wellness

What’s Your Tongue Telling You? Tongue Coat

We’ve already looked at how to interpret tongue shape and tongue color.  Next in the tongue diagnosis series…how to interpret tongue coat!  Tongue coat is another important feature used to read the tongue.

3 Hair Masks To Nourish Dry, Winter Locks

Unless you’re lucky enough to have touchably-soft hair with bombshell volume all year long, the impending dry and unforgiving cold winter weather is sure to put a cramp in your hair style. If you’re like me, by late autumn when all the leaves from the trees have fallen, your hair is also looking dull and dim and lacking its once spring-like bounce.

15 Yoga Moves For The Office

Long grueling hours behind a desk, the year-end looming, not to mention the daily professional and social demands that land on our shoulders…it is sometimes very hard to sneak in that much needed group yoga practice you so need and desire, but what if you could bring a little bit of wellness into your office or conference room?

4 Tips For Chronic Sinus Congestion

Chronic stuffy sinuses may be due to allergies, diet, infection, or structural issues in the airways. More than one of these may be at play for some folks.  When the mucus is clear, the issue may be related to allergies, diet, or chronic low-level infection. Acute infections are most often viral, which means that antibiotics won’t work.

Transitions: No Versus Not Yet

“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”

—Steve Jobs

 

The 5 Best Wellness Podcasts Right Now

Podcasts are a great way to get much-needed advice when you don’t have the time to do personal research, can’t sit down to read a book, or don’t know where to start. Having trouble in a relationship? Want to learn how to be optimistic? Interested in hearing an inspirational story?

Alone On Christmas? Make It A Merry One

So with the holidays looming around the corner, most, if not all of us have already made our plans to be with family or friends. In case you didn’t, or can’t or, well, won’t—here’s how you can have a Merry Christmas all by your lonesome self…

 

What's Your Tongue Telling You? Tongue Shape

The first part of this series focused on tongue color, the most important feature in tongue diagnosis. We now focus on tongue shape, the second most important feature. Tongue shape is a good indicator of excess and deficiency-related imbalances in the body. An example of excess is too much heat in the body. This, in turn, leads to a deficiency in fluids, essentially burning them off.

Winter Solstice Energy

Basmati.com sits down with Kelly and Shanta to talk about winter solstice the season, energies going forward, the energy of new vision and the power of our thoughts. A message from Archangel Gabriel is shared. They invite you to join them for their winter solstice call/meditation on December 21st.

Healing Journeys: Tui Na

The Modality

This article looks at my first experience with Tui Na with Joseph Carter. Tui Na is a type of bodywork that follows the principles and theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Literally translating as “push and grasp,” Tui Na is sometimes referred to as Chinese Meridian Massage.

The Session

I went into this session without expectations—I knew nothing about Tui Na before this experience. Joseph immediately made me comfortable; his easy smile and kind eyes put me at ease and his propensity for puns had me laughing in no time.