Get Grounded Brownies (Ayurvedic Fall Recipe with Ashwagandha)
Fall is the season of grounding, slowing down, and reconnecting with the earth. As the air turns crisp and the days shorten, our bodies crave comfort foods that feel warm, nourishing, and stabilizing. These Get Grounded Brownies are crafted with seasonal staples like pumpkin, sweet potato, or squash, combined with the rich depth of cacao.
Spring Eggs Benedict with Asparagus & Kumquat Hollandaise (Ayurveda-Inspired Recipe)
Welcome spring with this fresh and nourishing twist on classic Eggs Benedict. Instead of a heavy winter version, this recipe highlights seasonal asparagus and a bright, citrusy kumquat hollandaise sauce. Perfect for a mindful brunch, it balances richness with cleansing spring produce to support digestion, reduce inflammation, and align with the body’s natural rhythms.
Ayurveda Summer Diet & Lifestyle Guide | Balance Pitta & Raise Your Vibration
As the summer sun reaches its peak in the Northern Hemisphere, the fiery Pitta dosha also intensifies. In Ayurveda, Pitta governs fire and water—qualities of heat, intensity, transformation, and drive. While Pitta keeps us sharp, focused, and passionate, too much fire can lead to inflammation, irritability, overheating, and burnout.
The key to staying healthy in summer is balance: cooling the body, calming the mind, and grounding the spirit. This intuitive summer diet and lifestyle guide will help you align with the season, nourish your body, and raise your vibration.
Awakening to Spring
In the gentle transition from winter's embrace to the blossoming warmth of spring, we find ourselves immersed in a profound journey of cleansing and renewal, both within and without. As the vernal equinox ushers in the dawn of a new season, we are invited to release the accumulated weight of winter's slumber and embrace the burgeoning light of awakening.
The Healing Power of Vibrations: Gong Baths, Samvahan, and Ancient Sound Medicine
At the deepest level, all living beings are made of vibrating, pulsing energy. Mystics across traditions have described perceiving this energy as a subtle hum—an eternal vibration within and around everything. In yogic philosophy, this “unstruck sound” is contained in the sacred syllable AUM. When expressed through instruments like the gong, this primal vibration reaches us on a cellular level, harmonizing body, mind, and spirit.
Exploring Gong Yoga: Healing with Sound, Vibration, and Meditation
Experience Gong Yoga as a Spiritual Activation through meditation and the vibratory sound of the Gong. The gong-sounds contain “awakening codes” that activate or trigger new levels of consciousness & DNA for the purpose of assisting us to move beyond the old paradigm of 3D consciousness to the place of 5D (heart-centered) consciousness & beyond —> where we shift from “survival” to “thriving” & wellbeing, co-operation, compassion, and harmony.
My 4 Steps to healing: Trust
Drawing from the profound experience of working alongside His Holiness the Dalai Lama, I learned the significance of surrendering with trust and releasing attachments to embrace something immense and connected to infinity.
My 4 Steps to healing: Practice
Engaging in self-discovery tools is a profound commitment to your personal growth. My support lies in guiding you to establish a daily practice that serves as a cornerstone for physical fitness, mental balance, spiritual connection, and emotional strength. Through my guidance, you'll learn wellness routines, spiritual practices, and movement therapies, gaining the understanding of seamlessly incorporating them into your daily life. Together, we pave the way for a holistic approach to well-being that fosters sustained growth and fulfillment.
My 4 Steps to healing: Become Wise
During my self-discovery, I also discovered the power of Functional Ayurveda for profound healing. Ayurveda, meaning 'knowledge of life,' encourages us to trust in our own bodies' wisdom and experience. Like functional medicine, Ayurveda looks beyond symptoms to address imbalances within the physical, emotional, and energetic bodies, extracting dis-ease from its root.
My 4 Steps to healing: Become Aware
By engaging in inspiring conversations, utilizing a variety of resources, and receiving individual support, we can see the world and ourselves as they truly exist. Through this process, we can gain an understanding of the nature of reality, which generates love and compassion.
