I was interviewed by Elizabeth Roberts and Jane Clark for Beshara Magazine’s Spring 2020 issue. We had a long, wide ranging discussion about my love of both herbal medicine and Ayurveda, working with people in their miriad different constitutions, using the herbs from my garden as well as traditional Ayurvedic herbs, tapping into the […]
Why we need to detox Just as we regularly take showers, wash our hair, brush our teeth and tend to the outside of our bodies, the internal systems of our body – most importantly our digestive system – benefit from regular cleansing and care. Toxins are a product of our everyday lives and are related […]
February is a month when warm blankets, roaring fires and hot soup are particularly appealing – I don’t know about you but I wouldn’t mind being able to hibernate! But why is it that long nights and cold weather make us feel so lacking in motivation and energy? When we wake up in daylight we […]
Happy New Year! Are you feeling tired and somewhat jaded after the excesses of the festive season? If so, you are not the only one, for during the apparently unending, dark winter months after Christmas, many of us feel that our health is at a low ebb. This is just at this time that we […]
We are so excited about our new website that we just want to tell everyone all about it! The aim of the Learn Living Ayurveda website is to give you access to a vast resource of knowledge and wisdom about the incredible system of Ayurveda that you can use to optimise your health and wellbeing […]
Taken from ‘The Ayurveda Bible’ by Anne McIntyre For the first of our ‘Spotlight on Herbs’ blog posts I’ve chosen Shatavari. This herb is an excellent nourishing tonic and the most important Sattvic rejuvenative for women – hence the name which translates as ‘she who possesses a hundred husbands‘! It is cooling and moistening, restoring balance when […]
I have been studying and practicing Ayurveda now for more years than I care to think about, but even so I am scratching at the surface of a healing system with over 5,000 years of history. As a student of the Living Wisdom course you may be interested in Ayurveda on a personal level, or it may […]
After the last post we have heard from many people that they were excited about trying kichari! Now we’d like to tell you about Ayurveda’s famous “three fruit” formula triphala. Triphala is by far the best and safest Ayurvedic formula for cleansing the bowel. Triphala is a blended powder of three amazing tropical fruits; amalaki, haritaki, […]