The Ayurvedic Diet: A Beginner’s Guide to Healthy Eating
The Fundamentals of a Healthy Ayurvedic Diet Ayurveda is India’s traditional system of medicine, developed more than five thousand years ago and grounded in the fundamental, unchanging laws …
Lifestyle
Leading a balance life means to look after your physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Gradually including healthy practices into your everyday life will make a huge difference to your overall wellbeing and vitality.
How Meditation Transformed My Life: A Journey Into Real Happiness
For many people raised in the modern world, there is this belief that yoga is primarily about stretching, relaxing, and keeping the body healthy. Practitioners enjoy the physical …
Unlock the Secret to Vibrant Health
Imagine a life where your body thrives, energy soars, and wellness is a daily reality. Dive into the possibility of achieving these amazing benefits through an alkaline lifestyle …
Survive and Thrive the Mould Epidemic
How’s the weather been for the past few months? Oh my gosh it’s been soo damp and so humid! The unprecedented amount of rain that we have been …
Surviving Lock Down or Quarantine…
With another round of lock downs around the country (first time for some!), you have had to once again make quick changes to your life. Perhaps you had …
10 Ways to Beat Christmas Stress
How many sleeps till Christmas now? Not many left! How are you feeling? My doctor was incredulous about how many patients she was seeing who were having Christmas …
Keep Well This Winter
Winter is the season when we are more inclined to come down with coughs, colds and sometimes the flu. So many times I have caught a cold from …
6 Tips for Mentally and Emotionally Surviving COVID-19
So many people must be feeling the brunt of the virus in their lives. We may be out of work, restricted from going places, scared of getting sick, …
The Art of Slowing Down
From the moment when we first open our eyes and gaze at the world around us, the shapes and colours, the sounds and smells, we are on the …
Let’s Gain Some Clarity in Our Life – Part 2
If you haven’t read Part 1 you can find it here! Exercise to Feed the Brain In recent times the notion that the brain can’t change has been …
Let’s Gain Some Clarity in Our Life – Part 1
Clarity is such a nice word. Conjuring up images of pristine cool clear lakes, blue skies and everything very crisp and beautiful. But a lack of clarity brings …
How to Ensure a Happy New Year The Yoga Way
What’s on your happiness bucket list this year? I bet its not hard to make one! But what is hard is to find is a way of keeping …
3 Tips for a Sustainable Holiday Practice
Yoga at Christmas time, is there a place for it? Here in Australia Christmas time brings hot, hot summer days and nights, full tummies and days filled with …
Homemade Ghee
Ghee (often called “liquid gold”) is clarified butter. It is a truly wonderful food which has been used in Ayurvedic medicine and Vedic cooking since ancient times. Not …
Daily Ritual for a Fresh Start
Adopt A Simple Ayurvedic Daily Routine To Help Boost Your energy And Maintain Balance Throughout The Day. The following daily ritual guide is designed to help you develop …
Giving The Gift of Happiness
The traditional Christmas practice of giving gifts is a wonderful, open-hearted gesture of affection and gratitude which hopefully invokes warm and fuzzy feelings in both the giver and …
Enhance Every Part of Your Life with Meditation
Yoga meditation is easy to add to your daily routine, extremely effective, and will help you awaken and cultivate wisdom and spiritual love—the goal of yoga. Regularly practicing …
Ayurveda For Happy, Healthy Winter!
Are you the type of person that struggles with Winter? What is it about Winter that makes us groan and grumble? Sometimes, the internal resistance we experience to …
Ayurvedic Guide to Winter
Now the hot summer and the dry autumn is over, we can take a deep breath, and welcome the winter season. The days are still getting shorter and …
5 Ways to Show Mum You Love Her
5 Ways to Show Mum You Love Her This Mothers Day! Being a mother myself, I like to think that I have some pretty good insights in to …
Shirodhara: an Ayurvedic Treatment
Ayurvedic treatments have become very popular these days. Although this ancient practice originated in India, it has helped numerous people all over the world and therefore it is …
A Personal Journey from a Yoga Mum
Raising Little Yogis – The Life & Times of a Yogi Mum I first discovered the yummy-ness of yoga asanas early in the 1970’s when I was pregnant …
What is Tongue Scraping?
What is Tongue Scraping? Jihwa Prakshalana Ayurveda tells us the tongue is the first organ of digestion and the mirror to all the organs of the body. The …
Ayurveda Tongue Analysis – Do it Yourself!
According to Ayurveda the tongue is not just an organ of taste only but also a strong tool for diagnosis. Tongue analysis is a part of Ayurvedic diagnosis …
Ayurvedic Tips for Reducing Anxiety
Unfortunately, anxiety has become a common experience amongst all age groups in today’s society. As our modern lifestyles become busier (and at times overwhelming) it’s important to have …
Health Goals for the New Year
Welcome to the New Year everyone! It’s Sami here and I am so looking forward to another awesome year with you guys! Seeing as it’s the beginning of …
Beating Stress at Christmas!
Christmas is almost upon us and along with the fun and festivities, come the stresses and tensions of trying to squeeze everything in before the end of the …
3 Ways To Get Your Glow Back For Spring
Winter is well and truly over, however we may still be experiencing symptoms of our winter body – feeling sluggish, extra padding, and perhaps a little heavy in …
Kev
Namaste friends, my name is Kev and… I have a big confession to make… When I first started coming to meditation classes at ASMY at West End, I …
Ayurvedic Insights on Salads
When you think of salads, you think fresh, green, vital, healthy and refreshing. There is a general view in the nutritional community that salads are an important part …
Balance your Life!
Do we work to live or live to work? An international study revealed that people in all income groups, age groups and nationalities are working longer and harder …
Why Ayurveda?
Why Ayurveda? There are many highly effective health systems available to us at present. With Western modalities such as traditional allopathic medicine, to ancient Eastern traditions like Traditional …
Do Your Own Ayurvedic Self Massage – Abhyanga
Traditionally known as Abhyanga, self-massage is a nurturing practice that helps to strengthen the body, calm the mind and nourish the tissues. During this cooler time of the …
The Yoga of Happiness by Caitanya das
So I’d like to talk a little bit about happiness, our search for happiness. We all strive for happiness in this life. But what we consider happiness varies …
Cleansing with Kichadi
One of the most famous, and well loved Ayurvedic dishes in the world, Kichadi (pronounced – “kich-a-ree if you’re and Australian, or “Kich-a-dee” if you’re saying it true to it’s …
Drinking from Copper Vessels
Copper is one of the oldest metals known to human civilisation and has been used for medicinal purposes for centuries. Copper has cultural, religious, medical and astrological values. Ayurveda, the …
3 Ayurvedic Tips for Staying Balanced During Autumn
The crisp air that Autumn brings is a welcomed change after the intense heat of an Australian Summer. The bustling leaves, and cool dry wind mark the …
Real People Really Living a Yoga Lifestyle: Chris
Q: Namaste, have you always lived a yoga lifestyle? If not, was there anything which drew you towards living a yoga lifestyle? Chris: No I haven’t but I …
Real People Really Living a Yoga Lifestyle: Gopala dasi
Q: Namaste, have you always lived a yoga lifestyle? If not, was there anything which drew you towards living a yoga lifestyle? Gopala dasi: No I haven’t but …
Gardening with Stu – Improving Soil
This month let’s dig a little into the exciting world of soil. This elemental foundation of our material existence is very much under appreciated and even has …