Five Surprisingly Seasonal And Sensual Foods You know greens are good for you, right? In terms of our overall health, we all know greens help fight cancer, provide fiber and help us fill up on vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients without breaking the calorie bank. Did you also know that eating green foods can actually help heal [...]
According to Ayurveda, lunch is the most important meal of the day. The pitta dosha (fire element), which governs the transformation of food into the tissues of the body, is at its highest level in the daytime from 10:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. Twelve noon is thus the best time to enjoy our main meal [...]
Asking Questions About Devotion, Service And Finding Home With Aimee Schoof, Founder Of Amayoga My first time walking into a homeless shelter in the infamous Skid Row, near downtown Los Angeles, I felt uneasy. I felt the furthest from home I’d ever been, even though for many people, this shelter was home – at least [...]
STOP Stop and breathe and listen to what’s going on inside Pause and feel and smile from deep within your soul Search and find and follow the path that calls your name Do nothing Be everything Stop moving just ... STOP. *2007 Word Is Born Dylan Barmmer is a writer, poet, performance artist and yogi [...]
It starts in third grade, those formal lessons in mathematics: the counting of negative numbers. -1, -2, -3, and on and on and on. The counting of things that are not there. If you’re like me – which is to say, human – then you’ve no trouble at all counting deep into the abyss: the [...]
“A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return.” —The Bhagavad Gita In the details of our days, it’s easy to lose sight of the meaning behind the moments. It’s easy to forget [...]
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: Are there any Ayurvedic dietary or herbal recommendations for a chronic and [...]
As director of YogaActivist.org in Washington, D.C., Jasmine Chehrazi already has an impressive resume at the age of 29. She has opened studios in and taught in outreach programs in poor neighborhoods, created a database of hundreds of Yoga teachers working with alternative populations and devised a technique of teaching Yoga to those who suffer [...]
An Ayurvedic Practitioner’s Favorite Meal There are as many theories as to what constitutes the “ideal diet” as there are people. The more one reads, the easier it is to become overwhelmed and confused. Ayurveda recognizes, as does modern scientific thought, that we all have our own unique individualized biochemical blueprint. Often, what may help [...]
Through deep exploration of the art of vegan cooking, I have discovered it is relatively easy to alter a traditional non-vegan recipe that requires excessive oil, sugar, refined ingredients or dairy to craft a considerably healthier, vegan version, without ever compromising substance, taste, complexity or nutritional value! By uniting the powerful dietary principles of Ayurveda [...]