Benefits:
Stretches back.
Strengthens legs.
Foundation & General Alignment:
Start in a standing position.
Lift one leg and wrap arm between lifted leg.
Reach other arm around back and grab ahold of hand.
Lift leg and stretch leg out in front of you.
Love honey? There’s a product that’s even better: bee pollen. Bee pollen is a highly nutritious food. We talk a lot about superfoods, but if there’s one that beats all of them, it might be pollen.
Previously in the Ayurveda 101 series, we built the foundation for understanding the potent wisdom of Ayurveda and, more importantly, connected with the knowingness that through this ancient Science of Life, we are at the controls of our own state of wellbeing.
As we step more fully into this power as the conscious creators—the Alchemists—of our own reality, let’s have a look around this living laboratory to discover just what resources are at our disposal to play with!
July 7 is World Chocolate Day—so here’s how you can incorporate this delicious and decadent treat for better health, happiness, and beauty…
Summer is finally here! Unfortunately, that also means you need to keep the mosquitoes at bay. Here are three completely natural bug repellent DIYs that will save you a buck and keep the bugs away. Bonus points: They smell good to you, not the bugs!
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. Tun
What do the planets have in store for you this July? Check out your Basmati Horoscope with Astrologer Lisa Landis below!
Ahh the home life…if it could only stay this happy all the time. Read more here.
The stable and firm standing person that you are is suddenly going to want to change your appearance into doing something original, something unique. You are usually so practical and grounded. How can that be and what are you going to do about it? Are you going to stay the same as other people have formed you, or are you going to listen to that urge to be unique, to be different? Why not try it if you are wanting a tattoo (even one that isn’t permanent!)?
There are few people who can say that you are ever at a loss for words, and this is the time to put your money where your mouth is. Use your excellent communication skills to ask for that raise. Then use some of that money to go on that sabbatical at the end of the month, to go to the place where you find your serenity. There is a whole lot of talking going on this month, and that is something that you do like to do. Are you talking about changing job positions to even greater reward?
You are looking good and feeling good. Are you considering a fresh look to show you off even more? That unexpected chunk of change that is available now will make you feel good and look good outside as well as inside. Are you looking at and talking about your finances and how you might use the money from others to your benefit, or are you looking at the money for a short distance travel? Or are you putting some money aside because of your dreams of going to a foreign land or embarking on a journey of higher education?