Permission to Rest: The Benefits of Slowing Down During Menstruation
BANYAN BOTANICALS
Throughout history, menstruation has been honored as a time of rest. Learn how choosing to slow down while you're bleeding can serve your health in powerful ways.
Amaranth: The Breakfast Porridge of Champions
BANYAN BOTANICALS
Amaranth is one of the most protein-rich plant-based foods out there. When cooked just right—like this tasty porridge recipe—it yields a creamy consistency with a hint of crunch. (By Molly McConnell)
4 Ways to Access Kapha’s Gifts of Strength & Resiliency This Spring
Banyan Botanicals
When kapha is well tended, it offers an abundance of gifts. These practical ways will help you harness the gifts of kapha for increased strength, health, and resiliency. (By Molly McConnell)
How to Create Your Own At Home Retreat
Banyan Botanicals
For many of us, taking time just for ourselves can feel next to impossible. Even after you decide to create a retreat, I can almost guarantee other things will arise to compete for your time and attention. But your well-being is important. And it’s okay to prioritize YOU. Here are six helpful tips to create an at-home retreat that actually happens. (By Molly McConnell)
Leverage These 7 Small Daily Practices to Make Big Shifts
Banyan Botanicals
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. (By Sierra Brashear)
This Brothy Farro Kale Soup Recipe Is the Perfect Late Spring Meal
Banyn Botanicals
Light enough for kapha but still deeply nourishing to soothe and sustain pitta, this brothy farro kale soup recipe is the perfect follow up to your spring cleanse. (By Molly McConnell)
Exhausted by Grind Culture? Let’s Cultivate Align Culture
Banyan botanicals
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. (By Sierra Brashear)
6 Spiritual Self-Care Practices to Support a Rich and Sensual Life
Banyan Botanicals
Cultivating mindfulness practices for spiritual self-care builds resiliency and gives us the tools to take intentional action in challenging circumstances. Mindfulness enhances our ability to self-regulate, which enables us to respond to our environment in flexible and adaptive ways. (By Molly McConnell)
Finding Strength and Inner Resiliency During Times of Change and Uncertainty
Banyan Botanicals
Discover Ayurvedic resiliency tips that will soothe vata and build ojas, enabling you to feel deeply replenished in your body and mind through these transformative times. (By Molly McConnell)
Do you know your Ayurvedic Stress Type?
Pior Living
When we are overcome by stress, we feel disoriented — unable to think clearly and to act thoughtfully. Chronic, depleting stress holds us back from showing up, doing our work, and making a meaningful impact. The more deeply we care for ourselves, the better we are able to care for others. (By Molly McConnell)
Cultivating Life: The Ayurvedic Perspective on Fertility
PAAVANI AYURVEDA
Ayurveda reminds us that we are a microcosm of the ecology around us, and as such, the same four essential components for cultivating crops or planting a garden are also important for cultivating life within — the right field, right timing, right water and right seed. (By Sierra Brashear)
Four Ayurvedic Tips to Enhance Digestion Now
ELEPHANT JOURNAL
Healthy digestion is so much more than what we eat; it is about how we eat. If we deepen this awareness, we will notice how these simple shifts enhance our experience of digestion, metabolism, and even hunger. (By Molly McConnell)
Using the Doshas to switch up your Daily Routine
ELEPHANT JOURNAL
My whole life changed when I started waking up before 6 a.m.—and I’m talking bigger shifts than just dashing home from dinner parties by 9:30 to be sure I was in bed by 10. (By Sierra Brashear)
Simple Ayurveda for a Pain-Free Period
ELEPHANT JOURNAL
The varying symptoms that manifest during PMS are caused when the doshas fall out of balance — usually as a result of your dietary choices, activities, or emotional stress levels. By maintaining the subtle balance of the doshas, or elements, in your physical form, you can experience a comfortable, symptom-free period. (By Sierra Brashear)
How Buying a Yoni Egg Changed My Life
mind body green
Yoni is the ancient and beloved Sanskrit term for "vagina." The egg refers to a semiprecious stone (usually rose quartz, jade, or obsidian) and is designed in a small and smooth shape to rest comfortably inside the body, just below the womb space. (By Molly McConnell)
5 Key Fertility Secrets from the Wisdom of Ayurveda
PIOR LIVING
We live in a fast paced and disembodied world today, but… your body is resilient! In many cases, by following a few simple, yet transformational, steps you can reset your reproductive system and fortify your womb to enhance your chances of a successful conception and a healthy pregnancy. (By Sierra Brashear)
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Esalen Presents: An Interview with Molly McConnell
Esalen INSTITUTE
Esalen Teacher In Residence Molly McConnell (E RYT 500) and Christine Chen discuss Molly's special approach to yoga and how she's holding the space for her students on campus at Esalen. Learn about how Molly weaves Nourishing Vinyasa and accessible yoga into her teaching.
