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Why Yogis Dig Detox

Clear your Channels. To know how your body works from the inside out. To know your tools. Heal your old injuries. Advance your practice.

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Signs You Should Detox

I’m often asked, “How do I know if I should detox?” If you were raising on Corn Flakes and cow’s milk from the grocery store, chances are your parents didn’t instigate seasonal detoxing for the household. Chances are detox is not a bi-annual ritual for you. If you do detox seasonally or annually, you are answering the question yourself. You detox when you’re over your current state of affairs. Perhaps you detox to show the door to the extra 5 lbs., or your eyes are getting itchy with allergies, or you’ve been a little stressed out and lost your joie de vivre.

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trauma recovery – yogahealer quick guide

With so many people experiencing traumatic events like the hurricanes, earthquakes and devastating losses, I created a little quick guide for when you have a chance to direct energy out of survival and get back on track. Below I give a short description of what trauma does to the doshas. Please forward the quick guide cheat sheet to anyone you … Read more

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Teach your kids neti pot

Why your kids need to learn how to neti pot

Now more than ever kids need neti pots. Or rhino horns (the plastic version). The reason kids need to learn to use the neti pot more than ever now is because of:

  • There is more processed foods in our diet
  • There is more processed dairy in our diet
  • Kids immune
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Raw Foods Ayurveda vs. Traditional Ayurveda

Raw or Cooked Ayurveda

First off, press play and watch my silly cartoon.

Vatas can’t go raw. Or can they?

In yoga and Ayurveda circles there can be an unfriendly, and sometimes uninformed bias against raw or living foods. One of the main arguments is that raw food creates a vata imbalance. And I agree, this does happen. Yet, in … Read more

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Top 4 reasons for online holistic health coaching

Three months ago I was Skyping with River and her parents. She is 17 years old and suffers from an autoimmune disease. Her mom has followed my blog for about a year, and inquired what we could do for River’s immune integrity. We scheduled an hour Skype sess.

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Your perfection detector – free yoga class with Cate Stillman

For the last year I’ve been integrating themes from my experiences in Integral Enlightenment into my level 2 flow class in Driggs. I taught this class shortly after our IE retreat , where Craig Hamilton introduced this concept of our perfection radar. The concept is simple- we have a universal proclivity to move towards a more perfect world. When we … Read more

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Unassisted birth: a mother’s story

Listen to this inspiring audio of a yoga mom… who decides to allow her birth process to happen in her own time, in her own home, in her own hands.

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Grounding Anusara Yoga – a rebuttal

Dear readers,
I’ve been asking by many about my take on the Anusara debacle. I wasn’t moved to write until I read this blog post : grounding anusara 2: a brief ayurvedic follow-up consultation by Matthew Remski. I commented on his blog below, and decided to paste it here for your perusal.

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healthier kids 101

Cate’s big realization:

Homo sapiens have the physiological and intellectual capacity to understand how to take care of their body and personally prevent disease by the age of 10.

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