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Ayurveda

5 Cool Yoga Food Groups for Summer

Elaine Gavalas | Posted 06.17.2013 | Healthy Living
Elaine Gavalas

According to Ayurveda (yoga's sister science), summer is the season of the fiery pitta dosha. Pitta is one of three basic Ayurvedic mind-body types, which also includes vata and kapha.Ā This summer, beat the heat with deliciously-cooling yoga foods.

The Scientific Study: Yesterday's News?

Yogi Cameron Alborzian | Posted 06.19.2013 | Healthy Living
Yogi Cameron Alborzian

When we feel thirsty, hungry, or tired, do we need a scientist to help us determine if those feelings are true? No, we know these things to be true because our body is programmed to send those messages to our brain.

4 Ways Immigrant Cultural Wisdom Is Inspiring America

Rohit Kumar | Posted 03.21.2013 | Politics
Rohit Kumar

The most diverse gathering of races and ethnicities from across the world is living in one place here in the United States. We often focus on the econ...

Ayurveda for Detox With Dr. John Douillard

GAIAM TV | Posted 03.18.2013 | Healthy Living
GAIAM TV

In his video, Douillard focuses on using ayurvedic traditions to remove toxins from the body in order to feel healthier, happier and lighter. Feeling good allows us to show up for our lives with energy and strength.

Natural Living Is in Short Supply

Yogi Cameron Alborzian | Posted 01.27.2013 | Healthy Living
Yogi Cameron Alborzian

When we consider many of the medicines that have been cited as being in short supply, such as injections for chemotherapy or injections inhibiting blood clotting, we are considering medications that are likely the product of a modern Western life far removed from the natural order of things.

Review: Sukham Ayu -- Cooking at Home With Ayurvedic Insights

Stephanie J. Stiavetti | Posted 12.10.2012 | Home
Stephanie J. Stiavetti

Sukham Ayu: Cooking at Home With Ayurvedic Insights focuses on something we all love: food. It's a cookbook more than anything else, providing a section in the beginning that gives a brief breakdown on Ayurvedic principles in a way that anyone can understand.

Review: Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi

Peter Clothier | Posted 12.03.2012 | Books
Peter Clothier

My difficulty arises unquestionably from what Leaf mirrors for me: my own doubts and insecurities; but also my intellectual skepticism about those things he comes to embrace along the way, which seem to include every healing method from sesame oil enemas to Reiki therapy and Bach flowers.

Food: Just a Little Wisdom to Chew On

Vaishali | Posted 10.15.2012 | Healthy Living
Vaishali

The path to vibrant health and wellness begins by creating a right relationship with your mind and your body.

What's In a Name?

Vaishali | Posted 08.14.2012 | Healthy Living
Vaishali

It is from personal experience that I endorse and prescribe what Vedantic psychology has known for thousands of years. Change the name and you change the person.

Ayurveda 101: 6 Ways to Enhance Your Health and Vitality

Vaishali | Posted 06.18.2012 | Healthy Living
Vaishali

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.

Beyond The Human Eye: Everything Is Energy

Vaishali | Posted 06.04.2012 | Healthy Living
Vaishali

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.

Achieving Balance With Ayurveda

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Posted 04.27.2012 | Healthy Living
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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.

Curry Spice: A Thinning Hair Fix?

The Huffington Post | Dana Oliver | Posted 10.11.2012 | Style

Aveda Invati Exfoliating Shampoo, Thickening Conditioner and Scalp Revitalizer. Courtesy Photo. While on a recent weekend getaway to Virginia w...

Consciousness: What You Don't Know Might Kill You

Vaishali | Posted 01.10.2012 | Green
Vaishali

When inquiring about consciousness a valid qualifying question might be, "What type of consciousness are we talking about?"

Who Kidnapped Our Food?

Yogi Cameron Alborzian | Posted 10.08.2011 | Home
Yogi Cameron Alborzian

When Monsanto lobbied the government to sell them the property rights to seeds, they claimed the patents of such seeds as soy and corn. Since then, the market has become saturated with products derived from these crops.

It's All Energy

Vaishali | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Vaishali

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.

Parenting The Vedic Way: What's YOUR Child's Dominant Dosha?

Lissa Coffey | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Lissa Coffey

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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Vaishali | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Vaishali

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.

The forbidden face

Yogi Cameron Alborzian | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Yogi Cameron Alborzian

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...

Losing Weight Easily at Sri Lanka's Ayurveda Paragon

Margie Goldsmith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Margie Goldsmith

Ayurveda, which dates back 8,000 years, is Sanskrit meaning "the science of life."

You think you are what you think?

Yogi Cameron Alborzian | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Yogi Cameron Alborzian

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...

Meatless Monday: Anger Management

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Ellen Kanner

Based on reader response from my "Meat People Push Back" of post two weeks ago, there are some very angry carnivores out there.

Rising Love

Yogi Cameron Alborzian | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Yogi Cameron Alborzian

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.

Living your life by numbers

Yogi Cameron Alborzian | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Yogi Cameron Alborzian

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 ...

To Find the Love of Your Life, Know Your Dosha!

Lissa Coffey | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Lissa Coffey

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.