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100 Trailblazers in Ayurveda and Yoga
See Them All Here By Bess O'Connor, Kathryn Drury Wagner, and the Editors of S&H If you’ve ever been to a candlelight service, you know how the magic works: A glow starts small a…
3 Ways to Heal the World with Food and Self-Care
Learn why Ayurveda is the healing you, and our planet, need now.
3 Ways To Keep Your Digestive Fires Burning Bright for the Holidays
Try these three recipes for better digestion.
5 Ayurvedic Tips for Solving Digestion Problems
Ayurveda uses everything in nature as a medicine—and I don't just mean herbs and oils. This system of medicine treats the air, the sun, and the water as medicine.It trea…
5 Easy Ways To Restart Your Metabolism With Ayurveda
Here are Ayurvedic therapies which can be done both internally and externally to reactivate your metabolism.
5 Reasons To Cook With Cumin + The Simplest Recipe For A Potent Digestive Tea
Cumin has a robust flavor and an equally robust medicinal profile. Try a simple tea to get more cumin in your diet.
5 Ways to Balance an Overactive Mind
Do you know anyone who doesn’t have an overactive mind? If so, they are few and far between. People often label themselves (or even their mood) as one specific Ayurvedic dosha. “I’…
5 Ways to Chill Out
If that weather report involves the term, “scorcher,” here are some natural ways to cool off.
6 Ayurvedic Foods to Cool Pitta
Foods like limes keep a cooling balance so we can stay strong, maintain energy, and fully enjoy summer.
6 Ayurvedic Practices to Rejuvenate Your Eyes
These 6 ayurvedic practices using simple kitchen ingredients will rejuvenate tired, strained, overworked eyes.
7 Ways to Tame Anger With Ayurveda
Anger is really an umbrella term for a multi-layered and complicated emotion. Sadness and shame can be at the root of anger. And if unattended or suppressed, anger can morph into a…
9 Affirmations for Staying Grounded during the Fall Season
A combination of Ayurvedic balancing tips, plus these 9 affirmations, will help you stay centered as the seasons change.
9 Fall Health Remedies from Ayurveda
Which foods are best for your dosha at this time of year? Read on to find out.
A Recipe To Maintain Your Cool: Tofu with Snap Peas and Pumpkin Seeds
This Ayurvedic recipe takes just minutes to prepare, is substantial enough for a meal, yet feels refreshing and light for warm weather.
All Clear with Panchakarma
Practitioners of panchakarma go beyond the basic cleanse to deeply purify body and soul.
An Ayurvedic Skincare Routine
Ayurveda has many recipes that can help improve the look and feel of your skin. Here are three quick and easy steps to get you glowing.
Ayurveda in the Garden
There is no better time to synchronize with the rhythms of our cosmos than in late spring…
Ayurveda Inspired Rituals for Spring
Instead of our working against nature to fit our own needs and desires, Ayurveda teaches that when we accept what Earth provides, we keep seasonal illnesses at bay.
Ayurveda to Boost Your Immunity
Stay well this winter season with an Ayurvedic diet, proper self-care, and yoga.
Ayurvedic Self-Care Rituals: For Morning
Center yourself each morning with these traditional Ayurvedic self-care rituals.
Back to Basics: 5 Super Easy Ayurveda Lifestyle Practices
We asked an ayurveda expert to recommend techniques that don’t require fancy equipment, ingredients, or a trip to the store.
Balance the Doshas and Build your Senses with Ayurveda
At-home treatments deliver fast results for elemental imbalance
Balance Your Five Senses for Best Health Results
“Because our five senses are so powerful, we can use them as vehicles—ways to either amp ourselves up, or ways to comfort ourselves and soothe ourselves down to a more relaxed state.”
