I call this “The Journal” instead of “The Blog,” because it’s personal.
As I said in this post, Ayurveda is meant to be contemplative. This is my contemplation on the wisdom of kapha dosha. There is not a woman alive who could not benefit from kapha dosha. Come to think of it, all people will benefit from befriending this principle made...
(audio version below) It seems we have a new tradition in yoga. It sounds like this: You don’t have enough certification to call yourself a yoga teacher. How can you say you’re a yoga teacher when you drive that car? You actually eat meat? You can’t even do...
(audio version below) I once had a conversation with a woman who had spent 15 years as a sex worker. She was the one whom men came to when they could not go to anyone else. You may not think of it like this, but she called her profession therapy. I could have asked...
August's Awake in The Nest recording is live! (Available to all Nest members at the Silver level and higher.) This month's teaching is all about how to get right with your not-so-wise traditions (aka, bad habits). Grab a journal and get ready to flip the script.. Mark...
As I said in this post, Ayurveda is meant to be contemplative. This is my contemplation on the wisdom of pitta dosha. I love how much I love things. My passion for writing, walking, cooking, Ayurveda, tall trees, picking wild blackberries, backyard gardening,...
It had been years since I’d eaten butter, but there I was with two pounds of it. These were my early days of studying Ayurveda. Suspicious as I was about butter, I dropped it into a big pot on my stove and watched it bubble away into something I was told was medicine....
As I said in this post, Ayurveda is meant to be contemplative. This is my contemplation on the wisdom of vata dosha. Like any wind, vata dosha picks up whatever is not weighted down. The drier a leaf, the easier it blows across a road. And where that leaf will end up...
When we are very hungry, taking only a spoonful of a meal can make us lose our ravenous minds. However, if we know that there is a kitchen full of grandmothers cooking in the old ways, we can be at peace with the pits in our bellies. Because when they are done -- and...
If you don’t “get” Ayurveda, the problem isn't you. It’s that Ayurveda isn’t meant to be gotten. Ayurveda is not like Western medicine. We don't address the heart without looking at the quality of the blood, or treat the mind as if what’s going on in the large...
Life is challenging. And it’s easy to become jaded or cynical in the face of struggle. But cynicism is not your true nature, more like a heavy blanket you wrap around you for protection. But what if you could find peace in a different kind of protection? No matter who...
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