Podcasts about everyday ayurvedic cooking

Christine Eck and Kate O'Donnell discuss Ayurvedic postpartum care, focusing on dietary shifts to support digestion and overall health. They emphasize how postpartum impacts Vata, the dosha governing digestion, recommending easily digestible foods like rice gruel and soups. Kate advises incorporating digestive spices and avoiding raw foods and greens. They highlight the importance of nourishing fats like ghee and stress the value of self-care practices like oil massages to enhance resilience and support caregivers. Discover more about Kate Kate O'Donnell is the author of three Ayurvedic Cookbooks, including The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care, The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook and Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind. She is a nationally certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and the founder of the Ayurvedic Living Institute. Kate has travelled extensively in India and has studied the wisdom traditions of Ayurveda for over 20 years. Kate specializes in Ayurvedic education, cooking skills, cleansing programs, and professional trainings.  Her offerings aim to help others come closer to their true nature. Learn More About Kate's Work: Kate O'Donnell Ayurveda Practitioner & Book Author Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kateodonnell.ayurveda/ Are you feeling the call to know more about Conscious Postpartum Care? Learn about our programs at ⁠www.sacredwindowstudies.com⁠ Follow us on Instagram at @‌sacredwindowstudies Facebook at @‌AyurvedaForPostpartum Join our ⁠Facebook Group⁠ Reach out! ⁠Schedule a time with Christine⁠ to find out if our programs are a good fit for you! Here is the ⁠link⁠ to out free class

Most of the questions I get asked while traveling revolve around my writing process or publishing journey. So, in this episode, I share my life-altering journey, explaining how a personal health challenge led me to discover Ayurveda and inspired me to write books to spread its wisdom. So, whether you dream of writing a book, are busy working on one, or are curious about the writing and publishing process, this episode is a must-listen.Join me. You may even find the spark to turn your writing ideas into reality!My Health Struggles When I was 20, I traveled to India, eager for adventure, but my health was a mess. I dealt with parasites, a weakened immune system, and gut issues and took antibiotics like Flagyl, which wrecked my digestive system. After I returned to India to seek treatment, a doctor in Mysore introduced me to the ancient Ayurvedic healing system.The Ayurvedic ExperienceI underwent Panchakarma, a powerful Ayurvedic detox that included oil rubdowns, milk pours, enemas, and a simple Kitchari diet. The experience was intense but transformative. It gave me a deeper understanding of Ayurveda and sparked my curiosity to learn more.Combining Yoga and AyurvedaI spent time teaching yoga and Ayurveda, balancing my time between India and the U.S. I started sharing simple Ayurvedic practices with my students, like tongue scraping and drinking hot water. I also noticed how confused many people were about food, so I wrote a cookbook.The Everyday Ayurveda CookbookWhen an editor from Shambhala Publications contacted me, I knew it was time to turn my ideas into a book. So, I wrote The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook. It contains simple, seasonal recipes to help people understand how food can be medicine. The Publishing JourneyThe publishing process was not easy. It involved testing recipes, balancing the Ayurvedic philosophy, and ensuring it was user-friendly and accessible. I worked closely with a designer to create a visually appealing and informative book. The cookbook came out in 2015, and in 2025, I will release a 10th-anniversary edition of The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook, with new recipes and a foreword by Amadeo Morning Star. Mind-Body Connection and the Second BookAs I continued working with people, I realized how much the mind influences our health and food choices. That led me to write my second book, Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind, about how Ayurveda can help us create mental calm and clarity, which supports our overall well-being.Writing in IndiaWhen in India, I have more time to write as there are fewer distractions. I get a lot of inspiration in India, especially from local food markets and healthy restaurants.The Struggles of Writing the Front MatterWriting the front matter for Calm, Clear Mind took me a year. Writing about the mind is tricky, complex, and often murky. I worked closely with my partner, Rich, who has experience with psychological work, to ensure the language was non-judgmental. Research and Inspiration from TextsI could not find many Ayurvedic resources on the mind, so I dug deep into texts like the Bhagavad Gita, which explores the connection between food and the mind. After extensive research, I also found insights from various yogic and Vedic texts that shaped my approach to writing about the mind.The Challenge of PublishingPublishing with Shambhala has been a rewarding experience for me. The vulnerability of handing over my work for the first time was a huge emotional challenge, but working with a trustworthy publisher made things easier. I published all four of my books with them because I trust their artistic vision and respect...

