Ayurveda Guidelines for Summer

Ayurveda Guidelines for Summer – a one page Quick Guide to print and pin on your fridge. Print a few to share at your local yoga studio.

Cate’s Kitchen Sadhana in Autumn

Kitchen Sādhanā Kitchen =  where you prepare your food body Sadhana = Sanskrit साधना, literally “a means of accomplishing something”) I first learned about kitchen sadhana from Maya Tiwari’s, Ayurveda: A Life of Balance. I checked this book out of the Jackson Hole library in during the winter of 1997. It deepened my calling. What I’ve found […]

Mother Nature – Are you with her or against her?

  This much has become clear: Either you’re lining up or you’re not. Two steps forward, one step back is still  lining up in my book. Nature can’t not nourish you. (Thank you Douglas Brooks for introducing me to the power of double negation.) The more I start eating out of the woods the more […]

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. […]

Upgrade your Autumn Rituals & Fall Rhythms

Seasonal junctures create opportunities for getting out of whack. Some get anxious… some get allergies. The basic reason is that in seasonal junctures our agni, (digestive fire) lightens up. If we don’t eat 1/3 less than normal, our lymph system (rasa dhatu) gets clogged. When that happens, we might get snot, dryness, or acidity moving […]