Who knows your body best? You? Or your doctor? People will give different answers to this question. Those answers will indicate where you are along a whole spectrum, and there are many factors which will push us towards one or Read More …
In this day and age we are increasingly exposed to heavy metals. What are they and how do we get exposed? Aluminium – from deodorants, processed food and vaccines Arsenic – from pesticides (therefore may be present in food) Cadmium Read More …
Language is important: it frames the way we think. When I studied Ayurvedic Medicine at Middlesex University, it was one of a number of so-called “complementary” therapies. The term succinctly defines a therapy that is secondary to a (non-specified) main Read More …
We are hearing the word trauma a lot more nowadays. Gradually it is coming into general consciousness that trauma is something that has affected many of us and may be the underlying cause of a variety of physical and mental Read More …
Sometimes we want to change something about ourselves and it seems impossible: we see how we are stuck in patterns of behaviour, family dynamics that repeat over and over again. Yoga gives us a simple method to rewrite our neural Read More …
Unconsciously driven behaviour can produce some surprising results….. My Mother loves flowers. I love flowers. From time to time, my Mother would buy me some flowers in a pot for the garden. How lovely! But rather than plant the flowers Read More …
As the nights draw in and the weather grows colder we can stoke our digestive fire and keep ourselves healthy with warming soups using spices such as garlic, coriander and cumin. Pumpkin Soup Cut pumpkin up (removing seeds) and Read More …
Do you remember the fairy stories you heard when you were growing up? They often began with a quest — to slay a dragon or to rescue a princess and there were always three brothers…. The eldest brother sets off Read More …
Ghee is the most prized source of dietary fat in Ayurveda, due to its ability to support digestion without increasing heat in the body. It is also nourishing for both the nervous system and brain. Ghee is a good source Read More …
Imagine, if you will, a baby in her mother’s arms: When she cries she is fed, when she’s wakeful there is warm contact and when she is tired she is gently rocked to sleep. Her ideal mother is always available Read More …