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The holidays arrive with beauty, warmth, celebration, and let’s be honest, plenty of digestive challenges. This post offers holiday digestion tips, rooted in Ayurveda and designed especially for women navigating midlife changes. These practices are gentle, doable, and help you feel more grounded and spacious during a season that may pull in the opposite direction. Let’s support your gut without restriction, guilt, or holiday deprivation.

As the winds of Vata season stir, this month’s ritual invites you to listen inward. In Ayurveda, oiling the ears is a deeply soothing self-care practice that calms the nervous system, supports sleep, and quiets the mind.

This broth is grounding, soothing, and restorative, making it perfect for calming Vata dosha and offering gentle bone and joint support during times of hormonal change or seasonal transition. Whether you sip it warm in the afternoon or use it as a base for soups and kitchari, you’ll receive the Ayurvedic bone marrow broth benefits of steadier energy, improved digestion, and replenished strength. Below, you’ll find my favorite way to make it, a simple, soul-nourishing recipe.

Learn about Ayurveda-inspired bone marrow broth benefits for bone and joint support, and how this simple elixir can act as a gentle rasayana for rejuvenation and an ojas-building food in Ayurveda (promoting immunity and juiciness). We’ll also touch on the wisdom of using bone marrow broth for menopause support and how grounding foods can ease dry skin and fatigue through every season of change.

This ancient practice of warm oil self-massage is one of the most soothing ways to calm the nervous system. The warmth and consistency of touch tell the body it’s time to shift from doing to being, easing the transition into your evening’s grounding nighttime ritual. This is about reclaiming a softer pace of living as well as better sleep. For women 40+, whose hormones and responsibilities often pull energy outward, Abhyanga for sleep draws it back inward, restoring a quiet s

When was the last time you thought about caring for your ears? For most of us, the ears are simply there until we notice ringing, dryness, tension, or sensitivity to sound. In Ayurveda, the ears are considered a sacred gateway to the nervous system, a place where Vata dosha  (the energy of movement and air) tends to accumulate. That’s where the ancient practice of Ayurvedic ear oiling comes in. For those Ayurveda geeks like me, this practice is known as Karna Purana , describ

This gentle Ayurvedic Sunday reset invites you to pause, breathe, and prepare for the week ahead with awareness instead of urgency. No elaborate routines. Just simple, sensory grounding to help your body say, “I’m ready to begin again.”

There’s nothing like a good, healthy poop to make you feel light, clear, and ready for the day. When digestion slows down, everything else can feel stuck: your energy, mood, and even motivation. In this post, you’ll learn what Ayurveda says about healthy elimination and how it connects to your morning rhythm, agni (digestive fire), and emotional balance, especially during midlife. We’ll talk about why so many women over 40 struggle with irregularity, what your poop says about

Hot flashes, mood swings, dryness, and changes in sleep can feel unsettling, but Ayurveda offers a grounded perspective on bringing ease.