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 [...]

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 [...]