Hi Friends, Here is another Kitchadi (basmati rice and dal stew) to help your body in this Spring. Comforting Kichadi (This kichadi recipe works well as an antidote to diarrhea because the red masoor dal [...]
As I had detailed in Metta Blog 15, Spring is the hardest season on our bodies because of the transition from a heating system during winter to a cooling system in Spring. Ayurveda, the Indian [...]
Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. -The Buddha Spring is a trying time for our bodies to navigate. As the temperature outside fluctuates, this demands our interior [...]
Let mindfulness start your day and change your life. Commit to practicing and benefit from the ancient practice of Vipassana meditation. Over 30 days, you will be guided in the techniques to single pointed focus, [...]
As we deepen in our capacity to be present in our lives, we can use meditation to understand our emotions. For many people, this is the most profound aspect of meditating. Emotions are complex manifestations [...]
In the Buddha's eight fold path of awakening, mindful speech is so important that it is one of the eight limbs to live awake, free from misperceptions and enlightened. Everyday we communicate in thousands of [...]
In my compassion and mindfulness course, the session on core values is always a pivotal session in which many participants realize that they have never acknowledged them directly and with respect. Then when they do, [...]
Meditation practice was created thousands of years ago to help train our awareness to be steady, inclusive and accessible. If lucky, our awareness cuts through habitual patterns of confusion, pain or suffering and leads to [...]
Mindfulness seems to be around every corner as we move into 2019. As mindfulness gains cultural momentum, there is a risk that its definition becomes more muddled. If we are to practice effectively and teach [...]
Practicing meditation is the art of resting in the present moment with openness and curiosity. That sounds great, doesn't it? Yet, as soon as you start a meditation practice, you may notice the opposite - [...]
