Beauty sometimes brings you to silence. This is largely what this 16,335 km return trip to Foz de Iguaçu Brazil and Argentina did for me. It also brought a strong need to rest. Not completely but even over a week after my return, words come slowly to describe experiences gained through generous the contact of […]

The most common reaction when something we don’t expect or like appears on our body is to experience fear and rejection, then mask them, hide them or try to eradicate them quickly. Depending on their size, lipomas are a prime example of this. These lumps or accumulations of fat tissue below the skin layers — […]

The Vata element being the easiest to be aggravated and the most difficult to balance, knowing it and taking care of it well is crucial. The cold, rough and dry winds of early fall and winter, so welcome for those with a Pitta constitution and acceptable for Kapha individuals, creates dramatic discomforts for those with […]

The summer of 2016 has been the hottest ever all over the planet, so it comes as no suprise that many of us experienced fever or inflammations of all kinds. Ayurveda recipes provide amazing solutions with herbal anti-inflammatories. They are extremely simple to use and just as economical. Yes, you guessed well: turmeric and mint. […]

It never ceases to amaze me that anywhere one goes or looks, something beneficial for the skin may be found in nature. One such place is Bancroft, Ontario, a 2.5 hours drive south-west of Ottawa. The municipality counts 3,500 souls. But hat weekend, that number probably tripled because of Gemboree, an internation festival. Vendors and […]

I learned a lot about pain and beauty recently, actually for a long time, but now I understand that the two are connected. Is that why you are here too, on that path between the two of them? This afternoon, I was in my private writing spot by the pond, listening both inside and outside. […]

Taking responsibility for everything that happens in your life (good, bad, ugly and painful) AND making conscious choices about the thoughts that you think is an exercise that: – defuses suffering – debunks your erroneous beliefs – empowers you and – strengthen your sense of mastery. Sounds crazy? Maybe, but it does work. It requires […]

Countless people, after the initial shock of a trauma or great pain, seek to find meaning in it. For some, the search may start as early as the moment the pain occurred. For others, it may take a while before they recognize that there is something outside or beyond the pain. For others, the journey […]

Some exceptional people — saints, enlightened ones, spiritual guides, true gurus — have traveled the path from pain to beauty with such mastery that they have become totally receptive to the needs of others (humans, animals, vegetals, minerals, the Earth and all other beings). They learned that serving others removed them from their own dramas. […]

Your expectations and assumptions about what I, you, they, life, beauty, prosperity, relationships, job, house, etc. “should” be and “should” look like that blocks your ability to see them when the are in front of us. It is your resistance to pain–and joy or success too depending on your belief systems–that blocks the natural flow […]

The correlation between negative self-talk and the level of pain you experience is direct. The progression is essentially as follows: Pain leads to negative thoughts, self-talk or beliefs, which lead to feelings of frustration, anger, anxiety, fear, sadness, depression or hopelessness, which in turn lead to suffering, which leads to muscle tension and stress, which […]

You may have heard the expression “Pain in inevitable but suffering is a choice.” Do you know this already or are you objecting strongly to this statement? Regardless, keep reading. When you are in a state of pain, each of the four Earth bodies suffer, regardless of where the initial wound or impact happened. The […]

PAIN POINTS TO THE GLORY OF WHO WE ARE THE COMPLEXITY OF PAIN We all know what pain is, at least physical pain. But there is also emotional pain. Less tangible, it can still be as debilitating as paraplegia and as sneaky in its development as cancer. Undiagnosed and untreated it can ultimately present as […]

Erase emotional pain from your cells To heal yourself, and by this I mean “to remove the traces of suffering from your cells”, you need to know what to look for. The first step consists in becoming aware of how your habits fragment your physical, etheric, emotional and mind bodies. That fragmentation prevents the unification […]

Help your students focus and study better with essential oils During a MeetUp group event this week, I met Ben, a teacher who was expressing his frustration about the ever increasing gap between the needs of his students and the school program. This echoed a conversation I had the previous day with a friend who […]

Adepts and practitioners of ayurveda are very aware of the cycles of life, from birth to death. They know how to help you be beautiful for life. They know the importance of knowing the self, of touch, exercise, of belonging, of expressing emotions and talents, and that showing gratitude (including to trees, animals, stones, planets, […]

The physical body is sacred and it is important to take care of all its needs. Why? Because it is the temple of your soul. It houses all your experiences, your mind, your emotions. It is the manifestation or a condensation of our bodies of love (subconscious) and bodies of light (unconscious). The physical body […]

How many experiences have you had since you were born? Which ones do you remember, enjoyed fully, still regret, wish you never had, revisit over and over, or so totally rejected that you don’t even remember them? What is an experience? As crazy as it may seem at first glance, experiences are circumstances that you […]

Spirit needs space in your cells to move through you, ground in you, free you from ignorance and infuse you with its three powers: the power of creation, the power of knowing and the power of freedom. Because limited concepts get deposited in your cells and clog them, you need to purify your physical body […]