Why Self-Care Is Not Optional—It’s Crucial
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Why Self-Care Is Not Optional—It’s Crucial

The goal is not to give everything of ourselves away to everybody else so that we are left a tired, sloggy, irritated, burnt out mess. Nope. Because then we bring...

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4 Ways Basking in Morning Sunlight Improves Your Health
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4 Ways Basking in Morning Sunlight Improves Your Health

Need inspiration to hop out of bed in the morning? Soaking up the early morning sunlight has a myriad of benefits for your skin, vision, sleep, and more.

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The Day-Tripper’s Satchel: 8 Essential Ayurvedic Supplies from Grandma’s Purse
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The Day-Tripper’s Satchel: 8 Essential Ayurvedic Supplies from Grandma’s Purse

Getting sick is always a drag, especially when away from home. Get prepared with simple Ayurvedic tools you can carry with you in your purse or day bag.  

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Boosting Tejas: 6 Daily Practices to Spark Your Inner Glow
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Boosting Tejas: 6 Daily Practices to Spark Your Inner Glow

Tejas—the subtle energy of pitta dosha—is known in Ayurveda to bestow a radiant and lustrous inner glow. These simple practices will help you sparkle and shine.

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How to Create Your Own At-Home Retreat [Video]
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How to Create Your Own At-Home Retreat [Video]

Dreaming of a getaway? Short on time or finances? Use these tips to create a restful Ayurvedic retreat that can be completed from the comfort of your own cozy home.

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A Day in the Life of Myra Lewin to Inspire Your Daily Routine
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A Day in the Life of Myra Lewin to Inspire Your Daily Routine

Follow along with inspirational Ayurveda practitioner and educator Myra Lewin as she shares her personal daily routines and rituals for health and vitality.

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A Winter Solstice Writing Ritual to Honor the Darkness and Celebrate the Light
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A Winter Solstice Writing Ritual to Honor the Darkness and Celebrate the Light

Pause and reflect on the year that's passed—this winter solstice writing ritual offers a simple and sacred way to honor the darkness and celebrate the light.

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Why You Should Put Oil in Your Hair
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Why You Should Put Oil in Your Hair

Applying oil to the scalp and hair will not only improve the condition of your locks but will also offer other benefits like balancing vata and increasing ojas.

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Ayurvedic Caregiving: How to Take Care of Yourself While You’re Taking Care of Others
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Ayurvedic Caregiving: How to Take Care of Yourself While You’re Taking Care of Others

Here's eight Ayurvedic tips to help you care for yourself while you're taking care of others, so that you can show up with a full and generous cup.

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Exhausted by Grind Culture? Let’s Cultivate Align Culture
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Exhausted by Grind Culture? Let’s Cultivate Align Culture

Grind culture—the idea that we achieve success by working harder and producing more—is taking a serious toll. Learn how to encourage more self-care in the workplace and beyond. 

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10 Tips to Keep Your Cool in the Heat of Summer
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10 Tips to Keep Your Cool in the Heat of Summer

The blazing summer sun can be unrelenting. So what to do when you feel the burn? Here are Kathryn's top ten "chill out" tips to beat the summer heat.

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How Does Ayurveda Fit into My Busy Life? (Answer: It’s Surprisingly Easy)
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How Does Ayurveda Fit into My Busy Life? (Answer: It’s Surprisingly Easy)

An Ayurvedic daily routine doesn't have to take over your life. Keep it simple and practical for your modern, busy lifestyle with these five supportive tips.

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Ayurvedic Skin Care | How to Do an At-Home Facial + 3 Face Masks for Glowing Skin
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Ayurvedic Skin Care | How to Do an At-Home Facial + 3 Face Masks for Glowing Skin

Treat yourself to a luxurious Ayurvedic facial in the comfort of your own home and create your own DIY masks using common, everyday ingredients that you already have in your...

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Modern Ayurvedic Self-Care to Cleanse and Nourish the Five Senses
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Modern Ayurvedic Self-Care to Cleanse and Nourish the Five Senses

Support your entire being with self-care practices for the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin that fit easily into your modern lifestyle.

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Tune into Your Adrenal Health with Ayurvedic Face and Nail Analysis
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Tune into Your Adrenal Health with Ayurvedic Face and Nail Analysis

These Ayurvedic facial and finger assessment tips will help you recognize what your kidneys and adrenals are telling, so that you can support them.

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6 Spiritual Self-Care Practices to Support a Rich and Sensual Life
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6 Spiritual Self-Care Practices to Support a Rich and Sensual Life

These Ayurvedic practices for spiritual self-care will build resiliency and the ability to respond to our ever-changing environment in flexible and adaptive ways.

