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Much of my practice in Ayurvedic Medicine over the past twenty years has been devoted to one-on-one consultations and me...
10/04/2024

Much of my practice in Ayurvedic Medicine over the past twenty years has been devoted to one-on-one consultations and mentorships regarding mental health.

I chose to work with clients seeking balance + solace through an integrative approach because - and this is personal info here - my best friend died by su***de when I was 22. Many of my friends and family members have lived with anxiety, panic attacks, depression, grief, and long-term psychiatric hospitalization. Many have tried the proverbial "everything" to help continue living, to find peace + ease in a world that is often volatile, changing, and scary.

Traditional and Evolutionary Ayurveda "treats" the whole person and does not exclude any other forms of medicine or medications an individual is utilizing. Instead it is a true form of Integrative Medicine (aka you do not have to give up your doctor's orders or your medications, but rather bolster them through the addition of Ayurveda).

In this workshop, we will cover:
Specific herbal protocols for each Dosha (constitution) and any contraindications with prescription medications

The basis, meaning and importance of Vedic Counseling

Seasonal + Daily routines to balance the whole person

Specific food + nutrition to balance Vata, Pitta, Kapha (we'll talk about what those terms mean)

Yoga postures and breathwork proven to balance mind-body-heart connection (these will be do-able by all, simple and seated - no mat or prior experience necessary)

A six-week Ayurvedic "plan of action" for those who wish to embody Ayurveda as part of their mental wellness plan for the coming winter

The workshop takes place at Ash Mountain Cabin in Gouldsboro, Maine on Saturday, November 2 from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. with a light Ayurvedic lunch provided for those attending in person. For those attending virtually: All info will be recorded and transcribed for your reference/

There is an option for all participants - at an additional, cost - to also receive a 90 minute Vedic Counseling session or an Ayurvedic bodywork + marma point therapy session for Mental Health (yeah, there really is such a thing!) Please PM me if you're interested in either of these, which will be available throughout the month of November.

Investment: $145 for workshop only
Investment: $225 for workshop + vedic counseling or bodywork

To register:
WORKSHOP Only: https://py.pl/kBzoE

WORKSHOP + Voucher for Vedic Counseling OR bodywork: https://py.pl/QN5qH

Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation.A smile, a face in the subway, the sight of a dandelion growing up...
07/17/2024

Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation.

A smile, a face in the subway, the sight of a dandelion growing up through pavement cracks, the way the sun lights up flowerpots on a windowsill.

Sogyal Rinpoche wrote:

"Be alert for any sign of beauty of grace. Offer up every joy. Be awake at all moments, to the news that is always arriving out of silence."

I'll take that advice today. :)

"The world is full of magical things waiting for our wits to grow stronger."This quote has been often attributed to Iris...
07/13/2024

"The world is full of magical things waiting for our wits to grow stronger."

This quote has been often attributed to Irish poet W.B. Yeats (who changed the words just a bit). In actuality, it was first written by Eden Phillpotts in 1918.

Attempting to convey the mystical, the unknown, or anything "magical" in human words is difficult.

I think it's because we're not supposed to be able to talk our way to God. To the Universe. To all that's continuing to be created.

Magic lends itself to the unseen. That's the beauty of it. And I've been experiencing this kind of stuff throughout my life - in childhood, yes. But, also, more recently.

I can't imagine life without wonder. Wonder of what's here right now that I cannot see. Wonder of what's conjuring itself right under my nose.

Today I'm thankful I won't fully know what these 24 hours will bring. I can strategize and make lists and work my plans. But there will inevitably be that streak of something I just wasn't expecting.

And that's a great big part of what makes life worth living.

