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, […]
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.
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 […]
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.
Ayurveda Detox Tips
I have a 60 minute free lecture on 3 Fresh Tips for your Detox. The reason these tips are fresh is they are basic tenets of an evolutionary healthcare perspective. This is a new perspective that is emerging, that goes beyond any one system of healthcare, or one way of detoxing, or one way of eating. The tenets reflect a global movement of human beings waking up to and playing the edge of their wellness capacity. The tenets reflect a planetary shift of collaboration with the Earth and the plants which feed us.
Nutritional Plants – Your ecosystem wants to feed you.
Eat your Yard. When you read about all of the free nutrients available in your ecosystem, straight from the source, with no human interaction between you and the nutrients, you start to understand the full-cycle generosity of Nature. The more you eat your ecosystem, the more your ecosystem starts to invite you into it’s abundance. […]
Kids Cleanse too!
Let’s get real about what the consequences of not having our kids cleanse: mucus – which leads to colds and nose picking. Gross. poor eye sight (better eye sight comes from omega 3 precursors in leafy greens) allergies (from clogged up lymph systems due to excessive processed foods (like homogenized milk) and grains (like wheat) […]
Raw Food & the Ayurvedic Diet (part 2)
I’m coming out of the closet as an Ayurvedic practitioner who eats mostly raw food. I hate to call it “raw” mostly because “raw” sounds cold, severe and intense. Living foods is a more accurate name, as it reflects the alive, pulsating, and natural qualities of raw foods. “Alive” sounds better than “dead”… and when […]