As the days shorten, the weather cools, and the dry autumn winds begin to stir, we often experience similar energetic shifts in our bodies, and especially on our skin. According… Read More→
Yogic Lifestyle
Come explore the lifestyle of a yoga practitioner! Discover foods and recipes that support a calm and peaceful yogic life. Learn about the science of Ayurveda to strengthen and heal your body, mind and heart. Check out our seasonal yoga and diet guides to stay healthy and balanced in all four seasons.
Reducing Rajas Guna: A Yogi’s How-to Guide
Rajas is one of the gunas—the three basic energetic constituents of the cosmos. The gunas are in a constant flux and they affect everything around us—energy, matter, and consciousness. Rajas… Read More→
A Yogi’s Practical Guide to Balancing Tamas Guna
Tamas is one of the three gunas—the main energetic constituents of the cosmos. The gunas are in a constant flux and they affect everything around us—energy, matter, and consciousness. Tamas… Read More→
The Best Summer Teas for Yogis to Stay Cool and Calm
Basking in the summer sun not only feels good, it’s good for you. But too much warmth from the sun can exaggerate the Ayurvedic pitta dosha, the bio-elemental energy of… Read More→
The Yoga of Food: Eating for Summer
As the sun shines hot and bright during the long summer days, agni tattva, the fire element, warms and radiates strongly inside our bodies. The fire element activates the third… Read More→
The Yoga of Food: Eating for Spring
The transition from winter to spring can be quite dramatic, outside in nature, as well as inside our bodies. Our tender hearts easily fall in love with spring’s promise of… Read More→
The Yoga of Food: Eating for Autumn
While it’s easy to see the leaves changing colors and falling off the trees—it is much more difficult to notice how the short, cool and windy days of Autumn affect… Read More→
After the Asana: Tips for Eating After Yoga
It’s not uncommon for a yoga practice to take us into a different state of being. The physical asana, along with things like pranayama and meditation, can bring us into… Read More→
Should You Try A Gluten-Free Diet?
Over the last several years, “gluten-free” has become a ubiquitous term and a rapidly expanding specialty food category. Yet, there is always some new health fad sweeping the nation, which… Read More→
What Is a Sattvic Diet?
Have you ever noticed the effects of the food you have eaten on your yoga practice? Obviously some foods create more internal commotion than others, with bloating and other digestive… Read More→
What Kind Of Yoga Practice Fits Your Dosha?
Yoga asana is the main yogic tool for balancing the physical body and creating a flow of energy that enables us to direct our attention within. This flow of energy… Read More→
Protein and the Yogi: Are You Getting What Your Body Needs?
Protein is essential for the support of lean muscle mass, immune function, energy levels, weight control and is the basis for all enzyme activity for basic body maintenance and detoxification…. Read More→
Concerned About Your Sugar Intake? See What Ayurveda Has To Say
I have a love/hate relationship with sugar. I crave it, I avoid it, I even make deals with myself over it. But with so much conflicting nutrition information available, how… Read More→
Beyond Dietary Dogma: Journey to Intuitive Eating
Rotating on its spit, the glistening döner kebab beckoned as I awaited the next train from Budapest to Munich. With one down I ordered an extra for the trip, blissfully… Read More→
Deconstructing Ayurveda: A Journey To Intuitive Eating
“You are what you eat,” sighed my mother, eyeing dubiously as I lovingly dismantled my favorite after school snack, Little Debbie Swiss Rolls, purchased with my paper route earnings. These… Read More→
Ghee Recipe
Ingredients: 1 lb unsalted butter Directions: Start with good organic, unsalted butter—cheaper brands often contain more water, yielding less ghee. Other tips: Use a heavy-bottomed saucepan, deep enough to allow… Read More→
Ghee: Food, Medicine, Liquid Light
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” This quote is from Hippocrates, but it certainly applies to ghee, an ingredient in many traditional Indian recipes. According to Ayurveda,… Read More→
Is Your Relationship to Food Moral or Medicinal?
Trying to lose weight or change your diet for 2014? You may be well on your way to fulfilling your resolutions, or, like a stunning 92%, have already given up…. Read More→
10 Principles Of Healthy Eating
The Ayurvedic perspective on food is that everything you eat has the potential to harm or heal you. In Ayurvedic medicine, food or nutrition accounts for about fifty percent of… Read More→
Learn To Be Mindful Of Your Food Choices
Such a great deal of time in our daily lives is related, in one way or another, to food and feeding ourselves. We may find it difficult to remain mindful… Read More→
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