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Natural Living

The Beauty of Simple Ayurvedic Practices

  Enhance Your Vitality (Ojas) Over the last few months I have begun to incorporate some of the teaching I received over the last two years from Arjun Das and Melanie Sachs. Although I have been practicing all of these techniques, it has only be recently that I...

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How to Make Vanilla Extract

How to Make Vanilla Extract

Making a fresh batch of vanilla extract can be a wonderful gift for the holidays.   There is so much to love about the orchid Vanilla. In a previous blog I wrote about how to make a vanilla bean jojoba infusion.  Now we turn to an alcohol extract which can be used in...

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What’s growing in your garden?

What’s growing in your garden?

By garden, I mean anything from the actual garden that you planted on your land to the plants growing up through the cracks in the city (e.g., St. John’s Wort in the sidewalks of Seattle). Your garden includes the natural landscape which you can drive to, walk to, or...

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