Holistic Health
Paleo Sweet Potato Parsnip Kugel Recipe
This Hanukkah-inspired recipe can be reimagined within the scope of Traditional Chinese Medicine, emphasizing balance, nourishment, and energetics of foods to support health and harmony. Hanukkah celebrates the miracle of oil lasting eight days, symbolizing enduring light and vitality. In TCM, this resonates with the concept of nourishing the Kidney Essence (Jing), which governs long-term vitality and resilience. Healthy fats, like olive oil and coconut oil, are seen as yin-nourishing foods, supporting the body’s foundational fluids and calming dryness during winter, the season associated with the Kidneys. continue reading
RESTORE Your Self
“This magnificent refuge is inside you.
Enter. Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway…
Be bold. Be humble.
Put away the incense and forget
the incantations they taught you.
Ask no permission from the authorities.
Close your eyes and follow your breath
to the still place that leads to the
invisible path that leads you Home.”
~ St. Theresa of Avila
Greetings to all my precious people!
We are on the brink of a New Year, with all the excitement and anticipation that comes from imagining the changes we can create in the Present and Future times of Life. This is also the ‘in-between’ space—the days after the gatherings, the days before our return to the regular rhythms of work and schedules of our daily life. This place of betwixt and between can be filled with silence and solitude, with creativity, with moments of “suppose and what if” that can spark our imagination and reveal the secrets of our closely held dreams and desires. But we must take the time to sit with our own Self and allow the treasures to unfold. continue reading
Winter Squash and Adzuki Bean Curry Recipe
This curry features a thoughtfully balanced combination of ingredients designed to drain dampness and warm the Stomach and Spleen, aligning with principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). continue reading
A New Year for YIRAH
“To everything, there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.”
~~ Ecclesiastes 3:1
Greetings to all my precious people!!
It is the sacred time—the end of one year and the beginning of another. The ancient cycle of birth, death, and rebirth is on display with all the beauty Nature can highlight, and we are reminded that indeed, to everything, there is a season. continue reading
The Soul of The Solstice
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again,
“It’s simple,” they say,“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.
~Mary Oliver~
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We are in the midst of transition to Winter, the time of deep reflection, inward movement and incubation. For those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice will occur on Saturday December 21st, marking the shortest day and the longest night of the year. This cycle of Nature has arrived consistently throughout millennia, reflecting the natural rhythm of the Universe that is also part of our own rhythms as human beings made of stardust. continue reading