Kate O'Donnell is the author of three Ayurvedic Cookbooks, including The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care, The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook: A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well and Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind: 100 Sattvic Recipes. She is a nationally certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and the founder of the Ayurvedic Living Institute. An authorized Ashtanga yoga instructor, she teaches yoga in Boston and Portland, Maine, and still travels to India annually for study.   Kate began yoga by accident in South India at age 20. More than a dozen extended trips to India and twenty years studying the wisdom traditions of the sub-continent support Kate's understanding of Ayurveda and Yoga. After years of dedication to the Ashtanga system, Kate has experienced great benefit from this practice and was authorized by her teacher Sharath Jois to teach the Primary and Intermediate series of Ashtanga yoga. She teaches week-long mysore immersions annually in Portland ME, Boston, and abroad. Kate also specializes in Ayurvedic education, cooking skills, and cleansing programs, offering on-line programs, residential immersions and trainings, and individual consultations.  Her Ayurveda and yoga offerings aim to help others come closer to their true nature.

Podcast Intro: Good food warms the souls of those who eat it. Families take joy when good food is served at the table, and it is further magnified when it happens during special occasions. But there is a common misconception about good food, good food means expensive! That's not true at all!  Anyone with a working kitchen, the right ingredients, and the passion to serve good food at the table can create something spectacular. It is the time of year when people recreate family dishes passed down through the centuries. But what if you were to reimagine how these delicacies are made? Learn how to make healthier versions of your favorite Christmas treats by listening to this podcast! What you'll get out of tuning in: What are the triggers and rituals of people in the holidays Why it is vital to practice drinking hot water added with spices before eating huge meals How you can reinvent desert to be digestive friendly Why people should enjoy their meals as they should be and not be too complacent with what society's been meticulously weighing and scaling food. Links/CTA: Kate O'Donnell Yoga  Talya's Kitchen Ayurvedic Living Institute Ayurveda Every Day with Talya IG: @ayurvedawithtalya YT Channel: Ayurveda Every Day with Talya Dosha Quiz: Talya's Kitchen Ayurveda Starters Guide Highlights: Cate talks about her mom cooking treats during holidays Cate talks about giving out some of the produce from her herb garden  Cate talks about cultivating their own healthy rhythm with food and nourishment and digestion. Timestamps: [6:07] - Family Routines on Holidays and Food [11:46] - Benefits of Drinking Hot Water [19:48] - Connecting the Family [28:09] - Skin and Self-care [37:35] - Combining Art, Science, and Tradition [41:53] - Cultivating a Healthy Rhythm with Food Quotes: “Anytime you add in any social factor to eating, you immediately change it from how it is when you're just by yourself, like quietly meditatively chewing your bites, tasting your food, and having that presence. But the other thing that I think people struggle with is just eating too much or being tempted by everything else that's there. And so kind of managing their plate during a holiday meal.” - Talya “The green is always missing. It feels like an incomplete meal to me without something bitter. This bitterness is a digestive and cleansing taste, which is just so refreshing with all the brown food.” - Kate “I often find that with tradition, there's a weightiness of the past, and there's a beauty to that, but then there can also be a pathology, it just be strong about it. With that where it's like that was important then because they were working a farm, and those were new things on the horizon, like excess flour and excess sugar was like really new to at least in the American economy, within the last 100 years.” - Cate “I find the more people have rules around food, the more people are like trying to measure things or the more they're telling themselves not to eat something that are their trigger foods that they're like it creates this really false dichotomy. That, to me, is just like a residue of consumer culture. Instead, it is like, how do you really merge with the food because this food will become your body. So don't have an antagonistic relationship to it like “be all in.” - Cate Guest: Kate O'Donnell  https://www.kateodonnell.yoga/about Kate O'Donnell is the author of three Ayurvedic Cookbooks, including The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care, The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook: A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well, and Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind: 100 Sattvic Recipes. She is a nationally certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and the founder of the Ayurvedic Living Institute. An authorized Ashtanga yoga instructor, she teaches yoga in Boston and Portland, Maine, and still travels to India annually for study.   