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Carrie Lavie
Dec 16, 20244 min read
Poires Belle-Hélène
For the last, almost twenty years, we have spent part of the summer in the South of France. It is a fundamental part of my inner world. I...
Carrie Lavie
Dec 9, 20241 min read
Yoga and Ayurveda for Mental Health
See www.canadianyogi.com to view as a continuing education opportunity. Welcome to this deep and expansive topic undertaken in...
Carrie Lavie
Oct 23, 20241 min read
Viji Varadarajan's Pitlai Podi
Pitlai Podi Ingredients: 3 cups coriander seeds 1 cup bengal gram 3/4 cup dried red chillis 1 1/2 tsp hing 2 cups grated coconut 2 tsp...
Carrie Lavie
Aug 20, 20231 min read
Dr. Lad's Date and Almond Shake
Ingredients: 8 whole, pitted medjool dates 20 raw almonds A good pinch of cinnamon A good pinch of cardamom A pinch of dry ginger powder...
Carrie Lavie
Jul 11, 20232 min read
Gently Spiced Masoor Dal (Red Lentil) Soup
See the video at: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtW8e2gArxu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Serves 4 Ingredients: 1...
Carrie Lavie
Jun 10, 20233 min read
Moroccan Cooked Carrot Salad...with an Ayurvedic Twist
I hope you enjoy this Ayurvedic take on the classic Moroccan Cooked Carrot Salad. Adjusted to be more digestible, less sharp, and with a...
Carrie Lavie
Jun 3, 20232 min read
Coconut-Rose Gulkand Ladoo with Homemade Beet Rose Syrup
Many of the commercial rose syrups available contain food colouring, additives, preservatives, and isolated glucose derived sweeteners....
Carrie Lavie
May 3, 20231 min read
Black Sesame Orange-Chai Barley Porridge with Tulsi-Ginger Rose Tea
Ingredients: 1 cup rolled barley, ground 3 cups coconut milk 1 1/2 tsp masala chai powder 1 tbsp ghee 1/4 cup black raisins 2 medjool...
Carrie Lavie
Apr 7, 202311 min read
Sutika Paricharya: Ayurvedic Postpartum Care
All of life requires a Mother. Without her, there would be no creation and no continuation of human life. She demonstrates the magic of...
Carrie Lavie
Jul 30, 20221 min read
Takra
The best way to end a meal, for the microbiome, to support agni, to close off with the astringent taste, to nourish the tissues of the...
Carrie Lavie
Jan 3, 20194 min read
Emotional Vocabulary
Love Language. What if we could turn our reality around so we could look at it from the world that lies behind our usual life so that it...
Carrie Lavie
Dec 1, 20187 min read
Intuitive Eating and Ayurveda
Although intuitive eating has been around, as a concept since the mid nineties, it has been given more attention in recent years, as a...
Carrie Lavie
Aug 26, 20183 min read
Mothering the Mother
Postpartum Ayurveda, the sacred window, 42 days Postpartum care for Mother's in the first six weeks after birth: Why is this so...
Carrie Lavie
Aug 27, 20173 min read
Yoga, Birth, and Intuitive Movement
Following the Movement of the Body Yoga should not be a training for body control; on the contrary, it must bring freedom to the body,...
"The body of one who uses oil massage regularly does not become affected much.
Even if subjected to accidental injuries, or strenuous work.
By using oil massage daily, a person is endowed with pleasant touch, trimmed body parts and becomes strong, charming and least affected by old age."
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- Charaka Samhita
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