Finding ways to keep cool in extreme heat can be challenging, whether that heat is physical or emotional. When we are overheated often we become agitated, adding heat to the mind as well as the body. We get frustrated, our breathing becomes shallow and rapid and our level of discomfort increases. Sitali breathing, or cooling … Continue reading Using breath to keep your cool
A breath used to invigorate, energize, stoke the fires of digestion and spark creativity. Yogi Bhajan says that longevity comes with regular practice of breath of fire. This is a breath for stirring digestive agni. Agni, in ayurveda, refers to fires. The fires of digestion, life force, the cosmic fire – there are many. Breath … Continue reading Breath of Fire
December is a magical month. An ideal one to detoxify the body and eliminate residue accumulated over the past year. Ayurveda refers to this residue as ama: a buildup of waste in the body; products not used up or transformed from their old state to a new one via digestion or metabolism. Accumulation of ama blocks the … Continue reading The 12 Days of Detox: Body, Mind & Spirit
December is a magical month. The completion and celebration of one year and the clean new slate of another at the flip of a calendar page. Pure potential and possibility await. You’ve written your gratitude lists: daily, weekly, yearly, every full moon perhaps? Now write your wish list. What are you waiting for? What are you … Continue reading All I Want for Christmas
When working with the 7 main energy centres of the body, it can be difficult to know where to start or where to focus your work. It would seem that root chakra, first chakra, is a good starting place. Perhaps not always the case. In Ayurveda, the 5,000 year-old sister science of yoga, there are … Continue reading Queen of the Chakras
"Communists were hanged from the trees by barbed wire," said the Cuban man in khaki pants and white running shoes in Revolution Square. "How could a country once like that become communist?" The answer darted through my mind quicker than the geckos through the foliage. They became what they feared the most. watercolour on treated photo
Banff bound Freedom found Headlights off Luna-lit snow Young in years Low on fears The world at my feet At the foot of the mountain Luminous drive Completely alive Alone on the road At home in the world of moon and mountain and luna-lit snow
Welcome to the winds of the west Warm winds eagle winds sweeping, sacred winds You are not the winds of change that is the east You are the winds that melt the ice in the veins of the land Nurturing winds winds of fellowship and freedom inviting all into your embrace Winds … Continue reading Chinook
I am listening for your guidance for your presence feeling for you I know you are here. I know you can see me hear me feel me seeking you You know I am here. Why, only in sky, do I seek you? Only in trees and wind and silent hills? They know you are here. Why … Continue reading Here
From soaking to sipping, water is integral to health. Here are 9 ways to make drinking water a daily healing ritual. Add a spring or two of thyme to impart this herb's antioxidants and immune and mood boosting properties. Add fresh squeezed lemon to return life to your water and vitamin C to your body. Add fresh … Continue reading Healing Waters
Stephanie Hrehirchuk - Author 