Metta Blog #17: Comforting Kitchadi recipe
Hi Friends, Here is great Kitchadi (basmati rice and dal stew) recipe to help your body in the transition seasons of Autumn and Spring. This stew is soothing and nourishing. If you have a hard [...]
Metta Blog #16: Ayurvedic Recipe for the Spring to soothe and restore
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 [...]
Metta Blog #15: Ayurvedic Self Care Rituals in the Spring
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 [...]
Ayurveda: Ancient Medicinal Science with the Wisdom for Our Health by Allison Ulan B.F.A. Holistic Fitness Trainer and Yoga Instructor
Since I was a child, I knew what foods felt right for my body. I also knew which ones did not feel correct and sent my body and mind into a funk. Yet, when I [...]
Ayurvedic Self-Care for Autumn and Winter by Allison Ulan
Ayurveda has been India’s traditional health system for thousands of years. Translated as ‘science of life’, its methods prescribe and detail how to use foods, herbs, Yoga and health routines to support our health to [...]
Top 3 Ways of Working with Mental Obstacles in Our Meditation Practice – 2022
So you have started a meditation practice. But you mind does not want to settle when you sit down. Your mind wonders to your to do lists, ruminates on past actions or jumps to future [...]
Online – 30 days of Mindfulness Meditation with Allison Ulan
Commit to practice and embody the art of of self care. At the heart of mindfulness is compassion and awareness. Through the progressive stages of mindfulness training, you will learn the skills of somatic grounding, [...]
Working with Our Emotions by Allison Ulan B.F.A. E-RYT 500 YACEP, YACEP, IAYT
As we deepen in our capacity to be present in our lives, we can use our contemplative and centring practises such as yoga and meditation to understand our emotions. Through guiding courses for over 25 [...]
What is Mindfulness? Metta Blog #19 by Allison Ulan B.F.A., E-RYT500, YACEP
Mindfulness has become a common term in the past ten years. As mindfulness gains cultural momentum, there is a risk that its definition may become muddled. If we are to practice effectively and teach these [...]
Metta Blog #18 Meaningful Connection – 3 Ways to Cultivate Mindfulness in Your Speech by Allison Ulan
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 [...]
Living from Our Core Values Metta Blog #20
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, [...]
Metta Blog 12: Using Loving Kindness to Anchor Our Awareness
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 [...]