The roses are epic this year! And that means a super duper batch of Rose Petal Elixir to cool and calm and invoke gentle...
06/17/2024

The roses are epic this year! And that means a super duper batch of Rose Petal Elixir to cool and calm and invoke gentle-but-profound creativity.
Throughout the ages, Roses have of course been one of the most well-known carriers of information, sentiment and symbolism. They've also aided many (myself included) in times of unrest, excess heat, uncertainty, confusion, overthinking.
This is a tri-doshic plant (meaning it's good for each physical and mental constitution) and can create a sense of balance as we head into this Summer Solstice time.
Available to purchase (they will sell out). Ingredients: Five organic or wild varietals of Roses including Rugosa Rose (wild-harvested at the ocean's edge here) and heirloom Tea Roses grown on our property and tended by my mother and father; vegetable glycerin, water utilizing a recipe handed down from my grandmother and tweaked over the years after taking a class on the subject from Deb Soule at Avena Botanicals (they also sell aaahmazing Rose Petal Elixir!). Cost: $55 plus shipping + tax for a four-ounce bottle. They'll ship next week. To order yours:
https://py.pl/718TU

Today's the last day to order your Ayurvedic Gift Boxes for yourself or a fellow Mom as a gift for Mother's Day. These c...
05/08/2024

Today's the last day to order your Ayurvedic Gift Boxes for yourself or a fellow Mom as a gift for Mother's Day. These carefully crafted boxes include:
🌷 A Hand-Painted Card with your choice of wirting inside (or blank)
🌷 Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Sugar-free handmade Ayurvedic chocolates which include cacao, raspberries, rose, and holy basil (tulsi)
🌷 Herbal Tea for the Kapha (Spring) Season which include lavender, rose, nettle, clove, chamomile, mint - packaged in reusable unbleached drawstring teabags
🌷 Gift Voucher for a 90-minute online session with me - your choice of a Vedic Astrology Chart Reading or a Comprehensive Ayurvedic Health Analysis Consultation

These will be available for pickup in Gouldsboro, Maine on Saturday, May 11 after 10 a.m. OR can be shipped anywhere in the United States for an additional fee (please PM me if you'd like to have your gift box shipped - I will be mailing all of them tomorrow, Thursday as two-day priority shipping with tracking and will need the specific address to whom you wish to send this lovely gift to!).

🌿To place your PICKUP order: https://py.pl/1Cs7Kk

🌿To place your USPS 2-Day MAIL order: https://py.pl/GdnQL

When I began the journey of becoming a mother for the first time, I was twenty six. I'm using the word "becoming" becaus...
05/07/2024

When I began the journey of becoming a mother for the first time, I was twenty six. I'm using the word "becoming" because twenty three years later I've still not full-on learned and landed on what it means to be a mother.
I hope I never know it all.
I hope I remain curious about why some mothering times are awesome and other times are excruciating.
And I pray I'll accept "my" children - and myself - as humans who came through a woman but not for that woman.

There are few things more difficult than for a child to "live up" to what their parents want them to be. I've heard this from clients in my professional practice for two decades and I've felt it in my own life.

We're each here - mothers included - to experience much more than our labels, much more than the expectations of others.

We're here to fulfill our own soul's purpose.
I happen to believe this purpose is one that's grounded in true, unconditional love. No, I don't go around telling everyone I love them unconditionally all the time. And yes, I will always unconditionally love the children - and the men and my mother herself - who allowed me to experience motherhood.

In a bunch of ancient cultures, the mother is revered, upheld, honored. In Japan, a tradition exists: When one has lost their mother, a white flower will be pinned on a dress or lapel for Mother's Day. When one still has their mother on the Earth plane, a red flower will be pinned on their attire.

Each flower is significant as a symbol and as a teacher. Those who see white flowers are reminded: Time is of essence. Remember your mother for the gift she gave: You. Accept her. Take time after work one day to simply sit beside her and say, Mother, I love you.

Those who see red flowers are reminded: My mother gave me life. I cry because I miss her. And yet she helped make my bones, my brain, my heart; she's here inside of me always. Take time after work to speak to her on the wind, to see her in the light of the moon, and say, Mother, I love you.