Book Review: Happy Belly
Happy BellyA Woman’s Guide to Feeling Vibrant, Light, and BalancedBy Nadya AndreevaAdvantage Media GroupMy digestive ills began during my 20s when I was put on an extended round of…
Breakfast Crêpes with Cinnamon-Orange Honey
An excerpt from Ayurveda Cooking for Beginners: An Ayurvedic Cookbook to Balance and Heal
Build a Better Morning with Ayurveda
Integrative psychiatrist Judith Pentz, MD, shares six ways Ayurveda can rejuvenate mind, body, and spirit.
Cooking by the Pinch and the Handful
Our senses are our own perfect signaling instruments, our hands are our own perfect measure.
Deep Sleep Tonic
An Ayurvedic fix for a better night’s sleep—great for calming Vata, or any flighty, fractured, anxious, can’t settle down sort of energy.
Detox with this Gingery Lemon Soup
A clear vegetable soup with the warmth of ginger and the brightness of lemon adds punch to fresh, purifying produce.
Dinacharya: A Yogi’s Routine for a Long and Healthy Life
Align with nature’s rhythm and see your own radical change
Dosha-licious: Pitta Radiant
Pitta, you are the light of the world. You bring us color, vision, clarity, focus, enthusiasm, adventure!
Easy, Ayurveda-inspired Snacks for Kids
An Ayurvedic doctor shares some of her favorite easy-to-prepare Ayurveda inspired recipes that make for delicious and healthy snacks for kids.
Fall Health And The 5 Elements: How Ayurveda Helps
Did you know that the seasons are governed by the five elements? As we enter fall, we are shifting from fire-dominated summer to wind-dominated autumn.
Fan the Flames of Your Digestive Fire
Imagine yourself the keeper of an internal fire.The ancient system of living called ayurveda teaches that within each of us is a flame that transforms everything we consume into co…
Garshana: Ayurvedic Dry Skin Brushing
Our skin is the largest organ of detoxification. Garshana or dry skin brushing is one of the easiest practices to encourage the body to cleanse. It’s super simple and can be done e…
Gentle Winter Cleanse: A Mid-Holiday Reset
Take these classic Ayurvedic autumn meals and turn them into an early winter cleanse.
Golden Mylk Recipe for Inflammation and Digestion
Enjoy this ancient recipe for boosting digestion and decreasing inflammation.
Guided Meditation: Within the Movement of Fall, Find Your Center
In this guided meditation use a grounding cord to drop into your center.
How to Care For Your Body Better in a Cold, Dark Season
“When we do not listen to the signals of our bodies as they shift from season to season, we are causing a subtle, constant form of stress. Here are a few ways you can help your body rebalance during the winter season.”
How to Read Your Vedic Birth Chart in 5 Easy Steps
"Your Vedic birth chart is a unique karmic map that shares the wisdom of life—past, present, and future." Here, 5 easy steps for reading yours.
If You Want to... Experience Ayurveda
There's no doubt that many of us are seeking alternatives to a healthier lifestyle—and with very good reason. I’ve been at the forefront of the spa and wellness movement…
Immunity Spice Blend for Autumn
This mix combines zesty warming spices that boost aroma, flavor, healing wisdom, and most importantly, the fire in your foods, your belly, your life.
Indian Frankincense Provides Relief for Arthritis
Indian Frankincense, otherwise known as Boswellia Serrata, continually proves a relief for individuals experiencing symptoms associated with osteoarthritis. Research published in B…
Is Detoxing Actually Healthy?
Helping your body detoxify through effective measures is a practice that can be traced back hundreds of years.
Journey and Connect with the Divine
Join Dr. Jayanath Abeywickrama of Sri Lanka for 4 days of ancient healing wisdom and self discovery at the Redwoods in Scotts Valley, California.
Kapha Vinyasa Flow - Mind Body Balance
Stimulate and fire up your body's circulation of life-force energy to keep you inspired, motivated, and ready for a great day.
Kavala Graha: Ayurvedic Remedy for a Healthy Smile
If you haven’t heard about the new “in” ayurvedic cleansing technique called oil pulling, let me fill you in. Oil pulling, known as “Kavala” or “Gandusha” is one of the techniques …
Kindle Your Inner Fire with Comforting Kichari
Balancing and fortifying, light and purifying, healing and nurturing, in many ways it’s the world’s original smart food.
