Early Dinners Cheat Sheet
FOCUS Simple + yummy Dinner needs to be easy to digest. Humans are primates, and don’t produce much bile at night to digest food. Create a simple and yummy meal. The later you eat, the lighter it needs to be. Soups and salads… raw or cooked…. cold or warm, depending on season. Plan ahead. You […]
Spray Your Sprouts
You may have noticed the sprouts disappear from your whole foods store. I sprout at home…so I was in the dark on this one. Then one day I was in a Whole Foods when I was traveling. Looking for my essentials for my green drink (sprouts, greens, celery, apples, lemon) I was stumped. I looked […]
Dr. Svoboda: Mentors for boys
For women mainly keeping company with other women we sometimes forget to actively seek out male mentors and teachers, but as Dr. Svoboda suggests, that is exactly what we need to be doing for our boys. We need to find strong role models to provide guidance and help channel the natural ambition testosterone brings. We need to notice the tribes our boys join, who’s leading those tribes and the lessons they are learning from these teachers.
Juice Bar Detox 101
Why drink more juice?
Juice added to a Standard American Diet won’t make much of an impact. It’s more about what you’re taking out. Take everything else out – the coffee and muffin, the turkey sandwich, the chicken and rice, and glass of wine, and your body naturally starts to optimize. For most people, optimizing means detox. Fasting on juice versus water has the added benefit of flushing your cells and energizing your blood and brain.
Kitchari Recipe
I’m frequently asked for a kitchari recipe. Over the last decade I’ve maybe been asked 300 times. One might think I would have posted a kitchari recipe like this in my first blog post and avoided a few dozen of those emails asking for a recipe. If you want the recipe – click the image and print it. And if you’re wondering why so many people want to eat kitchari, read on.
How to Feast Ayurvedically
Thanksgiving is obviously all about the feast. The best way to feast is to fast before the feast. I usually talk about how to famine. Here is my chance to balance it out with a few tips on how to feast… ayurvedically speaking.
How to Prevent a Cold
Did you know getting colds is optional? Most parents I know assume that getting colds is part of normal childhood terrain. And it is normal, in terms of common, but it’s not normal in terms of healthy. Colds occur with an unhealthy lymph system or an depleted immune system. Your child’s body is communicating through signs and symptoms exactly what is going on inside. If you know how to read the signs, you know how to prevent a cold. If you don’t… a little snot turns into a lingering cough or a gooey cold or maybe even mononucleosis come next March.
How to Make a Better Living for Yoga Teachers and Healers
Ginny, who is an absolutely fabulous teacher in a medium sized town fears the competition from an expanding “hot yoga” studio across town. Her classes haven’t grown with her teaching skills and she needs them to grow to thrive. People that come to Ginny’s class love her teaching… but it doesn’t translate into them bringing their friends. Ginny is afraid to invest any more in her yoga career – and she can’t return to her old job, without losing a major investment in her yoga career.
Evolving your diet with your Yoga…. for teachers and students
I have a bone to pick with Yoga teachers.
Most of you don’t know or practice dina charya, the Ayurvedic daily routine. Many of you who do practice it, don’t teach it. When we separate out the Ayurvedic daily routine, and the sattvic diet, upheld by yogis generation after generation for centuries, we make the path of Yoga confusing, and even dangerous to yoga students.
Become part of the healthcare solution
Most of us who eat organic plants can recognize an educational healthcare barrier between us and those who eat hormone, petrochemical, synthetic & GMO infiltrated calories. We think healthcare is a lifestyle that involves mind-body-maybe even spirit versus those who think healthcare is a visit to the doctor and taking medications.