Kate began yoga by accident in South India at age 20. More than a dozen extended trips to India and twenty years studying the wisdom traditions of the sub-continent support Kate's understanding of Ayurveda and Yoga. After years of dedication to the Ashtanga system, Kate has experienced great benefit from this practice and was authorized by her teacher Sharath Jois to teach the Primary and Intermediate series of Ashtanga yoga. She teaches week-long mysore immersions annually in Portland ME, Boston, and abroad. Kate also specializes in Ayurvedic education, cooking skills, and cleansing programs, offering online programs, residential immersions and training, and individual consultations.  Her Ayurveda and yoga offerings aim to help others come closer to their true nature. Guest Bio: Talya Lutzker https://www.ayurvedaed.com/about-talya/ Talya Lutzker is a Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, cookbook author, yoga teacher, and one of the most accessible Ayurveda teachers online today. She helps people heal and integrate the practice of Ayurveda into their daily life. She's the founder of The Dosha Remedy, The RAD Cleanse (Radiance Ayurveda Detox), and Ayurveda Starter School. Since 2003, Talya's created Ayurvedic lifestyle and nutrition hubs for her audience. Drink up deep nourishment for the heart and soul of who you are at Ayurveda Every Day with Talya - https://www.ayurvedaed.com/

Welcome to the #SPAITGIRL Talk Show with Yvette Le Blowitz Create a kinder, more balanced, sustainable world from the inside out.  Learn to befriend your body and discover how best to care for yourself day by day and Season by Season with Ayurveda, India's ancient holistic healing system EP.130 - The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care with Kate O'Donnell, Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, Author  Kate O'Donnell is the author of three Ayurvedic Cookbooks, including The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care, The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook: A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well and Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind: 100 Sattvic Recipes. She is a nationally certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and the founder of the Ayurvedic Living Institute.   An authorised Ashtanga Yoga Instructor, she teaches yoga in Boston and Portland, Maine and has travelled to India numerous times for study. Kate began yoga by Accident in South India at age 20. More than a dozen extended trips to India and twenty years studying the wisdom traditions of the sub-continent support Kate's understanding Ayurveda and Yoga. After years of dedication to the Ashtanga system, Kate has experienced great benefit from this practice and was authorized by her teacher Sarah Jois to teach the Primary and Intermediate Series of Ashtanga Yoga.   She teaches week-long mysore immersions annually in Portland ME, Boston and abroad. Kate also specialises in Ayurvedic education, cooking skills and cleansing programs, offering on-line programs, residential immersions and training and individual consultations.   Her Ayurveda and Yoga offerings aim to help others come closer to their true nature. Kate has recently launched a series of on-line courses through The Ayurvedic Living Institute. In this podcast episode 130 - Discover the best way to care for yourself day by day and season by season. Embrace the Ancient principles of Ayurveda to become a more integrated, whole, and healthy version of yourself. Kate O'Donnell is the Author of The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care and this detailed guide walks you through the steps of foundational Ayurvedic practices that can be easily integrated into your existing self-care routine, from self-massage, oil pulling, and tongue scraping to breathing practices, meditation exercises and eating with intention to uplight your physical health and state of mind. In The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care, you will get acquainted with the tradition of Ayurveda and better understand your dosas (metabolic tendencies) and basic Ayurvedic anatomy. Discover the art of the self-care by exploring daily routines and seasonal practices to prevent imbalances in the body and mind.   Find out what foods, species and herbs carry medicinal qualities that support cleansing, rejuvenation and management of common ailments. 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When we're at home, most of us practice with a different intensity than we do in Mysore, whether it turns out to be more or less postures is another story. We spent an afternoon discussing what this looks like and why we do what we do with power couple Kate O'Donnell and Rich Ray from Ashtanga Yoga Portland Maine. We talked about Advanced Asanas and our relationship to them both personally, as well as collectively. The first aspect we discussed is what sacrifices a person must make to practice Advanced Series on a regular basis, and barring those sacrifices, what then is Yoga and what is it for? Not all people can do these complex advanced postures. And yet, all people can practice Yoga. We discussed how exploring the minutia within a single posture can allow for the time and space to fully examine oneself within a posture, and how using asanas as benchmarks creates hierarchies of status (for better or worse). One thing we all seemed to agree upon is that all aspects of the body and mind can be examined in Surya Namaskar. Even simply examining your tongue might be enough to