Breaking Your Glass Ceilings
I’m writing from the plane heading to Rapid City. Batool Merali, co-author of The Divinity Within happens to have a phat pad of a hotel in downtown Rapid City. And as a longtime Yogahealer course member + later mentor (see Yogidetox, Living Ayurveda Course, Yoga Health Coaching, Body Thrive), she has been offering her phat pad […]
Always Be eXperimenting. (ABX)
The body experiments. The body loves experiments. The body evolves via experimentation, feedback, learning, integration, experimentation feedback, learning, integration… ad infinitum. ABX – Always be Experimenting – is a principal of nature, a basic premise of Ayurvedic philosophy (see prajna paradha – or failure to ABX – as a root cause of disease). Lately, Silicon Valley’s biz […]
Why I Use the Word Piehole
I have a pile of responses from the last time I wrote you: subject line: [Autumn=Rejuve] Why Fat Metabolism Matters. Most are provocative reflections and questions. But first I happen to open some fascinating criticism from Casey.(For positive feedback, scroll to the end.) Casey writes: “Oh my gosh! What is your issue or shadow with using the […]
[Autumn=Rejuve] Why Fat Metabolism Matters
Many of you know I’m into intermittent fasting. Many of you also know the basic teachings of worshiping your agni – your digestive fire – your power of digestion. When we eat too frequently we generate more surface-level thinking. The Yogis of yore were never interested in surface level thinking. They craved depth with their […]
Worldly and Spiritual Fulfillment and the Nature of Dharma with Rod Stryker
“If you always nurture Dharma, Dharma will always nurture you.” – Katha Upanishad In the drama of modern-day hyperstimulation and overwhelm, we can easily lose track of our dharma, our soul purpose. In our modern world — rife with Vata aggravations, including too much information and too many stimuli for our sense organs to process […]
Physical Harmony + Weight Loss for Overweight Vatas, with Cate Stillman
The vast majority of Western society is now considered overweight or obese. For practitioners and/or students of Ayurveda, it can be difficult to determine whether a person’s excess weight is a vata or kapha issue. And the question comes up all the time, too. It’s simply just harder to tell their constitutions when they have […]
Women + Moon Cycle Empowerment with YouTube Yogini Kassandra Reinhardt
“Nothing is separate in our bodies. Everything is interconnected.” –Kassandra Reinhardt In today’s society, we tend to think of our bodies as different parts working together, each with its own function, and rarely affected by other parts of the body. Kassandra Reinhardt seeks to help people feel great in their bodies by releasing this idea […]
Ayurveda for Women’s Mental and Emotional Thrive with Mary Thompson
Surround yourself with the people who remind you more of your future than your past.” -Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach Mary Thompson is an internationally recognized leader in Ayurveda education. Along with being Cate’s first teacher at the California College of Ayurveda, Mary has also shared her vast knowledge with hundreds of other Ayurvedic Practitioners […]
Why Drawing Helps You Learn (Even If You’re Bad at It!)
By Kirstin Pinit. Our bodies are incredible machines that receive, process, and evaluate all manner of substances. Just as we use nutritious food to fuel our physical bodies, we take in and assimilate complex information that becomes knowledge, insight, and wisdom. I’m blown away by the massive collection of resources (webinars, coaching calls, books, worksheets, […]
Donna Farhi on Teaching + Practicing Yoga
“Each year I do a round-the-world teaching tour, so even though I live in New Zealand, I feel I have my finger on the pulse of issues percolating within the Yoga community. What I have been witnessing over the last decade is a growing chasm between yoga as a status seeking competitive form of physical […]