Lemony Ginger Winter Immune Tonic
This simple recipe is a formula to kindle the inner fires, promote healthy circulation, and hydrate the tissues.
Loving Yourself Free: Eating Disorders and Ayurvedic Treatment Tips
Here are a few different ways to approach treatment of eating disorders using Ayurveda.
Medication Meditation Part 3: Energizing for Lethargy, Sluggishness, or Emotional Blockage
Get a boost of energy with this Ayurveda inspired audio meditation.
Meditation Medication Part 1: Grounding for Anxiety or Overwhelm
The first in three-part meditation series inspired by Ayurveda.
Meditation Medication Part 2: Cooling Meditation for Anger, Irritation, or Inflammation
An audio meditation to calm emotional and physical inflammation.
My Practice: A Daily Ayurvedic Routine
Learn how Vedic master Michelle Fondin walks through her daily routine.
My Practice: Mas Vidal
See how a renowned instructor and dedicated yogi and ayurvedic practitioner, Mas Vidal, kicks off his day.
My Practice: Morning Pages and Ayurveda
Learn how a renowned Ayurvedic and yoga practitioner moves through her day.
Rethinking Breakfast ... Maybe
Not hungry in the morning? Here is what Ayurveda tells us about eating breakfast.
Rose Petal Truffles: A Gift of Love
Try this recipe for an afternoon boost of energy or a gift for one you love.
Science & Spirit: Travel Tips, Cool Off Pitta, and Circadian Weirdness
This week discover advice for summer travelers, ways to cool the Pitta Dosha in hot months, and the fun fact that your liver can keep time. Want to know more? Read on.
Setting Up Your Ayurvedic Kitchen
Let food be your first medicine and the kitchen your first pharmacy. —Taittiriya Upanishad
Spring Clean Your Diet
‘Tis the season for cleaning, but as you get out your vacuum and mop, consider spring-cleaning your diet.
Stinging Nettles: Queen of Spring’s Edible Wild Weeds
Nettles, abundant in spring, offer many health benefits and are a delightful green to add to your table
Sunshine Soup: A Bowl of Radiance
This soup is a warm break from winter’s toil, and another good reason to celebrate the return of light and approach of a new year.
Super Spice Spotlight: 7 Benefits of Using Asafoetida or “Hing”
Asafoetida or “hing” is one of the most overlooked spices in western culture. One of my crazy theories is that the avoidance of this ‘resin’ herb is due to its moniker – “devil’s s…
The Ayurvedic Medicine of Taste
The health benefits of balancing different tastes, plus a recipe for Coconut Almond Overnight Oats
The Devotional Kitchen
There is a quality of the sacred that can be felt in the food we eat. With attention, we notice how our meal was prepared; the intention infused as it was chopped, mixed and season…
The Gorgeous Glory Of The Goddess Body Shape
Beauty comes in all forms and certain types of beauty serve specific purposes.
The Heart of Hormonal Balance
Hot flashes, weight gain, and sleepless nights are all signs that our hormones may be tipped to one side or the other. As a society, we are looking to balance those hormones back, …
The Simplest Health Tip to Revolutionize Your Health
One of the easiest health tips you’ll ever hear to radically boost your health.
Using Ayurvedic Mudras for Energy, Relaxation, and Focus
Explore the five movements of prana with simple hand gestures.
Why You’re Crankier in the Summer, and How Ayurveda Can Fix It
Follow these tips, and you should be on your way to feeling cooler—temperature and temper-wise.
Why, When & How to Eat Wheat
Eating wheat is healthy—but not in the ways we typically eat it today. The solution will likely improve your health dramatically.
Winter Practices To Support Your Inward Journey
This next month can be fertile ground for renewal of spirit and for clarity of mind and heart.
Your Sacred Relationship with Food
Once we acknowledge our sustenance as divine energy, we give ourselves an opportunity to engage in a new relationship with food.
