Two nights ago, upon waking in the middle of the night from pangs of illness, I realized what a gift I was being given. The last time I caught a nasty bug was 2 years ago, just after the New Year. My sick-time became a gift as sleepless hours were spent gleaning new information and [...]
“Walk with courage. Go forward from day to day with calm, inner faith. Eventually, you will pass beyond every shadow of bad karma, beyond all tests and difficulties, and will behold at last the dawn of divine fulfillment. In the highest of all states of consciousness will come freedom from every last, trailing vapor of [...]
“Conflict of any kind -physically, psychologically, intellectually-is a waste of energy… it is extraordinarily difficult to understand and to be free of this because most of us are brought up to struggle, to make effort. When we are at school, that is the first thing that we are taught, to make an effort. And that [...]
Kula: Cultivating Community This article in this post is written by Kaya Mindlin, CSYT and Premal Patel, MD and reprinted with permission from Banyan Botanicals (www.banyanbotanicals.com). “In vasanta (spring), persons should spend midday happily in the company of friends, engaged in pleasant games, pastimes and story telling.” ~Ashtanga Hrdayam (ancient Ayurvedic text) 3.25 In the [...]
In an older time, before technology so closely influenced our daily life, our ancestors lived closely in tune with nature’s rhythms. They followed the rising and setting of the sun, the waxing and waning of the moon, and the transitions from one season to the next. This connection to the universe was their medicine; they [...]
Ayurvedic Medicine: Fasting & Cleansing
Listen to the archived call on Spring Cleansing with Ayurveda with Richard Haynes and Gianna on the Beyond 50 Radio Show!
http://www.blubrry.com/beyond50radio/952049/episode-217-ayurvedic-medicine-fasting-cleansing/
Heart-Healthy and Kapha-balancing Buckwheat- how to prepare a delicious bowl…
Heart-Opening Yoga Poses: Are you hunched over your computer screen right now?
Open-Heart Surgery: Ayurvedically speaking, did you know that heart disease can be described by Vata, Pitta or Kapha symptoms?
Take a moment to imagine if your day’s work involved only FEELING, and no THINKING. What would it change?
In order to stop self-styled yoga gurus from claiming copyright to ancient ‘asanas’, India has completed documenting 1,300 ‘asanas’ which will soon be uploaded on the country’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, making them public knowledge.
Ayurvedic wisdom honors Self-knowledge as the final cure for all disease. Notice this is “self” with a capital “S”, the Self that embodies not who we think we are, what we call ourselves, or we do for a living, but instead the highest aspect of our Self, our essence, our purpose for being.
