• Balancing Digestion After the Holidays
• 5 Ayurvedic New Year’s Resolutions that Everyone CAN Keep
• Holiday Mocktails
• 9 Must-Have Ayurvedic Tips to Reduce Holiday Stress
• 8 Ayurvedic Recipes for Vegetarians at Thanksgiving
• The Loving Embrace of Snehana for the Fall
• Seasonal Bloom: Vata
• Five Ayurvedic Tips for Staying Healthy This Fall
• End of Spring: Kapha Magazine and Playlist
• Avoid a Meltdown and Stay Cool This Summer!

All posts by Monica Bloom

About Monica Bloom

Monica Bloom is an Ayurvedic practitioner, writer, lecturer, and creator of the Ayurvedic blog, HeyMonicaB.com: A Blooming Resource on Ayurveda, reaching readers worldwide. Her purist delivery of ancient wisdom fused with Midwest humor and practicality make her an impactful entertaining healer. Monica is a wife, mama of a spirited toddler, and owner of three animals. She currently works a 40-hour corporate grind in San Francisco, making her an expert at tucking Ayurveda neatly into our modern lives as she manages the daily crazies just like everyone else.

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  Holiday Mocktails

  Recently a loyal reader of mine had a question about drinking alcohol because she’s menopausal. She noticed she was getting terrible night sweats when she would have beer or a glass of wine. Yes, it was because...

  • Posted December 26, 2017
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  Seasonal Bloom: Vata

  WOOOHOOOOO!!!! I’ve finally finished Seasonal Bloom for Vata. Yippee! Seasonal Bloom is an 18-page guide for each season and since we are now in vata season…let’s gooooo!!! You can DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY HERE just in time for...

  • Posted September 22, 2017
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  End of Spring: Kapha Magazine and Playlist

  HAPPY Kapha Season! Kapha season goes from late winter through spring, and is wrapping up now! I’ve created a kapha playlist! That’s right, music to shake your booty to while spring cleaning. Nothing better to get a...

  • Posted June 20, 2017
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  Your Ayurvedic Constitution Does Not Excuse Your Behavior

  In Ayurveda, as we start to discover who we really are, remember that understanding our dosha does not excuse our behavior or “character flaws.” Instead, we learn what we have to work on. The knowledge we have...

  • Posted February 22, 2017
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  Can You Go 3 Evenings Without Media?

  …we ALL screen, to rely on screens! Jeez, those screens! Tv screen, computer screen, ipad/nook/kindle screen, phone screen, so many many screens. Even writing the word “screen” that many times on a screen makes my brain crossed...

  • Posted February 15, 2017
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  What are Doshas, Exactly?

  Hello Lovelies! For those of you NEW to Ayurveda this might help answer your question, “What are doshas, exactly?” 🙂

  • Posted January 21, 2017
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  Ayurvedic Oil Massage for Busy People

  Ayurvedic Oil Massage for Busy People?! Yessssss. In Ayurveda we looooooove the benefits of a good daily oil massage. Great. Now, raise your hands if you are thinking, “Yeah awesome for the people who who have time...

  • Posted January 18, 2017
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  Mood Food

  Hey! Did you know that the food you choose directly affects your mood? Maybe you did, cause you are so Ayurvedically smart (if so, permission to *high kick* with pride!). You should know that every morsel we...

  • Posted December 26, 2016
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  Karnapoorna (Karna Purana)

  Karnapoorna! Or Karna Purana. And there might be a 3rd or 4th spelling or 5th spelling, but no matter, it’s important to know that it exists. Do you know what it is? For the seven of you...

  • Posted December 14, 2016
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  What’s the Recipe for a Delicious Life?

  If you make a big pot of tomato sauce from scratch, do you taste-test it to make sure it’s good? Sure. And if it’s not good, you adjust right? Add a little more salt, pepper orgarlic. Maybe...

  • Posted October 17, 2016
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