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melanie
berkeley
MELYOGAMOM life as it unfolds breath by breath and bite by bite
Interests: life, nutrition, yoga, wellness, sustainable food, slowing down, meditation, cleansing, healthy living
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Letting Go
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Monday, November 7, 2022 Every time I think about writing, I am overwhelmed by what to say that might make sense, might convey the depths of the experience I am currently having across the globe. I planned this trip 9 months ago - pretty soon after my youngest kiddo decided... Continue reading
Posted Nov 6, 2022 at Melanie's blog
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Remembering
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March 22, 2021 A full year + has gone by since I last wrote. Once again my personal world gave me more than I could bear at the end of 2019 and so I just stopped writing. I stopped doing all of the extra stuff. I slowed down. I went... Continue reading
Posted Mar 22, 2021 at Melanie's blog
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Clean Recipes
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Easy Warming Morning Soup (I recommend making this the night before and warming it in the morning) INGREDIENTS 3 large carrots 2 chopped onions 2 tablespoon sesame oil 1 teaspoon sea salt 4 garlic cloves, pressed or minced 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder 1/2 tbsp grated ginger 1 tsp chopped red... Continue reading
Posted Oct 28, 2020 at Health + Wellness
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Shopping List for Fall Cleanse
The easiest place to go is a natural foods store since they will have all of these items. Purchase everything organic if possible. Quantities, where listed, are approximate, and should be sufficient for one participants meals for the entire cleanse. Produce: _____ cilantro (3-4 bunches - for Kitchari & Chutney)... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2020 at Health + Wellness
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Fall Cleanse Overview 2020
This cleanse is based on the Ayurvedic tradition, eating simply cooked foods that are easy on your digestion. Every day you will be eating a diet with whole foods, seasonal veggies and kitchari. This simple diet, with the use of digestive herbs, digestive tea, abhyanga massage, and ghee will help... Continue reading
Reblogged Oct 10, 2020 at Melanie's blog
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Basic Recipes for Fall Cleanse 2022
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The following meal plan is based on Ayurveda and simple gluten free, anti-inflammatory, and easily digestible foods. It is a great way to reset the palette. Toxins stored in fat cells will be released. This cleanse supports and cleanses the small intestine. It is optimal if all foods are organic.... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2020 at Health + Wellness
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Kitchari Recipe from Mysore India
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I found this kitchari recipe posted in the Ashtanga Dispatch, it is the traditional method for making kitchari that comes from Mysore, India - home of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. If you've been doing the cleanse for a while and would like to try a different variation for your kitchari recipe,... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2020 at Health + Wellness
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Fall Cleanse 2022 Daily Schedule
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Morning Before Breakfast: Every morning will begin with putting at least 1 tsp of ghee in your cup of digestive tea (this is the loose digestive tea you received before the cleanse). Be careful when drinking, as the ghee can get extremely hot when placed in the hot tea. Each... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2020 at Health + Wellness
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Fall Cleanse Overview 2022
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This cleanse is based on Ayurvedic tradition, eating simple foods that are easy on your digestion. It is meant to be grounding, calming, and nourishing. Everyday you will eat a diet with whole foods, seasonal veggies and kitchari. This simple diet, with the use of digestive herbs, digestive tea, Abhyanga... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2020 at Health + Wellness
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How to Perform Abhyanga Massage
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I can't express enough how important this is in your cleansing process. The daily massage helps to ground your nervous system, flush out your lymph system of toxins that get released during the cleanse, and offers you a deep sense of self-care. Abhyanga Self-Massage is a type of Ayurvedic oil... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2020 at Health + Wellness
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Triphala
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WHAT IS TRIPHALA? Triphala ("three fruits"), is an Ayurvedic herb originating in India. It acts as a complete body cleanser. Triphala is known as a cleaning agent, including a blood cleanser, and is very beneficial for vegetarians because it does not counteract with a mainly or completely veggie diet. The... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2020 at Health + Wellness
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Fall Cleanse 2022 Part 2: Therapeutic Purging, Rejuvenation & Food Reentry
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Therapeutic Purging: This is an optional part. The castor oil purgation will fully clean the small intestine of toxins and acidic secretions (Liver & Gall Bladder too). It also helps remove any remaining impurities in the blood and strengthens all the metabolic processes. Contraindications: infants, elderly, pregnant or nursing women,... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2020 at Health + Wellness
