Vital REVIVAL Blog

Vital REVIVAL Blog

Liquid Love: Chai Tea Recipe

Liquid Love: Chai Tea Recipe

Sipping a good cup of tea is a natural meditation, isn’t it? Time-honored in many cultures for calming your nerves and sharpening your mind, taking a few minutes to fully enjoy preparing and drinking a cup of tea allows a subtle satisfaction and relaxation to pervade your whole being. Learning to make your own fresh tea with a radiant palette…

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Letting Life Decide

Letting Life Decide

Instead of deciding what it is I “need to fix” about myself or my life–instead of listing all the things I need to straighten out, improve or do away with by making resolutions–I let Life decide.

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Calm, Strong and Energized–with Adaptogenic Herbs

Calm, Strong and Energized–with Adaptogenic Herbs

You’re trying to keep healthy and stay steady, so you can handle your responsibilities and relationships the best way you know how, while you also adjust and respond to the ‘crazy’ life’s thrown your way. That can be a heavy load.

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The Wish

The Wish

Rasa Ayurveda Traditional Healing Centre for Women began as a wish in my heart, a wish to offer women the opportunity to experience authentic Ayurveda in a sacred, ashram-like environment where the guru each woman listened to is her own inner wisdom.

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Sensory Therapy Soothes Anxiety

Sensory Therapy Soothes Anxiety

Are your senses nervous or nourished?You can become so "head-driven" in a technology-obsessed, speed-of-mind lifestyle, you leave much of yourself behind as you speed through work, errands and screen time, day after day. It's great to feel busy, focused and in demand....

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Mother of Healing

Mother of Healing

When I was ill, injured or out-of-sorts as a young girl, my mother never made me feel like a patient. She cared for me always as her daughter–who she loved, respected, and simply happened to not be feeling well. She tended to my care with a wise mix of affection, surrender, and faith in my innate ability to heal.

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Summer’s Here… Keep Cool!

Summer’s Here… Keep Cool!

Summer’s not all softness. It has its harsher qualities. And when excess heat, light and activity pile up, you’re more vulnerable to the effects. Simple Ayurveda-inspired wisdom will help you introduce cooling, calming sensations into your summer days, so you can enjoy all Summer’s glories – the warmth and freedom you love–with no fear of imbalance. You don’t have to…

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Mothering Mama: Postnatal Meals

Mothering Mama: Postnatal Meals

The postpartum time is a vulnerable one, according to Ayurveda. Mom needs great nutrition, and plenty of rest and support, too. Yes! Please bring new Mom meals for the first 6 weeks after her delivery! But pizza, salad and brownies won’t do…

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Ayurveda for Conception, Pregnancy and Post-Natal Care

Ayurveda for Conception, Pregnancy and Post-Natal Care

Preparing for conception… Conceiving… Being pregnant… Delivering a child… Your vulnerable and transformative post-natal months… At every point along this journey of creation, Ayurveda can help you align yourself with Mother Nature’s intelligence and energy.

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Seeing the Gold

Seeing the Gold

From the very beginning, Sanju aniyan and I found our sympatico, aligning together to see all people–even in the midst of illness, poverty, confusion or a bad mood–as whole and good. As we grew our clinic–sharing Ayurveda with women from everywhere–we trained our eyes to focus on the “gold under the rust!”

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Enjoy Healthy Holidays – Protect Your Ojas

Enjoy Healthy Holidays – Protect Your Ojas

Can you land on January 1st feeling happy, healthy and satisfied–your heart filled with contentment–at the end of this holiday season? Yes – you can! If you learn to protect your ojas thru the holidays.

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Fresh Cranberry Relish Recipe

Fresh Cranberry Relish Recipe

American holiday meals can be festive and delicious–but so often heavy! Fresh Cranberry Relish lightens up any plate laden high with traditional favorites. There's no tastier way to bring a dollop of  balance to a bellyful of rich holiday foods! A sweet and sassy pink...

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Ayurveda Recipe: Ginger Dressing

Ayurveda Recipe: Ginger Dressing

Warm, delicious Ginger Dressing makes a simple salad a tasty, easy-to-digest delight! Ayurvedic nutrition usuallys recommend cooked, moist, oily (unctuous),  well-spiced foods, especially in the winter time. When winter's cold and damp surrounds you, it's natural for...

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Discovering Ayurveda Workshop

Discovering Ayurveda Workshop

Lovely, intelligent women gathered in a hushed and rich, red room, everyone thirsty for a taste from the life-giving pool of Ayurvedic knowledge and experience, and we were off into two hours of wonder as I presented my workshop, Discover Ayurveda: The Senses in the Layers of Life. If you wish you’d been with us that evening, it’s not too…

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Everyone’s Different

Everyone’s Different

Ayurveda teaches that we all come into this life with a unique nature. Knowing your nature is the perfect starting point for figuring out what’s best for you!

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Authentic Beauty

Authentic Beauty

…what you do every day…can encourage or diminish all aspects of your well-being, and ultimately, your ojas, the source of your authentic beauty.

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Ayurveda Retreat Session at St. Lucia

Ayurveda Retreat Session at St. Lucia

I never guessed I’d be spending the long weekend teaching Ayurveda in beautiful ruins on tropical St. Lucia island, surrounded by the bluest blue of the Caribbean Sea. I always enjoy watching those faces light up and eyes sparkle when women “get it”…

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Liquid Love: Chai Tea Recipe Warms and Stimulates
Sipping a good cup of tea is a natural meditation, isn’t it?