Awaken the power of your breath

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Awaken the power of your breath

When we are born our life starts with it and our life ends with it. What an incredibly powerful function is the breath!

In today’s sedentary and stressful lifestyle, we maintain a relatively shallow and quick breath, using only a fraction of our lung capacity providing just enough of energy supply for the body to function. This way of breathing reduces our vitality, our resistance to diseases and starves our brain of essential oxygen creating tiredness, irritability, disturbed sleep cycles and so on.

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Get sprouting

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Get sprouting

Sprouting is a great way to optimise the nutritional value of grains, beans and legumes as they contain the energy, enzymes and vitamins needed to transform seeds into strong healthy plants. By the simple method of sprouting, mung beans, adzuki beans, chick peas, fenugreek, red clover, radish, sunflower seeds, rye berries and alfalfa and many grains can be eaten as a tasty addition to a super food salad, stir fry’s, in green juices and can also be lightly sautéed with ghee and spices as a snack.

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The Ayurvedic First Aid Kit

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The Ayurvedic First Aid Kit

We all have a first aid tin at home packed with plasters, antiseptic cream & wipes, antacids, anti-inflammatory, pain killing drugs, etc. But what if you wanted to achieve a quick first aid fix naturally? With just a little know how and patience you can easily find a remedy from within your own kitchen cupboards for so many common conditions. Here are 8 of my favourite first aid natural remedies.

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Palliative care for cancer patients

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Palliative care for cancer patients

Radiation to cure cancer affected parts of the body can leave a patient feeling drained of energy and feeling low in spirits. In the early stages various measure can be taken to holistically prevent cancerous tumours from developing such as herbal oils and pastes with heath therapy as well as the internal cleansing treatments of pancha karma to reduce deep seated toxins in the body. Treatments are tailored for the particular type of arbuda (cancer) and care is advised based on the individuals doshic constitution. If allopathic treatment has already taken place then palliative care can be given to improve the quality of life.

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Dress up you salad with a doshic friendly finish

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Dress up you salad with a doshic friendly finish

Since it summertime and we all want to eat healthy & enjoy a salad as the main event, but sometimes we can be left feeling bloated and gassy, so salad choices are important as we sometimes find it difficult to digest certain raw foods. Here are a sample of salad dressing recipes to help you spruce up your salads in line with your constitution.

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