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What to eat, how much to eat, when to eat …. Which is most important? Yoga and Ayurveda very highly emphasize the import...
03/08/2024

What to eat, how much to eat, when to eat …. Which is most important?

Yoga and Ayurveda very highly emphasize the importance of TIMING. ✨

When we wake, when we do our practices, when we take shower, when we eat, when we sleep, are the most important factor.

WHEN we do is even more important (yes, really!) than what or how much we do. ✨

This is because we are all a part of the elegantly designed and organized cosmic order. Our actions look incredibly isolated and individualized to us, but the reality is, what’s inside is indiscernible from what’s outside. In a few minutes, this breath that’s propelling my mind and body will become the tree. The sun’s rays hitting the fruits in the tree will soon become the tissues of my body themselves. 🌞

This is the start of our deepest, most elegant relationship with our greatest, truest selves. This is the conversation we become a part of when we begin to notice and intentionally, consciously enter into cyclical rhythms with all of nature. 💫

Learn more, and which timing is good for you, in an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultation. Link 🌻🌞💫

“Exposure to sunlight and fire should be resorted to, judiciously.” — Ashtanga Hridayam Su Ch 3, Hemant Ritucharya How t...
02/25/2024

“Exposure to sunlight and fire should be resorted to, judiciously.” — Ashtanga Hridayam Su Ch 3, Hemant Ritucharya

How to maximize your Soring weather for utmost health and well-being on all levels? Take in those sweet rays of warmth and light 💛

It’s almost here! We are about two weeks away from being two weeks away from the start of Spring season 🌷 Spring is kap...
02/16/2024

It’s almost here! We are about two weeks away from being two weeks away from the start of Spring season 🌷 Spring is kapha season, with richness of life and flowers and moisture — but what comes with it is extra heaviness, stagnancy, and slowness in the atmosphere and in our bodies.

The lifestyle practices meant for the two weeks before Spring begins are called Hemant Ritu Sandhi. This is the time for early rising, lighter meals, definitely avoiding heavy, creamy, cheesy, dry and difficult to digest foods.

In this preparatory season we should look at which oils we’re using for daily body application and for cooking, and adjust our seasonings as well. Welcome Spring with an all-around reassessment of what inputs you’re using and how you want to transition your care for your self and your family.

🌷As always in Ayurveda, our inputs are everything. We are not just what we eat, but we are what we are able to fully digest and incorporate into our being. Here is an example of inputs that can serve us in a conscious preparation for Spring:

🌷Food: well cooked, greens, soups w alliums, avoid cold and raw foods
🌷Water: sip hot water between meals, avoid gulping, completely avoid cold or ice water
🌷Breath: enliven from within with kapalabhati in the morning or put your vata to gentle rest with analom-vilum
🌷Perceptions: Listen to motivational stories, walk outside and take in sunrises with your naked eye, but avoid long seated times watching screens.

Check out the link in our profile for 🌷 Ayurveda Lifestyle Consultations 🌷 To receive a much more detailed and custom tailored for you set of renewed recommendations for food, lifestyle choices, and Ayurvedic activities, as well as yoga exercises and any body work / panchakarma therapies appropriate for YOU 👏

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It’s cooking time! 🕉️ The winter is ending (sooner for some than others 🥶) and the northern hemisphere is coming into th...
02/06/2024

It’s cooking time! 🕉️ The winter is ending (sooner for some than others 🥶) and the northern hemisphere is coming into the hardest time of year for our immune systems — Spring!

What can we do now to give ourselves a boost?

1️⃣ Get into the kitchen and avoid getting in to the doctor. This time of year it is absolutely crucial to
2️⃣ eat WARMING, liquid, EASY TO DIGEST foods filled with simple, whole, seasonal ingredients.
3️⃣ Schedule an individualized lifestyle consultation at the link in bio 🔛🔝 to receive your personal recommendations for food, activities, and daily routines that will support you, uniquely.
4️⃣ Cook fresh for yourself every day because you want to stay feeling your freshest.
5️⃣ Resist the rising energy of sleep, stillness, solidity, inertia (“kapha dosha”) and embrace the quick return of summer’s warmth.
6️⃣ Stay nourished! Stay in tune with your appetite and ability to digest! And avoid sticking to opposite routines that served you well in the beginning of winter. 🕉️

The season is shifting now and whether we stay aware or not, our bodies and mind shift in sync with the seasons. This is the exquisite beauty of Ayurvedic ritucharya. Hari Om

It deserves a re post … daily! Remember … the Ayurvedic approach to eliminating diseases is eliminating the causes. 💯Da...
12/24/2023

It deserves a re post … daily! Remember … the Ayurvedic approach to eliminating diseases is eliminating the causes. 💯

Daily oil application BEFORE bathing ✅ makes tissues supple at all levels ✅ gently draws out lipophilic (stubborn, fat soluble) toxins ✅ allows for bath to remove toxins drawn out from skin ✅ does not damage or “clog” sebaceous glands like post-bath moisturizers

Scroll down in our feed to find quite a few tips for great lifestyle habits with herbs for early winter.

May all beings be free of suffering! Om tat sat 🕉️

Shameless plug for classical pranayama module beginning December 20. Pranayama has a few valid translations - extension...
12/18/2023

Shameless plug for classical pranayama module beginning December 20. Pranayama has a few valid translations - extension of life force, control of breath, etc. - our favorite is “therapeutic breathing”. This is the best time of year to go very deep very quickly into a safe, guided, legitimate, intimate relationship with your vital energy called “prana”.

