Which Dosha Are You?

By Adam Ruggiero   Ayurvedic medicine can lovingly be called the only truly preventative, palliative and completely individualized form of health care – particularly in our increasingly cure all-driven Western society. One of the ways in which Ayurveda...

Neck Stretches

By Lucia Yess   Winter is on our backs and we can’t hide from it. Instead lets open up our upper body and embrace it by relaxing our shoulders away from our ears. As many of you know, as soon as the wind hits you, your shoulders drive up to keep in warmth....

Back Pain

By David Melling   I’ve been a resident doctor for over two years. Even though I am pretty new to this whole doctor thing, there is one topic that I am starting to become somewhat familiar with and that is acute low back pain. Since low back pain is so...
Chakra Series- Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana)

Chakra Series- Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana)

By Adam Ruggiero   The svadhisthana, sacral chakra, sometimes referred to as the spleen chakra because of its location just below the navel, this chakra center taps into the energies of our creativity. These energies encompass physical creativity, the powers of...
Chakra Series: Solar Plexus (Manipura)

Chakra Series: Solar Plexus (Manipura)

By Adam Ruggiero   The solar plexus, home of the third chakra center, manipura. Here lay our personal power center, our wellspring of energy and capability. From this chakra we derive much of our confidence and sense of personal ability. When energy flows freely...

Chakra Series: Heart Chakra (Anāhata)

By Adam Ruggiero   The chakra centers that line the cranio-sacral pathway through our bodies. The predominantly physical, grounding chakras that originate below the pelvis and span up to the solar plexus, now begin to give way to the mental and spiritual chakras...