Know the Basics of Basins
Creating depressions in your landscape is a simple, effective way to harvest rainwater, leveraging gravity to slow, spread and sink the precious liquid as it falls and moves down the grade of your landscape.
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Choose Permeable Paving
Here are some ideas for patios, pathways and other paved surfaces that allow water to infiltrate through to the earth below.
Find the guide here.
Form Landscape Mounds
Raising drought-tolerant plants up above the more water-loving species in your water-harvesting landscape makes sense. Varying heights in your landscape by mimicking the natural landforms in your area will help route and hold water during rainfall, create visual interest and create a greater variety of mini micro-climates, just like Nature does.
Go STRONG into the New Year
If anxiety, uncertainty and a strange anticipation cling to your heart and mind–don’t feel alone!
Calm & Grounded – Niika talks with Andrea Ferretti on YogaLand Podcast
Come back to a balanced state with Ayurvedic wisdom. Hear about some simple ways you can help yourself when you’re feeling ungrounded, stressed or upset. YogaLand Podcast Interview with Niika Quistgard and Andrea Ferretti
Summer’s Here… Keep Cool!
Summer’s not all softness. It has its harsher qualities. And when excess heat, light and activity pile up, you’re more vulnerable to the effects. Simple Ayurveda-inspired wisdom will help you introduce cooling, calming sensations into your summer days, so you can enjoy all Summer’s glories – the warmth and freedom you love–with no fear of imbalance. You don’t have to…
Mothering Mama: Postnatal Meals
The postpartum time is a vulnerable one, according to Ayurveda. Mom needs great nutrition, and plenty of rest and support, too. Yes! Please bring new Mom meals for the first 6 weeks after her delivery! But pizza, salad and brownies won’t do…
Ayurveda for Conception, Pregnancy and Post-Natal Care
Preparing for conception… Conceiving… Being pregnant… Delivering a child… Your vulnerable and transformative post-natal months… At every point along this journey of creation, Ayurveda can help you align yourself with Mother Nature’s intelligence and energy.
Goodbye Rasa Ayurveda
After spending much of the last 9 years here in Kerala, South India – a time richly abundant with life, love, learning and service–the moment has come to permanently close Rasa Ayurveda Traditional Healing Centre for Women.
Seeing the Gold
From the very beginning, Sanju aniyan and I found our sympatico, aligning together to see all people–even in the midst of illness, poverty, confusion or a bad mood–as whole and good. As we grew our clinic–sharing Ayurveda with women from everywhere–we trained our eyes to focus on the “gold under the rust!”
Ayurveda Snack Recipe • Crunchy and Sweet
Brazil nuts give a satisfying, grounding kind of crunch sensation when crushed between the teeth. And honey? It’s a wonder food!
Enjoy Healthy Holidays – Protect Your Ojas
Can you land on January 1st feeling happy, healthy and satisfied–your heart filled with contentment–at the end of this holiday season? Yes – you can! If you learn to protect your ojas thru the holidays.