What do you serve for lunch at The Sophia Conference? With devis pouring great love and devotion into “all this yumminess,” we managed to serve a feast… Continue reading
Soup for Sophia
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Curried Pumpkin Ravioli
This is something where you might want to cheat…. pumpkin ravioli with braised bok choy, persimmon and truffle. 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
Deep Sleep Tonic
Warning: This Tonic will make you sleep, and sleep, and sleep… 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
Healing Apple Sauce
Apples are great for a cleanse. With so much pectin, they help clean out the intestinal tract, while fortifying your body with phytonutrients, and a cooling action that reduces any lingering Pitta from the heat of the summer. If you … Continue reading
Six Reasons to Celebrate with Chocolate
How do you feel about Valentine’s Day? Best day of the year, or commercial imposition? Invention of the Hallmark industry, or a wonderful reminder to love, love, love? However you see it, most of us seem to agree ~ the … 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
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
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
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
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