Guest Speakers for the Autumn Yogidetox Rock!
Anyone with experience in detox knows the body as an inner exploration. I always want to know what other experts have discovered. I’m sure you do to – which is why we’ve included clips from the upcoming Autumn Yogidetox with a few of this year’s guest speakers. When we listen to experts – their real conversations – […]
Ayurvedic Hipster Household – Back to School
Most families believe that kids get sick because of germs. That makes it easy not to have to change anything at home – and just blame other people’s germy kids. When you study Ayurveda, you start to realize it’s your ignorance of seasonal self-care rituals that creates susceptibility to germs. Then, you can take responsibility, like Conrad the hipster and his anal ayuredic mom, to care for yourself and keep colds at bay.
You learn 3 things from the hipster Ayurvedic family in this video.
Raw Foods Ayurveda vs. Traditional Ayurveda
Raw or Cooked Ayurveda First off, press play and watch my silly cartoon. Vatas can’t go raw. Or can they? In yoga and Ayurveda circles there can be an unfriendly, and sometimes uninformed bias against raw or living foods. One of the main arguments is that raw food creates a vata imbalance. And I agree, […]
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.
Uprooting Lifelong Health Issues with Ayurveda
How do you uproot health issues that have been ever since you can remember?
First we need to understand the components of prakruti. We’re not just talking about the 5 elements here, but the earliest and most impactful impressions before you were mature.
Your yoga diet
Your body is changing with your yoga practice. Some bodily changes come as a surprise…. such as your old “comfort foods” make you feel a little awful.
Ayurveda for Yoga Teachers
https://yogahealer.com/files/afyt/Ayurveda%20for%20Yoga%20Teachers%2008-07-2012.mp3 Many of you know I’m niching my teachings around helping Yoga Teachers cultivate their own deep energy…. and teaching yoga teachers how to be a better teacher through Ayurveda Wisdom. Download this Free Talk for Yoga Teachers with me and my star student, Marjorie Nass, that goes with this post. I promise you will learn more than […]
Summer Kitchen Sadhana with a Dehydrator
As far as I can tell, summer living foods sadhana has a lot to do with winter. Those of you involved in growing or foraging food are familiar with the ridiculous bounty available right now. I grew up learning about canning, which destroys prana, enzymes and nutrients. With the dehydrator and small batch pickling you […]
Women: Assess your Stress Hormones.
So you know our lives as women are stressful. And you get that stress is bad for you. But do you really get specifically how stress affects your hormonal health, and how hormonal health either makes you well or sick?
Prana, your digestive tract, and eating green
What is your Maha Vaha Srota?
And why should you care?
I assume you like me grew up in the West, and with a Western perspective of the body as machine. The Eastern perspective is really different. Eastern systems see the body as a series of channels that carry consciousness. I know – what a concept. Some of the channels are subtle, like the mind channels and the prana channels. Some of the channels are gross… like the Big One. The Big One is called the Maha Vaha Srota and it is the mouth to anus channel.