May is here 🌷🌷 And with that comes a reminder: You can still buy a share of our Ayurvedic Herbal CSA for four months (Ma...
05/01/2024

May is here 🌷🌷 And with that comes a reminder: You can still buy a share of our Ayurvedic Herbal CSA for four months (May-August) full of tinctures, fresh herbs, medicinal grade foraged mushrooms (such as Turkey Tail, Chaga, Lion's Mane) all organic and handmade body products, constitution-balancing recipes, recommended Ayurvedic routines for Kapha, Pitta and Vata doshas (that will all be explained in your shares) artwork and more...

April's Ayurvedic Herbal CSA included - all with instructions and information on how to use/prepare the good stuff in each package:

- Fresh Comfrey leaf which can be used externally and made into a salve or herbalized oil for skin issues, pain relief and inflammation.

- Fresh Spearmint which can be used as tea, made into a tincture or as a garnish for the Ayurvedic recipe of the month.

- Tincture of the month (alcohol extraction) - Magnolia Bark Tincture OR Gynostemma Tincture.

- Herbalized Chickpea Flour for Udvartana with instructions included (An Ayurvedic routine for the skin that clears toxins and increases circulation).

- Manuka Honey drops with Echinacea and Shatavari.

- Burdock-Dandelion Glycerite (alcohol-free extraction of the roots using glycerin and water).

- Chaga chunks to use to make your own tincture or to boil as a decoction for tea - hand-harvested, ethically, always.

- Kapha season tea in reusable non-bleached teabags which included red clover, nettle, chamomile, dandelion leaf, whole clove, mint, lavender, rose - all grown and dried here in 2023 with the exception of clove.

- A piece of original artwork by myself (sometimes this will be a ready-to-hang piece and other times it will be a handmade card which is blank inside so you can send it to whomever you wish for a special occasion or frame!)

These CSAs can be mailed to you OR you can pick them up here in Gouldsboro the last week of each month. And the price has been reduced to reflect four months worth of shares (you won't be charged for April's share in other words!)

🌿PICKUP: The cost is $285 for four months for pick-up. Here's a link to sign up easily so you can come get your herbal box of goodness the last week in May (pick up times/days and location in Gouldsboro will be sent out to you each via email):
https://py.pl/68lwrbJ2rtB

🌿SHIPPED TO YOU: The cost is $285 plus $25 to cover four months of shipping/handling to those who will not be picking up. Here's a link for that option:
https://py.pl/2HHttsNvOsk

I wonder what life would be like without pain. Or struggle. Or having to do the hardest things we don't want to do.Would...
04/10/2024

I wonder what life would be like without pain. Or struggle. Or having to do the hardest things we don't want to do.

Would it be better? Would I want it to be easier? Would I wish I hadn't had to go through yuckiness.

I'm not going to pretend I like pain, loss, heartbreak. I definitely don't.

Buuuutttt

There's this little poem by someone who knew way more than I do, so I'm beginning to trust these words:

Learn the alchemy true human beings know.The moment you accept What troubles you've been given,the door will open.

Of course that's by Rumi. And I know Rumi quotes are tossed around IG and other platforms all the time. So I hesitate to post it.

At the same time, in my experience, it's just true. The hardest times in my life have brought the most expansion. They've also brought back my softness.

I don't know exactly why this is true for me...but there are a few theories:

Perhaps it has something to do with being born innocent and then - through failing and flailing - to twice-born wisdom. That's what I read this morning in Elizabeth Lesser's book, Broken Open.

And maybe it's wanting to live a life where I know I've felt the pain (and pleasure) each being has the capacity to also experience. Not just as a spectator sport, but in my own bones.

Perhaps a broken heart leads to an open heart.

These are all musings, and at the moment I don't have a broken heart. But I sure have in the past.

So I guess I'm writing this as a future letter to myself - a reminder that when it happens again, it'll all be for a reason beyond my current consciousness and its conceptions.

