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Wellness Wednesday: Planting the Seeds of Summer Health
If you like the idea of starting a roof garden or bringing some life to your windowsill but have yet to begin, herbs are a fantastic place to dive in. Fresh herbs will spruce up your home cooking and, thanks to their healing properties, your health as well. Most are easy to grow, even in a tiny apartment, and you can even grow several herbs together in one large pot to save space. Read our guide to getting started, pick from these summer herbs and get growing.
Wellness Wednesday: Take the Mindset Beyond the Mat
Each time we practice yoga, we begin by setting an intention. In the same way, we can be purposeful about directing your energy throughout your day. Start with these simple steps.
Wellness Wednesday: Super Smoothie
What do you do when you're starving but barely have time to get where you're going, let alone prepare and eat a decent meal and give it a chance to digest? A nutrient-packed smoothie is the perfect solution. If you keep the right stash of ingredients at home, you can prepare a healthy, energizing smoothie in a flash.
Wellness Wednesday: Quinoa Banana-Nut Muffins
When I want a protein-packed snack or a quick breakfast, I whip up a warm batch of these Quinoa Banana-Nut Muffins. Quinoa is a low-fat source of protein, rich in essential nutrients and my favorite alternative to white flour. I add ginger for flavor and spice and dark chocolate chips for a melt-in-your-mouth dose of antioxidants. Bananas offer a potassium kick and low-fat yogurt gives a calcium boost and keeps the muffins moist.
Homemade Ayurvedic Body Scrub
A rich body scrub can help revitalize skin in preparation for warmer weather, but forget pricey, overly perfumed store scrubs with dubious chemicals listed on their labels. All you need are a few simple ingredients and knowledge of your dosha, or constitution, to mix up the perfect body scrub for you.
Creative Expression
Many of us remember making art as small children. Carving out that piece of floor or kitchen table or classroom and losing ourselves as we became engrossed in the task at hand. Immersed in a sea of paints, crayons, construction paper, brown paper bags and Popsicle sticks, all our senses were engaged. The smell of the crayons, the feel of wet paint or glitter glue on fingers, the sound of furious coloring or of our own rhythmic breathing as we focused on a task all grounded us to our mission. Some will remember the sense of pride and accomplishment at having completed this act of telling a story. Telling our story in a way that makes sense of ourselves, our families and our world.
Winter Wellness: Meditation
Metta Kindness Practice
The Buddha gave a beautiful teaching on the development of lovingkindness called the Metta Sutta (also known as the Karaniya Metta Sutta). I think it's a perfect practice to follow during the darker, quieter winter months.
Winter Wellness
If we've learned anything here at Joyful Heart, it's that a regular practice of self-care can help significantly boost our well being, aids in the healing process and allows us to live more joyful lives. I started my meditation practice last weekend, but I was confident I could do more to keep well this winter.
2 Minute Wellness
Greetings from sunny Los Angeles. Many Joyful Heart staff and Board members have congregated in LA for a series of meetings and events. We look forward to sharing more about what we've been up to (including the launch two new joyful products, meetings with program partners from the west coast and hosting an amazing cultivation event) in the days ahead.
