How To Get A Complete Cleansing Experience From Home
Ayurveda teaches us the importance of seasonal cleansing of the body and mind, and by doing so we can improve our immunity by regulating and supporting healthy and balanced digestion and elimination. Cleansing and building immunity is more critical than ever before, and Ayurveda facilitates personal empowerment by understanding one’s unique constitution and physiology.
Classic Holiday Spices You Didn’t Know Aid Digestion
Local, doshically appropriate, and seasonal are what I consider to make up the other three corners. One of the cookbooks I grew up around was “Joy of Cooking” What an amazing title, holding such great reverence for the ancient science of Ayurveda without even trying.
Ayurvedic Cooking: Whole Wheat Roti
Roti is an unleavened Indian flatbread. It can be prepared in many ways depending upon the type of flour one likes and the kind of equipment one uses. Roti is a general term and hence, there are many other names for the various kinds such as “chapati”.
Ayurvedic Cooking: Yellow Mung Dal Recipe
Mung dal in Ayurvedic texts is considered a rare, balancing food amongst the bean family. It is light in nature, drying and can be slightly aggravating to vata dosha but pacifies kapha and pitta doshas.
Ayurvedic Cooking: Yogurt and Mint-Cucumber Raita
Yogurt by itself has warm (ushna) virya, and hence a heating effect on the body. It is an ideal food choice in the late fall and early winter but might not be the best choice during the late winter, spring and summer.
How to Make Homemade Hand Sanitizer
Can’t find any hand sanitizers in your local store? Looking to avoid commercial fragrences? Whatever your reason is we want to share with you a quick and easy homemade hand sanitizer that won’t try your hands out!
Yummy Ayurvedic Recipe for Balancing Vata: Creamy Oregano Pasta Sauce
Looking for a comforting and nourishing meal that supports your Ayurvedic constitution? This Creamy Oregano Pasta Sauce is a Vata-pacifying delight.
What’s Cooking in the Ayurvedic Kitchen? – Tropical Fruit Trail Mix, Great For Taking on Summer Hikes!
Ingredients:
Shelled fresh coconut, cut into bite-sized pieces
Dried mango, cut into bite-sized pieces
What’s Cooking in the Ayurvedic Kitchen? Quinoa Asparagus Pilaf!
VPK- (Balancing to all three doshas)
Rinse well:
1 cup dry quinoa
Boil quinoa to a boil in a small saucepan with:
2 cup water
1/2 tsp. salt
What’s Cooking in the Ayurvedic Kitchen? Cooling, delicious Avocado Soup!
Ingredients:
1 tbsp. sunflower oil
2 ripe avocadoes, halved, pitted, peeled, and sliced
2 cups fresh carrot juice
3-inch piece cucumber, peeled and coarsely shredded
Juice of 1 orange, about 3 tbsp