Ayurveda And Genetics Why Genetic Testing & Ayurveda Are A Perfect Match If you want to be healthy and you are fed up with the way you feel, what do you do? Perhaps you google healthy diets or healthy lifestyle and read the top posts. Perhaps you read a book with a title like ‘30…
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Does Ayurveda Even Work? Thoughts From An Ayurveda Skeptic
Does Ayurveda Even Work? Thoughts From An Ayurveda Skeptic I think you would be shocked to find that I am a natural skeptic of Ayurveda. In fact I’d never even heard of it until 3 years ago. However I’m not CEO Kerry Harling, although I am an owner of The Holistic Highway. Who am I?…
Meals that Heal – Spicy Sweet Potatoes with Spinach
New potatoes and baby leaf spinach are wonderful ingredients, whose flavors compliment each other in this delicious dish.
Combined with anti-inflammatory spices such as turmeric, Garam masala and ginger; its a healing spring dish that is as tasty as it is healing.
I like to serve this simple home style preparation with Chapatis or Naan bread for a home cooked meal.
Meals that Heal – Coconut Kefir Breakfast
Kefir is a unique cultured dairy product that is one of the most healing foods on the planet. Containing healthy strains of friendly bacteria, such as lactobacilli. It has incredible medicinal benefits for healing issues like leaky gut, IBS and Crohn’s disease.
Ayurveda for Your Pets! Does Fido Need Ayurveda Too?
Did you know that Ayurveda is not only a system of medicine that is great for you, but your pets can benefit from Ayurveda too. Fido can benefit just as much from the nutrition, lifestyle and herbal support as you can. But, first- What’s Your Pet’s Metabolic Type?
Meals that Heal – Green Papaya Salad
This is a classic Thai salad adapted from Eat, Taste Heal – An Ayurvedic Cookbook. It makes a tangy dish that stimulates the digestive fire (metabolism) which for most of us is a little sluggish this time of year!
Is your Mind Healthy Too? Three Reasons It May Not Be!
Good digestion, sparkling eyes, shining hair – yes, these are indicators of health and vitality. And yet, they are meaningless if your favorite expression is a scowl, or your dominant mood is one of crankiness.Health is more than just physical health. Is your mind healthy too? There are three reasons it may not be!
10 Amazing Health Benefits of Ghee!
I am a huge fan of ghee! Every few weeks I will make a batch so that we always have it on hand for the 10 amazing benefits of ghee.
5 Reasons You Need to Detox This January: and a January Detox Diet.
After an indulgent holiday season, you may be looking forward to a fresh start. Gym memberships are popular, a myriad of diet plans are being googled, and the ink on your New Year’s resolutions is not yet dry. And, although it might sound painful, a January detox is a great way to kick start your new health and fitness regime. However, a detox can conjure up images of colonics and shakes, days of eating nothing but liquids and living off a strange combination of hot water and spices; however, a January detox is a huge jumpstart for your health and a reboot for your sluggish metabolism. It’s fun, easy to do and a direct route to feeling fabulous and full of vitality – and will drop those extra pounds you may have put on over the holidays.
Let’s take a look at 5 Reasons you should kick-start the year with a detox this January.
What Do I Do Now? I’m invited to a Barbecue!
Life is not easy is it? We are invited to graduation parties, 4th of July Barbecues, birthday parties, anniversaries….and the events just mount up. What is a person to do who is following her Ayurveda plan? I am often reminded of these challenges by my clients and here is what I tell them.
Real life has pizza parties, birthday parties, weddings and graduations – eating is pleasurable and we should thoroughly enjoy it. When did eating become so complicated for us? It is easy to be confused, the rules of nutrition seem to be constantly changing. Not so in Ayurveda, the rules remain constant; it’s the seasons that change.
So, let’s see what a Vata, Pitta and Kapha decide to do at this barbeque. Let’s join the party.