Beloveds, I am writing to you at the end of January, in the middle of a Colorado winter. I have been captivated by stillness, communing with Nature Herself in mid-January, embodied through the deep freeze. River frozen, lake frozen, landscape…
“Who am I?”
Hello friends, kin and fellow path keepers! Life has been full these past months, with new offerings from a deep cauldron of creative impulse. I have spent a significant amount of time in ritual and ceremony during this most recent…
2024 – Wisdom and Challenges: Healing into the New Year, the Ancestral Path, and the Holy Nights
January 12, 2024 Late winter tends to be a difficult time for many people, due to seasonal imbalances, post-holiday exhaustion, and internal pressure to succeed with self-imposed “resolutions.” This time of year, in the northern hemisphere, nature beckons us inwards,…
Time and Space – Kala and Akasha
When I work with Time and Space in a healing session, you may feel particularly “seen” or “heard” and you will leave feeling soothed. During a Core Synchronism session, you may feel deep and profound sense of rest, which induces similar healing mechanisms to those experienced in deep sleep.
How to protect your family from flu using ancestral “folk medicine” – elderberry and echinacea
Updated September 22, 2023. Originally posted January 2018. Have you noticed the hacking and coughing yet? While around the world we may have attempted to “flatten the curve” with the COVID-19 mandates in 2020 and 2021, an unintended consequence may…
Connect the dots: Oral bacteria and gut inflammation, the role of Ayurvedic oral hygiene and probiotic supplementation in health
A recent report by IM Practitioner – Insights into Integrative Medicine highlights the role of oral bacteria in gut health. Researchers Professor Hattori and Professor Kenya Honda of Keio University School of Medicine in Japan found that when the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae…
Skin care – your daily habits (dinacharya) have a big impact
Daily self care and how you tailor that care by observing your skin’s needs is an important aspect of Ayurvedic dinacharya. While Ayurvedic skin care is not mentioned by name here, adjusting the products you use to your skin’s temperament…
Sleep is a pillar of health!
Sleep is a pillar of health! The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine reveals the precise mechanisms governing circadian sleep/wake cycles and the direct impact of the light of the sun. These modern understandings confirm the Ayurvedic teachings about…
Caution with Rx Sleep Aids
CAUTION: ALL Rx sleep aids have side effect and withdrawal complications. Sleep is an overall indicator of health according to Ayurveda. Learn healthy habits for your unique constitution by booking a consultation today. Our clients have experienced incredible benefit with…
the definition of health
This is the definition of health that guides the practice of Ayurveda. This sloka or Sanskrit verse from the Ayurvedic text Susruta Samhita Sutrasthana states that health arises from: A balanced relationship of the doshas or energies within the body…