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Keep Your Pitta in Check This Summer with 10 Cooling and Calming Tips

July 27, 2015

Keep Your Pitta in Check This Summer with 10 Cooling and Calming Tips The pitta dosha is primarily comprised of the Fire element, and summer, when heat predominates, is the pitta season. What does that mean to you? Pitta represents the Fire principle in the...

Hit Your “Reset” Button as We Bloom Into Spring

February 23, 2015

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Hit Your "Reset" Button as We Bloom Into Spring Luckily for those of us that live in California, we haven’t experienced the frigid winter condition that most of the country has been hit with. As the fragrant jasmine starts to bloom, those of us who live...

Introduction to Ayurveda Series 3/30 – 4/27 2015

February 23, 2015

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Understand Yourself and How to Create Balance! Introduction to Ayurveda Series 3/30 – 4/27 VATA, PITTA or KAPHA, which “constitution” or “dosha” are you? Why does it matter? Do you wonder why one person is inspired to run 10 pre-dawn miles, while another can’t wake up...

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Ayurveda’s Take on Exercise

October 2, 2013

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Ayurveda’s Take on Exercise I’ve always been a big fan of exercise, and can be found hiking, riding my horse Bella, doing yoga or chi gong, or something almost every day of the week! I think exercise is important not only for a healthy body, but...

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Kichadi – a balancing Ayurvedic Dish for Detoxing and resetting your digestion

September 30, 2013

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I'm into sharing recipes lately! I think it is so important to get in the habit of cooking for yourself, and the more you do it, the easier it is! I may have posted this, but it has been a while, and now that we...

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Delicious Red Lentil Soup Recipe

September 25, 2013

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I must be in a soup mood these days, and my stepdaughters absolutely love this soup, which is also balancing for fall. Red Lentil Soup Ingredients: 1 onion chopped finely Carrots – two or tree, chopped small (same amount as onion) Celery – 2 stalks chopped One cup red lentils, rinsed...

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It’s Pumpkin time! Fall Harvest Pumpkin Soup Recipe

September 20, 2013

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It's almost autumn equinox, and we are starting to get a nip in the air, at least at night here in in the San Luis Obispo area of California. We have several really large pumpkins in our garden, and I just love everything pumpkin, from...

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A Centering Morning Routine

September 12, 2013

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I love my morning routine, instead of grabbing a quick cup of coffee and rushing off to work, I take the time to consciously enter into my day. By waking up a little earlier I have time to do a little qigong or yoga, meditate,...

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Fall Into Ayurveda for Less Stress & More Energy Workshop on 9/28

September 9, 2013

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We've had gorgeous warm weather here on the Central Coast, but I can feel that fall is on the way, as it gets darker earlier, and my animals start to grow their winter coats already! As the seasons change, it's important that we do too...

Recipes for Summer- Keep your PItta cool!

June 20, 2013

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Recipes for Summer By Dr. Light Miller According to Ayurveda, as the days lengthen, we enter into a cycle dominated by the energy of the fiery pitta dosha. This is a time for outdoor activities: working in the garden, enjoying picnics, and gathering with friends and family...

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Keep Your Pitta in Check This Summer with 10 Cooling and Calming Tips

Hit Your “Reset” Button as We Bloom Into Spring

Introduction to Ayurveda Series 3/30 – 4/27 2015

Ayurveda’s Take on Exercise

Kichadi – a balancing Ayurvedic Dish for Detoxing and resetting your digestion

Delicious Red Lentil Soup Recipe

It’s Pumpkin time! Fall Harvest Pumpkin Soup Recipe

A Centering Morning Routine

Fall Into Ayurveda for Less Stress & More Energy Workshop on 9/28

Recipes for Summer- Keep your PItta cool!

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