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Category Archives: Ayurveda Basics
How to Make Coconut Yogurt
Have you ever made your own Yogurt? This one is sugar free, dairy free, hearty, sumptuous and easy to prepare. Continue reading
Are You Too Sweet? 4 Ways to Reduce Blood Sugar
Elevated blood sugar levels are associated with a number of diseases. Here are four key ways to maintain good levels. Continue reading
How to Make Ghee
Ayurveda, the ancient medical science of India, recognizes ghee as an essential part of a balanced diet, celebrated for its taste, nutritional benefits, and medicinal qualities, and it is easy to make. This video shows you how. Continue reading
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
4 Ways to Manage Peri-Menopause with Food
Heard of perimenopausal rage? So many women have been asking me lately for help with this issue that when I saw this article from Kate Geagan, author of Go Green: Get Lean, I had to repost it. Her suggestions are not only … 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
I invite you to celebrate Urban Food & Gourmet’s Grand Opening with Ayurvedic Herbal Treats and Freedom Pies
Have you heard of Urban Food & Gourmet? It is a new South Park Shop & Deli for California Creatives, Modern Peace Warriors, Radiant Lighthouses like you. Dedicated to tickling your palate, feeding your fires, sweetly singing your body electric and … Continue reading
What’s Your Dosha?
Are you air, fire or water? Is your best season Autumn, Winter, Spring or Summer? Are you more dynamic, focused, or nurturing? Ayurveda sees our bodies as microcosms of the macrocosm – the universe within each being. This means you, … Continue reading
Cucumber Cool
It was that perfect summer day: sunny, clear and hot enough to urge you to the beach, windy enough to get you offshore fast on a Hobie Cat soaring across breezy waters toward the promise of endless horizon. The sailboat had … Continue reading
On Suzie’s Farm
A week ago, we took our Yoga Teacher Training to Suzie’s Organic Farm. Some 20 of us descended upon their 70 acres in the Tijuana River Valley where we were like bees to honey ~ Yogis abuzz in fields of bliss, … Continue reading
An Apple Today
A client recently mentioned that she wants to do another cleanse. Grew up on junk food was the reason she gave. Makes sense, I thought. Every now and then a deep clearing of the digestive tract is good practice, especially … Continue reading
Spring Clean | Cilantro Detox Pesto
Imagine sunflowers floating on rafts on a pond. Then imagine that there are many ponds ~ sunflower rafts as far as your eye can see. Then imagine these sunflowers are growing on rafts in ponds that surround the Chernobyl nuclear site … Continue reading
The 21 Day Challenge
We had our annual Spring Detox Workshop on Sunday, the day of the Spring Equinox, which is always a joyful way to begin the season. It is like a celebration of emergence ~ from the darkness of winter, from the … Continue reading
Welcome Home & Palak Paneer
We have just returned from India where we taught at the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh, a delight nearly impossible to express. I brought back two souvenirs for you ~ a refined recipe for Palak Paneer, below, and a few words to … Continue reading
A Super Bowl of Beans
How about a super healthy way to feed your super friends this Super Bowl Sunday? I fell in love with these beans the minute I first laid eyes on them many years ago. The beauty of the beans sparkling with … Continue reading
Channa Masala
My husband Bhava and I are going to India in February/March to teach at the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh. A group of wonderful, heart-centered Yogis are coming with us for a twelve-day Retreat, including 4 days of Ayurvedic treatments on … Continue reading
New Year Cleanse: Deep Detox Drink
Every year, at some point between Christmas and New Year’s Day, there comes a morning when you wake up and the first thing you hear is, “Enough!” It is only a voice in your head, of course, but it is … Continue reading