Links + Resources

Meditation

Phone apps: Calm, Buddhify, Headspace
Online resources: Susan Piver's Open Heart Project, Craig Hamilton's Integral Enlightenment

Breathing Practices

Ujjayi breath video: Banyan Botanicals
Alternate nostril breathing: Natasha Wellness

Yoga

Variety of yoga videos: Brett Larkin Youtube
Vata-pacifying 5-min yoga video: Banyan Botanicals
30-min yoga sequence diagrams: Jason Crandell
Sun Salutation A + Sun Salutation B: Natasha Wellness

Science + Ayurveda

Dr. John Douillard's LifeSpa

Podcasts

The Yogahealer Podcast - Business + Ayurveda

Books

Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life by Dr. Claudia Welch
Body Thrive by Cate Stillman
The Tao of Pooh by Ben Hoff

Cookbooks

The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook: A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well by Kate O'Donnell
Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind: 100 Simple Sattvic Recipes by Kate O'Donnell


My Favorite Boston-area Restaurants (GF/VEG/VEGAN Friendly)

Allston/Brighton: Whole Heart Provisions, Flatbread, Oath Pizza, Bodega.
Boston: Sweetgreen, Dig Inn, Clover, Thinking Cup, ZO, RUKA, KAVA, Boston Public Market (Jennifer Lee's Bakery, Mother Juice, Inna's Kitchen, George Howell Coffee), by CHLOE.
Brookline: Pure Cold Press, Clover, Dorado, Otto Pizza.
Cambridge/Somerville: Oat Shop, Spoke, Nu Cafe, Flatbread, Pemberton Farms, Saloon, Life Alive, Alden & Harlow, Waypoint, Oath Pizza, Moona, Oleana, Sarma, Puritan & Company, True Bistro, Mamaleh's.
Jamaica Plain: Vee Vee, Grass Fed, Tres Gatos, Ten Tables, Canary Square.
Newton: Sweetgreen, Oath Pizza, b.good, Walnut Grille, George Howell Coffee.
Watertown: Sofra Bakery, Intelligentsia Coffee, Red Lentil.