One of the ways that I keep my diet balanced is by eating a portion of fermented foods daily.  Most traditional cultures include some fermented foods in their diets, because of their contribution to a healthy body and their extremely long shelf life.  Dishes and drinks, such as sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, cheese, kefir, and pickles, [...]

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Sheetali pranayama is a breathing technique to reduce heat in the body.  It is often referred to as the “Cooling Breath”.  Using the cooling tendencies of the tongue, sheetali pranayama only allows cool, relaxed breaths to enter the body.  These breaths have the effect of lowering the temperature of the body, as well as cooling [...]

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Since I got back from India, I’ve been wanting to do a series of videos on pranayama, since most of the videos I found that actually explained the techniques well were in Hindi.  Now that I finally have some free time, I’m going to really get these started.  I’ll try to make these as easy [...]

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