Grab a cup of tea
and sit with me awhile.
Lymphatic Self Care
Simple, DIY routine to support a healthy lymphatic system and radiant skin. The quintessential ritual of self-love.
Woven Easter Bread Recipe
This is traditionally an Italian Easter Bread. If you’ve been wanting to dip your toes into bread baking, this is a great place to start. It's an easy sweet bread and with a beautiful and unique result.
Spring: Milk Moon
With the Milk Moon, the scarcity of early spring is giving way to late spring, where abundance is starting to overflow. The animals have birthed, the rains have come and the fresh green grass is plentiful.
Spring Wellness
These last cold weeks of winter on the mountain bring expectation of spring, when the winter qualities of cold and dry transition to cool and wet. Ice begins to melt, releasing a slow trickling down the mountain. Mother Earth thaws to a more fluid state, reflected in muddy trails and the sap beginning to flow deep in the trees.
Wild Root Soup
This is an earthy soup to get you cleansing this spring. We recommend using fresh leeks, dandelion and fresh turmeric as they give the soup a unique aromatic taste.
Osha Root: Spring Medicine for the Bears
A Rocky Mountain Plant Worth Protecting
When the long mountain winter begins to loosen its grip and the snow slowly melts back from the forest floor, the bears wake. After months of hibernation their bodies are stiff, their digestive fire is low, and their immune systems vulnerable. The early spring landscape does not yet offer berries, lush greens, or abundant forage. A deep intelligence guides the bears to seek out powerful medicine rooted in the mountain soil.
Kapha Balancing
The Kapha time is when the heavy, cloudy and earthy tendencies dominate our bodies and minds. It is the beginning years of life, the spring time of the year and the morning time from 6-10am.
Lighten & Awaken: Kapha-Balancing Foods for Vitality
To balance Kapha is to invite lightness, movement, and renewal into the body and spirit.
Seed Paper Making
Handmade paper with wildflower seeds that you can plant right in the earth.
Spring Equinox
A fleeting sense of balance in the wheel of the year. Night and day are of equal length and polarities are in equilibrium - dark and light, masculine and feminine, inner and outer.
Ghee : Golden Sunlight
Ghee is the most revered and auspicious substance of Ayurvedic medicine. Here are just a few of the reasons why it is so good for our bodies and why you might want to start adding a daily dose to your diet.
Spring: Sap Moon
A Sap moon marks the transition from winter to spring and the spring equinox. Mother Earth fluctuates between warm thawing temperatures during the day and freezing temperatures at night. Life begins to wake up flow again, slowly at first.
Nourishing Nettle Pesto
Nettle packs a big nutritional punch with its vitamin, mineral and antioxidant content. This herb is often used as a tonic, meaning it supports, strengthens and tones.
Winter Wolf Pack
Some part of me tracks them even when I am asleep. I’m awake now, but before I open my eyes, I reach for them with my senses. Sight isn’t very useful at this time. I know the state of them mostly by smell. For now, they smell earthy and a little sweet; no sourness or sharp pungency to send alarm bells racing through my blood.