I know that’s controversial – but I have to take a position with this blog. I’d like to present a different perspective on cancer to the one being fed to us by the media and reveal how I think we can take the first step toward curing this health challenge that overshadows all others. NO! […]
– letting go of control! Do you like to exert control? Do you chase perfection or know when to let go? That dosha – or life energy – which Ayurveda calls Pitta has to do with our ability to take and exert control. It’s part of every person, but it’s more dominate in […]
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world… (from A Brief from The Defence by Jack Gilbert) There is no doubt that we don’t have to look far in this world or down our own street to find injustice, despair, poverty and misery. That the dark, […]
Are lifestyle diseases, which may be triggered by the over-activation of the nervous system (called stress), in reality a reflection of a deeper existential crisis? The crisis of not knowing who we really are and why we are here? With this blog I would like to open up a wider perspective on disease (dis – ease), […]
Listen up rebels: there’s good news! A tradition of holistic health exists that celebrates individuality and rejects the idea that ‘one size fits all’: Ayurveda. The Science of Life, Ayurveda, does away with the universal paradigms of “healthy” and “unhealthy”. Ayurveda confirms what we feel intuitively – the road to health is not the same […]
I have always loved to away travel from the so-called “western” world. To get away from the comfort and the ideas so ingrained in our part of the world and to observe the exotic and the different. It has been with equal parts fascination and discomfort, I have observed life in countries such as Uganda, […]
This is the time, my blog transitions from the more easily understandable parts of the ayurvedic philosophy into the harder to grasp – but infinitely more powerful tools of self-healing and -understanding. The aspect of Ayurveda, I have always been interested in, which made me a student of Deepak Chopra ayurveda. If someone asks me, […]