Ayurveda Winter Wellness: Balancing Kapha & Vata for Seasonal Health
The first snow of winter carries a magic of its own—the crisp air, the scent of earth beneath fresh powder, and the quiet stillness that signals a new beginning. Just as the seasons shift, so too do the rhythms of our bodies.
In Ayurveda, winter is primarily considered Kapha season, with its cold weather, increased moisture, and hibernation-like energy. But in places like Colorado—where winters are also dry and brittle—Vata qualities are just as present. The stillness and isolation of winter can aggravate both Kapha and Vata, making it important to follow a supportive seasonal routine.
Detaching from Illness: A Buddhist Practice for Healing
When we face illness—whether a sudden diagnosis or a lifelong condition—it can be difficult to remain positive and trust the process of healing. The mind naturally attaches to labels such as “I have diabetes” or “I am overweight.” Yet from a Buddhist perspective, these identifications can actually strengthen our suffering rather than support our healing.
Food for Folate: Supporting the MTHFR Gene Mutation with Diet & Ayurveda
I recently discovered that I have a compound gene mutation called MTHFR, which has been the culprit behind many of my physical health challenges. After diving deep into research, I realized that nearly 40% of the population carries some form of this mutation. Understanding how to work with it—not against it—is a game-changer for your health, energy, and immune system.
Breaking Patterns: How Awareness Leads to Lasting Transformation
A few weeks ago, I jammed my toenail. It turned black and eventually fell off. But when it did, I discovered something surprising—a completely new, healthy nail was already growing underneath.
For years, ever since breaking this toe in 2003, I had accepted the strange, misshapen nail as “normal.” Suddenly, after all this time, it was gone—replaced by wholeness.
This small experience reminded me how often we accept unhealthy patterns or imperfections in ourselves, not because they serve us, but because we’ve convinced ourselves there’s nothing we can do. We tell ourselves, “This is just how it is.”
But just like that new toenail, transformation is always possible.
Abhyanga: The Ayurvedic Practice of Self-Massage with Oil
In Ayurveda, self-massage with oil is called Abhyanga, a practice that nourishes the body, calms the mind, and cultivates self-love. In Sanskrit, the word Sneha means both “oil” and “love.” When you anoint yourself with warm oil, you are not only moisturizing your skin — you are offering love and care to your entire being.
This simple yet profound daily ritual helps restore balance to the doshas, especially Vata and Pitta, making it ideal during seasons of stress, dryness, or heightened heat.
Tongue Scraping in Ayurveda | Simple Daily Ritual for Detox & Oral Health
In Ayurveda, tongue scraping is one of the simplest yet most powerful daily practices you can add to your self-care routine. Known as jihwa prakshalana, this ritual helps clear toxins (ama) from the tongue, refresh the breath, and support overall digestion.
Healing the Nervous System Naturally: An Ayurvedic & Holistic Approach
Our modern world places a heavy burden on the nervous system. We live surrounded by stress, electronic devices, WiFi, EMFs, toxins, and constant change. By the time many of us reach 40, we’ve already endured profound life challenges—such as divorce, grief, or major career shifts. Add in toxic exposures and the struggle to find clean food and water, and it’s no wonder our nervous systems are often overloaded.
Building a Relationship with Your Food: Understanding Sensitivities & Nourishment
Food is not just fuel—it is energy, vibration, and medicine. Yet for many of us, food can also be a source of discomfort. From bloating and fatigue to headaches and digestive upset, food sensitivities and allergies are more common than ever.
The key to wellness is not following the latest diet trend—it’s learning to build a relationship with your food and understanding what truly serves your body.
activties to heal your lineage
Whether we like it or not; we are our family. We carry their bloodline and more, so we carry the many genetic traits the line has within it. Our level of intelligence, our ability to connect with others, our creativity, our eating habits, our emotions; these are all pieces of the ancestral ‘pie’.
Mindfulness of the Emotional Body: A Guided Practice for Awareness & Healing
There is an intimate partnership between the weight we carry on the physical body and the weight we hold in our emotional body. The emotional body is part of the subtle energy field that surrounds us, directly connected to the chakras (energy centers), the aura, and the energy channels that run throughout our system.