by Melanie Farmer | Articles
Funny how dried balls of manure can look just like so many hundreds of rocks. These tricky and deceptive rock push themselves up out of the ground in Oakland’s pasture on a daily basis. There are hundreds if not thousands of these ancient things laying around...
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Secretariat won the Triple Crown in 1973, within one month of the Watergate scandal that exposed Nixon’s political indiscretions. Secretariat’s racing career spanned Vietnam and the 1972 recession. Sea Biscuit became the symbol of the underdog during the...
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The guiding principal of Ayurveda is disease prevention through harmonizing our body’s rhythm with nature. One way to create this balance is to align the body’s healing energies through marma massage. Marma is a Sanskrit word meaning hidden, or secret. By...
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The Vedic Horse The Aswini are luminal, twin Vedic deities giving spiritual strength. One twin fills the universe with light while the other twin with fluidity. The Aswini represent the dawn, the stage between night and first breaking of light. They guide our...
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In the foot hills of Fall City, Washington, along the old Snoqualmie railroad grade, there is a great network of trails. On any given day, mountain bikers, equestrians, hikers and joggers, trace their way along the grade. Arteries of trails branch off the grade into...
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Nimitta is one of six branches in Jyotish and is defined as ‘omen’ or sign. Nimitta is essential in practice. The classical texts list several signs to observe in our waking state as well as in the dream state. Dreams are where desire and repulsion,...
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Ever have wonder why one event or a series of life changing events has occurred in your life over a particular period? Have you ever experienced periods of time where your health and well-being ran high or low for weeks, months, even years at a time? These patterns...
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Join Melanie Farmer each Thursday at 1:08 PST on Healthy You! radio channels 1150 AM and 98.9 FM to learn about Vedic astrology, yoga, and ayurveda.
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All plants meditate as the earth meditates and all herbs, the product of special plants, are energized through the one great mantra AUM. AUM is the ultimate sound vibration of the Universe. We absorb this vibration as we circle the Sun carried by our mother, earth....
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Ayurveda and yoga are sister sciences. In India, it was traditional to practice ayurveda before taking up the study of yoga. Because ayurveda is the life-science of body, it was a physical, conditioning system in preparation for the mental-spiritual science of yoga....
