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Three Ways To Balance Your Winter Yoga Practice

Brrr! Winter is the season of kapha, the dosha that ayurveda (yoga’s sister science) describes as cold, wet, and heavy—like a blanket of new-fallen snow. Kapha is comprised of the water and earth...

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Spring Cleaning: Get Back In Balance

As spring approaches, you may feel the urge to set the stage for new growth by cleaning house or cleansing the physical body. Shaucha or purity is one of the foundational principles of yoga, and...

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Connect To the Element Of Fire!

Summer is here, and chances are that by now you have turned on the A/C. Even if you don’t have air conditioning at home, your workplace and probably even your yoga studio run the A/C. We pine all...

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Deconstructing Ayurveda: A Journey To Intuitive Eating

“You are what you eat,” sighed my mother, eyeing dubiously as I lovingly dismantled my favorite after school snack, Little Debbie Swiss Rolls, purchased with my paper route earnings. These words echoed...

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Beyond Dietary Dogma: Journey to Intuitive Eating

Rotating on its spit, the glistening döner kebab beckoned as I awaited the next train from Budapest to Munich. With one down I ordered an extra for the trip, blissfully unaware of the food pathogens it...

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Concerned About Your Sugar Intake? See What Ayurveda Has To Say

I have a love/hate relationship with sugar. I crave it, I avoid it, I even make deals with myself over it.  But with so much conflicting nutrition information available, how do we know what level of...

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What Kind Of Yoga Practice Fits Your Dosha?

Yoga asana is the main yogic tool for balancing the physical body and creating a flow of energy that enables us to direct our attention within. This flow of energy can also be focused on the body...

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What Is a Sattvic Diet?

Have you ever noticed the effects of the food you have eaten on your yoga practice? Obviously some foods create more internal commotion than others, with bloating and other digestive disturbances....

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Deconstructing Ayurveda: A Journey To Intuitive Eating

“You are what you eat,” sighed my mother, eyeing dubiously as I lovingly dismantled my favorite after school snack, Little Debbie Swiss Rolls, purchased with my paper route earnings. These words echoed...

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Beyond Dietary Dogma: Journey to Intuitive Eating

Rotating on its spit, the glistening döner kebab beckoned as I awaited the next train from Budapest to Munich. With one down I ordered an extra for the trip, blissfully unaware of the food pathogens it...

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Concerned About Your Sugar Intake? See What Ayurveda Has To Say

I have a love/hate relationship with sugar. I crave it, I avoid it, I even make deals with myself over it.  But with so much conflicting nutrition information available, how do we know what level of...

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What Kind Of Yoga Practice Fits Your Dosha?

Yoga asana is the main yogic tool for balancing the physical body and creating a flow of energy that enables us to direct our attention within. This flow of energy can also be focused on the body...

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What Is a Sattvic Diet?

Have you ever noticed the effects of the food you have eaten on your yoga practice? Obviously some foods create more internal commotion than others, with bloating and other digestive disturbances....

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A Yogi’s Practical Guide to Balancing Tamas Guna

Tamas is one of the three gunas—the main energetic constituents of the cosmos. The gunas are in a constant flux and they affect everything around us—energy, matter, and consciousness. Tamas is the...

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Reducing Rajas Guna: A Yogi’s How-to Guide

Rajas is one of the gunas—the three basic energetic constituents of the cosmos. The gunas are in a constant flux and they affect everything around us—energy, matter, and consciousness. Rajas is a state...

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The Best Autumn Ayurveda Skincare Advice for Yogis

As the days shorten, the weather cools, and the dry autumn winds begin to stir, we often experience similar energetic shifts in our bodies, and especially on our skin. According to yoga’s sister...

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