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Leverage These 7 Small Daily Practices to Make Big Shifts
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Leverage These 7 Small Daily Practices to Make Big Shifts

Small but consistent practices are the most powerful way to create lasting change—both within us and around us as we co-create a more just and sustainable world.

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What Is Ayurvedic Dry Massage and Why You Should Try It
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What Is Ayurvedic Dry Massage and Why You Should Try It

Ayurvedic dry brushing, called garshana (pronounced gar-shun-uh), promotes lymphatic cleansing and is a powerful way to support the removal of ama (cellular waste products) from the body.

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The Ayurvedic Way to Cultivate Self-Love
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The Ayurvedic Way to Cultivate Self-Love

We are all beautiful and unique. Ayurveda helps us balance both our body and mind and helps open the doorway to self-realization so we can step into greater self-love.  

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Finding Strength and Inner Resiliency During Times of Change and Uncertainty
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Finding Strength and Inner Resiliency During Times of Change and Uncertainty

As a society, we’re experiencing a great deal of change. Ayurveda offers guidance to help us find inner resiliency when we’re surrounded by upheaval and uncertainty.

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How to Create a Successful Writing Ritual with the Help of Ayurveda
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How to Create a Successful Writing Ritual with the Help of Ayurveda

Ayurveda and the doshas can teach us a lot about writing. Here’s how to tap into the strengths of the doshas so you can create a successful, nourishing writing ritual.

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5 Reasons Why You May Want to Take a Break from Technology
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5 Reasons Why You May Want to Take a Break from Technology

Technology is a powerful and often necessary tool, but if we aren’t careful, it can be disruptive to our overall health. Here are four reasons to take a break.

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The Joy of Enough: Cultivating True Abundance in a Materialist World through Ayurveda
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The Joy of Enough: Cultivating True Abundance in a Materialist World through Ayurveda

Let's take a look at how we can receive true satisfaction from what we take in, rather than getting caught in the endless and insatiable search for more.

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Embracing the Body with Ayurveda
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Embracing the Body with Ayurveda

The more we cultivate love and respect for our bodies through the wisdom of Ayurveda, the greater our capacity to embrace and respect our communities at large.

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Self-Care Ideas

As a holistic system of self-care, Ayurveda offers guidance on how to establish a supportive, healthy routine, build meal plans just for you, manage stress, prioritize sleep, cultivate relationships with loved ones, and much more.

Ayurveda is all about living in a way that supports your well-being, reconnecting you to the rhythms of nature and to your spiritual self. Its timeless, ancient wisdom offers many rituals and practices you can incorporate into your daily routine to embrace self-care.

These blogs are dedicated to the subject of nurturing and celebrating self-care. Think of them as bite-sized self-care books, full of tips on how to uplift yourself spiritually, emotionally, and physically throughout your daily life. Many of these tips are simple, only taking a little time each day, but they offer profound benefits.

For example, abhyanga, or self-massage with oil, is a delightful self-care practice and is a great way to show your body, mind, and spirit some love. Ayurveda recommends massaging yourself daily to melt away muscle tension, soothe the nervous system, and promote healthy circulation.

Another calming ritual you can implement into your Ayurvedic lifestyle is pranayama, or helpful breathing practices to reduce stress, soothe the mind, and allow you to draw your attention and energy toward your breath and energy.

A supportive meditation practice can also be incredibly beneficial for your Ayurvedic lifestyle. It calms the mind, cultivates a greater ability to concentrate on goals, and can benefit your yoga practice as well, especially if you meditate right after your yoga practice.

Written by Ayurvedic experts, wellness professionals, and dedicated members of the Ayurvedic community who have a passion for helping others feel their very best, these blogs will cover tips for morning, evening, and daily rituals to support your health.

We'll also share recommendations for Ayurvedic self-care products that you can use to support your physical and emotional health from a place of love, as well as self-care gifts you can treat yourself with on special occasions, or whenever you feel like pampering yourself.

When making a self-care commitment, it's important to check in with yourself and understand which part of your lifestyle you want to focus on. Once you've identified the areas of your life that feel out of balance or that you'd like to change, you can begin making more informed choices to support that intention.

Whether you make drastic changes on your journey to commit to self-care or only make a small step, know that any time you make a change to better serve your well-being, you're on the right track.

Every person's track is different, but Ayurveda can help you navigate it. You can think of Ayurveda as a helpful resource that can be fine-tuned to your needs. In fact, its unique adaptability is one of the reasons that Ayurveda has endured for thousands of years.

With these resources, our hope is that you become inspired to form your own self-care routines, rituals, and checklists to help you pay attention to the aspects of your life that need some extra nourishment.