Soil for a groundbreaking new garden has been tilled on the campus of the California College of Ayurveda. Home to the first Ayurvedic teaching herb garden, the soil in Northern California will be known, for at least the next 3 years, as the “ORGANIC INDIA Herb Garden” thanks to the company’s $10,000 commitment towards the [...]
Ayurveda has been practiced in the US for only about 30 years, yet it is one of the systems of medicine native to India and is thousands of years old. Readers are invited to submit questions for “Ayurveda Q & A” to ayurveda@layogamagazine.com. Q: I have suffered the past couple years with acid reflux. I [...]
According to Ayurveda, the heart of is the seat of a person’s soul. A healthy heart is a natural reflection of our state of balance or imbalance. Ayurveda is the healing side of yoga and a 5,000-year-old system of holistic medicine that has originated in India and is practices around the world. Here are nine suggestions [...]
By Felicia Marie Tomasko Dr. David Simon MD, board-certified neurologist, champion of the healing power of Yoga and Ayurveda, and co-founder (with Dr. Deepak Chopra) of the famed Chopra Center, passed away on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. His words, speech, healing presence, medical practice, books, and classes touched many in the 61 years of his [...]
Brought together by crisis, reunited by gratitude The space between life and death is tenuous. No one knows, from one minute to the next, what might befall them. I don’t remember exactly how I felt on the morning of September 17, 1986. I do know that it felt special because it was my fourteenth birthday. [...]
Among other things, December features a lunar eclipse in Taurus and Mercury moving direct (after being retrograde). Here is the week by week analysis. December 1 and 2 - The moon is in Aquarius opposite Mars in Leo, bringing some restlessness between our personal and collective duties. December 1-8 - This week is dominated by [...]
Ayurveda has been practiced in the US for only about 30 years, yet it is one of the systems of medicine native to India and is thousands of years old. Readers are invited to submit questions for “Ayurveda Q & A” to ayurveda@layogamagazine.com. Question: Beginning three weeks before the clocks changed in the Fall, I’ve been overeating [...]
They say follow your bliss but I say follow your pain. Because I’m starting to notice that when I follow my pain, then my bliss follows me. This happened recently with my arm pain. The pain had become so bad that at the end of class, sitting in final cross-legged position, instead of [...]
L.A. Heaven to Earth By Tamiko Fischer The astrological forecast for July-August is based on Vedic astrology and the Panchanga (Vedic calendar) whose five limbs include: 1) day of the week (Vara) 2) day in the lunar cycle (Tithi) 3) half-day in the lunar cycle (Karana) 4) zodiacal position of the Moon in lunar mansion [...]