Dear friends, It is easy to get confused about food. There are many “fashionable” ways to eat these days and I assure you they will come and go like all the other ones. What concerns me is that women are focused on what they are ‘not” eating. Bottom line? Feeling good, having energy and having…
One of Ayurveda’s integrative approaches is balancing through the five senses. Nutritional therapy uses taste, Marma therapy uses touch , sound and colors with gemstones , and aromatherapy utilizes smell. We “digest’ the world through our senses in much the same way we digest food. We then transform it into energy-thoughts, emotions,nutrients, cells and tissue….
Happy New Year 2015! Dear friends, With all the buzzzzzz about weight loss and detoxing at the beginning of the new year, I’d like to offer a simple Ayurvedic approach. It’s delicious, satiating, creamy, full of protein and very easy to make! It’s called “kitchari”. Dr Taz in her book “The 21 Day Belly Fix”…
Dear friends, With all the rich foods we have eaten over the holidays; enjoying sweet desserts, a few extra glasses of wine or champagne, combining foods we don’t normally eat together; now is the time to give our digestion a little “R and R”. Here are “FIVE” simple Ayurvedic tips to “mend” a broken digestive…
Feeling stuffed and a bit stiff from the holidays? Perhaps even a mild depression that prevails this time of year with less time in the sun? Yoga twisting poses are a great way to: * Combat digestive issues including gas, bloating, and feelings of stuffiness. When you twist, the organs in the abdomen get compressed…
In our modern daily lives we have been robbed of a precious commodity known as “silence”. The word commodity means ” a useful or valuable thing”. Isn’t this true? It is difficult to find a moment free from texts, emails, and the enticing explorations on the internet. Silence is what nature experiences to rejuvenate itself….
It’s exciting to know that Atlanta is getting on board with Ayurveda! And YOU have been the first here to experience it! Thank you for all your support these past few years! Simply Buckhead magazine writer Alexa Lampasona wrote the following article about Holiday Stress after her recent Marma session. I’m sharing the link with…
The trees have been ‘surrendering” their leaves so gracefully in various colors of red, yellow, orange and crimson . This is a beautiful time of the year no doubt! This change of season known as ‘vata’ in ayurveda is a season where we can also surrender emotions, things we don’t use or need, and unnecessary…
There was once a time where people lived by the regular rhythms of the day. such as the rising of the sun, the setting of the sun, and the phases of the moon. In some parts of the world such as in the Peruvian forests this still exists. In our daily lives where the lists and…
It was my great pleasure to speak today representing Atlanta Center for Holistic and Integrative Medicine on the Weather Channel. I would like to recap in case you may have missed it. Allergies are an abnormal immune response to environmental agents such as pollen, dust mites, mold and animal dander. Holistic health and Ayurveda approaches…