Reading Time: 3 minutes You may have heard that “you are what you eat” and “you are what you digest and absorb.” While both of these offer truth — like the food we eat is transformed into energy to function, to rebuild and regenerate cells and tissues, and to fuel the brain — it’s not the whole story. Our body comprises of more than …
How to Balance Your Dosha For Better Sleep
Reading Time: 5 minutes Sleep. It’s one of the most important protective processes our body goes through — just as important as eating! Sleep is crucial for our bodies to rest, rejuvenate and detoxify. Not getting enough sleep can lead to a whole host of problems, including poor immunity, issues with concentration, alertness and a build-up of waste materials and toxins (ama) in the …
Lift and Shift Your Mood with 5 Easy Steps
Reading Time: 4 minutes At the turn of the seasons, we may sometimes feel ‘off’. As the shift from winter to spring occurs, we can again witness the universe within us, as our own shifts begin to unfold. During these times of transition and change, it can be useful to practice rituals to nourish our state of being and our mood. Springtime naturally brings …
How to Beat Brain Fog
Reading Time: 4 minutes Tell me if this sounds familiar: You’re sitting down and realize you need to get something in the other room. You get up, walk halfway to the other room, then stop dead in your tracks, “what was I going to get?” How you can beat brain fog – Vitamin Supplements, exercise, other solutions can provide the answer It happens to …
3 Ways to Keep Your Joints Healthy and Young
Reading Time: 4 minutes Two things most, if not all, indigenous civilizations have in common is a lifestyle that is rooted in movement, and a diet that is rich in anti-inflammatory superfoods. Picture tribes of the Amazon, traveling the Amazon River, navigating the rainforests; ancient civilizations in the fertile crescent, squatting in the fields as they farmed and worked the land; Oriental civilizations, with …
How to Supplement Your Workout Routine
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s tough, grueling, and sometimes straight-up sucks. What are we talking about? It could be your commute, taking care of your kids, keeping the apartment in order… But today the Herculean topic is your exercise regimen! Do you know the ways to supplement your workout routine? Maybe you want to give up (that’d be easier) but of course, you don’t. …
Journal of an Ayurvedic Newbie: Starting the Year The Right Way
Reading Time: 6 minutes One of my personal mottos is, “There is no such thing as too much butter.” I have never met a cookie I didn’t like. And although I truly think of myself as a church-going, exercising kind of woman, I have only seen the inside of a church or a gym a handful of times in the past year. But the …
Healthy Gut & Mind: 5 Simple Solutions For The Most Common Digestive Issues
Reading Time: 3 minutes Through centuries, man has relied on his gut to make decisions. How many times have you, for instance, had a gut-wrenching experience or felt butterflies in your stomach? This connection between mind and gut is borne out by cutting-edge neuroscience. The human gut – dubbed the second brain – is home to more than a 100 million nerve cells, more …