Healing your body with Ayurveda takes patience. It takes deep self-reflection and a willingness to nurture yourself down to your very cells.

Back pain? You really should consider yoga. Of the myriad of positive outcomes resulting from a consistent yoga practice, relief from lower back pain is at the top of the list. 

Caring for your liver with Ayurvedic lifestyle choices and practices during summer when pitta dosha becomes aggravated more easily.

There are several ways to naturally support the liver using items you probably already have in your kitchen—or at least items you can find at any grocery store. Two of my favorites are lemons and beets. Both of these foods promote bile flow, helping to clear out the liver as well as boosting digestion. Here are two delicious ways to incorporate them into your daily diet.

Learn how to make CCF Tea, a blend of coriander, cumin, and fennel. This beautiful golden tea supports digestion, promotes balance for all three doshas, and simultaneously grounds and nourishes the body.

Maybe you have heard the yogic advice “what you meditate upon, you become.” In other words: that which you spend your time thinking about and focusing on, becomes your reality. This isn’t just guidance for when you are sitting on your yoga mat or on a meditation cushion. It’s about the symbols, images, and thoughts which occupy your mind throughout the day. And it can be much more tangible and specific than just “stay positive.”

Ayurveda describes six tastes by which all foods can be generally categorized. They are: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent, and astringent. Each of these tastes has a different effect in the body. By understanding the way that the tastes affect the three doshas, you can choose foods and herbs that will create balance and healing for your individual constitution.

We loved our product, Women’s Cycle Ease, and we know that many of you did too. For those of you who used it and loved it, we don’t want to leave you hanging, so here is some information that may help you continue to find cycle support from Ayurveda’s beautiful herbs.

The following breathing practices are designed for balancing vata dosha and are particularly beneficial during the autumn, but may be used anytime you need to calm down and center yourself.

Marmas are vital energy points that can be pressed to strengthen their corresponding organs. In this article, we explore marma points connected to the adrenals.

We loved our product, Women’s Cycle Nourish, and we know that many of you did too. For those of you who used it and loved it, we don’t want to leave you hanging, so here is some information that may help you continue to find cycle support from Ayurveda’s beautiful herbs.

Psst. Hey you. Yes, you. I see you staggering out of bed in the morning. You have low energy, and you catch every cold going around the office. You crave salty foods (potato chips at 10 am, anyone?). Stress—both physical and emotional—puts you over the edge. Low blood sugar, lower back pain, loss of muscle tone, dry skin, dizziness, poor circulation… these complaints make you wonder, “What’s wrong with me?”

With Lyme disease, liver support is a critical component to help your body get well.  A clean green diet, herbs, and castor oil packs all can be part of your liver self-care regime.

As the month of February is filled with images, commercials, and messages meant to evoke the sentiment of love and companionship, let’s take a deeper look at the meaning of love.

There is a magic way to begin each morning that helps a child with restlessness, learning, speech, muscle strength, and focus. The art of gentle massage helps support the children that I work with. The effects take place in the body and mind, and always begin with the same morning routine.

The main qualities of vata are dry, light, cool, rough, subtle, and mobile. If you are predominantly vata or have a vata imbalance, it is likely that your body and mind are primarily composed of these qualities.

When traveling, it's crucial to keep your immune and digestive systems strong. Here are some of our top Ayurvedic recommendations for staying balanced in India.

An Ayurvedic Cleanse provides an opportunity to slow the flood of physical and environmental stressors so that the body can rest, recuperate, and repair itself. Though a cleanse is primarily food based, lifestyle recommendations help you to make the most of this healing process.

It’s been a decade since I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 38 years old. At that time, I was told I had a good chance of living for five years if I had both my breasts removed, one as prophylactic, a hysterectomy, also as prophylactic, chemo, and radiation. I chose chemo because I felt my cancer was systemic and that’s what the insured medical system offered me.

The idea of cleansing means many things to many people. A cleanse can be subtle or intense, simple or involved. A cleanse can be done on your own, or as part of a program overseen by a healthcare professional. Cleanses are especially recommended in Ayurveda as a means of staying balanced and vibrant during seasonal shifts.

If you are trying to conceive, are thinking about conceiving, or know someone that would like to conceive, this webinar is for you.

Ayurveda has a long tradition of supporting couples through the preconception period, which begins long before conception. To optimize the health of the child and parents, Ayurveda recommends a phase of cleansing and rejuvenation prior to conception, filled with a rich tradition of determining good timing and good practices for conception. In this way, the preconception period is often viewed as being even more important than the pregnancy period itself, from a preparatory and preventative point-of-view. 

When Amy came into the office she said she was having some “stress and was feeling overwhelmed”. She told me that she had been to see her doctor as she was having trouble breathing at times and, “was worried that something was wrong with her heart”.Over the course of our sessions we began to create daily routines to support Amy so she did not feel like she was “drifting”. We gave her anchors to start and end her day. Her dinacharya began with tongue scraping, then having some warm water with lemon, followed by neti pot and nose oil with some warming and calming essential oils like rose. We built upon this foundation over the next few months.

The heat continues to rise in Southern CA, and it’s so nice out that many of us are taking the opportunity to soak in the sun. For some of us, however, we already have signs of heat excess in our systems. This really applies to anyone that has a good amount of pitta in their constitution. One of the hallmarks of pitta excess is inflammation. I have a lot of clients whom, like myself, are showing signs of inflammation in their nervous and digestive systems. So let’s take some time to learn about inflamed guts and feelings.

Sattvic foods are a wonderful way to counteract the intensity of summertime. The heat from the summer sun and the surge of energy used during summer activities like swimming, hiking, and traveling, though they may be enjoyable, can easily cause imbalances in your body and mind.