If you’re reading this at the approximate date/time it’s been posted (Monday, November 4, 2024), it’s a slightly brighter morning, and maybe you feel a bit more rested. No one seems to remember these aspects of falling back into daylight savings time, which went intoread more

Hosted by Jillian Pransky Seasonal alignment is a pillar of health and healing in both the Ayurvedic and yoga traditions. When we acknowledge the qualities and elements at play in our external and internal environments, we can make choices for how we eat, move, andread more

Balance is something we do all the time, something we strive to be, and yet it is neither and both of them at the same time. Balance to me is an adaptive continuum—a sort of wave-particle non-dual fact of life that defies our rigid waysread more

Ayurveda is all about having just enough of what you need, which can make it hard when people want to buy you gifts. There’s nothing wrong with acquiring things that make you happy without a specific purpose, but we can also derive a lot ofread more

Sometimes studying Ayurveda feels like studying poetry. Given my penchant for a well-turned verse, this is usually more of a draw than a problem for me, but occasionally I wish the authors of these 5,000-year-old texts could have been a little more . . .read more

This post almost didn’t happen. For several weeks, I’ve been running uncharacteristically late for things, a new trait I attribute to any or all of the following on a given day: slow computer/MTA/doctor’s-office receptionists/generalized anxiety/acute high-functioning depression/wet nail polish/wind/too many unreasonable work deadlines/mid-life-crisis brain/muscle strains/early-March winds.read more