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Kapha season is the perfect time to revitalize and get super healthy. Here are some recommendations for those of you who may feel a little heavy, out of sorts, and / or unmotivated to spring into action. Are you naturally calm, thoughtful, and loving? Do you have a strong build and excellent stamina? Do you sleep soundly and have regular digestion? Does excess, weight gain, fluid retention, and allergies manifest in the body when you're out of balance? Are you ruled by Earth & Water? O.K., Kapha . . . now that it's May, it's time to shake things up...

Brewing a great cup of tea doesn't take much . . . just good quality tea and filtered water, brewed at the right temperature for the right amount of time. Really, it's simple! And amazing, once you've brewed it the right way; you'll never go back to the bitter, badly flavored tea of your past. So here you go . . . everything you need to know about brewing tea for its optimal flavor and health benefits! Loose Leaf Tea Just like coffee purists proclaim freshly ground coffee to be the best, loose leaf teas really do make a good...

1. Eat the food nature provides you with, naturally. This may sound simple, but if you walk into an ordinary grocery store you will be hard-pressed to find real food, i.e. food that is grown by the forces of sun, soil, wind, and water. By eating nature's produce, as fresh and as close to the source as possible, the food retains its living intelligence and energy, its prana / life force.   2. Eat according to the seasons. When you eat locally grown and with the seasons, you benefit from the intelligence in nature that sustains seasonal balance.  For instance,...

In an article by Shrankhla Holecek via mbg, we found the suggestions for healthy digestion to be really beneficial, so we wanted to share them with you here. We included a few of our own time-tested Ayurvedic methods as well. Below are five of the all-too-common issues with digestion and how to deal with them using the ancient sciences of Ayurveda and yoga. Gut health is the very foundation of optimal digestion, skin health, and overall well-being according to Ayurveda (and from personal experience). 1. Heartburn Not fun. Heartburn is a pitta-imbalance condition that can be avoided by practicing a pitta-pacifying...

According to the seasonal cycles, summer is considered to be Pitta season, where the energetic principles of Fire and Water are strongest. It is during that summer when the Pitta dosha, inherently driven by solar force, is most present, as it is made up of the Fire and Water elements. Time for healthy beverages, sunbathing, and swimming! This combination is really rather complimentary. Pitta exists as water or oil (in the body)—which protects the tissues from the fire aspect. Pitta is the principle of transformation and heat; it is responsible for all chemical and metabolic conversions in the body that create...