I first realized that yoga could impact me in ways beyond my physical body during deep relaxation practice in the classes I took over 25 years ago. After 45 minutes or so of physical movement, we would lie on our backs on a yoga mat in a pose known as savasana. For goodness sake, what […]
Ayurveda
Shed Those Extra Winter Pounds with Nature’s Detoxifying Foods
The days are getting longer. Memories of a brutal winter – for Midwesterners and Easterners, at least – have started to melt away. Less easy to shed, though, are those extra winter pounds. Ayurveda teaches that winter weight gain is part of a natural cycle. In the winter, we typically eat heavier, denser foods. Because […]
9 Lifelong Tips for Healthy and Happy Holidays
With 2014 a mere 6 weeks away, many of us are starting to feel the year-end crunch. This year, even the holidays are compressed, with Thanksgiving and the first night of Chanukah falling on the same day – an anomaly that won’t occur again for another 77,000 years or so. Exit (mostly) commercial-free Thanksgiving, enter […]
Get Relief from Wintertime Joint Pain
Listen to this post I remember how my Grandma Belle used to say, “The weatherman has nothin’ on my knuckles.” And it was true: She was rarely wrong predicting the weather. How can joint pain be a barometer? We know that pressure changes affect the synovial fluid that lubricates your joints. Yet they don’t affect […]