by anahatahealing | Aug 21, 2017 | Ayurveda, Cooking and Recipes, Holistic Health, Nature Connection, Plant Spirit Medicine & Herbalism, Uncategorized, Wildcrafting, Yoga & Meditation
Even though we are each made up of all five of the mahabhutas, or great elements; earth, water, fire, air, and ether, we each also have a predominance of certain elements in our prakriti (nature). By knowing our elemental makeup, or our individual nature, we know...
by anahatahealing | Mar 27, 2017 | Ayurveda, Cooking and Recipes, Holistic Health, Nature Connection, Plant Spirit Medicine & Herbalism, Wildcrafting, Yoga & Meditation
Eating is a fire ceremony….Say what? Well, in Ayurveda it is understood that the foundation of your health is based on the strength of your agni, or your internal digestive fire. Agni transforms. Whether it is sensory impressions or physical food, what we take...
by anahatahealing | Mar 26, 2017 | Ayurveda, Cooking and Recipes, Holistic Health, Massage, Nature Connection, Plant Spirit Medicine & Herbalism, Uncategorized, Wildcrafting, Yoga & Meditation
In Ayurveda, spring is understood as the kapha season. It often shares the wet and cold qualities of kapha dosha, and as like increases like, can aggravate people with a kapha predominance, or children who are in the kapha stage of their lives, the juicy, wet,...
by anahatahealing | Jun 7, 2016 | Ayurveda, Cooking and Recipes, Holistic Health, Massage, Nature Connection, Plant Spirit Medicine & Herbalism, Uncategorized, Wildcrafting, Yoga & Meditation
Did you know that in Ayurvedic tradition, we understand there is a need to shift our diet according to the season, as well as according to our own individual dosha, or psychological and metabolic type? The doshas of Ayurveda are vata, pitta, and kapha; air, fire, and...
by anahatahealing | Apr 7, 2016 | Ayurveda, Cooking and Recipes, Holistic Health, Nature Connection, Plant Spirit Medicine & Herbalism, Wildcrafting
Ah spring, and the buzz of bees in the creamy umbels of elder blossoms. This year seems to be a particularly good year for the local elder with the few good spring soakings we’ve had. The elder tree in my back yard, which came from a traditional Lakota Wopila...
by anahatahealing | Mar 22, 2016 | Ayurveda, Cooking and Recipes, Holistic Health, Nature Connection, Plant Spirit Medicine & Herbalism, Yoga & Meditation
Rasa is a Sanskrit word which, like most Sanskrit words, has many meanings, or shades of meaning. It can mean flavor, sap, essence, or sexual fluids. Here we are addressing the meaning of Rasa as taste, and the way that Ayurveda understands taste and how to use it...
