Are you taking holistic to a whole new level?
https://www.yogahealer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/familyrelations1.mp3 Are you micro-managing your health and wellness, or are you macro-managing your deeper knowing into upleveling your family and community culture? If we actively switch our consciousness from the individual into the family kula we will practice a whole new level of holistic intergenerational family health and planetary wellness. Ayurvedic Medicine being intrinsically […]
Where to go for Ayurvedic Ed
About once a month I receive an email asking where to do go school to become an illustrious Ayurvedic Counselor, Practitioner, or Educator. What is so terribly exciting about the question is the sheer number of schools that have appeared or further developed their programs since I asked the very same question in 1997. Not […]
The Witch on the Mountain Bike
I’m awakening to the reality that I’m a present day witch. From what I know of the witches of yore they spent their time gathering plants, making concoctions or decoctions, chanting, and doing the general work of healing (warding off evil, if you may). Sure, they got a bad rap when patriarchy emerged full force […]
Rules and dogma
A few times a week I run into a certain prejudice surrounding Ayurveda – usually in conversation with the modern western yogi. Here is an email from last week (I’ll add bold text for those who skim): Hi Cate, I”m leaning towards doing the ALC (Ayurvedic Living Course) and had a question for you. My […]
In all the wrong places
I used to look to my husband to support my meditation practice. Not just support, but foster, boost, amplify, etc. One of my Integral friends pointed out to me that my husband didn’t feel the drive to meditate as strongly as I did – therefore he didn’t meditate as much as I was desiring to […]
Raising kids with Doshic Awareness
I had a great conversation with Melanie Sachs, author of Ayurvedic Spa and Ayurvedic Beauty Care about raising families with holistic wisdom. Here is a quick audio: sachs_doshas The beauty of raising children with Ayurvedic awareness, as opposed to general holistic knowledge is primarily language. Sanskrit happens to have evolved in an intentional naming of […]
What is your Bang for the Buck?
“The American lifestyle generates an enormous number of sick people, and there’s a huge cost to repair them. We’re constantly looking for high-tech solutions – a new magic pill, a new surgical procedure. But what is we went low tech instead, giving people yoga strategies. It would be the biggest bang for the buck in […]
Do you rub your mother’s feet?
A main struggle of yogis on the path is narcissism. The same struggle goes for vaidyas (ayurvedic practitioners). The paths of yoga and ayurveda intrinsically invite us to greater and more subtle degrees of self-care (eat a sattvic, high prana diet, practice yoga asana, pranayama, meditation, study, inquire and contemplate … the list goes on. […]
What does affordable holistic health care look like?
I came up with a great idea or so I thought to set up an affordable holistic model clinic, here in the therapy rooms at my yoga studio (YogaTejas). The model was this: a variety of practitioners would use the space one or two days a week for a low price (ex. $100 for Mondays). […]
Ama and Dharma
Much has been written in the last decade about diet and depression. This connection seems obvious to anyone who has ever radically shifted their diet and experienced a whole new way of being. Often in cleanse courses I teach many people awaken to the same realization – when they simply cleanse or liquid fast for […]