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My Top 3 Morning Habits
My Top 3 Morning Habits Via | Jessica Wilkins | November, 21, 2023  1. MEDITATE! Meditation has taken my experience of life to a whole new level and all my clients who have committed to it would likely say the same thing. I have worked up to meditating for at least...
Give Yourself A New Years Gift By Joining A Juice Cleanse Retreat
Give Yourself a New Years Gift by Joining a Juice Cleanse Retreat Via | Ramesh Bjonnes | November, 21, 2023 Starting the new year with a juice cleanse is a great way to improve your overall health and hit the reset button on building better eating and exercise habits...
How to Juice Cleanse in the Cold Season
Juice fasting and intermittent fasting have become very popular these days. Juice fasting can be very effective in curing or reducing the symptoms of colds and the flu. It can also help us to heal from various chronic health problems. Juicing in the warm summer season...
Choosing Joy & Letting Go of Stress
THINGS TO THINK by Robert Bly "When someone knocks on the door, think that he is about to give you something large: tell you you're forgiven, or that it's not necessary to work all the time, or that it's been decided that if you lie down no one will die." Slow Down,...
This is Why Meditation Helps Your Addiction Recovery
This is Why Meditation Helps Your Addiction Recovery Via | Eddie LeShure | October 9, 2023 From Addict to Person in Recovery Addiction typically involves automatic behavior used to escape difficult unwanted feelings. Mindfulness involves a conscious investigation of...
Meditation Enhances Brain Function & Grey Matter
Dr. Sid Jordan Expanding Creative Potential and Peaceful Moments Whether you are an experienced or beginning meditator your can benefit from a more intensive period of silent meditation to quiet the mind and reset your heart-felt priorities. Â We need to remember that...
Benefits of Silent Meditation
Silent Meditation Retreat Benefits: Expanding creativity, peacefulness, self-realization, service to others and being your own best friend. Via Dr. Sid Jordan |September 26, 2023 Expanding Creative Potential and Peaceful Moments Whether you are an experienced...
6 Secrets to Supercharge Your Immune System For Fall
6 Secrets to Supercharge Your Immune System Via | Ramesh Bjonnes | September 19, 2023 Have you ever tried to improve your immune system with high doses of vitamin C or by using an elderberry tincture but still suffered from a bad cold or flu? You are not alone....
How COVID Healed My Body
By Dr. Guildeniz Ucelen (Guest Writer) A Tribute to the Alkaline Diet: How COVID Healed My Body Last week, I tested positive for COVID-19, and my health took a pleasant turn for the better. That doesn’t sound right, but that is exactly what happened. Here is how it...
The Body’s Buffer System: The Secret to Health
By Ramesh Bjonnes Do you know why having an alkaline diet of mainly whole fruits and vegetables is important? The main reason is that acidic foods, including meat and refined carbohydrates, will tax our buffer system and pass on toxins to the various organs, which...
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Health & Wellness
My Top 3 Morning Habits
Have you ever tried to improve your immune system with high doses of vitamin C or by using an elder berry tincture but still suffered from a bad cold or flu? You are not alone. Fighting colds and flus in the winter season is not possible by using just one single, natural agent, even in a high dose. It is not that simple.
Give Yourself A New Years Gift By Joining A Juice Cleanse Retreat
Have you ever tried to improve your immune system with high doses of vitamin C or by using an elder berry tincture but still suffered from a bad cold or flu? You are not alone. Fighting colds and flus in the winter season is not possible by using just one single, natural agent, even in a high dose. It is not that simple.
How to Juice Cleanse in the Cold Season
In this program you will gain new ways to think through the facts and the mis- and dis-information about yoga philosophy and its historical roots.
This is Why Meditation Helps Your Addiction Recovery
Have you ever tried to improve your immune system with high doses of vitamin C or by using an elder berry tincture but still suffered from a bad cold or flu? You are not alone. Fighting colds and flus in the winter season is not possible by using just one single, natural agent, even in a high dose. It is not that simple.
6 Secrets to Supercharge Your Immune System For Fall
Have you ever tried to improve your immune system with high doses of vitamin C or by using an elder berry tincture but still suffered from a bad cold or flu? You are not alone. Fighting colds and flus in the winter season is not possible by using just one single, natural agent, even in a high dose. It is not that simple.
How COVID Healed My Body
In this program you will gain new ways to think through the facts and the mis- and dis-information about yoga philosophy and its historical roots.
The Body’s Buffer System: The Secret to Health
In this program you will gain new ways to think through the facts and the mis- and dis-information about yoga philosophy and its historical roots.
3 Reasons Its Time For A Juice Cleanse
In this program you will gain new ways to think through the facts and the mis- and dis-information about yoga philosophy and its historical roots.
10 Reasons Why A 10-Day Cleansing Retreat at Prama Is Better Than Doing It Alone At Home
Ramesh Bjonnes “A seven-day retreat is ideal, a 10-day one is even more beneficial.“ –from the website for the film Food Matters 1. You are surrounded by a group of people with the same intention and that makes fasting so much easier. 2. You have experienced guides to...
