by Nivedita Ramanujam | Mar 2, 2022 | Health & Wellness, Mindfulness and Meditation
Kintsugi is well known as a beautiful practice in the crafts and visual arts world; broken pottery and ceramics can be put back together often with a shining gold lacquer or resin to fill in cracks. The intention is that flaws are not hidden but celebrated. In fact,...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Nov 1, 2019 | Cancer Support, Health & Wellness
The Brain still offers the scientific and medical communities tremendous opportunity for discovery. Resulting from studies such as the groundbreaking Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Study*, scientists are still learning about how life events...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Jun 1, 2019 | Health & Wellness, Mental Health, Mindfulness and Meditation
The Sanskrit word moola means the foundation or root. Bandha means lock or restraint. The two words Mooladhara chakra refer to the seat of the kundalini. The bandha or lock refers to the contraction of the perineum rendering us the location of the psychic centre of...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Mar 1, 2019 | Health & Wellness, Mental Health, Mindfulness and Meditation
Do you find yourself hurting over things people say easily these days? Perhaps you are experiencing a difficult relationship? Perhaps your adult child is not communicating with you? Maybe your partner is quick tempered. Do you find yourself welling up or feeling...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Jan 1, 2019 | Health & Wellness, Relationships
Sometimes we may have been so violated and hurt by someone or an incident that it leaves us in smarting and entrapped in feelings of deep pain. The same thoughts, memories and words ring in our mind. It might also get up to a point where the painful emotions, thoughts...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Nov 1, 2018 | Health & Wellness, Mental Health
Imagine this: Your child hates school because he fears being asked questions by the teacher in math class. Having to stand up in class mumbling a possible answer or worse staying silent can be extremely unnerving. He feels that he is being ridiculed by some of his...
