- 1 big pot (soup pot) of water (8+ cups) - 2 bunches organic ginger (roughly the size of your hand) - 4 juicy lemons - 2+ heaping tsp Turmeric - 2 tsp cinnamon - 1+ tsp black ground black pepper - 10+ cardamom seeds (crushed) Bring your pot of water to a boil. Cut ginger into little chunks, leave skin on, add to the boiling pot of water and simmer on low, or a rolling-boil, for an hour or two. This softens the ginger and infuses the water with rich nutrients After a couple o

Recently feeling under the weather and in need of something to sooth my aching bones, sore body and runny nose, my friend Trudy Austin introduced me to a remedy that she has been sipping on the past month that has turned her life around. This post is all about healing the body from a simple recipe of Potassium Broth, minerals found in and under the skins of root vegetables right under our runny noses. "My body knew it was craving it even as I held the cup of warm liquid betwe

Prevent kidney stones: Drinking one half-cup of lemon juice every day raises citrate levels in the urine. Studies have shown that this could protect against calcium stones in the kidney. Soothe a sore throat: Mixing lemon juice with honey can help alleviate the discomfort that comes from a nasty sore throat. Support weight loss: Beyond the old notion that the Master Cleanse was the only way lemons could help you lose weight, new studies have shown the ways lemon juice support

This is a re-posted article written by Jonathan Angelilli The world can be a crazy place, we all know that. And giving in to the fear that is endlessly manufactured by the media is a constant temptation on the path to fitness greatness. It’s also true that sometimes sh!t gets real, and we need to be prepared to adapt instantly. Why? Because… Life Is a Battle! But (and it's a big fat booty butt) just because life is a battle doesn’t mean you have to destroy yourself every time

Yoga: exercise or practice? Most people in North America look at it as an exercise to make them flexible, bendable, strong. But while you are sweating to Ram Daas while someone is hollering out body movements that make your body quiver in a 5 minute downward dog… are you having “fun” or are you working? And if you are having fun… good for you… you’ve chosen yoga exercise… but if you are having fun?! YOU ARE ROCKIN’ IT! Then, it becomes a practice. A practice of building your

I have been an advocate for a long time now regarding natural healthcare practices… and don’t get me wrong, I still am. I tout how we should/need to listen to our bodies as they are our best guides when it comes to how we are responding to the world around us. Recently I befriended a head cold and was taken aback by the pain and aching that can happen when my body is in sever healing. Those words don’t really go together usually “sever” and “healing”, do they. But it was true