Hi Reader, I hope this note finds you well.I wanted to share a few reflections from this week, and if you’re curious for more, you can read the full blog, California Ayurveda: Seasonal Rest and a Famous Yogi’s Legacy, here. This past weekend I was at the California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine conference in Milpitas, and I kept thinking about California. We were right in the middle of Silicon Valley, surrounded by so much Indian culture—the food, the language, the women in saris—and it...

Hi Reader, Weekly Musings: Oil, Light and the Turning of the Seasons The light has been changing this week. Here in Northern California, the mornings are warmer and brighter, the evenings stretch a little longer, and the air carries that unmistakable feeling that something is shifting. My orange tree has only a few oranges left hanging, and my apple and fig trees are beginning to push out their first green shoots. You can read the full post here. Nature is starting to bloom again as the days...

Hi Reader, I said something in a recent Ayurveda talk that made the room go very quiet:In Ayurveda, we consider someone constipated if they aren’t having a bowel movement every morning — without strain, at roughly the same time, and without a coffee or other stimulant. Ouch, right? Most of us were never taught what healthy elimination really looks like. I certainly wasn’t—until I dove deep into Ayurveda toward the end of the pandemic. In this week’s Weekly Musings, I share approachable...