Beth Escardo (Yoga Beth) shares the following ayurvedic approaches to preventing illnesses. Join her every 3rd Thursday of the month for RESTORATIVE YOGA & Ayurvedic Pichu at Mongoose Yoga Center – another way to boost your immune system!

The ayurvedic approach to preventing illnesses is by building up the immune system and toning the body to withstand viral attacks. The following remedies not only help to prevent catching a cold but also help in relieving symptoms naturally if you already have a cold.

• Every morning make a drink consisting of a cup of warm water mixed with the juice of half a lemon and a spoonful of honey.
• Amla fruit is known to have a very high vitamin C content and regular use builds up the body’s immunity. Amalaki capsules orTriphala capsules taken daily rejuvenate and build up the body’s defences against illnesses and infections. Another well known ayurvedic herb for colds is Vasaka
• Chyawanprash is the best known ayurvedic remedy to build immunity and prevent colds. Made of a 5000 year old formula this remedy contains over 40 herbs in an amla base. A tablespoon everyday helps maintain optimum health especially during the winter months
• If you have a cough, take a spoonful of honey every night. It has been found that honey has the same cough suppressing properties as dextromethorphan – the chemical ingredient found in cough medicines to suppress cough. While coughing is the body’s natural mechanism to remove phlegm, taking honey at night helps to relieve coughing and allow a restful night’s sleep
• Make a warm tea by adding ginger, crushed cardamom, crushed black pepper, cinnamon powder and sugar. Boil and strain the mixture. This drink will instantly help to open nasal passages, relieve sinus pressure and soothe the throat
• Gargle with warm water every day.
• Use a neti pot to drain and moisten nasal passages
• Inhale warm vapors by adding a tablespoon of carom seeds in a pot and allowing the water to steam. Put a towel over your head while inhaling.
• Applying a small amount of amrutanjan to the forehead and nose will instantly give relief when you have a blocked nose or headache.
• Avoid cold dairy products such as yogurt and ice cream
• Take warm showers. The vapors will moisten nasal and throat passages.
• Drink plenty of warm water and herbal teas

Beth’s next Ayurvedic Pichu is coming up on February 21st – 5:30pm @ Mongoose Yoga

$15 fee  repay to reserve your space or 1st come for prop set up (14 available)  …..a blissful experience!!!

It’s a new dawn. Whether you’re in Cruz Bay or Coral Bay or points in between, you can now greet the day with group morning meditation. Unite the island as we sit together while the sun rises over the sea.

Downtown Cruz Bay at YagaFLO
Silent seated meditation
Monday through Saturday
6:30 AM – 7:00 AM
Arrive 15 minutes early for instruction
FREE – Donations accepted

Coral Bay at Dr. Bob’s Chiropractics in the Cocoloba Center, Second Level
Silent seated meditation
Monday through Saturday
5:45 AM – 6:15 AM
Arrive 15 minutes early for instruction
FREE – Donations accepted

The Benefits of Meditation

The benefits of meditation are endless and certainly deserve your contemplation and consideration. Many successful business people, celebrities and sports professionals practice and enjoy the benefits of meditation. Numerous businesses promote and provide help and assistance to their staff with the benefits of meditation courses and because of this they gain an advantage over their competitors and create more profit.

Research has scientifically proven that meditation is a safe and simple way to balance your physical, emotional, and mental state and its countless values have been known and practiced for thousands of years. More and more doctors promote the benefits of meditation to cure many stress related illnesses. Everyday most of us experience stress in many different ways and I believe many people are simply not aware of the benefits of meditation or of how much stress we actually hold on to. Normally life threatening situations trigger off the stress response which enables us to act without contemplation and deliberation and survive intense situations using fast reflexes. When our bodies are exposed to a sudden threat we respond with the characteristic fight or flight reaction which is known as an adrenaline rush. When adrenaline and other hormones are released from the adrenal glands the pulse races, blood pressure increases, our breathing becomes faster and the blood flow to the muscles increases. If we are in extreme danger these reactions are of great assistance and gain to us. We have inherited this survival response from our ancestors who faced many life threatening situations every day. The same response is now triggered in our daily lives when we are in a traffic hold up or someone irritates us at work or we simply break a cup. If we do not confront the situation (and many are beyond our control) we end up being in a permanent state of stress.

One of the most important benefits of meditation is how it releases stress from our bodies. Meditation practiced regularly will lead you to a deeper level of relaxation and contemplation. If you want to be free of constant worry, pressure and stress the benefits of meditation can give you a life that is calm, peaceful, happy and relaxed.

Even ten minutes of meditation a day will help alleviate stress.

St. Johnian Lindsey Chabot

Yoga & Ayurveda Teacher

in Astavakrasana at the airport on her way back to St. John

Go in and in.
Be the space
between two cells,
the vast, resounding
silence in which
spirit dwells.
Be sugar dissolving
on the tongue of life.
Dive in and in,
as deep as you can dive.
Be infinite, ecstatic truth.
Be love conceived and born in union.
Be exactly what you seek,
the Beloved, singing yes,
tasting Yes, embracing yes,
until there is only essence;
the All of Everything
expressing through you
as you. Go in and in
and turn away from nothing that you find.

~ Danna Faulds ~

St. Johnian Yogis spotted — Danielle Savage and Michael JaiDev DeNicola at Ram Das Puri, New Mexico.