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.
Pranayama
In this 20 minute video Dr. Claudia Welch and I discuss the basics of diaphragmatic breathing that must proceed the practice of any kind of conscious breathing practice. I also delve deep into the dangers and benefits of pranayama. And talk about balancing on your thumb.
Is your body thriving?
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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.
Teach your kids neti pot
Why your kids need to learn how to neti pot Now more than ever kids need neti pots. Or rhino horns (the plastic version). The reason kids need to learn to use the neti pot more than ever now is because of: There is more processed foods in our diet There is more processed dairy […]
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.