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Where to Begin: Ashtanga Yoga
The unimaginable. Nov 10, 2019 I have stayed quiet externally; I have not internally. I have not posted anything, or even talked about it in my classes. I have talked to my closest friends and colleagues. I am a person who often doesn't get involved in social media, what people... Continue reading
Posted Nov 10, 2019 at Melanie's blog
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Get Ready for Juice Cleanse 2022
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I am so excited to share this experience with you and support you as you prepare your body for the upcoming 3-Day Juice Cleanse. Not only is the cleanse a time for you to flood your body with nutrients from raw fruits and vegetables, but it is also a great... Continue reading
Posted Mar 19, 2019 at Health + Wellness
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Health Benefits of Raw Cacao
Benefits to raw, organic cacao 40 Times the Antioxidants of Blueberries – most nutritionally complex food on the planet. Highest Plant-Based Source of Iron. Full of Magnesium for a Healthy Heart & Brain. More Calcium Than Cow's Milk. A Natural Mood Elevator and Anti-Depressant. Great in smoothie. Healthy alternative to... Continue reading
Posted Jan 29, 2018 at Health + Wellness
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Health Benefits of Ginger
Health Benefits of Ginger In the winter adding ginger to a smoothie or juice can help give some internal heat to balance out the cool drink. Ginger also has a variety of health benefits and has been used medicinally for centuries. Ginger is widely known for its immune-boosting and stomach-settling... Continue reading
Posted Jan 29, 2018 at Health + Wellness
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Liver Support & Sleep
As we become more aware of the subtle change in our bodies, we have an easier time taking care of the body and understanding that there is a direct line of connection between our mind and body. The body has many insights to offer us if we stay present, attuned,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 23, 2018 at Health + Wellness
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Kindness and Compassion Rule
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January 31, 2017 The policies and executive orders are affecting people I love and care about. They are affecting billions of people I don't even know. Our civil liberties are in the balance with hatred being spewed, scientists being silenced, men and women from Muslim dominate countries being unreasonably denied... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2017 at Melanie's blog
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Soaking and Sprouting Your Almonds
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Your nuts will be easier to digest and your nut milk will taste creamier if you soak and sprout the nuts. SPROUTING ALMONDS Take 1 cup of raw almonds and place in a bowl with filtered water Add 1/4 tsp of sea salt. Put on the counter and soak for... Continue reading
Posted May 15, 2016 at Health + Wellness
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Recipe: Homemade Nut Milk for Cleanse
Nutmilk – Grounding: 1 cup raw almonds Filtered water 1/8 tsp sea salt 1 pitted date Soak almonds for 10 hours or overnight in 4 cups filtered water and 1/8 tsp sea salt. Drain off water; take off almond skins; transfer to a blender and add 4 cups filtered water.... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2016 at Health + Wellness
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Recipe: Baked Kale with Black Rice, Tofu, Seaweed & Sunflower Seeds
RECIPE: baked kale with black rice, tofu, seaweed & sunflower seeds 1 cup organic black rice 1 bunch of organic dinosaur kale 1/4 cup organic raw sunflower seeds 30 g organic seaweed 4 oz organic, extra firm tofu 1 tsp ghee 1 tsp turmeric 1/2 tsp cumin seeds 1/2 tsp... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2016 at Health + Wellness
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BirthDeathCancerMarriageYoga.
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March 22, 2016 Birth. Last week I watched Guadalupe Jo Betenia Taylor emerge into the world. Her mom had a long labor for a second baby. Her mom had a long labor for any baby. It was hard and painful and vulnerable and messy and gut wrenching and beautiful and... Continue reading
Posted Mar 22, 2016 at Melanie's blog
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There is No Fixing Anything
July 18, 2015 My mom's cancer is back. Ready or not to be on this journey again, we all pick up our boot straps and get on the path - me from California and my sister from a mile and a half a way. Ready or not to fight for... Continue reading
Posted Jul 18, 2015 at Melanie's blog
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The Body is Unreliable
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Saturday, May 16 2015 The longer I practice, the more I learn, the body is unreliable. The body fails me. It lets me down. We use the body in yoga, to know more deeply, that we are not the body. For the last year, I have been healing from an... Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2015 at Melanie's blog
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Ren is Ten!!
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November 10, 2014 Ren Today is the birth day of my youngest child, Ren Isabella. Ten years old. No more single digits for her. She is embarking on the long phase of double digits. The human form is often a burden for her. I try my best to both anchor... Continue reading
Posted Nov 10, 2014 at Melanie's blog
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