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Introduction to the principles of Ayurveda
Ayurveda (“Knowledge/Science of Life”) is an ancient practice of holistic medicinealready mentioned in the oldest of the vedas. While it is rooted in India, where
A TALE OF PHOENIX
This is a philosophical children’s fiction story about Phoenix who, though entirely blameless, carries the guilt of his twin sister’s death at birth and feels cursed. Events seem to confirm this, especially on his leap-year birthdays. On his twelfth, he is caught in a fire and, whilst lying in a coma in this life, in another world, Lila, he meets Maya, his twin, escapes a heart-hunter, rescues a small boy, Karun, from his death and takes him across the island. Here, Phoenix’s world intersects with the story-book of Marina, a mermaid, who sacrifices her life to ensure that Phoenix continues to the centre of the island alone to save Karun again, this time from his unconscious state and, simultaneously, awake from his own coma to return, newly alive, to his home, friends and new-found family.
(Cover design by Monique Van der Pol)
“The Tale of the Phoenix is fascinating. It is a very different type of book: it tells of the inward journey of an introverted character, there are stories within stories, within stories and there is a mix of psychology, philosophy and spirituality, and fairy-tale and cultural references. There are parts of the story that are dark and subversive – and are quite brilliant in my opinion. There are ‘nods’ to traditional European folk and fairy tales, both in your writing and in the stories that appear in the tale. There are times when I felt I was reading science fiction/fantasy and times when the message was Vedic or more generally spiritual… It is a story that is very much from your heart and that is appealing because it is authentic.”
Victoria Lee, Editor
RADICAL SELF LOVE - AN AYURVEDIC PERSPECTIVE ON HEALTH
A handbook of Self Care and Health through the eyes of Ayurveda.
This is the second edition of the original E-book, which began as a PDF file to give to my clients, so that they can have a better understanding of Ayurveda.
Over time, it grew into a book. My own Ayurvedic Doctor and friend Rajvinder Kaur was so kind to support me in this project and write a foreword to it.
Although I am aware that there are many amazing books out there already on Ayurveda, my aim here is to provide a very simple to understand, holistic view on the human body, that will allow you to build a more loving relationship with it, and thus empower you to take your health into our own hands.
You can download it on Amazon or any other online bookstore.
“This book is full of insights and wisdom. within its accessibility there is so much depth. It can be hard to access such an ancient science, but this book taught me to listen to my own body’s wisdom. Such a wonderful resource.”
(Aoife, Amazon Customer)
The Little School of Happiness - Podcast
Are you interested in Health, Wellbeing and Ayurveda? In these 9 Episodes I will explain the underlying principles of Ayurveda in a way that you can really understand them and apply them in your own life.
You might also come to understand, that Ayurveda – in Essence – is a way of Self Love because only if we truly build a relationship with our body, if we look at our mind and behavioural patters in compassionate understanding and are willing to look at even the more difficult emotions so that we can finally let them go, and if we make Self Care a priority, can we expect true and lasting physical and mental health.
You can find the podcast on Spotify, apple podcasts or simply to to the home page of this website.
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The dark night of the soul
We all have been there. In the dark night of our soul, where suffering and despair overlap our ability to feel joyand the mercyless waves
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Understanding Ashtanga Yoga
Ashtanga Yoga has never been intended as a purely physical Asana practice and Ibelieve it is important to understand, at least in the very basics,
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Chakras and Endocrine Glands
In the Yogic belief system (as in modern science and almost every other philosophicalsystem), everything consists of energy. Energy within a certain range of vibrationresults
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The other 90%
About 90% of the cells inside our body are from non-human micro organisms. Only10% are human.About 99.5% of the genetic material of our body stems
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Yoga Sutra in a nutshell Chapters 1&2
An indian Sage named Patanjali, who lived some time between 200 and 500BC andwho became known for his teachings and written documents about medicine,grammar and
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A Brief History Of Yoga
Yoga is practiced by a lot of people these days, all with different – and very valid – reasons why they begin their first class.
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The Yugas
There is a lot of fear rising to the surface right now. Fears of disease, death, and an uncertain future. Fears of having our freedoms
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Sanskrit – a language of the gods?
There are about 170 000 words in the English language.A finite number to express an infinite number of things – is it any wonder we