Intermittent Fasting or Calorie Counting?
Ramesh Bjonnes Many people today are struggling with obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, and they often try some kind of weight loss program to shed extra pounds, reduce blood sugar and blood pressure. If done right and maintained, these methods work. But is one...
Meditation & Mindfulness
Meditation Enhances Brain Function & Grey Matter
We have been nurturing a meditation or contemplative practice for our entire life span.  As babies we started with repeating sounds in a singsong fashion.  In a recent NPR interview on Krista Tippet’s On Being program Alice Parker, a renowned chorale leader, commented on singing- “It’s one of the things that we’re born with.
Benefits of Silent Meditation
Whether you are an experienced or beginning meditator your can benefit from a more intensive period of silent meditation to quiet the mind and reset your heart felt priorities.
Intermittent Fasting and the Longevity Diet
Ramesh Bjonnes From August 23-27, we will feature a retreat about the practice of intermittent fasting here at Prama. There are a variety of intermittent fasting techniques, since not all forms work for all types of people. At the retreat, you will learn about all of...
The Yoga of Flow
Ramesh Bjonnes We often think of yoga as a set of physical exercises only. But yoga also has a deep spiritual heart, especially found in its meditation practices. When we hear that yoga means union and that the practice of yoga will lead us to experience this union,...
4 Ways to Get into a Higher Gear
Howard Nemon Last week, I wrote about a different way to think about rationalization. In the summer of 1990, my Teacher explained it as a specific faculty or ability of the mind. It is a mental process that can help the mind become more efficient and effective by...
Let’s get the Mind into high(er) Gear
In one of the last major lectures by my Teacher in 1990, he emphasized the importance of rationalization. He was speaking about developing the mind and how rationalization would help in this effort. Many of us were confused to say the least. We usually think of...
Meditation and the Better Brain
Howard Nemon You sit down to meditate. You close your eyes and try to practice your technique. You have heard of the many benefits attributed to meditation and maybe have experienced some. After you finish the meditation, you feel different—maybe more relaxed,...
Nurturing a Meditation Practice: A Birthright
We have been nurturing a meditation or contemplative practice for our entire life span.  As babies we started with repeating sounds in a singsong fashion.  In a recent NPR interview on Krista Tippet’s On Being program Alice Parker, a renowned chorale leader, commented on singing- “It’s one of the things that we’re born with.
Embracing the Wild Beasts of the Mind
At Pashupatinat Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, I received a lesson in taming the wild beasts of the mind.
One Yoga, Many Paths
In this program you will gain new ways to think through the facts and the mis- and dis-information about yoga philosophy and its historical roots.
Other Topics
Choosing Joy & Letting Go of Stress
For many working at home these days the boundaries between the office and home fades and there is no escaping getting our jobs done. The pressure to get work done is internal and external, exemplified by the falling leaves in our yard and our feeling of responsibility to rake the leaves. How we perceive these perennial tasks can define them as stressful or not.
How COVID Healed My Body
In this program you will gain new ways to think through the facts and the mis- and dis-information about yoga philosophy and its historical roots.
The Body’s Buffer System: The Secret to Health
In this program you will gain new ways to think through the facts and the mis- and dis-information about yoga philosophy and its historical roots.
4 Ways to Get into a Higher Gear
Howard Nemon Last week, I wrote about a different way to think about rationalization. In the summer of 1990, my Teacher explained it as a specific faculty or ability of the mind. It is a mental process that can help the mind become more efficient and effective by...
Let’s get the Mind into high(er) Gear
In one of the last major lectures by my Teacher in 1990, he emphasized the importance of rationalization. He was speaking about developing the mind and how rationalization would help in this effort. Many of us were confused to say the least. We usually think of...
Meditation and the Better Brain
Howard Nemon You sit down to meditate. You close your eyes and try to practice your technique. You have heard of the many benefits attributed to meditation and maybe have experienced some. After you finish the meditation, you feel different—maybe more relaxed,...
Diet for a Healthy Planet
Howard Nemon Over fifty years ago, when Frances Lappé wrote her ground-breaking book, Diet for a Small Planet, the idea that the food we eat was significantly affecting our health and that of the earth was a novel, if not radical, idea. Not only did Lappé’s book...
You Are Worth It! – 5 min Self-Care Routines To Include In Your Day
You are an amazing human being doing amazing things all day. Â If you are like me, you want to keep doing those amazing things. Â I know it sounds like a cliche but, to keep moving you have to take care of yourself. Â I must admit, self-care did not come easy to me, I can give easier to everyone except myself. Â Although, through burnout and stress, I realized just how important self-care is.
3 Steps for Finding Your “Inner Voter”
It’s voting season again and it’s often a trying experience. Repetitive political ads of questionable validity, additional junk mail, polling phone calls, and more and more of your mental space taken up by politics. Then the decisions – who or what to vote for. For...
The Yogic Path to Truthfulness
There are facts, there are truths, and there is what we believe. And they can vary greatly. For one thing, there are many ways to understand these concepts. Some people consider facts as verifiable pieces of information which are determined by research or some kind of...