send your consciousness to other planes of reality. Rich Ray has been practicing meditation and yoga for over 20 years. He trained as a resident monk for 4 years at a silent monastery. He taught yoga and meditation at state prisons in California and New Hampshire and started a meditation program at a women's county jail in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the director of Ashtanga Yoga Portland Maine. WEBSITE I INSTAGRAM Kate O'Donnell is the author of three Ayurvedic Cookbooks, including The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care, The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook: A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well and Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind: 100 Sattvic Recipes. She is a nationally certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and the founder of the Ayurvedic Living Institute. WEBSITE I INSTAGRAM Harmony Slater is a Certified Ashtanga Yoga Teacher, who has been teaching in the Mysore method for close to 20 years. Harmony is a strong presence in the Ashtanga community worldwide having founded two Yoga Schools in Canada. She has shared her experiences with the practice, pregnancy and childbirth in the books: ‘Yoga Sadhana for Mothers' and ‘Strength and Grace: A collection of Essays by Women of Ashtanga Yoga.' WEBSITE I INSTAGRAM Russell Case was the Founding Director of the Stanford Mysore Program for the last ten years. Prior to this he was the founder of the largest Mysore program in East Asia from 2005-2010, while living in Taipei, Taiwan. Since then Russell was project manager for the Jois Foundation collaborating with the child psychiatry team at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University in undertaking the largest and most comprehensive longitudinal study on the effect of mindfulness and yoga on school age children in history. Currently he is focused on cultivating a robust career as a painter because yolo. WEBSITE I INSTAGRAM

Check out this enlightening conversation titled: Stoking the Fire ~ Ayurveda and Ashtanga Yoga with Kate ODonnell. Kate O’Donnell is the author of three Ayurvedic Cookbooks, including The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care, The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook: A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well and Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind: 100 Sattvic Recipes. She is a nationally certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and the founder of the Ayurvedic Living Institute. An authorized Ashtanga yoga instructor, she teaches yoga in Boston and Portland, Maine, and still travels to India annually for study. Check out Kate's website at kateodonnell.yoga and follow her on Instagram @kateodonnell.ayurveda

Until the world was interrupted by this crisis and the subsequent lockdowns, humanity was in an unhealthy place. We were so focused on work and productivity that so many other important aspects of our health were crumbling.    Many of us have experienced negative feelings and circumstances as our schedules and lives have adjusted, but it’s not all bad news.   There’s fear and despair but there’s also hope, excitement and the opportunity of what we can create right now; the new culture and consciousness we can usher in.    What is the larger meaning behind the crisis, and what are the old ways that we desperately need to shift away from? Why are spiritual entrepreneurs so important right now? How do we keep ourselves in alignment in these challenging times?    In this episode, Ayurvedic Practitioner and Cookbook Author, Kate O’Donnell shares how the lockdown has shifted her life and business and what she’s learning from it.      3 Things We Learned From This Episode The hidden meaning behind the covid-19 crisis  We lived in a culture where productivity and work goals were the most important thing, and focusing on that was driving all of our behavior and choices. The unsustainable nature of that work-dominant focus has now been shut down, and many of us have been pushed onto the path of breaking old habits and creating new healthier ones.    Getting over the internal resistance to self-promotion  Right now, more than ever before, there’s a huge surge in the people tuned into the online world. Our gifts are needed in order to help many of these people who would benefit from our teachings and messages. If you’ve created something that can really help people, it will remain hidden without promotion. Kate shares how she overcame her hesitation to run ads.    How the virtual world can diminish our alignment  We’re spending more time than ever in front of computer and phone screens, which creates an artificial and boxed-in mindscape. Too much of that will affect our sense of reality and connection with the world around us. We need to get away from the box and train the eyes on a different kind of vision.   Guest Bio    Kate is an Author, Presenter and Ayurvedic Practitioner and Cookbook Author. She practices, teaches, and writes about healing systems for health and happiness. She is the author of The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care, The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook, as well as Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind and recently launched a series of on-line courses through The Ayurvedic Living Institute.    Visit http://www.kateodonnell.yoga/ to learn more about Kate’s work, and buy her books.  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AyurvedaBoston Instagram: @kateodonnell.ayurveda

