Ayurveda

Ayurveda is not for the faint of heart or for those deeply invested in denial about their shortcomings and self-sabotaging habits. It takes dedication, perseverance and a willingness to change what you are most comfortable with.

Awareness, what are we giving our attention to, is the most life-altering form of energy available to us. It is our awareness that has the greatest influence on the body, our perceptions and emotions.

Ayurveda is the study of life. Ayur is life and Ved means to know. According to Ayurveda, life or existence is not a rigid compartment, but a harmonious flow. Even the five elements of which the whole universe is made of are not tight compartments of defined objects. They flow into one another.

We invite, accumulate and aggravate our miseries according to what we give our attention to. Conversely we also heal, overcome and breakthrough life's challenges according to our awareness.

When you know your child's dominant dosha, you are better able to handle the myriad of things that come up at any given moment. You are better able to parent from a place of love rather than expectation.

The Eastern philosophy makes perfect sense for anyone who has ever noticed that no matter what you may do or ingest in your physical body, what works for one person may not work equally for another.

You glance at the mirror one last time before leaving for work, making sure you groomed yourself properly for your day. As you drive i...

Once upon a time a man leaned against a wall and fell right through it. Given the tendency for walls to be made of solid matter, and given a similar...

When we rise in love, we channel the basic energy that forms the basis of all of creation. Our work is to listen and be guided from within.

How many times did you make a reference to a number today? Maybe you considered your credit score, how much your bank accounts has or lacks, how many ...

Long before any love compatibility formulas were even a twinkle in the cosmos, philosophers and scientists in Ancient India devised a system of health care called "Ayurveda." Within this holistic system lies everything we need to know about love.

If yoga teachers fail to recognize the damage being done around them then we are losing an essential community of voices who have to help reverse this agricultural monoculture.

Last year in India, my wife Tabby came down with a stomach bug and got weaker and weaker. We traveled up mountain roads to the foothills of the Himalayas, where we located the man who could help us.

An extract found in the bright yellow curry spice turmeric can kill off cancer cells, scientists have shown. The chemical - curcumin - has long been ...

Here's one of my favorite (fast) recipes to make when temperatures start to drop.

Ayurveda is India's 5,000 year old "Science of Life." It is the art of living in harmony with nature, and it explains the nature of everything in the universe.

In India, people learn to take personal responsibility, a nation of entrepreneurs. In America, we are currently a nation of learned helplessness, waiting for our bailouts at the government's door.

Forget brushing up on politics, if you want to make a hit at a cocktail party these days, you need to get with the yogi program. By "cocktail party," I mean an early-evening gathering of slender, well-muscled women.