Ayurveda has an old line that food is the first medicine, used long before any herb or remedy. Most of your health is built quietly in the kitchen, one meal at a time. There is no single Ayurvedic menu and no list of banned foods, though. It is more a way of eating...
Of all the morning practices in Ayurveda, abhyanga is usually the one people take to first. It is a warm-oil self-massage. It takes a few minutes and asks for nothing more than some oil and your own two hands, and most people simply notice they feel steadier on the...
Ayurveda starts from the idea that no two people are quite the same, so no two paths to health are either. It explains our differences through three energies called the doshas: vata, pitta and kapha. Almost everything else in Ayurveda builds on them, which is why they...
A lot of people come to Ayurveda from the same place. Their energy is up and down, their sleep is patchy, their digestion is unpredictable, and every test still comes back normal. Modern medicine is very good in a crisis. It has much less to say about the in-between...
Next up in our routine is oil pulling, a traditional Ayurvedic practice in use for thousands of years, and is a safe and effective healthy oral hygiene routine, complimentary to brushing our teeth, flossing, and scraping the tongue. Oil pulling may seem strange at...
The next recommendation is to scrape the tongue. Tongue scraping, a sister to oil pulling is a very ancient Ayurvedic daily practice where the tongue is cleaned with a simple tongue scraper. It is still followed by practically everyone in India today. We recommend...
