Ayurveda
LIFE CHANGES
I’m here to write about women’s health. Yet first I’ve got to state, what is happening in the US in the last few weeks feels like an invasion from within. It is shocking. Yet we Americans are not alone in this. Millions of people across the planet are suffering dramatic changes of a similar nature…
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UNDERSTAND AYURVEDA HERBAL FORMULATIONS!
Plants are potent healing allies. When you first encounter a mind-boggling list of herbs in an Ayurveda formulation, do you feel excitement, interest, intrigue, or overwhelm? All of the above? Wading into herbal medicine from the shallows to the deeps, it can be wise to get to know a single herb or plant first. It’s…
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PLAYING WITH GLUTEN FREE CHAPATIS
When working on The Ayurvedic Cookbook some 27 years ago with my co-author Urmila Desai, I spent weeks trying to create a decent wheat-free chapatti. To not much avail. It seemed like it would benefit a lot of people, including Kaphas. While friends told me that certain brands of wheat-based chapati flour were easier for…
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DAKINI DAY ZUCCHINI
This moment will not last. The zucchini and fresh basil around us will last a little longer. It’s August, they surround us, time to eat them. I’m writing from what some friends kindly call a “rustic” place in the woods. It’s become a great place to retreat to, with all the amenities of your average…
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PRANA, TEJAS, & OJAS IN LIFE, MARMA THERAPY, & NOURISHMENT
I was fortunate to be asked to teach about prana, tejas, and ojas, the three mahagunas, as they relate to Ayurvedic cooking and marma therapy in the upcoming on line Ayurvedic Summit happening free this July 1- 5, 2015. How the Mahagunas Manifest in Our Lives Prana is our subtle energy, the chi that revitalizes…
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THE NOURISHMENT OF DEEP
A good friend and I recently went to a holiday movie and came back starving. I mean, we were hungry, and gnoshed down on whatever was easily available as soon as we got back to her house. But that isn’t the kind of starvation I mean. We’d gone to this film unconsciously hankering for inspiration…
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