I can’t write about dead food without hearing echoes of Miracle Max from The Princess Bride. You remember. The only excuse for not remembering would be that you’ve never seen it. If that’s the case stop reading now and go watch it. And by watch it I mean the entire movie, not just a clip…
Category: Ayurveda
Eau De Bougie
For ten days I’ve held this post in abeyance. In denial, if I’m being honest (my theme for 2021). I wanted to write an article about scent as a wellness practice. On New Year’s Day I discovered a scent which activates all my magical powers and after spending several days of honeymoon with it, I…
Seasonal Sacrifice
Since state and national parks are now being trashed by Covidiots, I’ve resorted to day hiking on the paths MUCH less traveled. Trails with no amenities. Trails with no major attractions such as destination waterfalls and the like. Trails too difficult, long, remote, not connected to family campgrounds, or without cell service; all of which…
Calm-uary
Good morning, citizens of 2020. First change to the wellness practice is financial wellness: no more overtime. The boss announced it mid-December. Starting tomorrow I have to return to a regular eight-hour work day. Or I should say, I get to. The second change is occupational wellness. The benefit of overtime wasn’t just extra money….
Beauty School Drop In
Guess what I did? Yep. After growing it long enough to learn to cut it myself, I went back to the pixie. And I went to my local beauty college and let a student cut it. Oh yeah, a pixie — the most unforgiving of any haircut mistakes — by a student stylist. Who does…
The Lesson In Triplicate
One of the benefits of committing to the Ayurvedic clock has been scheduling a yoga practice at the same time each day, rather than fitting it in when I might be tired, hungry, stressed-out, whatever. You’ve already read why this matters; basically because our biological rhythms move through cycles that offer us the good, better,…
Wellness By The Hour–The Ayurveda Clock
Sometimes I think the Universe laughs at us when we think we’ve got everything all figured out. We choose in the best interest of wellness, we devote time and energy to establishing a practice, we fine-tune and edit our methods, and right about the time we’re feeling real proud—you know, like we’ve got this stuff…
The Renaissance Heart 