Simple Split Mung Dal
This split mung dal recipe is super simple and easy to make. When made in a pressure cooker it takes about twenty minutes, tops (and that includes the prep!). When cooking...
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Exploring the Elements—Water
Water element is the principle of cohesion. In the body, this emerges as nourishment, growth, and lubrication. Water element cools, moistens, adheres, soothes, softens, smoothes, dulls, and spreads.
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Exploring the Elements—Earth
Earth element expresses as stability. The qualities of Earth element are cool, stable, heavy, dry, rough, gross, dense, dull, and hard. In the body, this emerges as growth, accumulation, and...
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Urad Dal Kitchari
An alternative to the classic kitchari, this recipe combines creamy urad dal with basmati rice and agni strengthening spices. These additions make it an ideal kitchari recipe for vata constitutions...
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Don’t Forget Throat Soother Herbal Spray This Winter—Now Featuring Echinacea!
Throat Soother Herbal Spray is made to target the throat, where many people first note discomfort and feel that their immune system is being stressed.
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Craft Your Dream Life with Intention Setting
We can launch change and growth in our lives by being deliberate with the thoughts and language that support our beliefs. Reinforcing our beliefs on a daily basis provides cosmic...
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Amaranth Crêpes with Pomegranate Syrup
Have fun making these delightful amaranth crêpes with pomegranate syrup! They are gluten-free, soy-free, vegetarian, and balancing for vata, pitta, and kapha.
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The Digestive Process: An Ayurvedic Perspective
The Ayurvedic take on digestion includes the idea that the whole process happens in three stages, that digestion happens on a subtle level as well as a gross physical one,...
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Ayurvedic Recipe: Pomegranate Orange Chip Bars
Chocolaty, chewy goodness, heart-healthy oats, and pomegranate created this divine bar—a taste of bliss in every bite. All doshas should eat it in moderation.
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Exploring the Elements—Space
Space element, sometimes called ether, is the place where everything happens. In the modern yoga world, Space element abounds. The practice of intensive, drying asana sequences, an emphasis on raw...
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Exploring the Elements—Wind
The wind element carries the qualities cold, dry, rough, mobile, subtle, and light. Sound familiar? That's right, vata dosha is made up of wind and space!
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Surviving the Holidays with the Help of Ayurveda
Are you tired from the frenetic energy that often surrounds us during the holidays? Let the holidays be a joyful time by incorporating daily oleation, touch therapy, meditation, yoga, and deep...
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Vata-Pacifying Recipe: Baby Bok Choy
Bok choy is packed with all the good stuff that not only makes us feel good, but is also super supportive for a healthy body, too. Well-cooked green veggies, like...
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Pacifying Vata Dosha During the Holidays
Long before I knew anything about Ayurveda and vata dosha, I sensed the palpable anxiety that would arise in me towards the end of October/early November, knowing that the holidays were fast approaching....
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Lack of Focus is a #VataProblem. Here’s How to Fix It.
When practically everything in our environment is calling for our attention, our ability to focus is at an all-time low. But that doesn’t mean it’s too late for you to...
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7 Steps to Establishing a Nighttime Sleep Ritual
Here's the 7 steps to sound sleep. Creating a nighttime sleep ritual is key, and since we are creatures of habit, our bodies will willingly begin to prepare for sleep once...
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Exploring the Elements—Fire
Fire element is the principle of transformation. In the body, this most obviously manifests in the flame of digestion. Fire element expresses as hot, sharp, bright, upward-moving, and spreading.
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10 Ways to Avoid Vata Fails this Fall
With fall, the dry, cold, and mobile qualities associated with vata come stumbling forward. Ayurveda is a system that is both preventative as well as curative. By utilizing ancient Ayurvedic principles, we...
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The Best Essential Oils for Balancing Vata
Winter is the vata time of year: the weather is cool and crisp, days are short, and nights are long. The vata dosha relates to the air element out of balance and...
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Vata-Pacifying Recipe: Date Rolls
Here’s a SUPER simple and yummy recipe. It’s filled with warming spices that are rolled into dates, making the perfect afternoon snack. Bon appetite!
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Ayurvedic Rejuvenation Might Be Just What You Need
Rejuvenation is a lovely thing to do to help us feel better and it can bring ease from long, ongoing stress or illness. Restorative practices boost our mental and physical energy while...
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Find Your Zzz's with I Sleep Soundly
Sleep is probably one of the most important activities in your day. I Sleep Soundly contains herbs that work at a root level, easing the things that cause sleep disturbances...
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8 Steps to Reduce Stress Now
It is crucial to reduce the amount of stress you are experiencing. If you cannot find a way to alleviate stress, it is necessary to make efforts to ease its impact...
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Has Wheat Been Found Guilty Without a Fair Trial?
Has gluten been found guilty without a fair trial? Is it possible that we have wrongfully given gluten the boot as well, along with dairy and other commonly allergenic foods...
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