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Fall, Food, Herbs, Recipe

Fall Lickable

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This little lickable is great for when you’ve got the ick (a.k.a. Cold and Flu season)

Add together:

  • 3 tablespoons Manuka honey 
  • 3 tablespoons Grass-fed ghee
  • 1 tsp. Turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp. Licorice powder 
  • ½ tsp. Cinnamon 
  • ¼ tsp. Cardamom 
  • A few dashes of Cayenne Pepper powder (*leave out if it’s too much heat for your system) 

Mix all together until a smooth paste. 

Lick a teaspoon a few times a day!

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Here’s how to use these different herbs to balan Here’s how to use these different herbs to balance summer pitta heat: ⁠
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🌹TEAS & INFUSIONS⁠
Steep dried herbs in boiling water for several hours:⁠
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• Licorice⁠
• Rose⁠
• Hibiscus⁠
• Rose Hips⁠
• Marshmallow⁠
• Mint⁠
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In the summer, you want to stay really hydrated, and that doesn’t mean just drinking a ton of cold ice water. It means drinking things that hold lubricants in them like licorice tea, rose tea, hibiscus tea, rose hips and marshmallow tea. All of these are cooling and damp and will help plump up the skin full of water (but not in a water-retentive sort of way).⁠
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🌿 HERBS FOR ABHYANGA⁠
Choose oils infused with these herbs and plants over the summer:⁠
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• Neem⁠
• Lavender⁠
• Jasmine ⁠
• Rose⁠
• Helichrysum⁠
• Frankincense⁠
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Ayurveda teaches that staying hydrated and cool is really about having a daily skincare routine whether it be January or July. The cornerstone of Ayurvedic skincare is putting herbal-infused oils on your body every day. Herbal infused oils are natural skin protectants and healers.⁠
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🌸 FACIAL CARE⁠
Make a hydrating facial spritzer with:⁠
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• Jasmine⁠
• Rose⁠
• Lavender⁠
• Frankincense⁠
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You also want to stay hydrated on the outside. This time of year, I’ve got little bottles of spritzers everywhere and I just spritz myself all the time, slightly obsessively. Keep your skin moist. Mist and spritz! ⁠
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Remember some of the qualities of pitta: hot, ligh Remember some of the qualities of pitta: hot, light, oily, sharp, intense, and mobile. 

Because of these inherent qualities, pitta-type people will do best with forms of body movement that cultivate the opposing qualities (i.e., exercising in temperate or cool weather, and exercising in a calm and steady way). 

Working out in this manner will help relieve some of the tension, intensity, heat, and irritability associated with pitta imbalance. It will also help get rid of any excess Fire (i.e., stress and acid) in the body, most specifically in the sites where heat accumulates—small intestine, liver, blood, head, and eyes. If you exercise in a way that aggravates pitta, you will actually accumulate more Fire in those body parts. 

Any body type will benefit from using the pitta-reducing routine if they are relatively healthy and it is summer.

Pitta types can tend to be overly competitive and “burn out.” Make sure to hydrate your pitta body with water or other liquids, particularly in the summer time.

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Put all of the ingredients except the zinc into a Put all of the ingredients except the zinc into a large glass mason jar. Fill a medium saucepan with a few inches of water and place that on medium heat. Loosely fit the lid on the jar and place that in the water. ⁠
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Let all those ingredients melt together completely, shaking or stirring to get it all blended.⁠
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Once everything is melted, take it off the heat, add in the zinc, secure the lid, shake it up and stir it well. Then pour it into whatever container you plan on keeping the sunscreen in and let it cool.⁠
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This sunscreen has around 35 to 40 SPF naturally!⁠
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And one more thing - if you still love conventional sunscreen and want to keep using it, just avoid any sunscreen that has oxybenzone. Oxybenzone is found in about 40% of sunscreens and it’s been banned in Japan and parts of Europe because it’s been found to be a major endocrine disruptor related to infertility, hormone imbalance and low birth rates.⁠
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Remember the golden rule in Ayurveda: ⁠
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We don’t put anything on our skin that we would not use in our kitchen. 🥣⁠
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Enjoy your summer and take care of your skin! ✨⁠
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One thing about Pitta types… they usually have a One thing about Pitta types… they usually have an opinion. 🔥😉

I see pitta as a glowingly hot arrow. She is the heat of transformation. She is the energy of Fire and a little Water. You may have experienced pitta’s imbalanced side when you have had fever, loose stools, skin rash or acne, or the heated emotions of anger and frustration.

On the plane of the mind and spirit, pitta carries the gift of discernment that can cut through the smokescreen, allowing you to see a situation clearly.

You know your mental pitta is weak, for example, if you continually repeat the same life errors over and over again (I think of dating).

You will know your mental fire is getting stronger when you can quickly sift the wheat from the chaff-and do so with grace and kindness. 

When we use our pitta fire for good, we have the ability to see the white-hot truth about ourselves and others. 

When it is out of balance, we become overly critical and compulsive—like those people who insist on rearranging others’ emotional spice cabinets or micromanaging a grown child’s life path.

🌱 Are you ready to learn more about the three Ayurvedic mind-body types AKA doshas? Learn more in my podcast episode, “The Three Doshas: Are You a Bullfrog or an Orchid?” 

Comment “179” and I’ll send you the link!
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We live in a world engineered to hijack desire. 

Every scroll, click, notification and purchase promises satisfaction, yet many women feel more exhausted, disconnected and uninspired than ever. 

In this provocative Spirit Session, Katie explores the difference between dopamine-driven craving and the deeper force of kama described in Ayurveda and Tantra: the sacred life force that fuels love, creativity, intimacy, purpose and spiritual awakening. 

Together we’ll examine how modern culture fragments our attention and drains our vitality, and how reclaiming desire as a sacred force can restore radiance, passion and meaning.

In this session you’ll learn:

✨ The difference between dopamine-driven stimulation and authentic desire
✨ Why so many women feel simultaneously overstimulated and undernourished
✨ The Ayurvedic understanding of kama as a sacred force of creation
✨ How chronic scrolling, shopping, achievement and distraction can distort the natural flow of life force
✨ The surprising connection between sexual energy, creativity, purpose and spiritual vitality
✨ How to recognize the difference between longing that depletes you and longing that awakens you
✨ Why desire is not the enemy of spirituality, but one of its most misunderstood doorways
✨ The relationship between Shakti, magnetism, beauty and embodied feminine power
✨ Practices to restore healthy desire, reclaim your attention and reconnect with what truly nourishes you
✨ How to move from addiction, compulsion and burnout into inspiration, devotion and aliveness

Join us LIVE for this workshop on June 11th at 10am US Eastern Time or catch the replay (plus get access to our massive vault of prior workshops and classes) when you join the membership. 

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