Archive for the 'yoga' Category


Radio Show Ayurveda & Spring Cleansing

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/

BUCKWHEAT: February’s Heart-Healthy Recipe

Heart-Healthy and Kapha-balancing Buckwheat- how to prepare a delicious bowl…

Bursting from the Heart – Feb 2011 newsletter

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?

India Pulls the Plug on Yoga Patents

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.

The Final Cure for Disease

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.

Seasons Blessings

Namaste: ‘I honor the place in you in which the entire Universe dwells, I honor the place in you which is of Love, of Integrity, of Wisdom and of Peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are One.’ Many Wishes for Love,  Peace & [...]

Winds of Change

As summer moves toward its close, a common theme has begun to surface in my life, the lives of those around me and in the experiences of many of my clients. The ‘winds of change’ are brewing. Change is always in the air, but never so much as when we enter the transitional season of autumn.

A Yoga Manifesto – An end to high-end celebrity yoga?

From The New York Times: A Yoga Manifesto Some new studios are dispensing with the “rock star” instructors. Check it out: http://nyti.ms/akDEwQ

Summer Solstice

Happy Summer! Yesterday marked the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. When the sun is at its height this time of year, energy is at its highest, offering the greatest potential for activity and vigor. Ayurveda emphasizes easy and practical ways to achieve optimum health through living and eating in harmony with nature.   [...]

You Can Stand on Your Head all you Want but…

This quote is timely, and to remember WHY we do Yoga….  Krishnamurti incidentally studied with the same master teacher as my teacher, AG Mohan did.  His wisdom below: Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and [...]