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4 ayurvedic tips for Fever, Common Cold and Cough
By Dr. Shamna Prepare tea with 1 teaspoon dry ginger powder, half teaspoon black pepper powder, 8 -10 tulasi leaves, 3-4 cloves of garlic. All boiled in two glass of water reduced to one glass. Add some jaggery or honey. Drink this 2-3 times a day Prepare a mix of 5ml...
Ayurveda tips for puffy eyes
By Isabela Blanchet To avoid puffy and swollen eyes, reduce your intake of salt, MSG, aspartame, coffee, alcoholic beverages, as well as TV, computer and reading time. If your eyes are puffy: 1. With your ring fingers, make small circular movements clockwise, with...
Spiritual Awakening in Times of Personal Transitions
Nature is loving to all of us at all times, especially when we consider our self in difficult times. When someone we love dies, when we are ill or simply when we are requested to move from one state of growth to another, nature is behind the movement. Nature is...
DINACHARYA: AYURVEDA AND YOUR DAILY ROUTINE
Ayurvedic daily routine is the most comforting thing you can give your body.Learn how.
The three Spiritual Awakenings
Inner awakening has many “facets” and many “regions” within and outside our cosmology. The seeker needs to be clear about these different regions in order to apply the correct understanding and required actions. Region One: All that facilitates experiences This region...
Spiritual Awakening: Only for a Few?
Whatever you think spiritual awakening is, it is either incomplete or wrong. We have decorated our spirituality with myths, with concepts and with convenient protocols to feel good, to be good and to do well.
Silent Retreats to Obtain Complete Inner Peace
Spiritual teachers often suggest silent retreats as a way to reconnect with your inner wisdom. Guided silent retreats are recharging, relaxing and life transforming.
Meditation and the Five Regions of the Brain
Meditation alone will not enlighten you; however, it is an indispensable practice to develop your brain, to acquire equanimity and to serve as a platform for clear perception.
Are you a seeker?
We are all seekers; we all seek happiness and fulfillment. Some people seek it in the outside reality; the target may be a good marriage, a good job, good finances and success. However, the spiritual seeker changes the direction of inquiry towards her/his own...
Learning to Discover Your Essence With a Spiritual Teacher
Essence is the part of you that guides, supports, supplies and nourishes everything you are, everything you do and everything you aspire to accomplish.
The Role of Breath in Meditation
Sitting in meditation challenges your mind, your body, your environment and your emotions. One of the steps of moving into stillness is to be able to hold oneself as you go through a preliminary process of stabilization.
First Aid for Vatta Season
By Dr. Shamna Prajith. Ayurveda is a health care system originated thousands of years ago and is in very close connection with day to day life to create a harmony between body, mind and soul. It developed its roots by deep observing, understanding, experiencing and...
Living Ayurveda
To understand the origin of Ayurveda, we need to use our imagination and travel back in time - four to five thousand years. We need to imagine the interests and lifestyle of humanity at that time. Potency of nature was something that you could not take for granted -...
Identity, Lineage and Legacy
The enlightened person understands the paradoxical nature of consciousness. The enlightened one has moved away from the dual ways of thinking into a more holistic, fractal and eternal perception of existence. The realized seeker is able to relate to the expression of...