Know the Basics of Basins
Creating depressions in your landscape is a simple, effective way to harvest rainwater, leveraging gravity to slow, spread and sink the precious liquid as it falls and moves down the grade of your landscape.
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Choose Permeable Paving
Here are some ideas for patios, pathways and other paved surfaces that allow water to infiltrate through to the earth below.
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Form Landscape Mounds
Raising drought-tolerant plants up above the more water-loving species in your water-harvesting landscape makes sense. Varying heights in your landscape by mimicking the natural landforms in your area will help route and hold water during rainfall, create visual interest and create a greater variety of mini micro-climates, just like Nature does.
Make Space for a Great Thanksgiving
I make the decision to consciously invoke the phrase MAKE SPACE as my “go-to” reminder through the day – especially when I am spending all day with my relatives!
Liquid Love: Chai Tea Recipe
Sipping a good cup of tea is a natural meditation, isn’t it? Time-honored in many cultures for calming your nerves and sharpening your mind, taking a few minutes to fully enjoy preparing and drinking a cup of tea allows a subtle satisfaction and relaxation to pervade your whole being. Learning to make your own fresh tea with a radiant palette…
Letting Life Decide
Instead of deciding what it is I “need to fix” about myself or my life–instead of listing all the things I need to straighten out, improve or do away with by making resolutions–I let Life decide.
Turn on the Light • Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice invites you to wake up out of your dream state, into reality!
Calm, Strong and Energized–with Adaptogenic Herbs
You’re trying to keep healthy and stay steady, so you can handle your responsibilities and relationships the best way you know how, while you also adjust and respond to the ‘crazy’ life’s thrown your way. That can be a heavy load.
The Wish
Rasa Ayurveda Traditional Healing Centre for Women began as a wish in my heart, a wish to offer women the opportunity to experience authentic Ayurveda in a sacred, ashram-like environment where the guru each woman listened to is her own inner wisdom.
Sensory Therapy Soothes Anxiety
Are your senses nervous or nourished?You can become so "head-driven" in a technology-obsessed, speed-of-mind lifestyle, you leave much of yourself behind as you speed through work, errands and screen time, day after day. It's great to feel busy, focused and in demand....
4 Ayurvedic Self-Care Rituals for Natural Beauty
Each morning across India and beyond, people offer prayers to the resplendent, full-breasted goddess Lakshmi. Adorned in a rich red silk sari with copious golden ornaments and a full head of gleaming, long dark hair, Lakshmi Devi's luminous skin, full face, and deep...
Mother of Healing
When I was ill, injured or out-of-sorts as a young girl, my mother never made me feel like a patient. She cared for me always as her daughter–who she loved, respected, and simply happened to not be feeling well. She tended to my care with a wise mix of affection, surrender, and faith in my innate ability to heal.