In Pranayama Certification Module 1 you will methodically learn 6 classical types of pranayama with distinct purpose and effect in your entire system, body mind and beyond. You will leave the module confident in what the breath techniques are and how they affect you and others. You’ll be able and encouraged to add them to your daily wellness rituals and teach them to / practice with others.

It’s not too late to sign up! Classes for this module will be Wednesday nights 5pm, and Saturdays/Sundays at 5:30am. The hour before sunrise “brahmamahutra” is the traditional time for pranayama practice and you will feel the light in you explaining why.

Last day to register for this 10 class series is 12/27/23.

Early Winter is the best time, Ayurvedically, to remember you are what you intake. Who feels good when they’re dry, col...
12/17/2023

Early Winter is the best time, Ayurvedically, to remember you are what you intake. Who feels good when they’re dry, cold, rough, and moving overly fast?

Check out these herbs and find them at your local Indian market at a much discounted rate from most grocery stores👏👏👏

If you struggle with sleep I challenge you to a 30 day nutmeg in milk before bed trial. 🌙😴 You will never forget the feeling of Ayurveda at work in you.

Your wellness is our mantra! Please say hi and let us know what content you’d like to see as we continue with our reopening stage ✨🐚

🪔 REOPENING announcement 🐚 please ensure you’re signed up for email updates for full details coming to you this weekend!...
12/14/2023

🪔 REOPENING announcement 🐚 please ensure you’re signed up for email updates for full details coming to you this weekend!

🙏🏽 We can’t wait to see you for our long awaited reopening! 🌺 Come early or stay for a while and sip tea, enjoy sitting next to traditional herbs, and spend some time browsing our yoga and ayurveda library.

You can now schedule on our website for appointments as soon as next week. Check your email announcement for hours, what’s available, and all other details. ✨

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11/11/2023

celebrates Dhanvantari, the originator of Ayurveda Medicine 👏 We join our hands in celebration of the healer in all of us!

Join us in chanting the first verses of Ashtanga Hridayam which celebrate the ultimate healer, “that original physician,” Dhanvantari.

Happy Dhanteras! May our health be our wealth.

One of the most crucial differences in Ayurvedic Medicine (from western medicine models) is in the anatomy and physiolog...
10/31/2023

One of the most crucial differences in Ayurvedic Medicine (from western medicine models) is in the anatomy and physiology itself.

As seasons change, Ayurveda is unique in recognizing the functional forces to balance and stabilize ourselves as complete human beings.

Ayurveda recognises the inseparability of TWO complete anatomies in all human beings.

Western sciences specialise in one structural, physical anatomy.

Ayurveda’s scope is deep into both (1) gross/physical and (2) subtle anatomy (think doshas, koshas, srotas) AND recognizing that no matter how precisely we identify physical structures, the function of them is unknowable by looking only at the gross structures.

For example, Western medicine helps very much to measure exactly how much hemoglobin in the blood, but cannot tell us what nourishes the blood to restore levels beyond one nutrient (iron) alone.

For example, in the winter season, Ayurveda recommends very different foods and treatments for the very same disorder / imbalance.

Winter is the season for restorative therapies, herbs, foods, and practices. We take a break from cleansing until the Spring. This is the only responsible way to honor knowledge of subtle anatomy in the Winter season (dry, light, cold, rough, moving).

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This morning at Indian Yoga Alliance the weather has become very cold! It is a good sign of how to care for our subtle anatomy, which is nothing but nature itself.

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Keep checking our posts and stories for simple Ayurvedic advice for caring for your physical and subtle anatomies as the winter begins to sit with us. We can welcome any season happily, in health, with humble awareness and deep knowledge.
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A lot of us think about “doing a cleanse” in the Fall season ⚠️ But one thing Ayurveda rasayana (nature’s science of lon...
09/20/2023

A lot of us think about “doing a cleanse” in the Fall season ⚠️

But one thing Ayurveda rasayana (nature’s science of longevity) is absolutely clear on is how essential it is to REST and REJUVENATE specifically in the late summer, autumn, and early winter seasons.

What does rest and rejuvenation look like to you this fall? 👀👀👀 Can you find rest beyond sleep? — Look deeper into conscious body and mind — and find healing ways to recover from an active summer season outdoors.

Here are some of the absolute best, ancient Ayurvedic medicine strategies — so simple yet powerful in achieving balance in this seasonal change.



🌿 OILING all of the the body and letting it absorb to pull out lipophilic toxins before bathing,
🌿 putting a pinky finger dip of sesame oil into each nostril before bed,
🌿 deep belly breathing for at least 5 minutes pre-sunrise (take our word for it, it is definitely worth it 💯)
🌿 enjoy only warm, soft, hydrating, unctuous foods and inputs. This is truly the season for getting cozy with a hot tulsi tea and a long, colorful book.
🌿 avoid all inputs — food, even music and images — which are dry, cold, rough, agitated, or create “nervous” feelings in you
🌿 favour foods, drinks, herbs which are sweet, salty, and sour in taste.

Hundreds of lifestyle habits, and information about how to live in harmony with our nature, have been given to us by the lineage of sages, vaidyas (doctors) and teachers of Ayurvēd. To learn more about which techniques are best for your daily lifestyle routine, book a consultation with an Ayurvedic practitioner. ✨

Happy Fall one and all! 🍁✨

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