Juice Bar Detox 101
Why drink more juice?
Juice added to a Standard American Diet won’t make much of an impact. It’s more about what you’re taking out. Take everything else out – the coffee and muffin, the turkey sandwich, the chicken and rice, and glass of wine, and your body naturally starts to optimize. For most people, optimizing means detox. Fasting on juice versus water has the added benefit of flushing your cells and energizing your blood and brain.
Ayurveda Daily Practices for Mothers of Young Children
My experience with spiritual and bodily practices and raising a baby led me to believe that motherhood needs it’s own daily practices guidelines. FOCUS Expect household rhythms to change… frequently. Don’t try to live up to standards and assumptions created my men living in caves, who had women cooking their meals. They don’t apply to […]
Ayurveda Guidelines for Winter
Ayurveda Guidelines for Winter is a 1 page Cheat Sheet by Cate Stillman, of yogahealer.webfissure.com/. Print and post it on the fridge for winter.
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.
trauma recovery – yogahealer quick guide
With so many people experiencing traumatic events like the hurricanes, earthquakes and devastating losses, I created a little quick guide for when you have a chance to direct energy out of survival and get back on track. Below I give a short description of what trauma does to the doshas. Please forward the quick guide cheat sheet […]
Your Perfect Autumn Day
If you don’t act like the plants outside your dwelling, you lose access to the potent seasonal energy. Your body will get dry… your mind will get anxious. So, act like a plant. Print your perfect autumn day and attune to the perfection of autumn.
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.
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.
Yogahealer Retreat in Mexico
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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.