Rejuvenate your Body with Delia Quigley

12 Inexpensive Ways to Relieve Stress

"Stress: 1. a force that strains or deforms 2. mental or physical tension" Websters New World Dictionary Despite our best intentions for creating a lifestyle free of stress, we have only su…

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15 Foods To Banish From Your Kitchen

Vowing to lose weight, eat better, and start an exercise program come the first of January? Good for you. This is a great time of year to shift away from processed, sugar and fat heavy foods, and rais…

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10 Yoga Poses to Improve Your Digestion

Remember how you feel after a good body massage? Well, your digestive system feels much the same after a sequence of yoga postures. Your mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine and lar…

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Am I a Bad Person if I Eat Animals?

"If you want to progress on a spiritual path, you must challenge your actions—including what you eat—as to whether they are authentic expressions of the love and spirit within you." John Robbins I…

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Foods & Herbs with Antibiotic Properties

"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food." Hippocrates In herbology they are called astringent meaning foods and herbs that are natural blood cleansers and antibiotic in…

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The Health Benefits of Cooking with Ghee

Known in the West as "clarified butter", ghee has a long history as a staple of Indian cooking and medicine. According to the Bhavaprakasha 6.18.1, an ancient 16th Century Ayurvedic text, “Ghee is swe…

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A Lesson for the Conflicted Yogi

"The enlightened man regards a nugget of gold and a piece of stone with equal vision." Bhagavad Gita The Yama's are the first step in the eight limb path of yoga. The first of this first step is Ah…

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Discover the Mighty Lentil

There are many reasons to love lentils for all the health benefits and nutrition they provide at such a low monetary cost. With almost 18 grams of protein and 15 grams of fiber in one cup of cooked le…

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My 4 Favorite Medicinal Weeds

Me-dic-i-nal: of, or having the properties of medicine.—Webster's New World Dictionary Some people call them weeds, while others bow in respect to these plants that have been used as medicine l…

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The Many Benefits of Chanting

"When you sing, you pray twice." Saint Augustine As yoga has grown and spread throughout the West, chanting the sacred Sanskrit words has spread right along with it. For many the uncertainty of…

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