(Listen to the audio version below) I’d like to introduce you to a perfect beauty. She's not Instagram perfect. Not Hollywood perfect. She's not photoshopped and collagen plumped, filtered and cropped. The kind of perfect that I’m escorting to this party is different....
I am destined to be a disrupter. If you’re looking for a good girl who follows all the rules that many Ayurveda teachers offer as the path to health, you won’t find her here. I’ve got a rebellious heart, an experimentalist mentality, and a pen that is constantly...
Generosity, or liberal, willing giving, is a practice in seeing the divinity in something outside of you. The direction of the generous gaze is out, and this week’s guided meditation in The Nest is designed to help you make a habit of this. If you’ve had enough...
(Listen to the audio version below) Stop whatever you’re doing. Look up. Look out. No – don't look back down yet. Don't let your gaze go meandering into the universe within you. Don’t let your mind pull you away with its wonder of what you looking up and out looks...
To properly move into a space of receiving, we must learn to look in the right place. The direction of the receiving gaze is inward, and this guided meditation is a practice in learning how to move there. Holding an inward gaze is not as easy as it sounds. We live in...
(Listen to the audio version below) To truly teach the wisdom of receiving I would have to leave this entire page blank. But for the sake of your entertainment and education, I will use the words that are available to me, though I share them with the caveat that none...
For a flower to open, first it must be closed. For you to awaken, first you must sleep. This is nidra for nidra. The practice of yoga nidra (yogic sleep) is not intended to put you to sleep, but it can allow you to enter a state of deep relaxation that many say is...
I think the Ayurveda police are going to have my head for this one. Granola is definitely not listed in Ayurvedic texts. I’ve never attended a class on the merits of toasted oats. In fact, I’ve attended a few lectures talking about how dry, crunchy granola is a...
(Listen to the audio version below) What would it mean to have a sunrise kind of life? Maybe you’ve never heard these words – a sunrise kind of life – strung together like this before. But perhaps simply hearing them creates a welcome sensation in your body, one of...
What if feeling what we feel is the greatest strength that exists? Too often we uphold the ideal of strength as stoicism, sobriety, or indifference. We are taught that we are at our strongest when no appeal, whether from compassion or anger, can sway us. But that’s...
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