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 [...]

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 [...]

Its getting to be that time of year again.  The time when family comes together, smiles are exchanged, and food is shared (my favorite part).  I have to admit, though, that Thanksgiving food is in my list of Top 10 meals of the year, and its the day I’m most likely to have non-raw food.  [...]

While staying at an ashram near Bangalore in India, I was introduced for the second time to the Ayurvedic practice of kavala graha, commonly known in English as oil pulling.  Ro had first told me about kavala graha when he came back from a 6 month study abroad trip in India 3 years ago.  Practicing [...]