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Tag Archives: Ayurveda
Cardamom Cookies
Gorgeous, delicious, cardamom-speckled cookies to warm a wintry heart. Continue reading
Top Ten Tips for Radiant Health in the New Year
Balance, ease and optimal wellness for 2013 Continue reading
2012 in Review
Mother Earth’s natural gifts of food, beauty and medicine are her way of loving you. Isn’t that comforting to know? Continue reading
Cardamom Rice Pudding
This Rice Pudding makes a delicious breakfast, snack or dessert. It is especially Vata-reducing – great for children, anyone recuperating, and anyone needing a pick-me-up. 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
Spring Clean: The 21 Day Challenge
Spring Detox ~ What would your life look like if you had boundless energy, acrobatic mental acuity, inspiring creativity, radiant skin, that youthful glow that describes fantastic health in mind and body? Continue reading
Fresh Ideas for 2012
Happy New Year! I wonder, how can I serve you best this year? There are ideas hatching and plans underway, but I am always keen to get your feedback. After all, I write because you eat! So, please let me know … 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
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
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
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
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