If months of grey skies, long workdays, and winter heaviness have left you feeling foggy or run down, your body may simply be asking for a reset. Our digestion slows, energy drops, and the body begins to carry the residue…
If winter has left you feeling heavy, foggy, or run down, nature has a solution. Spring is the season of renewal, and Ayurveda has been guiding seasonal cleansing for over 3,000 years. Spring on Salt Spring Island arrives like a…
Nourish & Detox with Seasonal Foods The Door to Balanced Health March brings us closer to the cleansing time of year, as the long winter gestation begins to shed its thick coat and reveal its newness. The Power of Bitter…
As winter transitions into spring, our bodies naturally crave lighter, cleansing foods to support digestion and renewal. This Lemon Spring Greens recipe perfectly embraces seasonal eating, combining vibrant, nutrient-rich greens with a zesty, warming marinade. Packed with bitter greens, digestion-boosting…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…