Summertime is the time for salad-the possibilities are endless. 🌺🌱🍅 In the Virginia summers, greens grow in abundance, fruit starts popping off and there are edible flowers galore! It’s one of my favorite times of the year. ⁠ Of course Ayurveda suggests not over consuming raw food, but there are plenty of ways around this. […]

Two more of my fave supports for allergy season are quercetin (studies have shown that quercetin can prevent immune cells from releasing histamines which means runny nose, hives and swelling = bye bye 👋🏼) and Green Tea (’cause it’s high in quercetin 😉). ⁠ ⁠ Ayurveda understands that allergies are the result of an outer […]

One of the keys to good digestion in Ayurveda is keeping things SIMPLE. Less complicated meals give our digestive fire a chance to rest and truly metabolize the fuel we’re feeding the fire. ⁠ ⁠ Peas are light, astringent and slightly drying-aka they help balance kapha’s natural heaviness and tendency to hold onto all the […]

Why Dry Brush? Dry Brushing (traditionally called garshana) helps move stagnation, stimulates Rasa Dhatu’s flow, boosts our natural detoxification system and gives the skin that GLOW we all want! 🌟⁠ ⁠ In Ayurveda, our lymph is part of the Rasa Dhatu, one of the 7 tissues of the body.⁠ ⁠ The lymph and blood plasma […]

To further support you during this kapha season, I want to offer up one of my go-to recipes for one of my favorite grounding veggies: the beet! ⁠ ⁠ Beets are loaded with health benefits and when I eat them regularly I feel like I have some sort of super strength. ⁠ ⁠ Their rich […]

For this recipe, just let the sun do the steeping. 🌞 Steep dried rose petals and fresh mint in a glass jar under direct sunlight for a few hours. (No need to measure perfectly – just add what you’ve got on hand!) Sip room temperature or slightly chilled throughout the day to stay hydrated and […]