The old ways are the new ways to regaining our health and wellbeing in a world of busy-ness, intensity and continuous multi-tasking. Learn how to live in flow with the natural rhythms of day and night with insights from the ancient wellbeing science of Ayurveda and live your life with more radiance, flow and joy. This is gold! 🙂
Simple Spiced Summer Oatmeal
Summer has been rushing by… until we arrived in the middle of Ontario, to the area close to where my husband spent his youth, what we call in Canada “Cottage Country.” Here, life has finally seemed to slow down just a little bit.
Live in Flow: How to Balance Your Doshas
In the post preceding this one, What’s my Dosha?; I wrote, that in order to live more in FLOW with Life, to be truly healthy and vital, it is essential to balance our Doshas. And since you now have an understanding of the energetic qualities of the 3 doshas: Vata, Pitta and Kapha I know we can […]
What’s my Dosha?
From golden milk lattes; to smoothies fortified with coconut oil and cinnamon; and yoga classes that promise to balance your dosha, the healing power of Ayurveda seems to be everywhere, yet for many of us, it’s a bit of a mystery. What is it exactly and what makes Ayurveda so special?
7 Steps to Living your Best Year Ever
I awoke January 1, 2017 still tired, feeling the lingering effects of a nasty cold and flu that I got hit with exactly 3 days earlier, in the white cold of snowy Whistler, Canada; where we were hunkered down in a cabin with dear friends and our children. The highlight of the last night for me had […]
Cultivating Gratitude: Why it’s Essential to our Wellbeing.
In Canada, my adopted home country, this is Thanksgiving weekend. The trees wear their colourful garlands with short lived intensity – soon it will be winter – and our friends and family share laughter and seasonal harvest around their tables. In Santa Cruz, California, where I currently live; today is a warm 21 + degrees C […]
How to Give Green Smoothies the Ayurvedic Green Light
If you follow my instagram feed, you may notice that I often post pictures of some of my cold-pressed juice and smoothie concoctions. What you may also know about me is that I study Ayurveda, the ancient philosophy of healing from India, which offers practical advice on every aspect of our lives, but specifically how we […]
Juicy life: Celery Cilantro Quencher
From the Yogue archives. This is a favourite and perfect here in the tropics where are living for the next few months. Even if you are in colder climes, the ginger will warm this brew up and depending on your Ayurvedic constitution, you may add a little more or less. Please do use organic ingredients! […]
Cell phones + cancer: a postmodern survival guide
The WHO declared yesterday that cell phones are “possibly” carcinogenic. Whatever your opinion on the matter, this is an important topic given our reliance on cell phones these days. Here’s a list of handy reminders from Yogue to minimize your cell phone time. Enjoy.
Cool Nights, Warm Khichadi
warming ayurvedic khichadi for cool autumn nights.