| Śakti vs. Willpower | Preamble: I’m not an expert on this subject. Just a student of it, and these … |
| Storytelling as Medicine for The Change | I once read (in My Gita, by Devdutt Pattanaik) something like that the main difference between … |
| Menopause & Longevity: Women & Whales | Alert husband Jim recently noticed a report on a study exploring the link between menopause … |
| Is It Important to Know About the Context in Which Indian Wisdom Traditions (Like Ayurveda or Yoga) Exist? | by Dr. Claudia Welch Personal Experience When I was 19, I went to live in … |
| Rāgā Cikitsa: Desire as Cause and Cure of Disease | रागादिरोगान् सततानुषक्तानशेषकायप्रसृतानशेषान् औत्सुक्यमोहारतिदान् जघान योऽपूर्ववैद्याय नमोस्तुतस्मैः Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdayam:I:1 rāgādi-rogān satatānuṣaktān-aśeṣa-kāya-prasṛtān-aśeṣān autsukya-mohāratidān jaghāna yo’pūrva-vaidyāya namo’stu-tasmai //1// … |
| Satyam Vs Ṛtam: Finding Truth Through Rhythm | ऋ॒तं च॑ स॒त्यं चा॒भी॑द्धा॒त्तप॒सोऽध्य॑जायत ṛtaṃ ca satyaṃ cābhīddhāt tapaso ‘dhy ajāyata Truth was born and … |
| Appropriation in Ayurveda | By Dr. Ramkumar, Dr. Robert Svoboda & Dr. Claudia Welch Note: This is an evolving … |
| Svādhyāya & Black Lives Matter: Healing the Wounds of Inequity | By Dr. Claudia Welch Disclaimer, Introduction and entry into svādhyāya (self-introspection): While certainly Black people … |
| A Brief Overview of Pañcakarma (Ayurvedic Detoxification Treatment) For Patients, Places To Get It, & How To Make the Most of the Experience | Prologue: I have undergone pañcakarma a handful of times in India. In order to contextualize … |
| Personal Lessons From Chernobyl & Laulupidu 2019 | Dear Friends, I hope this finds you finding, good in the, “bad” and with a … |
| A Heart of Iron & Wax | By Dr. Claudia Welch For a long time I have reflected on something that my … |
| Animals and Africa; Plants and South America; Humans and India | (Like the pithy title?) I just finished the second of two books I read back-to-back. … |
| Physical, Energetic & Spiritual Changes in a Woman’s Late 40s | by Dr. Claudia Welch I’m awfully close to turning 50… I was thinking to share … |
| Fear, Seduction, & Preventative Procedures (like Mammograms): How can we make (informed) decisions? | How do we decide whether or not to undergo a, “preventative” procedure like a mammogram? First, … |
| The Mechanics of Emotional Contagion: Who Affects Whom? Excerpt From, The Four Qualities of Effective Physicians | Dear Friends, My previous book, “How the Art of Medicine Makes the Science More Effective: … |
| Post-Election Shock, Birth, Death & Sūtaka | Today, in the wake of the 2016 US Presidential election, there is shock, daze, awe, … |
| The Value of “Screen” Use, “Screen” Detox, & Loving Touch | By Dr. Claudia Welch As of January 2011, a Kaiser Family Foundation study found that, … |
| Desire, Discipline, Decision-fatigue & Dinacaryā | Abstract The Problem: Sensory control v. repression of urges. The solution: Read on… When we … |
| Fake Smiling and Mood Deterioration | Gentle Reader, I am guilty of this too. I could pretend I’m not, but then … |
| Extremely Extreme (Rest is Radical) | I was thinking lately… I was thinking that traditionally the Aghora sect of Hinduism has, … |
| Reasons to Move | Some of us are exercise junkies. Some not. Some of us enjoy a good, brisk, … |
| Alas, I Have Good News | “Alas, I have good news.” In late May 2010, I got this cheerful voicemail message … |
| Natural Rhythms, From Rivers to Roos | Hi all. I just spent a couple weeks in New Zealand, or “Aotearoa”– “land of … |
| Good vs. Evil; Devas vs. Asuras; Good Planets vs. Bad Planets: If We are Scientific, Why We Should Even Bother With Stuff Like Myth, Movies & Astrology? | A few months ago, I was reading about how one of the big Hindu Gods … |
| Autumn Cleansing or Detox Programs: Why Go Austere in a Time of Harvest? | It’s happened. I can feel it. You probably can too. Autumn. Quite a personality she … |
| Um. Try Not to Be a Psychopath With Your Patients | I just spent such a delightful weekend with the Kripalu School of Ayurveda students, who … |
| Oil Pulling: Miracle or Myth? | Sometime in maybe the 2000s, I started hearing a lot about, “oil pulling.” How it … |
| What Does “Having It All” Really Mean? And Is It Possible? | This article was actually guest-written for Diaforlife.com, a resource-full website dedicated to Connecting and inspiring people … |
