It’s not an exaggeration to say changing deeply ingrained habits is the hardest - AND most necessary - step to being healthy. By definition, habits put us on auto-pilot, which is either a good thing or a bad thing. Habits can free us up so we don’t have to think too hard about something, like … Continue reading Video: The only shortcut to changing an old habit
I'll admit I'm not generally a summer enthusiast. My pale skin makes me a far-too-easy target for the sun, and my Pitta-dominant constitution gets easily overheated. I’ll happily take good sweater-weather over sweating any day. However, this precise moment in the calendar year - let’s call it “summer’s eve,” just days before the Summer Solstice … Continue reading The Post-Supper Summer Stroll
May is rich with the real-life drama of transition. The warm weather that’s been poking around finally comes out and takes over the streets. Trees leaf out with such vehemence you can almost hear them unfurling. May is the start of the season of graduations, commencements, and family reunions - and inevitably, the season of … Continue reading The Path out of Disappointment
One day last week, I was scurrying out of my house at an early hour to get to a meeting, looking ahead to a particularly scheduled day - several client appointments, two meetings, a few pockets of time to make some serious headway on a pending project - the kind of day when it feels … Continue reading An Antidote to Overwhelm
The arrival of daffodils announces the beginning of Spring, yet cool mornings remind us why Spring is the season of Kapha dosha . While moisture’s return in the tender petals and frequent rainfall banishes the dryness of Vata season, the cool temperatures maintain the sluggish stickiness for which Kapha is renowned. Snot season is upon … Continue reading In Praise of Perspiration
I want to share with you a glimpse into a place that has changed my life - my home away from home in India. In a few weeks, I am returning to vaidyagrama, a panchakarma treatment center in Tamil Nadu just outside Kerala. Panchakarma is an intensive detoxification and rejuvenation treatment, truly unique to Ayurveda. … Continue reading A Village where Health is Contagious
Late January is legitimately the depths of winter. If we’re watching for clues, the trees have shed even the last hangers-on at the top branches, and the grasses have given up the last bit of moisture in their tips. Life itself has receded into the roots, deep in the residual warmth of the earth. If … Continue reading Warding Off Winter Woes
It seems everyone feels pinched in the morning, rushing to get out the door. There’s rarely enough time for the things we know would make us feel better, like a little exercise or yoga, meditation, journaling, lingering over a cup of tea - even just taking a few deep breaths. So I made this quick video … Continue reading Video: The Gift of Time
I was asked recently, “If you had to boil it all down to one - and only one - practice to help you stay healthy and happy in this season, what would it be?” They were referring to autumn, but as my answer quickly rose to the surface, I realized this would be my answer … Continue reading Video: Modern-Mind Medicine
On Sunday we entered autumn, the season of Vata dosha when Air and Space elements take center stage. We can feel it in the cooler nighttime temperatures, the quickening breeze, the increasing dry quality as plants start dropping their leaves. This time of year naturally invites us inwards. The exuberance of summer gives way to … Continue reading Permission to Root Down and Receive
