How can we better understand how the food we eat interacts with the elements that make up our body? And why would we benefit from that understanding? Ayurveda is a science of life and longevity that uses an understanding of these elements and interactions to create balance and harmony in the system. I’m pretty sure we would all like more balance and harmony.

Breathing is the one physiologic process that you can actually control. You can’t digest half a carrot but you can do different things with your breath. And what’s really cool is that if you don’t choose to do anything with it, the body will remember to breathe so you can stay alive! Do you know how many breaths you take per day?

Better concentration skills that will naturally lead to meditative states. People often proudly report, I did my meditation today! Like many of us, they have heard about how beneficial it is to  meditate. And it absolutely is and I highly recommend it! But there is a lot of confusion about what it is and how to “do” it.

So many people are dealing with some type of congestion. It could be in the head in general or the sinuses or chest or the digestive system or the joints or your energy or even your mind. Many think that because it has always been this way that that’s just the way it is and it will always BE that way. But that isn’t necessarily true.

Anxiety and depression are at an all time high as our world changes and we have to accept new ways of doing things and being in the world. Some may find it harder to go out into the world to do the things they need to do. Some are going through changes in their living situation or how they spend or make money. Many just feel stressed out in general which, I think we can all agree is a fertile ground for anxiety and depression.

Death is an uncomfortable topic for most of us and often a painful experience we struggle to make sense of and accept. When I decided I wanted to launch my blog platform talking about death, I had no idea just how poignant that was going to be or how much death I was going to face.