The water (jala) element plays a significant role in the Ayurvedic system during the summer season to balance the intensity of fire (agni) which can be transformative or fierce. Water is considered a balancing, cooling, calming force, essential to maintain our health, longevity, and juicy tissues. If you get overexposed to the fire element in nature, or become dehydrated, over-exercise during the hottest time of day, lose sleep, or travel too often, your luscious water body and inner reservoir of life-sustaining fluids will begin to evaporate into space and leave you feeling irritated, tired, and unfocused. Without sufficient water and hydration, your inner ecosystem will be in the red-alert, “high risk category” for running too hot and dry in the Pitta time of year...
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The Ethics of Eating
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.
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…
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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…
Welcome Spring! Tips and ideas how to adapt your yoga asana practice and diet to accommodate the beauty unfolding in spring — By Melina Meza
When spring comes the grass grows by itself. -- Tao Te Ching Editor's note: This is a guest post by Melina Meza, RYT-500, BS Nutrition Although some parts of the country are still blanketed in snow, spring has officially arrived! It’s…
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