by Sheyna Holmes | Nov 22, 2022 | Air, autumn, Ayurveda, ayurvedic herbs, blog, body constitution, breath, Chakras, fall, prana, pranayama, vata, vata dosha
By Sheyna Haisman-Holmes This week we are talking all about Vata! It is Vata season, which means it is mostly cold, dry and mobile (wind) in the weather patterns. It is important to keep this dosha in balance and in its proper seat to avoid production and...
by Manish Chandra | Sep 7, 2022 | abhyanga, ayurvedic, ayurvedic approach, Ayurvedic Healing, ayurvedic herbs, Ayurvedicdiet, ayurvedicrecipes, balance, blog, breath, breathe, breathing, carbohydrates, cold, Cooking, daily routine, dehydration, Digestive Health, dosha, doshas, Energy, exercise, farmers market, fats, fruits, gastro-intestinal tract, Gut Health, heal your relationship to food, healthy lifestyle, Herbs, holistic health, intuitive eating, lethargy\dehydration, microbiome, Mindful Eating, nervous system, pitta, pranayama, summer Ayurvedic diet, yoga
In case you haven’t noticed, it’s hot! Across the US we’re experiencing a heat wave; this is the season known in Ayurvedic and Chinese Medicine as Late Summer. For many of us the heat can feel both exhausting and irritating. How do we surrender to the heat and support...
by Manish Chandra | Feb 2, 2022 | Air, anxiety, autonomic nervous system, Ayurveda, blog, breath, breathing, doshas, Gut Health, holistic healing, inflammation, kapha, lifeforce, meditation, microbiome, nadi shodhana, nervous system, pitta, prana, pranayama, scienceoflife, vagus nerve, vata
Feeling like your body’s stress response is firing at high speeds these days? You may need to spend time engaging your vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is directly connected to the stress response and plays a major role into how we face stress, reduce...
by Manish Chandra | Nov 23, 2021 | Air, anxiety, autonomic nervous system, Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Healing, blog, breath, breathing, Consciousness, doshas, emotions, habits, holistic health, kapha, lifeforce, meditation, mental health, nervous system, pitta, pranayama, scienceoflife, vata, Wellness
Breath is our main source of prana, or life force, and is one of the most basic human functions as well as one of the most profound! It is also one of our greatest tools and the key to our nervous system. When you inhale, the diaphragm- a dome-shaped...
by Manish Chandra | Oct 27, 2020 | addictions, anxiety, Ayurveda, ayurvedic, ayurvedic approach, ayurvedic herbs, Ayurvedic massage, ayurvediccooking, Ayurvedicdiet, ayurvedicrecipes, balance, blog, blood sugar, blood sugar levels, body consitution, body constitution, bowel movements, breath, breathing, buddhism, caffeine, carbohydrates, chitra, cleanse, colon, comfortfood, constipation, Cooking, cortisol, daily routine, dehydration, detox, Detoxification, detoxify, digestion, disease, dosha, doshas, emotional, emotions, Energy, exercise, fall, falltips, fatigue, flow, food combinations, food combining, gas, guidelines, gut, Gut Health, habit, heal, heal your relationship to food, healing, health, Health issues, healthy lifestyle, healthy lifetsyle, healthy options, heart disease, herbal remedies, herbalblends, Herbs, holistic ehalth, holistic healing, holistic health, holistichealth, holsitichealth, hydration, illusion, imbalance, imbalances, immunity, indigestion, inflammation, intuitive eating, jet lag, jyotisa, jyotish, kapha, lethargy, liverhealth, low energy, maya, meditation, mental, mental health, moderation, movement, oils, organic, osha, practices, prana, pranayama, rejuvenation, relationships, rest, ritual, root, schedule, scienceoflife, seasonal diet, seasons, self-realization, sha, six tastes, spiritual, triphala, trust, vagus nerve, vata, vata dosha, vata foods, vata pacifying diet, vedic astrology, Vedic science, vegetables, walking, weight loss, Wellness, wisdom, work, yoga
The purpose of the Vedic sciences is to promote Self-realization. Known as sister sciences, Ayurveda and Jyotish (Vedic astrology) have been studied as parallel practices since their conception. Ayurveda translates into “knowledge of life,” and Jyotish...
by Manish Chandra | Oct 26, 2020 | anxiety, balance, blog, breath, breathe, breathing, cleanse, coping, daily routine, detox, Detoxification, detoxify, emotional, emotions, Energy, fall, fallguidelines, habit, habits, healing, hydration, imbalance, imbalances, immunity, jyotish, lethargy, lifestyle, maya, meditation, mental, mental health, microorganism, mind and body, moderation, nakshatra, nutrition, practices, prana, pranayama, rest, ritual, routine, self-realization, spiritual, vedic astrology, Vedic science, Wellness, wisdom, yoga
October 26th, retrograde Mercury conjunct Sun in Libra The turbulence and volatile mindedness are coming to a head as Mercury’s retrograde dance rejoins the Sun in Libra. Swati is the asterism of this conjunction, and “Swati means ‘the sword,’...