Winter Facials If winter's chill has chapped your skin and sapped your energy, an Ayurvedic facial massage can help. Stroking your face with herb-infused oil tones the skin and can release stagnant energy. You'll find the oil in health food stores. (If you're not used to oiling your face, choose a lighter variety, such [...] Read more »
Bring yourself back into your body (part 1) – Being Present
Stress! Stressed out. Stressing. Too much stress Stressful… we are using these words every day. We are feeling these words as well and its not doing us any good! Check in, drop down and tune in to your body. Get still enough to connect to what is going on there. Mostly we ignore our [...] Read more »
Tri-Dosha Khitchari Recipe
Moong Dhal Khitchari All quantities can be varied to taste 1/2 cup mung beans 1 cup rice (brown basmati is favourite) 4 cups water maybe more 1 tsp each( more or less) of cumin, (ajwain) caraway, mustard and fennel seeds 1/2 tsp each of turmeric and salt 1/4 tsp each of asafoetida (hinge) 1-3 [...] Read more »
Are You Living in Cause or Effect ?
I have just been reading an interesting email from someone posing the question- "Are you living at cause — or are you living at effect?" (Tal Rachleff) "Here's what this means: when you are living at cause, you are actively creating the life and circumstances you desire around you. You take 100% responsibility for [...] Read more »
Persephone goes into the underworld – what you may expect if you have a Persephone line in your hands.
Such beautiful weather here even though we are approaching the end of September, you know, that time when the days are getting shorter and there is a little chill in the air. It's so easy to start feeling a little sad that the summer is going and that the dark time of the year [...] Read more »
What is Hand Analysis? It’s Palm Reading Jim but not a we know it!
When you think of the term Palm Reading what image comes to mind? A dim room with a mysterious seated figure who beckons you in with the invitation to "cross my palm with silver" ? Maybe so if you are interested in a fortune telling session, but not so if you come across a Hand [...] Read more »
Why Yoga?
Yoga is about healing………Its an invitation to a better life. One of the things my clients have in common is that they are all looking for change at some level. Typically they are busy people, challenged and time pressed and are concerned about their levels of health and lack of vitality, or just feeling more [...] Read more »
Having a crappy day? – Reduce fear, uncertainty and stress while raising energy levels
Reading time: 2-3 minutes Do you have days when it all feel… eeergh? You feel overly busy and stressed, distracted, depleted and fearful? Today felt like that for me. Apparently, according to a Vedic astrologer I follow, its to do with the planets… well there’s a relief, but more than that, there is just a [...] Read more »
Stress busting techniques to make you smile from John Carlton
Reading time: approx 5 minutes As part of a new self generated programme of ass kicking, I am upping my blog frequency. Yesterday, very pleased with myself, I clicked ‘publish’ on a spontaneously written blog post that was pretty ok. Checked in today to find it didn’t publish. Now that could cause a lot of [...] Read more »
The Real Dangers of Stress
Stress – Our New Epidemic Jocelyne here – I read a wonderful article about stress that I think is useful in helping us all understand why stress is so damaging, especially for women. Its written by a nurse practitioner who knows a thing or two! Marcelle Pick, OB/GYN NP In recent years, the word stress [...] Read more »