To all the folks out there who've commented on how my take on life is hurtful to them because it's too 'positive': I hea...
04/03/2024

To all the folks out there who've commented on how my take on life is hurtful to them because it's too 'positive': I hear you. I respect your take on my take.
And.
I have s**t days too. I fall into pits that I didn't know could be so deep and vast.
And.
This is going to tick you off:
I choose life. I choose this - as Michael Franti sings: Today is a good day to have a good day.
Why not? We woke up. Some, including me, can see out of their eyes and watch the sunrise. Some, including me, can hear super beautiful music. I'm incredibly lucky.
While I'm (kind of) sorry I'm raining on your sad parade, this is also just who my core tells me to be, how to survive and thrive in a hard world.
I'm still going to continue to love the good things. And talk about them. And I'm still going to throw up when I feel sick, which happens more often that you might think.
I love my life, I love even the hard things. Maybe not in the moment when they're hard, but afterwards, hindsight being 20/20 - it's all good.
Oh, and by the way: My daughter's first words were "thank you". 🌈❤️

JUST FOR TODAY, or perhaps just for this moment, remember one thing you did in this lifetime that was absolutely good. G...
03/30/2024

JUST FOR TODAY, or perhaps just for this moment, remember one thing you did in this lifetime that was absolutely good. Good in your heart, good in your bones.
❤️
Though there are many more than one, start here. You know what that one thing is.
❤️
Don't talk about it, don't brag. Just know it. And keep that as your focus. For this day. When you doubt yourself. When you're ridiculed. When thoughts come in saying you're not perfect enough...let those be the moments where you're like - EFF THAT stuff: I have goodness in me, I was born with it and I'm bringing that shine back.🐇
Try it just for today. I'm gonna.

A tightknit bunch of us - across states and continents - began our annual Spring Cleanse today. And this happened...at 6...
03/23/2024

A tightknit bunch of us - across states and continents - began our annual Spring Cleanse today. And this happened...at 6:45 a.m. I watched it unfold, which took about an hour and a half. I'd been waiting, spritzing and watering it consistently for a few weeks...and then - at just the right time - shazaam!
❤️🌿🌷❤

Oh Frankincense.There's a reason these little droplets are referred to as "tears".When we're cut, when we open, when we'...
03/12/2024

Oh Frankincense.
There's a reason these little droplets are referred to as "tears".
When we're cut, when we open, when we're over-full and spill out, we cry. Some folks see crying as a weakness. I see it as a necessity, as a form of prayer, as a reminder of our own ability to feel and heal.
Frankincense tears come from a sacred tree - these ones in particular from a Boswellia tree in Morocco. They traveled from there to Mount Desert Island, Maine, to a dear friend who then sent them on to my home here on the Schoodic Peninsula.
I've never seen a Boswellia tree in person. But the minute I opened the package and held these tears in my hands, I felt love everywhere.
Ayurvedic Medicine reveres Frankincense, as do many other cultures and forms of ancient medicine. One of the three gifts thought to have been brought to Jesus at the time of his birth, Frankincense has what I'd consider somewhat "magical" properties. Most tree resins do.
They're capable of softening the pain of life, both physical and emotional. When something hurts on or in us, Frankincense is a grace-filled friend. Though some have cautioned its internal use, Ayurveda considers it safe for consumption. I, personally, don't ingest it (not only because it tastes awwwful, but also because it's just too intense and jazzy for my constitution). I do, however, light it on fire as incense and grind it down to steep in almond or sunflower oil. The fragrance is undeniably earthy and pungent and - when diluted - is so great for achy joints from long days in the garden.
There are, of course, scientific reasons why it works for pain. But as most know, I tend to look at things from a more "spritual" - or as a friend said recently - "crunchy" way. In other words I'm a hippy. Okay, so I'll take that :) Because it's probably pretty spot-on: To me Frankincense meets my pain, my tears because the tree it came from did too. It envelopes me when I feel broken open, maybe because its tree did too.
At the end of the day, I suppose the specifics don't matter all on their own, it's the beliefs and stories I tell myself that do too.

Thank you Erin Jordan Allen for this gift - and so many others you've brought to my life. ❤🌿🌷❤

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