Tag Archives: Ayurveda

Pioneer of the Ayurvedic skincare field, Dr. Pratima Raichur has been practicing Ayurveda for over 40 years. Identifying the root cause of health concerns, Dr. Raichur balances the mind and body in accordance with its own nature. Alongside her personally hand-made skincare line, PRATIMA Ayurvedic Skincare, Dr. Pratima Raichur offers Ayurvedic Lifestyle consultations at …

Plantain Chips- Tropical Superfood Snack At the first glance, plantains look like bananas. While bananas and plantains have similar nutritious qualities, plantains are more nutritious than bananas. More than 120 countries including India, Uganda and Colombia grow plantains. Plantains are starchier, contain less sugar than bananas and can be added …

3 Crucial Healthy Habits So, you want to wake up every day feeling strong, energized, motivated for the day ahead, and to sustain that vitality through the day.  You want to look back at each week, month and year with satisfaction and a sense of fulfillment. What you don’t want …

Balance Anxiety: 5 Essential Tips Anxiety is a familiar friend of mine. The minute I become conscious each morning, Anxiety comes to visit and starts scanning through every facet of my life, looking for something to fix or worry about. When it finds something it holds on tight and freaks …

Yoga For Ayurvedic Cleansing Excerpt from the new book, The Mindbody Cleanse: A 14 Day Detox and Rejuvenation Program From Ancient Ayurveda by Ronly Blau & Adrian Nowland Stress management and self-care practices are just as important as diet and herbs in supporting a successful Ayurvedic cleansing process. Try to …

A lot of modern health concerns today are linked to problems that are a result of little everyday choices and habits that stack up and lead to disease. And most of these problems are preventable. Ayurveda’s time-tested health-promoting wisdom sheds light on why the following habits can actually harm us. …

Good digestion is the crux of healing in Ayurvedic medicine.  Most of us, at one time or another, have directly experienced discomfort from making the wrong food choices, eating under stress, or on the run.  Though ideally you’ll learn to change your habits if you frequently experience discomfort, these three …

The pomegranate is hailed as a kind of wonder fruit – and this is something Ayurveda has been aware of for centuries. There is a very famous saying in India. “One pomegranate for a hundred diseases.” In Indian culture, this fruit has been prized as a balancing, tridoshic healthy fruit. That means, …

I have rewritten the beginning of this post many times and have changed the title more times that I care to admit. As you see, I settled for a simple non-controversial title. To be completely honest, I feel that I have been procrastinating with this post for many weeks. “Is it just …

I was talking with a friend the other day about managing my Vata Dosha in the high altitude of the alpine, dry and windy environs of Golden, Colorado, where we live.  I have been working hard, everyday this winter, to keep myself balanced; to keep the elements of Air and …

With fire, agni, so central to Ayurvedic principles, it may indeed be that the true heart of Ayurveda is the hearth. When set up properly, your kitchen can be the source of great healing medicine. Here are 4 everyday basics to strengthen your kitchen’s ayurvedic power. Create an Ayurvedic Kitchen. …

Even with the immense progress in medicine, there are more chronic diseases than ever. Heart attacks are the leading cause of death despite the development and use of trillions of dollars worth of statin drugs. The second leading cause of death is cancer – the survival rate of individuals who are diagnosed …

I was 26 years old… raised on the S.A.D. diet. I was a first year student on the way to becoming an Ayurvedic Practitioner. I had horrible seasonal allergies and recurrent migraines. I elected to do Pancha Karma training as part of my Ayurvedic training. Pancha Karma is the Vedic …

Honey every day! I’ve had a love affair with honey since childhood. Growing up, my parents bought fresh honey directly from the beekeeper in big jars and there were always different types of honey around, my favorite, I remember, being the creamy white unpasteurized honey that was such treat on …

Last week I asked, “What causes 90% of all disease?” I received great participation with varying answers. Some of the most common guesses were stress, inflammation, bad diet, ama or toxins, mal-functioning agni or digestion, and our busy minds. The answer? Mal-functioning agni (digestive fire). Let me point out that …

Ojas building recipe? What’s Ojas?  You could say that Ojas is the biology of love. Soma is the principle of love in the world, and Bhakti is the nectar of divine love in the heart. But then, it just sounds like more distraction. Better, I think, to translate the words …

Before I launch into the top 5 Ayurveda detox foods, know that foods don’t actually detox the body. The intelligence of our life force detoxes the body. Each organism’s body has an innate intelligence. This intelligence enables health. When this innate intelligence is impeded by diet or lifestyle the organism’s health …

Ayurveda recommends eating with the fingers instead of utensils. If you try using your hands to eat, you may be surprised by what it does for your digestion! One Thing at a Time Eating with your hands means you can’t check email, read, text or answer the phone. With food all …

The incidence of autism in the United States and Canada continues to increase at rates never before observed in recorded history. Diagnosis of autism and autism spectrum disorder conditions has increased nearly 50 fold over the last 40 years. While western medicine and research has seemingly stalled in respect to …