Ayurveda
Get Invigorated with Dry Skin Brushing
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009Dry skin brushing is a great way to invigorate your skin and entire being. It feels wonderful and is a great energizer to start your day. You use a gentle natural bristle brush (I found an amazing one which I’ll tell you about in a little bit) on dry skin before you shower. Below are [...]
What Determines Your Mood? ~ Tips to go from crabby to happy
Monday, September 14th, 2009I didn’t mean to eavesdrop…..but I was standing right next to two women who were talking about the weather.
It was cloudy and gray out and one lady was saying how this kind of weather makes her miserable. I thought about that a bit and realized how insane it is that we let our moods be [...]
Ayurveda Tip: Cold or Warm Water?
Friday, July 24th, 2009This is another great tip by Janet Gomez. I’ve been drinking room temperature water for several years now but I just recently started to waiting to consume liquids at least 30 minutes prior to or after eating a meal because according to Ayurveda, it’s easier for your body to digest the food you just ate [...]
What’s Your Dosha? Part Three ~ Pitta
Monday, September 1st, 2008When we enter the summer season, we enter the season of Pitta. The two of the five elements that come together to form the Pitta force is water and fire. The qualities of this dosha are described as hot, light, sharp, fluid, soft and clear. Pitta governs the quality of transformation. If we have too [...]
What’s Your Dosha? Part Two ~ Kapha
Monday, September 1st, 2008When we enter the cold, cloudy, heavy season of Winter, we enter the Kapha dosha season. Qualities of this dosha are slow, heavy, cold, damp, soft, smooth and viscous, just like the qualities of winter. The two of the five elements that represent the Kapha dosha are water and earth.
Those who have predominantly Kapha [...]
What’s Your Dosha? Part One ~ Vata
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Are you fiery Pitta? A thin-boned anxious Vata? or a hard-to-get-moving-in-the-morning Kapha?
Aromatherapy and essential oils can help to keep our doshas more balanced, but before we learn that, let’s take a look at what the heck a dosha is!
These three doshas, Vata, Pitta, Kapha, are the categories, or body types in Ayurveda. Much like the [...]
What Is Ayurveda?
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Ayurveda is the ancient medicine system of India. It is said to be the world’s oldest recorded system of healing. Ayur means ‘life’ and veda means ‘knowledge or science’ so put the two together and you have the ‘Science of Life’.
I have been intrigued by Ayurveda for the past few years and have purchased numerous [...]