Working with an illustrator is an insightful dance. The writing shows her where to fill out the art, and the art shows me where to fill out the writing. Anna and the Earth Angel illustration
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3-Day Reset
Creative projects are on the rise – spilling out around the house – and I notice the trips to the pantry to sneak a handful of dark chocolate chips has steadily increased while yoga has decreased as my source of fuel. Rather than plow through and set myself up for a full detox, or set … Continue reading 3-Day Reset
Scrap New Year’s Resolutions: Opt for a 40-Day Practice Instead.
Create your new year. One strand at a time. This new year, dream your dreams, make your plans, then commit to a 40-day (or more) practice.The 40-day practice is an enduring spiritual tradition aimed towards creating powerful change. Yoga and meditation practitioners have used this method of practice to bring about transformation, focus and … Continue reading Scrap New Year’s Resolutions: Opt for a 40-Day Practice Instead.
All Natural Mouthwash: An Ancient Practice with a lot of Flavour.
Simple, easy and most likely all ingredients are already in your pantry. Many traditions have used various vegetable oils as mouthwash. In ayurveda, sesame oil is used. A small amount is all that is needed to swish around vigorously in the mouth. The longer you swish, the more the oil mixes with saliva, drawing bacteria … Continue reading All Natural Mouthwash: An Ancient Practice with a lot of Flavour.
Using breath to keep your cool
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
Breath of Fire
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
The 12 Days of Detox: Body, Mind & Spirit
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
All I Want for Christmas
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
Queen of the Chakras
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
Revolution Square
"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
Stephanie Hrehirchuk - Author 