Inside your digestive system lives a whole universe, home to about 100 trillion microscopic organisms. Nourish them with buttermilk for balanced agni.
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Salt has been used worldwide for centuries. As the oldest form of seasoning, it is well known as a culinary staple. However, it may surprise you to learn that salt has also been used medicinally for thousands of years.
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In today’s world, are we nourishing children in body and mind such that they will be successful at life, let alone school? That is the question that has led Lisa Day-Lewis to shift the focus of her public school mental health counseling to incorporate Ayurveda.
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A simple recipe for bananas simmered in aromatic spices.
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The next time you are tempted to eat lunch while checking email or want to have dinner in front of the television, pause and take a few slow, deep breaths first. As you inhale, you welcome prana, the life force that is our connection to the divine. We get prana from our breath, but also from the food we eat. Plants have done the work of transforming the prana from nature into nutrients that make it possible for our bodies to move and our minds to think. The food we eat is the reason [...]
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A student in Japan shares how panchakarma helped restore her natural menstrual cycle.
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It’s a Hale Pule routine to take photos of guests and students when they arrive. We do it again before they leave. Whether they stay for four months, four weeks, or four days, the changes are striking. People experience physical changes (some look so different that it’s difficult to believe it’s the same person), but more often the shift is in the energy they carry in the after picture. These are people who are more connected to who they really are. That’s wha [...]
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Is it possible to live in the modern world while maintaining a spiritual focus? Of course. Cultivate consciousness through regular spiritual practice and bring that into everything, everyday. Cooking can be a spiritual act with that intention. That means turning off the cooking shows, putting away cookbooks with complicated recipes, and moving into your heart, where you have all the information you need to create simple, healing food. Allow your spirit to lead the process and you will be s [...]
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Food that is filled with prana, cooked gently with digestive spices, and served in a sattvic home environment is the best medicine.
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