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Yoga Health Coach Paula Pister-Eliott began acting as a teenager in Vancouver, BC. When her heart spoke, she listened and moved to New York city to further pursue her career in acting. While living in New York in her twenties, Paula found yoga and met her husband. After 9/11 she and her husband moved to LA where she continued to teach yoga, and act. Along the way she became a mom. The sudden and unexpected...

Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat! It’s that time of year. We are moving into “holiday season” and all of it’s delights. Pay attention and you can experience “holiday” with all five senses. Open the door to the Halloween kids and SEE the scary monsters and silly clowns. HEAR their sing-song voices and FEEL the cool air on your skin. SMELL the scent of dry leaves collecting around your doorstep....

Plants are medicine, they heal our bodies. They gift us with this medicine by abundantly producing sprouts, leaves, fruits, and vegetables all readily available for us to consume and all in sync with the seasons and the rhythm of nature.   Plants are producers, they make their own food using energy and materials from their environment.  Humans are consumers, we cannot make our own food from within. These life producers are here to nourish us in many...

Young.  Female.  Prone to anxiety. These are just a few of the many identities I carry.  Others include: sister, student, yoga teacher, outdoor enthusiast, etc… But those first three really stick out to me now, due to their correlation with something I was recently diagnosed with:   IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome.  You have probably heard of it, since 1 in 5 Americans have it.  Females are twice as prone to this, young females even more so, and young females with...

Information is king (or is it?).  Today you can find anything on the Internet from how to build your own airplane, how to make a million dollars online in 2 minutes to how to how to brush your cat’s teeth. If you are health conscious, you are probably looking to upgrade your own body system. You may be looking to treat a health condition. Or perhaps you want to upgrade your performance and know that...

I am sharing my story of my recovery from a horrible bike accident last year because it demonstrates how the 10 habits of Body Thrive can help you heal from serious injury. My doctor, my Physical Therapist, and my students are blown away by my body’s ability to heal. I credit my amazing recovery on my ability to follow the Ayurveda based habits from the book Body Thrive. I am back on my bike riding...