This holiday season, gifting self-care items could be a perfect way to wrap up 2020. From tools for furthering a loved one's practice, or just for feeling cozy, here are my holiday gift picks for 2020.
While I pondered this, it struck me that an Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle—created over 3000 years ago, based on the belief that true health requires a delicate balance between the mind, body, and spirit/soul—is exactly where functional medicine’s roots are buried.
Yoga calms the nervous system, improves the respiratory system, and lowers stress hormones, like cortisol, that when remain elevated, compromise your immune system.
We don’t have to fight against what is happening. We don’t have to resent what is happening. We can even choose to receive what is happening, just as it is, and trust that it is showing us a different path. There are strategies we can choose.
The throat chakra (Vishuddha) is the center for creativity and communication. Vishuddha means ‘to purify’ in Sanskrit, apt for this chakra since it is the ‘bottleneck’ of energy that connects your ethereal chakras (third eye and crown) to your lower four chakras.
Integrating essential oils during times of transition, when breezes turn brisk, can boost your emotional resilience, improve mental clarity, and ground your footsteps in the rustling of the present moment.
For most of us, distance learning is part of the 2020 - 2021 school year. Now more than ever, it is necessary for us to support and empower our children through mind + body wellness practices.
