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.
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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.
Fresh Cranberry Relish Recipe
American holiday meals can be festive and delicious–but so often heavy! Fresh Cranberry Relish lightens up any plate laden high with traditional favorites. There's no tastier way to bring a dollop of balance to a bellyful of rich holiday foods! A sweet and sassy pink...
Recognize the Forces of Nature • Doshaspotting at the Train Station
Look around on any busy street, in the mall or while waiting for your next train… Can you guess which woman’s nature best demonstrates each of the three doshas – vata, pitta and kapha?
Ayurveda Recipe: Watermelon Drink
Watermelon can be a blessing or a curse! Try this Ayurvedic watermelon drink recipe to get all the benefits of watermelon. And don’t forget this simple rule…
Ayurveda Recipe: Ginger Dressing
Warm, delicious Ginger Dressing makes a simple salad a tasty, easy-to-digest delight! Ayurvedic nutrition usuallys recommend cooked, moist, oily (unctuous), well-spiced foods, especially in the winter time. When winter's cold and damp surrounds you, it's natural for...
Discovering Ayurveda Workshop
Lovely, intelligent women gathered in a hushed and rich, red room, everyone thirsty for a taste from the life-giving pool of Ayurvedic knowledge and experience, and we were off into two hours of wonder as I presented my workshop, Discover Ayurveda: The Senses in the Layers of Life. If you wish you’d been with us that evening, it’s not too…
Everyone’s Different
Ayurveda teaches that we all come into this life with a unique nature. Knowing your nature is the perfect starting point for figuring out what’s best for you!
Taste Is Healing – Ayurvedic Nutrition
Have you ever become fascinated with a particular diet or found yourself fixated on the personality of a diet book author, thinking – ‘This is it! I’ve found my dietary calling!’
Authentic Beauty
…what you do every day…can encourage or diminish all aspects of your well-being, and ultimately, your ojas, the source of your authentic beauty.
Ayurveda Retreat Session at St. Lucia
I never guessed I’d be spending the long weekend teaching Ayurveda in beautiful ruins on tropical St. Lucia island, surrounded by the bluest blue of the Caribbean Sea. I always enjoy watching those faces light up and eyes sparkle when women “get it”…