by Sera | Oct 21, 2020 | Blog Articles
…and a deeper look at Sweat and its functions In a variety of ways, we have peered into the management of health. In summary, the means to protecting your health is through your gut – by managing the proportion of space around your digestive fire, the...
by Sera | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog Articles
Last week we learned about the 6 tastes of Ayurveda and how a balance of these tastes is a prerequisite for health. We discussed how we are only healthy if we can digest what we consume and if what we consume contains the balance of the 6 tastes that we, in...
by Sera | Oct 6, 2020 | Blog Articles
Rasa means many things in Sanskrit. It can mean the Divine play of Lord Krsna, it can mean energetic characteristics in Yoga Tantra, it can mean the first tissue made in Ayurveda – the one we mentioned often carrying Āma in last week’s conversation. It...
by Sera | Sep 29, 2020 | Blog Articles
Often when a practitioner asks you to stick out your tongue they are looking at many things, but one of those things is the coating that may reside there. There are times when that coating can indicate health and other times when the coating can indicate ill health....
by Sera | Sep 22, 2020 | Blog Articles
Ayurvedically, the Summer Months, or Grisma Rtu, are ruled by Air (Vayu) and Fire (Agni). The combination brings Movement (chalatva) and Intensity (tiksnatva) to our lives – even in (or perhaps especially in) COVID times. Our feeling of lightness makes us feel...
by Sera | Jun 21, 2020 | Blog Articles, Personal Writings and Essays
This is a larger topic than this blog can cover – and many have spoken it more wisely than me – but I would like to examine how Ayurveda, the Purusarthas, and śloka 2.13 from the Bhagavad Gita are asking us to manage our physical selves in this material...
