Food for Thought

"One has to look on oneself as the custodian of a quantity and a quality - oneself - which is absolutely unique in the world because it has never been here before and will never be here again. But it is extremely difficult, in this place and time, to look on oneself in this way."

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal (1964, 2021)

 

Free Offerings

Gluten Free Pesto Pizza, a recipe process (video, talking thru the recipe)

 

Quick Summer Easy Healing Drinks: Cucumber Agua Fresca (video)

Quick Summer Easy Healing Drinks: Pomegranate Chia Smoothie (video)

 

Nourishing Ourselves on Every Level: Ayurvedic Nutrition and the Koshas (video)

 

Harmonizing Digestion and Elimination with Marma Therapy (audio)

Ayurveda late winter spring fare

Ayurveda Late Winter Spring Fare:

By amadeamo | February 27, 2024 | Comments Off on Ayurveda Late Winter Spring Fare:

Eating with the Season & Your Doshas Discovering what Ayurveda late winter spring fare is just right for you can take some self examination. Not everyone responds to late winter or early spring in the same way. A lot depends on the balance of your doshas. The Doshas Change with the Seasons Ayurveda tracks the…

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Adapt Recipes Use Ayurveda with Ease

Adapt Recipes Use Ayurveda with Ease

By amadeamo | February 12, 2024 | Comments Off on Adapt Recipes Use Ayurveda with Ease

Adapt Recipes Use Ayurveda with ease is a creative process. You can play with the food you eat in fresh ways, to make it just right for you. Ayurveda has tremendous tools to specifically hone recipes to suit you and/or your household, using the 21 gunas, the 6 tastes, breath, and marma. When our daughter…

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4 Quick Ways to Ground in Awareness

By amadeamo | October 13, 2023 | Comments Off on 4 Quick Ways to Ground in Awareness

How can Patanjali, Ayurveda and Polyvagal Theory interact to make an effective shift in patterns? Here’s 4 Quick Ways to Ground in Awareness, which make healthy shifts a lot easier. Both Ayurveda and Polyvagal Theory use simple techniques to bring our awareness into the present moment, thereby reducing stress and suffering. Here’s how you can…

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Patanjali Ayurveda and Polyvagal Theory

Patanjali Ayurveda and Polyvagal Theory: Fresh Approaches in Ayurvedic Nutrition and Marma Therapy

By amadeamo | October 6, 2023 | Comments Off on Patanjali Ayurveda and Polyvagal Theory: Fresh Approaches in Ayurvedic Nutrition and Marma Therapy

How do Patanjali Ayurveda and Polyvagal Theory mesh to create more effective healing through nourishment and touch? Many years ago I was fortunate to hear a lecture by Ayurvedic yoga therapist Mukunda Stiles on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. I came away from his talk struck by how Patanjali’s description of the  human mind directly…

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Why a Dynamics of Ayurvedic Nutrition Series? Shift and Support Patterns for Nourishment

By amadeamo | August 31, 2023 | Comments Off on Why a Dynamics of Ayurvedic Nutrition Series? Shift and Support Patterns for Nourishment

Why a Dynamics of Ayurvedic Nutrition series? I’ve worked with Ayurvedic Nutrition for 40 years. In that time, there’s been tremendous growth in the field. If someone gets interested in Ayurveda now, and wants to learn their constitution, their current condition, what to eat, and how to eat, there is a plethora of resources available.…

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Autonomy Intrinsic to Mood & Food: Finding our own way

By amadeamo | June 19, 2023 | Comments Off on Autonomy Intrinsic to Mood & Food: Finding our own way

How is autonomy intrinsic to Mood & Food? Autonomy is self government, the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision. We need to be able to make our own choices to effectively take charge of our own lives, as much as possible. This might seem obvious, yet in childhood, it is common to not be…

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Saving Tortoises Protecting Forests

By amadeamo | December 7, 2022 | Comments Off on Saving Tortoises Protecting Forests

Protected Species in Last Old Growth Forest, the “Lungs” of Athens, Is Threatened by Massive Habitat Destruction Happening Now Saving tortoises protecting forests goes together for a small group of friends in Athens, Greece. When dancing together with nature in life and death situations, sometimes it is small, yet really difficult, actions that matter. With…

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Adapt Recipes

Open to Meeting Ayurveda Halfway: Adapt Recipes for Individual & Cultural Needs

By amadeamo | October 28, 2022 | Comments Off on Open to Meeting Ayurveda Halfway: Adapt Recipes for Individual & Cultural Needs

Traditionally in India, you would (and could still) visit with an Ayurvedic practitioner for 5 – 10 minutes, they will feel your pulses, tell you what to do, and you will do it, if you chose to. The idea of being open to meeting Ayurveda halfway is a relatively new one. In the old days,…

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Join Us for CAAM Ayurveda Day 2022

By amadeamo | October 21, 2022 | Comments Off on Join Us for CAAM Ayurveda Day 2022

In support of CAAM Ayurveda Day 2022, I am glad to announce I will give the keynote for this FREE online event, this Sunday October 23. The full conference extends from 12:30 – 5:30 pm Pacific Time. The keynote, Food: Explore How It Nourishes Body, Mind, and Consciousness is 12:50 pm PT/1:50 pm Mountain Time.…

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long Covid Ayurveda support

Long Covid Ayurveda Support part 1

By amadeamo | September 12, 2022 | Comments Off on Long Covid Ayurveda Support part 1

In Long Covid Ayurveda support can make a potential difference in the intensity, severity, and duration of the disease. Much is still in the early stages of research. Last month it was estimated that 2 – 4 million people are unable to work due to Long Covid, and that currently more than 16 million working…

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