[Editor's note: This is a guest post by Melina Meza BS Nutrition, 500-RYT, with some advice on on how to live your yoga through ethical food choices. Bon Appétit!] As unique beings we all have different hopes, fears, conditioning, expectations, and agendas around our health and our relationship to food and eating. Over the years of teaching and doing nutritional counseling, I have found it valuable to establish my own set of personal ethics in regards to my health and that of the planet. As … [Read more...] about The Ethics of Eating
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Seize the Summer: Ayurvedic tips to keep cool and stay balanced during the summer months
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Melina Meza, RYT-500, BS Nutrition In the world of Ayurveda, we are now in the summer season (June-August), which means whenever summer arrives in your geographical location, you will have a stronger relationship with the elements fire and water for three months. Ayurveda views the physical body, along with everything in the Universe, as being composed of the five primary elements; earth, water, fire, air, and ether or empty space. These elements are … [Read more...] about Seize the Summer: Ayurvedic tips to keep cool and stay balanced during the summer months
Right Here, Right Now: Eating Mindfully and Applying Atha to Your Practice – by Melina Meza
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Melina Meza, RYT-500, BS Nutrition I’ve been deeply inspired in my daily life by the very first sutra in the classic text called Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The arrangement in which the sutras are placed is related to their significance, so the very first word in the first yoga sutra is central to understanding what Westerners call “yoga.” The whole sutra is atha yoga anusasanam. Atha is translated as now, also referred to as the moment-to-moment … [Read more...] about Right Here, Right Now: Eating Mindfully and Applying Atha to Your Practice – by Melina Meza
News Report: Organic food no healthier, but is that all that matters…
You've probably already seen the news story reporting researchers' findings that organic food has little to no nutritional or health value over good old-fashioned give-me-all-the-pesticides-you-can-take food. Even still, armed with that knowledge, my eating habits won't change much since about the only organic food I eat on a regular basis is the slightly more expensive cold cereal that I buy just 'cause it tastes better. When I'm home, I eat whatever my beautiful wife makes, and since she's … [Read more...] about News Report: Organic food no healthier, but is that all that matters…
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