Ayurveda promotes Beauty from the Inside. This tisane, or herbal tea, is Pitta-reducing, hormone-balancing, and great for your skin. Continue reading
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Category Archives: Recipes for Autumn
Dressing Up with Cardamom
What do you feel like eating these days? After all the cake, cookies, bread, rich foods and sweet drinks? I don’t know about you, but in between the holiday celebrations I want plain and simple: simple to make, simple to eat and, … Continue reading
Cardamom’s Divine Delight
Calling all foodies, bloggers, wizards and mermaids, adventurers, lovers, dreamers and inventors, Buddhas, Sages, Sadhakas and Yogis! Inside of you is something eternal and infinite; something as great as a mountain, as vast as an ocean, as beautiful as a star, … Continue reading
Tis the Season: Yam Fries
It is what we call Ymas Season around here. Ymas as in Yams spelled dyslexically. Which I am, so I can. Yam I am. Ymas stands for Yam Mass. As in celebrating the divinity of Yams. As in Yam Heaven! So … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving + Roasted Vegetables
Have you ever been asked, “How do you prepare a Vegetarian meal? What do you make? Isn’t it hard?” We get that question a lot. I love it. Because if you stand to the side a bit and take a … Continue reading
Tuscan White Bean Soup for Sophia
In Yoga, as our revered Dr. Frawley teaches, the feminine divine possesses three primary aspects: power, beauty, knowledge. Through the worship of these energies as Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati we worship Shakti in her cosmic dance of transformation, prosperity and … Continue reading
Sesame Bliss: Energy Balls
Last night we had dinner at home with four wonderful, conscious friends. One of them, Ninh-ji, who began his life in Vietnam, brought the dessert. It looked at first like a delightfully simple silken tofu warmed in an electric pot. Indeed, … Continue reading
5 for Fall
My list of Five Best Practices for Fall 1. Rest & Nest ~ Do less. Breathe deep. Turn inward. Come evening, let yourself go gently into the night: Gaze at the Moon. Gaze at a candle. Gaze at the darkness. … Continue reading
Food Therapy: Healing Kitchari
This past weekend we taught the first of three Intensives in our long-awaited ~ at least long-awaited by us ~ 100-hour Vedic Yoga Therapy Training. I say “long-awaited” because Yoga-as-therapy is what we do. Both my husband and I enjoy … Continue reading
A Spicy Autumn Tea
How do you keep your energy from falling like the leaves this Autumn? Warming spices like nutmeg, cinnamon and cardamom will stabilize your health and boost your immune. You can add spices to anything ~ to breakfast, lunch and dinner, … Continue reading
To Eat the Sun: Pêches Aux Nuages
After our Zen Mountain Retreat earlier this month, Jen Carpenter, a recent graduate of the Deep Yoga Mastery of Life Yoga Teacher Training, continued with her own Retreat in the Sierras. When she returned she shared with us this beautiful experience of … Continue reading
Rest & Nourish for Autumn
During the golden season of Autumn, according to Ayurveda, strength, energy and vibrant health are maintained by increasing the elements of Fire and Water in ourselves to counter the increase of the Air element in the Fall environment. We increase this “fire” … Continue reading
Anatomy Of A Craving
Do you ever have cravings?
Is that a stupid question?
So, what are yours?
I’ll tell you mine… Continue reading
Sally’s “Fish,” Chips and Vegan Tacos
My friend Sally has a beautiful blog called Home Sweet Orange where she writes about the beautiful things she loves, especially her love for the sweet, simple life she and her husband share. Her post on Vegan “Fish,” Chips and Tacos was … Continue reading
Edible Beauty: 3 Ayurvedic Recipes for Natural Radiance
That same beauty that makes a flower so elegant, that makes a sunset so magical, a sunrise so refreshing, a Grand Canyon so potent, the whole of the natural world so inspiring, is in you. Continue reading
Ayurveda on Fasting
There is something delicious about hunger. It presents a raw desire we rarely allow ourselves to feel. Like Silence, it offers a deeper insight into ourselves, and takes us to the source of our true nourishment. In this New Year, I … Continue reading
Eggless “Egg Nog” Lassi
Your belly will say, “Thank you,” when you complete your meal with Lassi, a yogurt-based drink that keeps your digestive fires blazing and your immune system strong. Seeking a Vegetarian response to Egg Nog, I stirred 1 cup of fresh Yogurt, … Continue reading
Winter Greens
In Ayurveda, we seek to include all six tastes in our meals in an order that matches the process of digestion and ensures optimal breakdown, absorption, and wellness. I have seen many clients and students overcome chronic digestive discomfort simply … Continue reading