How Much Screen Time Do You Get? Today in America, adults check their cell phones an average of 52 times a day and spend a whopping 9 hours in front of a blue light-emitting cell phone, tablet, or computer screen!1 LED blue light-emitting bulbs are on pace to replaced orange-hued incandescent bulbs worldwide, resulting in […]
Famine over Feast: High Uric Acid Foods to Avoid + Why
Our Ancestors: Fruit + Famine Once upon a time, about 26 million years ago, apes in Africa lived in a flourishing tropical garden, where their next meal, likely some ancient version of a banana, was just a few feet away. They were mostly fruitarians, and they had a special enzyme that helped metabolize fruit as […]
Reduce Glycation: Maintain Healthy Blood Sugar + Brain Function with this B Vitamin
Blood Sugar, Glycation + AGEs The insidious rise of blood sugar levels has become an epidemic plaguing more than 100 million (or one in three) Americans. According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), 90% of the population with rising blood sugars are not aware that they even have an issue!12 The result of rising […]
Why Do I Crash Every Afternoon? It’s More Serious than You Think
Sleepy? According to Ayurveda, when your lifestyle is in sync with natural circadian rhythms, life can be but a dream, gently down the stream! When your lifestyle is out of sync with biological clocks, life can feel like a struggle—as if you are paddling upstream all day! When I teach at Ayurvedic colleges, I always […]
Astonishing Mind-Body Benefits of Vitamin D
Seasonal Vitamin D Do you know how to optimize your vitamin D levels for every season? A growing body of knowledge shows that, at optimized levels, vitamin D functions as a hormone rather than a vitamin, with numerous notable effects on the body. Vitamin D Supports: Healthy immunity Healthy mood Targeted support for over 2,000 […]
Relieve Dry Eyes Naturally with Ghee: Netra Tarpana
Winter Woes: Dry, Dry, Dry Dry eyes are a common nuisance during winter months, exacerbated by dry heat at night and general dryness that just comes with the territory of winter. According to Ayurveda, winter is vata, air, or dry season, when even water dries out and becomes snow. The antidote to the cold and […]
Benefits of One-Minute Meditation with Bhastrika Pranayama (Bellows Breathing)
One-Minute Meditation with Bhastrika Yoga, including asana, pranayama (breathing), and meditation, became popular in the US in the 1960s and 70s when yogis from India were shown to be able to control aspects of their physiology that were previously thought to be involuntary.1 Based on these early Western studies, yoga has become a well-studied science, […]
BONUS: The Mwebaza Foundation with Devaki Douillard
Join me as I interview my daughter Devaki on the work she is doing with our favorite organization, The Mwebaza Foundation!
Oxytocin: The More You Give, The More You Get
Do You Touch with Love? I remember watching a lecture of a sadhu (holy person) who lived in Gangotri, at the mouth of the Ganges river. While he talked, he gave himself an oil massage. This, of course, is a daily practice in India, called abhyanga, but the way he did it took me by […]
Grace Starts with Gratitude: Giving without Expectation
What is Grace? The word gratitude comes from the Latin gracia, meaning grace, graciousness, or gratefulness, depending on context.1 During the holidays, unwrapping a deeper understanding of gratitude and taking actions based on it promise more joy and meaning. When we look to world religions for some ancient wisdom on grace, we find very clear […]
Cleanse Emotional Trauma with Ayurveda
Ayurvedic Anatomy of Psychology According to Ayurveda, we feel emotional impressions in the emotional heart. This is called sadaka pitta—the aspect of pitta that feels everything. These impressions are then transported to the brain through the carrying channels of prana vata—the emotional aspect of vata. Emotional impressions felt by sadaka pitta are carried and written […]
094: Mindful Rewilding with Micah Mortali
December 3, 2019 | 49 minutes, 31 seconds Download Natural Healing By now, we’ve all heard of the healing properties of nature, like the healing magic of a walk through the woods! Ayurveda described the benefits of nature thousands of years ago. More recently, in the 1980s, a Japanese practice became popular called shinrin-yoku, which […]
