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🌸🌿 Your Gentle Spring Dosha Balancing Guide

Simple, doable shifts to help your body feel steady, clear, and supported this season. In Ayurveda, spring is a time of melting, movement, and renewal. Snow softens, earth warms, water flows, and everything begins to wake up again. Your body does the same. But with all that movement comes a littl... Read More

Andra Benson | SUN APR 5, 2026

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🔥🌿 Why Dosha Balance Matters for Your Overall Health

One of the most comforting truths in Ayurveda is this: Your body is never working against you. It’s always trying to communicate, protect, and rebalance — even when the signals feel inconvenient, confusing, or downright annoying. Dosha imbalance isn’t a failure. It’s simply information. And when ... Read More

Andra Benson | THU APR 2, 2026

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🌿How to Know When a Dosha Is Out of Balance (And what your body is trying to tell you.)

Ayurveda teaches that your body is always communicating — not in dramatic, cryptic riddles, but in small, practical whispers. A little dryness here. A little irritability there. A little “why am I suddenly craving a nap at 10 a.m.?” sprinkled on top. These whispers are early signs that one of you... Read More

Andra Benson | SUN MAR 29, 2026

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🌼 What Are the Doshas? A Gentle, Beginner‑Friendly Guide to Your Ayurvedic Blueprint

🌼 What Are the Doshas? A Gentle, Beginner‑Friendly Guide to Your Ayurvedic BlueprintAyurveda teaches that every person has a unique mind‑body blueprint — a natural pattern of energy that shapes how you digest, sleep, think, move, and respond to stress. This blueprint is made up of the three dosha... Read More

Andra Benson | SUN MAR 22, 2026

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🌬🔥 Understanding the Vata/Pitta Stage of Life

There’s a stage of life — often beginning in our mid‑30s and continuing through the decades that follow — where we start to feel both more sensitive and more intense at the same time. More easily overwhelmed, yet more driven. More inspired, yet more depleted. More perceptive, yet more reactive. A... Read More

Andra Benson | SUN MAR 22, 2026

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Menopause, Incontinence, and How Hatha Yoga Can Help

One of the things I hear most often from women in menopause is this:“Why is this happening to my body — and why didn’t anyone talk about it sooner?” Urinary leakage, urgency, or feeling less confident in your bladder control is extremely common during peri‑ and post‑menopause, yet many women feel... Read More

Andra Benson | SAT FEB 28, 2026

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How In‑Home Yoga Sessions Help Reduce Fall Risk for Older Adults

How In‑Home Yoga Sessions Help Reduce Fall Risk for Older Adults Falls are one of the leading causes of injury for older adults, and yet most falls are preventable when the right supports are in place. While many people think of yoga as requiring flexibility and agility, the truth is that yoga—es... Read More

Andra Benson | FRI FEB 27, 2026

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Why You Should Avoid Water‑Based or Heated Oil Diffusers — And What to Use Instead

My professor for this semester at MIU, Dr. Charlotte Bech, taught us that while we should use oil diffusers within our office spaces for mental wellbeing, we need to avoid using water-based or heated oil diffusers. I wanted to learn more about why this is so important for our overall health. What... Read More

Andra Benson | MON FEB 23, 2026

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Group Meditation Lowers Aggression and Fosters Peace

Group meditation has been shown in multiple peer‑reviewed studies to reduce violence, crime, and social unrest, making it a powerful tool for communities facing political turmoil and systemic stress. Evidence suggests that certain practices, especially Transcendental Meditation (TM) and its advan... Read More

Andra Benson | SUN JAN 25, 2026

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Meditation for Cancer, Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and Parkinson’s

Meditation for Cancer, Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and Parkinson’s For people living with cancer If you’re facing cancer, treatments and uncertainty can make every day feel heavy. Meditation can give you a small, steady refuge: a few minutes of focused breathing or a guided body‑scan can lower the imm... Read More

Andra Benson | SAT JAN 17, 2026