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.
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.
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.
Stages of Life
Learn to look at a woman’s stages of life through the lens of Ayurveda.
Go STRONG into the New Year
If anxiety, uncertainty and a strange anticipation cling to your heart and mind–don’t feel alone!
Turn on the Light • Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice invites you to wake up out of your dream state, into reality!
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!
Calm & Grounded – Niika talks with Andrea Ferretti on YogaLand Podcast
Come back to a balanced state with Ayurvedic wisdom. Hear about some simple ways you can help yourself when you’re feeling ungrounded, stressed or upset. YogaLand Podcast Interview with Niika Quistgard and Andrea Ferretti
Summer’s Here… Keep Cool!
Summer’s not all softness. It has its harsher qualities. And when excess heat, light and activity pile up, you’re more vulnerable to the effects. Simple Ayurveda-inspired wisdom will help you introduce cooling, calming sensations into your summer days, so you can enjoy all Summer’s glories – the warmth and freedom you love–with no fear of imbalance. You don’t have to…