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Āyurveda for Spring

Spring has sprung in the Northern Hemisphere, and our bodies are adapting to the changes in temperature and light. At first these changes can cause disruption to our natural rhythms such as sleep, appetite and energy levels. The weather is vacillating between warm days and then back to rain and wind. The light is growing. Now is a good time to shift your routine to support your body's adaptation to the longer, warmer days and bring more stability to your organism during this

Mar 253 min read

How to Hydrate Well

I write a lot about digestion because good health requires that we not only consume the right things, but that we can digest those things we consume. We can support good digestion by attending more to how and when we eat, and then to what we eat. When digestion is off, not only do we produce less good quality tissue, but we also leave behind a toxic residue of that undigested food (ama) which feeds the bad bacteria and viruses as well as blocking the subtle channels of t

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Nov 19, 20254 min read

How to eat to support digestion.

"When diet is right, medicine is of no need; when diet is wrong, medicine is of no use." -Ayurvedic Proverb Every fall and spring I offer a digestive reset to my community. This program supports us all in taking a few weeks to nourish our foundational health habits, while doing some mild detoxification and supporting our digestive function. The first few days I present the Āyurvedic guidelines of how and when to eat. These support good digestion, often healing digestive imb

Oct 29, 20253 min read

Stay Cool this Summer with Āyurveda

For those of us with more fire in your constitution, (pitta dosha) and those in perimenopause, the shift into summer heat can be challenging causing symptoms like, hot flashes or heavy periods acidity, nausea or "sour" stomach loose stools or diarrhea skin rashes irritability headaches If you have a predominance of pitta in your constitution, you've probably experienced some of these symptoms in yourself or others, especially when temperatures rise. Aging well is so much abou

Jul 9, 20253 min read

Late Afternoon Medicine

Do you ever wake up between 2 and 6 and have trouble gettingh back to sleep? Do you feel an energetic slump or spaciness in the later...

Jun 11, 20254 min read

Understand your Nature and Shine with Ayurveda

Ayurveda, the science of longevity, is an elegant, complete system of medicine originating in India thousands of years ago. It's...

Aug 7, 20245 min read

How to Stoke Your Digestive Fire

Ayurveda teaches that all imbalance in the body starts in the digestive tract. Those low-level, chronic gut issues undermine our good...

Feb 28, 20243 min read

What Should I Eat?

A few years back, I had the honor of presenting Ayurveda to a group of yoga teacher trainees on Vashon Island. We spent 6 1/2 hours...

Feb 21, 20242 min read

What to do when you're going in too many directions at once.

There are a handful of things I hear from women when I'm in discovery sessions with them. Near the top of the list is feeling...

Dec 20, 20232 min read

Ayurveda for Perimenopause

It's so easy for me to get into my head when it comes to my body, into the ideas I have about what my body needs, versus a present time...

Dec 4, 20233 min read

Reset this Fall for a Healthy Winter.

In the northern hemisphere, fall is a time of transition. Temperatures cool, the winds come up, schedules shift, holidays arrive, and the abundance of summer light gives way to a gradual shift towards longer nights, and the darkness of winter. To adapt to these seasonal shifts, Ayurveda recommends a change in diet and daily routine to maintain balance and stay strong. This diet and lifestyle medicine shores up immunity. Sessonal herbal support helps us release the accumulati

Sep 19, 20232 min read