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)

 

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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)

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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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Dynamics of Ayurvedic Nutrition Marma Mind Mahagunas

By amadeamo | August 17, 2022 | Comments Off on Dynamics of Ayurvedic Nutrition Marma Mind Mahagunas

In Dynamics of Ayurvedic Nutrition Marma Mind Mahagunas, I invite you to engage awareness, communication, touch, and food in ways that support kindness and curiosity. This course offers multiple ways to calm stress, enhance digestion, and improve absorption in the coming season.  Not every one of us will have access to a fresh giant kelp…

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Adapt Recipes with Ayurveda

By amadeamo | May 10, 2022 | Comments Off on Adapt Recipes with Ayurveda

Cooking, eating, and improvising with ingredients goes back in human history many centuries. Our loved ones-ancestors knew well how to adapt recipes to meet their needs. For ourselves, there’s plenty to adapt to, these days. Perhaps your child or partner is allergic to garlic – or could it be wheat? Or you’re dropping food to…

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Pumfu Stew: A Unique Veggie Entree

By amadeamo | April 22, 2022 | Comments Off on Pumfu Stew: A Unique Veggie Entree

Pumfu is a high-protein plant-based food made of ground organic pumpkin seeds and water, that’s it. It’s minimally-processed, pressed into a cube like tofu, and lightly packaged. In our area, we find it sold in the refrigerator section next to the tofu. Unlike tofu, it’s pale green, made by Foodies Vegan, a family-owned company in…

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Pitfalls in Ayurvedic Self-Care

By amadeamo | April 1, 2022 | Comments Off on Pitfalls in Ayurvedic Self-Care

Pitfall: a hidden or unsuspected danger or difficulty. A covered pit used as a trap. Scenario 1: Among the pitfalls in Ayurvedic self-care and self-care in general is this exasperating reality: just when we need self-care the most, we’re too exhausted to able to do much. This is going to be a very short blog because…

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Honoring Black Colleagues in Polarity Therapy

By amadeamo | February 28, 2022 | Comments Off on Honoring Black Colleagues in Polarity Therapy

The impetus for honoring Black colleagues in Polarity Therapy came from a confluence of factors. First off, both of these women have been inspirations to me. Second, Black History Month and World Polarity Day intersected this weekend. Third, I love how NAMA has been spotlighting African American Ayurvedic practitioners. With gladness for all of this,…

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Subtle Reading Nurturance This Year

By amadeamo | January 18, 2022 | Comments Off on Subtle Reading Nurturance This Year

What kind of subtle reading nurturance will you give yourself this year? How will you feed your mind in ways that are satisfying, even healing, for you? In Ayurveda we work with the five koshas for healing. These are different levels of experience, sheaths, dimensions of being, ways that we relate to the world around…

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Top 2 New Year’s Health Tips from Amadea

By amadeamo | December 31, 2021 | Comments Off on Top 2 New Year’s Health Tips from Amadea

What are my top 2 New Year’s health tips this year? As an Ayurvedic educator, Polarity therapist, and human, here are my votes for this coming year’s most effective re-balancing actions in this moment. First of the top 2 New Year’s health tips Stop sugar. I mean white sugar, for at least 30 days. Less…

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Dynamics of Healing Chai

Dynamics of Healing Chai

By amadeamo | November 9, 2021 | Comments Off on Dynamics of Healing Chai

It’s worth contemplating the dynamics of healing chai as the season changes on us. This sweet, pungent, and astringent-tasting brew warms us up just when we are needing it. As the season changes, it’s time for our food and beverage choices to change some too. With autumn, we need more warmth and less coolness, more…

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A Tale of Two Broken Blenders Plastic and Climate Change

By amadeamo | August 27, 2021 | Comments Off on A Tale of Two Broken Blenders Plastic and Climate Change

In this moment so many sentient beings are directly in the path of danger. At a time like this, tending to the mundane or long term feels just that, pretty small and/or remote.  In one of those aching moments, I got an email from our good friend Ramona with a cheery inquiry “Hey! I keep thinking of…

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