Feeling BLOATED and TIRED with POOR APPETITE and LOOSE STOOLS? The way our bodies process food and water affects how much energy we can produce and how well all of our organ systems work, which in turn nourishes our body, mind, and soul. Chinese medicine views nourishment as reliant on two qualities: the capacity for [...]
Tantric Hatha Yoga 5 Day Intensive | Tantric Hatha Shuddhi (Cleanse) with Whitney Cummins 6:30-7:30 am Monday 25th - Friday 29th September 2023 Come to all sessions or just one! Begin your day by wiping the mental and physical slate clean with the ancient practices of Tantra and Hatha Yoga. Shuddhi शुद्धि is the purification, [...]
Empowered gut health for IBS & Weight loss- The potential to solve gut issues The gut itself contains a thin layer of brain cells (neurons) called the Enteric nervous system which is involved with managing the process of digestion and moderating gut discomfort. The enteric nervous system is often referred to as body's second brain. There are hundreds of [...]
Ayurvedic Sun Foods, Ground Foods & Earth Foods by Pip Atherstone-Reid Another way of choosing your food is by considering where in the environment they grow. Foods that grow more than 1 metre above the ground are considered Sun foods, they absorb the maximum energy from the sun. And are considered very high, etheric foods. [...]
The Nature of Food by Pip Atherstone-Reid WARMING OR COOLING Different foods are considered warm or cooling to our systems in Traditional Medicines. Warming and hot foods; warm the body and cooling and cold foods; cool the body. Cool foods are generally harder to digest than warmer foods if not eaten in balance as [...]
Chinese and Ayurvedic Medicine talk a lot about Digestive Fire and place a lot importance in eating foods and adopting habits that keep the stomach nice and warm. What this means is keeping the function of the digestion working well. Yang is function and what we eat, our lifestyle and unfortunately the aging process starts [...]
Photo: supplied It's that time of the year when Melbourne's winter shows its ugly teeth. Work environments become time bombs of who will be off work next and for some of us this cycle of getting sick time and again can last all winter. So how can you change this cycle? Be aware of hygiene [...]
Stress is an inevitable part of today’s modern lifestyle. Whether it is a result of work pressures, relationship problems, financial worries or other aspects of your life, one thing is clear – if it builds up excessively it affects both your emotional and physical well-being. How Stress Affects The Body Stress has long been the [...]
Like the rest of us, you probably feel a little bit sluggish and bloated after over-indulging through the Christmas/New Year period. You might have stacked on a few kilos or you could be surviving on caffeine to get you through the day. It might be time for a bit of a Detox to recharge the [...]
The Western diet has changed a lot in the last 20 to 50 years, not only with the choices we make about what to eat, but how the food is grown and manufactured. Increasingly our soils are being depleted of essential minerals and our food is heavily processed which robs it even more. The animals [...]