Category: Healing traditions

• Eat your greens, y’all!

  Callaoo!!! A toast to your good health! Nope! Not Babaloo. Callaoo! If you haven’t heard about this remarkable edible green, read on! Callaloo is a popular Caribbean dish made from different leafy plants depending on local custom. In Jamaica and in Guyana the preferred leaf is from the amaranth. People associate the dish so strongly…

  Amy Gregory

  July 17, 2020

  Healing traditions, Immune system

• Rituals Without Rules

  Originally posted on The Accidental Blogger: In 2005, we accidentally started a tradition: we set our Christmas tree on fire. My mom and son had built a Handy Man fire pit. We were shy of firewood, we did, however, have a dry tree. I honestly don’t recall if we stuffed the tree that first year, or if we started it the…

  Amy Gregory

  January 16, 2016

  Guest Blogger, Healing traditions, Setting intentions

• What is Qi (pronounced chee) or Prana?

  “Qi” and “Prana” are names for our life force energy or bioelectricity. The term “Qi” comes from the Chinese medical tradition and “Prana” is the Ayurvedic (Indian medicine) term, from ancient Sanskrit. It is everywhere: in the heavens, in the earth, in each of us. Life force energy is something that keeps us grounded in…

  Amy Gregory

  November 21, 2015

  Breathing, Healing traditions, Life Force

  Ayurveda, Chinese Medical Tradition, energy, Prana, Pranayama, Qi