A sattvic state of mind is one that is naturally calm, clear, and at peace. But when the world tugs at our minds and our egos, it makes them anxious, wild, and scattered making  it difficult to feel peace and stability within. In her Ayurvedic Cookbooks, Kate O’Donnell uses food preparation as a way to harness this undisturbed, sattvic state of mind that we desire to cultivate. Today, Kate and I chat about the importance of our daily habits in terms of sukha sadhana and how to bring about a clear, calm internal and external environment with a daily spiritual practice. This practice of becoming more aware of ourselves, more in tune, and more present to each moment can be done using many techniques, from meditation to cooking! Kate O’Donnell and I talk about how to sooth our out of whack doshic energies and how to bring ourselves back into balance, whether we are predominately Vata, Pitta or Kapha. As humans we tend to create less space and more business for ourselves in our day to day lives; it is important to learn to take a step back and invoke slow, steady, healing energy. It’s from this place of grounding that we make good choices, good relationships and create good products. Sattva- natural state of the mind- calm and clear naturally but then it’s pulled on by the universe. The law of the mind is that it is naturally. Her cookbook- the use of food to harness that undisturbed state of mind.   Sukha- good space-- within us, around us. Internal and external environments, relationships we cultivate. Sadhana- spiritual practice done daily to cultivate a sattvic state of mind. Our state of mind is cultivated by our daily habits!  The mind itself is driving all the activities that are happening in the physical world--like the wizard of Oz! Take concept of mind and mental realm and understand it and how its affecting us- we will have a better grasp on our day to day lifestyle. Sukha Sadhana- process of becoming more aware of ourselves-- creates good space as we go. We are paying attention to LIFE rather than being imbalanced/ running around like chicken with head cut off or like a sloth. -Vata dosha- fall- vata season. Feeling very airy and chaotic, anxiety, overwhelm, depletion, collapse Need to balance go-go energy with Slow energy in order to maintain that go energy. Otherwise will burn out. Food preparation as a way to slow down! When you slow down, the body slowly comes back into right relationship with itself...because mind starts to slow down. Whether we are cutting carrots or doing yoga asana, we are able to slow down in mind and body and they we can experience ourselves in line with nature-- --Pushing the Vata envelope- suppressing the urges to pee, poop, fart, burp--its teh go go go tendency. Conversations of evolution. Root before extending. Pitta pushing envelope- workaholism--lots of vision- we want to make happen. But at end of day--jut business instead of efficiency. Kapha-complacency,  resistance to change, lack of creation and lack of fire. Pushing envelope-not moving, no exercise, improper eating. Need the get up and move energy   Under-complicate everything- eat one thing all day.   What you’ll get out of tuning in: What do Sattva, sukha and sadhana mean and why are they important? How to under-complicate your life by keeping cooking simple. Why is it important to connect with your food?   Links Mentioned in Episode: Kate O’Donnell Website - About Me -  Kate O’Donnell’s “The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook: A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well”  - Amazon  Yoga Health Coaching Join Spring Yogidetox Show Highlights: 1:15- Sattva, Sadhana, and Sukha. What do these sanskrit words mean and why are they so important? 9:40- What does a slower, more mindful pace and practice look like in our lives? Kate talks about food preparation as a way for us to slow down and feel nourished! 16:00- What does it look like to push the envelope from a Vata, a Pitta, and a Kapha point of view? What causes and leads to imbalances in our dosha types? 25:30- Food preparation in an efficient way, as a yoga practice or a meditation.  Find love for slower, grounding practices, such as cooking. Cooking should be a peaceful, enjoyable practice done with friends or family, as opposed to having a “get it done” mentality. If this isn’t how you feel when you cook, take a class and learn new techniques to enjoy the practice of cooking nourishing foods!   Favorite Quotes: “The law of the mind is naturally calm and clear and undisturbed.” -Kate O’Donnell “The mind itself is driving all the activities that are happening in the physical world.” -Kate O’Donnell “For all the go-go-go in our days, we need some slow-slow-slow!” -Kate O’Donnell   Guest BIO: Kate O’Donnell is an author, lecturer, and senior yoga teacher. She wrote two popular cookbooks, The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook and Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind. A nationally recognized Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ashtanga yoga teacher, Kate is a founding member of the Boston Ayurveda School and adjunct faculty for Kripalu School of Ayurveda. She continues her travels to India annually for study and teaches internationally. Connect with Kate on her website and facebook page.

