After the annual spring Cleanse & Restore I received many questions about whether participants should maintain a plant-based diet or eat meat. This is a deeply personal decision. Luckily Ayurveda does not advocate that everyone be vegan nor that everyone eat meat. It truly depends. Given everyone has a unique mind-body constitution, what is best […]

If you are a coffee drinker, ditch the coffee for this healthy morning alternative.  If you are looking for something warm to tuck you in at night, this too is your drink. In Ayurveda, homemade nut milk combined with dates, spices, and ghee is revered for building ojas.  Ojas is the vital essence that boosts […]

Attuning your diet to the seasons will support your equilibrium and optimal health throughout the year.  Ayurveda suggests that like increases like and opposites balance.  As autumn arrives the qualities of cool, light, rough and mobile are more present.  Introducing the opposite qualities of warm, heavy, smooth and stable can be deeply nourishing and balancing […]

The cool winds of autumn have arrived.  It’s the time of year to bring your warming and comforting soup recipes back into weekly meal planning.  Red lentils are an easy favorite, especially on weeknights, when you may be short on time to get a meal on the table.  They cook quickly and are more easily […]

Five years ago I made a commitment to make and pack a home cooked meal everyday to take to work for lunch.  This came after years of regularly eating out.   Both my pocket book and my digestion have benefitted from eating a more wholesome lunch. Set the sandwiches aside. Veggie bowls are by far the […]

With holiday gluttony in our recent pasts, January is a perfect time of year to cleanse and support healthy digestion.  Kitchari is a nourishing Ayurvedic dish, that is common in India and Nepal, which is balancing for all constitutions or doshas.  It includes each of the six tastes: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astringent. […]

Angela Gargano, owner of Bliss Flow Yoga and Angels + Thieves, has a gift for exceptional food pairings.  A few years ago she brought Oregon Growers + Shippers, Apple Fennel Chutney, back from a west coast visit, to be retailed in the yoga studio boutique.  Given I love apples and fennel, I was excited to […]

A vibrant variety of cauliflower with fractal like spiral patterns and a bright green color, romanesco stands with a beauty all of its own.  I eagerly await the arrival of romanesco at the farmer’s market and coop as it is so striking and one of my favorite vegetables.  This week I bought three heads as […]

This is a very simple, flavorful and fairly quick homemade chicken soup.   It is nourishing and the perfect cure for fending off winter colds. 2 quart water 2 chicken breast or thighs, bone in + skin on 1 small onion, chopped 3 carrots, chopped + divided 3 celery stalks, chopped + divided 2 cloves […]

It seems many people are fending off this season’s cold, the cure?  An immune boosting soup of  greens, garlic, and bone broth.  A big thanks to my incredibly kind and generous neighbors who gifted me kale and chard from their abundant fall harvest to inspire this soup. And to Amy, my dear friend who made […]