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My name is Ava Larcey. I live in a small suburb of San Diego, CA and I would love to share my journey with you about dealing with inflammation and sickness...specifically with what I call the "gold stuff" that saved me or otherwise known as Turmeric. Let me first tell you that I had never even heard of Turmeric. I suffered from chronic gut inflammation and didn't want to be the slave to pharmaceutical medications my doctor was prescribing me when I learned that none of them would really cure me...but just mask my symptoms. Plus the side effects were...

What is the relationship between stress and disease? Medical doctors agree that the psyche plays an important role in the persistence of chronic disease, but because there is no scientific way to study this clinical phenomenon, for a long time it has been ignored. Our disease model is extremely effective when treating acute illness, it saves lives during instances of heart attack, appendicitis and infectious diseases like pneumonia and E. coli. Today, doctors look at the human body as a complicated machine with infinite independent parts. Hospitals are separated into departments with specialties including everything from cardiology to gastroenterology, gynecology,...

To remain healthy, we must make some changes in attitude, lifestyle, and wardrobe in order to start vata season fresh, cleansed, and vital. Ayurveda defines rutu sandhi as the transitioning between two seasons. Some seasonal changes come naturally, like wearing sweaters and vests and switching from iced drinks to warm beverages, while other changes like limiting raw foods and vigorous exercise may require guidance at first. During the fall season, the vata dosha is prone to imbalance. When Vata is provoked a person can feel anxious, nervous, stressed, scattered, or fearful and may notice constipation, gas, and bloating, dry, hard stools,...

Fall is here along with the cool and crisp air, beautiful colors in the leaves, and a harvest of delicious vegetables. These are all delightful changes the season brings. But along with those changes come the shorter, colder, and drier days of vata season. In Ayurveda, the vata dosha is therefore provoked as autumn progresses. Vata is related to wind, which is the principle of movement and governed by the either and air elements. You may have heard the saying, the winds are always changing and just as the wind is subtle and changeable, the energy of vata means the body...

According to recent news articles by Newsweek and the New York Times, the students in detention at Robert W. Coleman Elementary School in Baltimore aren't staring at chalkboards and walls during detention—they're meditating and practicing yoga as part of an after-school program. Here's how the project, created by the Holistic Life Foundation, works: Holistic Me hosts 120 male and female students in a program that runs from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. and involves yoga, breathing exercises and meditative activities. Disruptive students are brought to a special place called the Mindful Moment Room for breathing practices and discussion with a counselor and are instructed on how to...