Tripod Headstand

Benefits:

Strengthens arms and legs.

Calms the brain and helps relive stress.

Tones abdominal organs.

Can also improve digestion.

Foundation & General Alignment:

Start on hands and knees, place head on ground, put hands on ground, arms are bent at an 90 degree angle. Come up off knees and walk feet towards arms, rest knees on elbows. 

Hands are pressing into the ground.

Back is as straight as possible.

Shoulders are away from ears.

When temperatures start to fall, few autumn mainstays feel as cozy or as necessary as a scented candle. Whether your scent of choice is pumpkin spice or pine, a go-to candle can get you excited about shorter days and blustery nights.

But are those soothing scents triggering allergies, asthma, or worse?

The tongue is handy for a lot of things: Tasting, speaking, sticking out at someone. It’s also a window into how the body, mind, and emotions are doing and has been used as a diagnostic tool for millennia.  This article is the first in a series providing some basic tips for analyzing your tongue and some simple dietary steps to take for support around what you learn.

Turnips are a member of the family Brassicaceae, also known as the mustard family. Native to Europe and found in colder climates, turnips have been a staple food since prehistory.  They were also used for livestock fodder since the 14th century and in modern agriculture they are planted in fields for grazing animals.

We are wild ones. The more we pretend otherwise the more twisted things become.

If we try to pretend we are not angry, we blow up when we least expect it. When we try to ignore energies like attraction, they can grow into a giant that drives us into situations that lack grace and integrity. If we instead tap into our wildness we can experience our insights and emotions as they come. We can see things as they are and see ourselves as we are, but we have to be fearless enough to let our wild self out.

Does your dog lick his paws, scratch his ears, or sport visible dandruff? Skin conditions and itchiness can be caused by a wide variety of reasons, including allergies, hormonal imbalances, environmental toxins, and insect bites. If your pet is always itchy, take him or her to the vet to determine the root cause.

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates

The Karmic Tools Weekly Forecast covers the current planetary transits which affect people in different ways and to various degrees of intensity.  Take notice when it is a Personal planet (Sun / Moon / Mercury / Venus / Mars) interacting with a Social (Jupiter/Saturn) or Collective planet (Uranus / Neptune/Pluto).  And pay extremely close attention when it is a Social planet interacting with a Collective planet because that means something *big* is brewing that will move large groups of people along their evolutionary paths. Tuning in to

Satya is the second Yama or moral constraint of Patanjali’s Eight Limbed Path of Yoga. In its essence, Satya is our inner truth compass. The Sanskrit derivative “sat” translates to “true nature.” It is the principle that holds a mirror to one’s face and asks for a raw and honest look at one’s thoughts, words, and actions. Satya asks the question, “Are you living in alignment with your truth?”

Basmati’s mission is to help inform our community’s decisions for its healthiest, most aligned lifestyle. So, we’ve started a new series called five questions with a practitioner!  Each month, we'll feature answers from a few different practitioners, helping you get to know each of them a little bit more, along with healing modalities they swear by. Enjoy!

KristaLove Louise Hagman 

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Playful, adventurous, nurturing