by Courtney | Jul 30, 2013 | Ayurveda & Massage/Bodywork, Ayurveda & Nutrition/Diet, Treating Common Health Issues with Ayurveda
We’ve entered Pitta season – summertime! There’s no better time of the year to do some sun worshipping. No, not sun worshipping in the traditional, not-so-healthy sense, but literally honoring this incredible ball of energy that makes life on...
by Courtney | Jun 19, 2013 | Ayurveda & Massage/Bodywork, Ayurveda & Nutrition/Diet, Ayurveda & Women's Health, Ayurveda & Yoga/Exercise, Treating Common Health Issues with Ayurveda
If I were to ask a roomful of people the question, “Who would like to have more vitality and greater resistance to stress?” every hand in the room would go up, right? We all want to feel energetic, vital, happy, and healthy. Ayurveda recognizes that preserving...
by Courtney | Mar 26, 2013 | Treating Common Health Issues with Ayurveda
Sleep issues are a pervasive problem that I see so often in my practice. The inability to fall asleep, stay asleep or have good quality sleep can have an extremely debilitating effect on our lives. In Ayurveda, there are three pillars of health – food,...
by Courtney | Jan 24, 2013 | Ayurveda & Nutrition/Diet, Ayurveda & Yoga/Exercise, Treating Common Health Issues with Ayurveda
Post-holidays we hear plenty about weight loss. The typical message we receive about how to lose weight is to work out more (the harder, the better) and eat less (the lighter, the better). Indeed, for some people this approach is the ticket, but in Ayurveda we...
by Courtney | Jan 13, 2013 | Treating Common Health Issues with Ayurveda
In the last three posts I’ve discussed the three main causes of disease from an Ayurvedic perspective – the misuse of the senses, failure of the intellect and motion/time. But there is one cause of disease that is the essential root of even these...
by Courtney | Jan 13, 2013 | Treating Common Health Issues with Ayurveda
For the past two posts I’ve been discussing the three causes of disease from an Ayurvedic perspective. Those three causes are: The misuse of the 5 senses The failure of the intellect Time In this post I’ll discuss the concept of time...