Reduce Stress with Ayurveda

Seven Ways to Reduce Stress By Drs. Bryan and Light Miller As we approach the year 2011, our fast paced lifestyles present us with overwhelming choices, challenges, and stessors. Fortunately there is a wide range of self-help measures which can help us meet these stresses. We offer here seven time tested ways to make life more manageable. 1. Herbs – …

Ayurvedic Lifestyles

Lifestyles and Ayurveda Frantic with activity and movement, yet because of the use of cars, elevators, computers, etc., it allows us little sustained aerobic activity. The human mechanism is made to work. “If you don’t use it, you lose it”. Two-thirds of all metabolism takes place in the muscles. If they are weak, under used, or flacid, your metabolism will …

Meditation

Meditation is connecting with your true self, it’s allowing your spirit, your soul, your energy to harmonize with the energy of the whole. Meditation has been practiced over thousands of years, mainly by Eastern Cultures. From a logical perspective, meditation could be understood as a plain connection with the energy of the cosmos. Every living and non-living is a bundle …

A Sadhana From Yogi Bhajan

“If the mind vibrates with the mantra you chant, the effect will be tremendous, accurate, beautiful. When you say “Ek”, the whole universe should look to you as Ek. When you say “Ong”, the spring season and the seed sprout unflod in the universe. When you say “Kar”, the moon, sun, stars, any beautiful thing ever lived by you in …

The Doshas- Ayurvedic Body Types

    The Doshas, Ayurvedic Body Types Why you are how you are? Ayurveda recognizes three main body types and seven mixed body types Vata – Have a thin-framed body, whether they are tall or short. Their joints crack easily. If they do gain weight it will be around the middle. Their skin will have a tendency to be dry, …

Toxins and Ayurveda

There are two types of toxins which can build up in our organism and slow down our metabolism causing us to hold more weight. The first are man-made and released into our environment (food, water, and air supply) by industrial and modern farming methods. Lead, cadmium, mercury, pesticides, herbicides, hormones, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals stack up on the food chain. We …

Food Abundance

  In this culture we can eat anything, anytime! A watermelon in December, almonds in May. We can eat too often: five meals a day when we are bored. We can eat too much: milk shake, fries, two burgers plus dessert. We can eat an impossibly large number of items and ingredients (up to 50) at a single sitting, i.e. …

Kaya Kalpa

  HISTORY OF KAYA KALPA Ten thousand years ago, a King of India had a problematic, headstrong daughter, who refused to marry any of the eligible princes who were presented to her. In anger and frustration the king decreed that she was to be blindfolded and placed in the castle courtyard in the midst of all her suitors. The man …

Ayurvedic Aromatherapy

  Ayurvedic Aromatherapy Drs. Light and Bryan Miller Alternative medicine is today seeing a resurgence of ancient healing techniques. This is due to the inadequacies of modern allopathic medicine and the shortcomings of our traditional natural and herbal medicines. Ayurveda and Aromatherapy both offer insights and alternatives to healthcare that are tried and true. Aromatherapy has an ancient history going …

Aromatherapy

  Aromatherapy – Ayurvedic Aromatherapy In today’s world, many forms of treatments, both new and old, are available to bring greater vitality to our daily life. Aromatherapy is the art and science of using scent or aroma to beautify, rejuvenate, revitalize, and heal the body. Aromatherapy is an important part of home health care, because it puts the strongest concentration …