Protected: Late Winter Cleansing with Ayurveda
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Protected: Recipe: Lemon Spring Greens
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Food and Emotions: Ayurveda Wisdom to Improve Emotional Health
by Natasha (Jyoti) Samson It’s true. You are what you eat, digest, assimilate & absorb. This is a saying in Ayurveda and also teaches us that our food profoundly affects our emotional health. If you are noticing you are stuck…
Winter Wellness Routine
Originally published on Dec 31, 2013 The Vedic sages understood that the great rhythms and forces of nature—the alternation of day and night, the rhythmic cycle of the seasons — affect our wellness, as do the seasons and cycles of…
Harnessing Vata Energy for Positive Change
The fall season often brings a flurry of activity – whether sending kids back to school, settling back into a post-summer routine, or getting the garden ready for winter. Ayurveda defines autumn as “Vata” season – and Vata is all…
Ayurveda & Yoga for Healthy Living
Following their highly successful Ayurveda & Yoga Retreat at the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga in June, Farah Nazarali and Muneera Wallace are hosting a second retreat at the Centre from November 11 – 13, 2022. What makes their retreats…
Five-Time Canadian Olympic Medalist’s Daughter Discovers Science of Health in Ayurveda
This interview has appeared in Soft Power, and is being re-published here with permission from Girija and the author Aparna Sridhar. Girija Edwards, an Ayurveda Educator in Canada is very proud of her late father Dr Philip Aron Edwards, who…
Stay Cool, Calm and Hydrated this Summer
During the summer season the qualities of ‘pitta dosha,’ which are hot, light and dry, are clearly obvious in the weather. The sun shines more often; the hours of daylight are longer; the earth dries out more quickly. No matter…
Ayurveda, Yoga and You: Triphala – A Magic Formula for the Whole Body
It’s been said that if all you do is take triphala, eventually the body will return to a state of balance. And of course, balance is at the heart of Ayurveda – maintaining a balance of the doshas (bio-energies) and…
Ayurveda, Yoga & You: Maintaining an Even Keel
Maintaining an Even Keel: Understanding our Mental Temperament If you’ve ever tried to sail a boat, fly a kite, or surf the ocean waves, you have a sense of what it means to keep ‘an even keel.’ An ability to…