I love these juicy conversations with author, lecturer, and yoga instructor, Kate O’Donnell. Today, we jump right into how our awareness expands and changes as we dive deeper into the studies of yoga and Ayurveda, and how we can expect ourselves and our physiology to change and evolve on our growth paths.  There is a greater sensitivity that we begin to notice in our bodies as we move into a deeper attunement with nature and the universe. We intuitively begin to move away from over processed foods, scary movies, loud music, late nights, and over indulging in the things we used to find pleasurable. We learn what it feels like to be truly healthy at a deep, cellular level and what it means to be seated in the self. We learn that some resistance to new routines can be a good thing and that the clear, peaceful, grounding of energy of sattva is much more nourishing than the fast-paced and stimulating energy of rajas. Join us today in this fascinating podcast to learn about your growth path and where your yogic path is taking you. What you’ll get out of tuning in: How can you expect to evolve, as someone who practices yoga and Ayurveda?   What are the gunas and how do they play a role in our lives? How a bit of mental and physical resistance can be a good thing.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Kate's Website Kate's Facebook Discover more about Body Thrive    Show Highlights: 1:45- Cate Stillman and Kate O’Donnell discuss how life can change and what can be expected on our growth paths as we continue to practice and study yoga and Ayurveda. The body’s sensitivity changes and expands as we age and gain life experience; our tastes for food, drink, movies, music, people, etc. morphs as our physiology uplevels and the word ‘pure’ takes on a new meaning. 18:15- In order to fully learn something, sometimes we need to take 2 steps forward and one step back. We chat about the ‘gunas’ and what the qualities of sattva, rajas, and tamas mean and how these energies play out in our lives. 26:30- The energy of tamas and its tendency towards complacency. How a sattvic, calm, still, peaceful state of mind is different from a tamasic, complacent, or lazy way of being.   Favorite Quotes: “Your physiology has the technology to live in such a high level of resonance that you can tell if something is a fit or not a fit immediately. ”-Cate Stillman   “True confidence comes from being seated in the self.” -Kate O’Donnell “Paying attention to how we eat actually is a spiritual practice. It’s part of our evolution“ -Kate O’Donnell “Who do I want to become more of that is so fully resonant with who I am, and who am I meant to be next?” -Cate Stillman   Guest BIO: Kate O’Donnell is an author, lecturer, and senior yoga teacher. She wrote two popular cookbooks, The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook and Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind. A nationally recognized Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ashtanga yoga teacher, Kate is a founding member of the Boston Ayurveda School and adjunct faculty for Kripalu School of Ayurveda. She continues her travels to India annually for study and teaches internationally. Connect with Kate on her website and facebook page.  

