time: 3 minutes I grew up being told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. My mom ensured that each day I went off to school with a full stomach, ready to power my brain. As I became more interested in nutrition, I observed fitness and nutrition influencers sharing recipes for a morning meal guaranteed to light your metabolism. However, …
Managing Holiday Stress with Ayurveda
Reading Time: 4 minutes After an intense year, there are only a few months to go before we can all wave goodbye to 2020. But before that glorious send-off, we have to make it through the gauntlet that can be the holidays. While the holidays are supposed to be a joyous time of celebration with friends and family, the pressure to have a good …
Where Does Your Energy Lie? Introduction to the Gunas
Reading Time: 3 minutes Have you noticed how at times you’re full of over-activity, change, momentum, and constant movement? While at other times you feel sluggish, heavy, depressed, and may feel stuck, unable to move forward? But you also hear about this state of inner peace, clarity, and sense of calm that allows us to find tolerance in the world around us and feelings …
Yoga for the Doshas
Reading Time: 4 minutes In Ayurvedic medicine, there are three doshas or energies, that run the human body and mind efficiently. Each dosha correlates with physical, physiological and psychological elements. A person’s bodily dosha and mental dosha may be different, and it changes throughout our lifetime. Ideally, all three doshas are balanced and active. However, as life works, one dosha often dominates the other …
Health Benefits of Turmeric
Reading Time: 4 minutes Known as the “Queen of Spices,” turmeric wears its golden color as a signifier of all the good it can do for us. This ancient herb has been used in Ayurvedic practice for around 4,000 years and is now the subject of numerous modern-day research studies. Turmeric has many health benefits, used to treat everything from colds and joint pain …
Breathing the Stress Away with Nadi Sodhana: Alternate Nostril Breathing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Breathwork has become one of the most transformational tools that I have found to deal with tough times, bring in big ideas, and connect to my truth and inner guidance. To be honest, this work has been one of the most impactful experiences in my life. We all live with stress… And as much as we dream about a life …
5 Ways to Support Your Immunity in Times of Season Change
Reading Time: 2 minutes Fall is the perfect time to boost your immune system. The season is changing and we can learn to create a balance with these 5 simple ways to support your Immunity from home. 1. Getting out in nature. Exercise releases endorphins, our happy chemicals, which lower cortisol levels. Cortisol is your stress hormone and it lowers immune system function. Simple …
How To Change Your Life Holistically – Finding Vata Balance
Reading Time: 5 minutes My name is Honor and this is my story about how Ayureda changed my life and I found Vata balance. I have flashbacks of lying on my bed, in immense pain, holding a red hot water bottle to my stomach, and wondering, “What the heck is wrong with me?” I couldn’t eat – it was like my gut had completely …
Grounding with the Root Chakra – Feel grounded and stable
Reading Time: 4 minutes What is a Chakra? A chakra is a wheel of energy, originating from ancient Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism traditions. Over time, the chakras got narrowed down to seven vital energy centres. Each chakra develops during childhood, from birth to about seven years old. Different colors, foods, smells, personality traits, and experiences correlate with each chakra. The first chakra, the Muladhara …