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Why Seed Oils Are Harmful and Ayurvedic Alternatives You Need
In Ayurveda, the choice of cooking oils significantly impacts health and well-being. High-quality oils like ghee, sesame, and coconut support digestion and balance doshas, while modern seed oils often contain harmful substances. Fresh food is essential for maintaining vitality (Ojas) and avoiding toxins (ama) that can cause imbalances.
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5 Ayurvedic Practices to Transform Your Emotional Wellness During Menopause
From an Ayurvedic perspective, menopause is a time when Vata dosha, which governs movement and change, can become aggravated. This aggravation can manifest as restlessness, anxiety, and a feeling of being ungrounded. Pitta dosha, which regulates heat and transformation, also flare up, leading to irritability, anger, and frustration. Understanding these doshic imbalances gives us a…
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Bridging Modern Science and Ayurveda: Overcoming Bias for Holistic Health
As an Ayurvedic practitioner, I’ve often encountered bias from those who place modern empirical evidence on a pedestal, dismissing traditional knowledge systems as outdated or unproven. It’s fascinating—and frankly, frustrating—how quickly thousands of years of wisdom can be disregarded in favor of studies that have only been around for a few decades. But this dismissal…
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Ayurvedic Wisdom: 5 Reasons to Avoid Ice Cold Water
Ayurveda, the ancient holistic healing system from India, teaches that our bodies thrive on balance and harmony, and even the temperature of our water can significantly impact our health. This summer, explore the Ayurvedic reasons for avoiding cold water and discover how embracing these principles can lead to greater well-being. We’ll uncover why cold water…
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Sexual Abuse in Yoga Part 3 – Is Ashtanga a cult? Stumbling Forward by Embracing our Failures
As we reflect on how we, as a community, handled and mismanaged metoo it’s clear there’s still work to be done. While acknowledging our failures, it’s important to realize the real potential for growth and transformation. When we hold ourselves, and our teachers accountable, we can actively work towards a more just and equitable future.
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Sexual Abuse in Yoga Part 2 – Sacred Stories of Ashtanga’s Open Secret
The following stories are ones I rarely shared because some were not my stories to share. I studied with PJ for a short time before his death. What I witnessed and experienced as secondary trauma has stayed with me. The way the Ashtanga community handled it, denied it, and gaslit everyone has also stayed with…
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The Potency of Ojas in Ayurveda & Yoga
How do we explain the unexplainable? One thing that Ayurvedic practitioners are constantly trying to build in their clients is Ojas. Ojas is a sanskrit word that does not directly translate to english. We describe it and why it’s importance but many of these subtle eastern concepts are difficult to understand. Ojas is the subtle…
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Bandha and The Practice Of Self-Actualization
Sorrow carves the container for joy. Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet got me through some of the most difficult times in my life. It also gave me a deeper understanding of the practice of bandha. How is the emotional body connected to bandha practice? I discovered an intimate connection between my ability to access bandha, and…
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Is Your Mouth Dirty? Yes.
If you are not scraping your tongue daily than your mouth is …..EW. But this is ok. It’s not a common practice in the West This is me gently trolling this recent New York Times article on tongue scraping. Tongue scraping is an ancient Ayurvedic practice but the health and wellness department at the New…
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Ayurveda, Yoga, and Diabetes
Yoga Yoga, the ancient practice of India, is misunderstood in the west. Contemporary yoga in the Unites States consists of music to set the mood, excessive external heat, excessive aerobic movement, sometimes wine, sometimes goats, and a yoga clothing/accessory industry that will top $40 billion by 2028. Regardless of your experience, yoga is here to…
Magnolia Ayurveda
Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist & Yoga Educator