Smoothies, soups and sweet treats, Oh my!! Listen in on the Cate and Kate show today and learn how to create new and exciting meals and desserts with Kate O’Donnell, author of The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook and Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind. We chat about delicious, nutritious Ayurvedic recipes that are easy to make this winter season for yourself or to give as gifts for the holidays! It is so important in today’s society to spend some quality time preparing your food or to get your hands a little dirty as you create meaningful and healthy gifts for your loved ones. We talk about how nourishing hibernating in the winter feels and how moving in tune with this inward season is so good for us. It is so important to stay connected to nature, to move with the seasons, and to not over stimulate ourselves with the hussle and bussle of the holidays. Listen in on our warm, wintery podcast and learn how to embrace this beautiful season by drawing inward, cooking with love, and enjoying winter’s stillness and simplicity.   What you’ll get out of tuning in: How to live more simply this winter. Which foods and recipes help you to thrive? Is fruit okay to eat for dessert?   Links Mentioned in the Episode: Kate O’Donnell’s Website  The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind Discover more about Body Thrive  Body Thrive Book   Show Highlights: 1:20- Kate O’Donnell is working on some recipes for a new collaborative cookbook specific to dinacharya, daily routines, time, and substances. Contribute to Kate’s book with some of your own favorite home remedies and local recipes! 7:45- How did people live in Medieval times without too much sugar, too much shopping, too much? Were they healthier and more grounded, more in tune with nature? 15:00- How to stick to your routines during the holidays when friends and family try to push you off your game. 18:00- Recipes for smoothies, soups and baked apples! Delicious and nutritious recipes to mix things up in your kitchen this winter...turmeric, kale, fiber, beets, and more! Try eating all the colors of the rainbow to keep yourself energized, warm, and vibrant. 25:45- Food combining- which foods are okay to eat together, which ones are not, and why!? We also discuss some delicious dessert and fancy treat recipes for you to try!   Your Favorite Quotes: “The Pagan holiday has been made into a consumer runaround- you have more stuff to do that draws you out, instead of embracing just being quiet and being still. In a relatively short time of year, embracing darkness is a big part of it.” “Fruit, in Ayurveda, is either eat it alone or leave it alone.” -Cate Stillman “Getting back into the tactile and into the sensual is what we all need… get your hands messy and experience the joy of that!” -Cate Stillman   Guest BIO: Kate O’Donnell is a nationally certified Ayurvedic practitioner, Ashtanga yoga teacher, and author of two books: The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook: A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well, and Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind: 100 Sattvic Recipes. She has made twenty extended trips to India, and continues to travel there annually for study, as well as teaching Ayurveda internationally. Kate is the director of a morning yoga program in Boston, co-director of The Boston Ayurveda School, and contributor to many publications. She teaches trainings, cooking classes, seasonal cleanses, and retreats when she isn’t practicing yoga or having a chai. Connect with Kate on her website  and facebook page.  

  If you are like most people eating healthy and well is high on your new year’s resolution list. Is it? That’s not surprising. After all, good food is a foundational piece to lasting health and happiness. With bad food we feel blah, bloaty, uninspired. Who wants that? With good food we feel uplifted and inspired. I attest to it. Well, I hate to break the news to you, but if you want to feed yourself well, home cooked food is essential for a peaceful and harmonious mind … and a vibrant body of course. Are you cringing? Does cooking at home sound like a whole lot of work? Hold your horses and read on … If you are a person who eats out a lot you have very little control about what goes into your body (and mind). Restaurants typically get their ingredients from big suppliers who give a d&*% about where they source their food from. The main goal is to keep costs down so you can eat affordably. It’s likely that you eat artificial ingredients,  hormone fed beef and unorganic lettuce. Those ingredients ain’t creating ease and peace. When eating out, you also have no control over the emotions that go into your food. Yep that’s right? The emotions of the cook go right into your food. And having worked in restaurants, I know what a stressful environment kitchens are. How is that creating a peaceful mind for the eater? Check out my conversation with Alec Hurley on that. When cooking at home you have way more control over what goes into your body. Now, if you are anything like me you don’t want to spend hours in the kitchen. I am way into simple, easy and delicious. That’s why I talked to Kate O’Donnell who has written two Ayurvedic cookbooks. They are filled with simple recipes that take less than 30 min to prep, are  nourishing and tasty. Yahoo Kate. Well done. I chat with Kate about the ins and out of everyday cooking and how it impacts our minds. What you get from tuning in: The 3 states of the mind The types of food that create harmony in the mind Why seasonal eating makes sense The impact of cookies and holiday treats on the mind Inspiration that cooking can be simple and time saving How to overcome food cravings … using the fire boys     Visit my Website  Join my private Facebook Group  Watch the free video series 5 secrets to a Better Menopause Upgrade your body experience. Apply for Body Joy  

Katya & Craig talk exhaustion, sleep disruptions, nightmares, sweet dreams, getting punted, slutshaming, IHOP, sex dolls, polari, General Virgin, emotional clarity, ASMR, RuPaul, big dongs, the power of songs, and YHMA. Later on, yoga master and author Kate O’Donnell joins for a chat about the benefits of yoga and shares a few recipes from her new book, Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind. Please visit our Patreon page and see which reward tier works best for you!   https://www.patreon.com/KatyaAndCraig  Kate O’Donnell: http://www.kateodonnell.yoga Katya: @katya_zamo |||| Craig @VideodromeDisco Whimsically Volatile @KatyaAndCraig