New Age Ayurveda

Lack of sleep can slow down your daily functioning and can result in a deficit of concentration, which in turn, makes you prone to making mistakes. Luckily, Ayurveda prescribes several remedies for tackling insomnia and getting a good night’s sleep.  Sleeping well is a sign of good health by itself, …

I can remember being 12 years old, looking in the mirror and loving my goddess body shape. I had full chick hair, clear skin and a strong, healthy structure. I thought that my big bone size and curvy body made me look like a healthy, strong, vibrant woman. As time went on …

No medicine can give you health, health has to be brought through your own elimination of disease causing process and activating your healing, bringing out your own health. Keeping in tune with its enunciated principles and to extend the best of safe health care to each individual, the role of …

Winter is a time when we eat more carbohydrates, fats and proteins to keep us warm. Nothing wrong with that! It is nature’s way. The holiday season filled with sweet foods, alcohol and excess portions of foods may have added some weight around the middle of the body or made you feel a …

My sister just returned from Costa Rica and came back a new woman. She had an inner glow and a feeling of being much more grounded than I usually experience her to be. This was interesting because usually travel involves so much vata imbalance. The irregular routine, new people, new …

As we end this year and start a new one, I knew the way I could be of most use to you is to tell you what I’ve learned about habits. Habits – which are the un-sexy, un-scintillating backbone of their most illustrious comrade: goals. If you set goals in …

Oops—too many cocktails?! Well so much for using your wisdom to make right choices, hey?  Hehe. Just kidding. During the holidays it’s easy to throw caution to the wind as we enjoy an abundance of food and drink with people we love. Because we are so busy socializing and having …

“Pressure…Pushing down on me.. Pressing down on you..” This one of my favourite songs (the Queen and David Bowie version), but it is also one of my favourite ways to cook! This is my new Bacarrat Pressure Cooker… isn’t she beautiful? Bright red to stimulate my digestive fire and super …

Many of us will be traveling this holiday. By the end of travel, we will likely feel exhausted and out of whack, but then need to jump right into the whirl of holiday festivities. At some point during or after our visit, we might be bloated, constipated or even sick. …

For some, just thinking about the holidays brings about stress. I know for myself just the mere bombardment of ads, sales pitches , the push toward consumerism and to boot the traffic increase in the area are enough to make me want to retreat. Finding the simplicity within the holiday …

Excerpt from Body Thrive, Uplevel Your Body and Your Life with the 10 Habits from Ayurveda and Yoga by Cate Stillman. (Release Nov. 2015.) In the core, you find a seed. At the deep core of every human, you find the seed or orientation towards stress or ease. Each human …

Adapted from the book Sex, Love & Dharma by Simon Chokoisky. Any relationship has a hierarchy of needs to fulfill in order to make it functional. The chakras are a body-based, vertical model of human evolution, showing how the building of our life is to be constructed if we are to enjoy …

According to Ayurveda five elements provide the foundation for the entire physical world, from a grain of sand to the complex physiology of the human body. These elements—Ether, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth—are the building blocks of all material existence. Ether Ether (akasha) is the space in which everything happens. …

Well beloved, as much as we might want it to be summer forever, it is surely fall. I am not sure what this means to people who live in warmer climates like Florida, but in Canada (and other such northerly places) this means it is a bit windier than usual. …

When people are just beginning to try to figure out Ayurveda, they’ll often say to me that it can be confusing. My response is that it’s not that Ayurveda is confusing. Modern society has pushed us so far away from what is natural that Ayurveda feels like learning a new language. But …

I met with a friend today who has applied the “law of attraction” in her life for some time. Wikipedia decribes the law of attraction as “the name given to the maxim ‘like attracts like’ which in New Thought philosophy is used to sum up the idea that by focusing on positive …

The morning is the start to our day, and when we get a good start, it’s likely that we’re going to have a great day! Yet waking up can be a challenge for some. But following simple routine in the morning will help you start the day on a blissful …

You may think that detoxing requires investing too much time or money, taking time off work and traveling to a far-off retreat center. Of course a detox retreat like this can be well worth investing inm and a good annual cleanse is highly recommended; however, that’s not to say that those who simply …