Golden Rule of Skin: If you wouldn’t eat it, you shouldn’t put it on your body. Trade in your makeup remover for sesame oil (dry skin) or sunflower oil (oily or sensitive skin). Never remove makeup with tissues or toilet paper. Use an all-natural sponge or soft cotton ball. Cleanse and oil your skin regularly. … Continue reading
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How to Oil Your Bodacious Body:
Start by warming up your oil. We warm the oil because it cures it, allowing the oil to be more easily absorbed by the skin and tissues. There are a number of ways to cure the oil. The best way is to heat a small amount in a pan on low. You will know that … Continue reading
Meditation for Gathering and Expanding Your Energy
This energizing practice brings clarity and focus as you learn to collect your life-force energy. This practice helps us gather the energy we need for both spiritual and worldly goals. To begin, close your eyes and let your body relax. For a few minutes, notice the simple miracle of the breath. The inhale raises the … Continue reading
Exercise Like an Ayurveda Queen
We all know that exercise has incredible long-term health benefits. It can help you live longer, balance your weight, and boost your immune system. But what about the short term? What can exercise do to increase your happy-factor today? Both modern science and Ayurveda hold exercise as one of the most important of life’s health-boosting, … Continue reading
Why Modern Gals Should Meditate
One of the best ways to gain access to our soul and become truly happy is to practice sitting in silence. While diet and lifestyle changes definitely begin to reshape our energy and improve our wellness, it’s meditation, and begin able to feel or inner sensations, that really alter the deeper patterning in our mind. … Continue reading
Meditation for Grounding and Letting Go
Use this meditation for connecting to the energy of letting go and grounding into Mama Earth. This meditation reduces anxiety, increases our capacity to let go of toxicity, whether it be bad relationships, illness, stress, or emotional baggage. It is highly stabilizing, cooling and calming for the mind and body, and helps boost our sense … Continue reading
How Did I Get Toxic Sludge Buildup?
Life is fast and oftentimes we are stressed, hungry, and reaching for whatever food is in sight just so we can make it to the end of the day. Bad food choices, negative thinking, stress, and a fast-paced lifestyle lead to digestive imbalances. With time, micro-imbalances lead to macro- imbalances and you are left with … Continue reading
My Own Evolution Toward Happy
All of my life I’ve wanted to be happy. And if you have a beating heart, somewhere deep down inside of you, you want the same thing. We all do. If we dig deep enough, we find that everything we do in life springs from a longing to be happy. When I was a child … Continue reading
Recipes for Happy Eyes
Ayurveda is unique in its approach to taking care of one of our most important sense organs. Rather than simply treating the eye itself, Ayurveda believes that the images we take in on the visual plane can affect the health of our eyes. This is why it is important to see beautiful things on a … Continue reading
What the practice is really about
To get a big broad vision of what yoga, Tantra, and definitely Ayurveda is about…the end game is super simple: It’s just you no longer struggle. Continue reading