It's Friday and I need some serious Panchakarma. This three step ancient Indian purification technique promises complete emotional and physical catharsis. The Chopra Center recommends engaging in the ritualistic healing process at the beginning of every season. Seeing as how fall is on its way and my entire life is changing, um yes I'll have some of that please. Check out the full low down here.
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Beauty's Spa: Panchakarma Body Purification with the Chopra Center
It's Friday and I need some serious Panchakarma. This three step ancient Indian purification technique promises complete emotional and physical catharsis. The Chopra Center recommends engaging in the ritualistic healing process at the beginning of every season. Seeing as how fall is on its way and my entire life is changing, um yes I'll have some of that please. Check out the full low down here.Beauty's Travel: Endless Summer Roundup
We've got travelling on the brain because we are about to be doing lots and lots of it. We are so excited for our trips but we also noticed some choice picks from our favorite sites...
The Chopra Center's Renewal Weekend: Chicago - August 22–24 
Experience a rejuvenating weekend getaway with Deepak Chopra, David Simon, and the Chopra Center family. Renewal Weekend is an ideal retreat for the occasional meditator, the fledgling yogi, and anyone who has been curious about the Eastern healing arts. Check out more on beauty from the inside out in this month's Namaste Newsletter.
Experience a rejuvenating weekend getaway with Deepak Chopra, David Simon, and the Chopra Center family. Renewal Weekend is an ideal retreat for the occasional meditator, the fledgling yogi, and anyone who has been curious about the Eastern healing arts. Check out more on beauty from the inside out in this month's Namaste Newsletter.
I was hot while swimming in the pool today. If you live anywhere in the southern half of the states you may be ready to spend the rest of you endless summer in these Finnish igloos with Intrepid Express.
Amid Lapland's exotic and stunning scenery, the Igloo Village of Kakslauttanen offers the chance to stay in both snow and glass igloos in the vicinity of Urho Kekkonen National Park. Hum, I wonder what they say about people who live in glass igloos.
Hot child in the City anyone? Enter to win a dream city vacay (pampering and shopping included!) from Estee Lauder and Total Beauty!
Want to get the eff out of town? Yeah me too. i-to-i is an amazing organization that lets travellers, free spirits and escape artists turn their wanderlust into good deeds. Here are their top five trips:
1. Working with Orphans in the Philippines.
2. Animal Wildlife Rescue in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
3. Work with Children in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
4. Community Work in Coastal Sri Lanka.
5. Fantastic Lion Monitoring in South Africa.
Finally, can you barely afford the spa these days? Lifebooker has a braziliant way to make you feel exotic and a-hem, well traveled.
A Trip to Brazil for only $28! Ok, ok . . . let us explain. Through August 31st, we are offering 50% off all bikini and eyebrow services at Boom Boom Beauty Lounge. They have a waxing treatment for every occasion, and take full poetic license when naming each: The aforementioned "Trip to Brazil," originally $56, is now $28.
Mother's Day at the Chopra Center
The Chopra Center, in addition to providing enlightenment and spiritual development, is also one of my best beauty secrets. The package below is available for Mother's Day at their website.
Mother's Day Collection ($68):
Adara Ayurvedic Body Wash
Adara Ayurvedic Body Lotion
Organic Pacific Silk Sea Sponges (pack of 3)
Joyta Invigorating Candle
Relax 2 CD - Sublime Music to help you unwind and de-stress
Pamper mom this Mother's Day with a collection of Chopra Center products designed to permeate the mind, body and soul with feeling of relaxation and peace. Order before May 3rd and receive and additional 10% discount on all online products. Simply enter the code: MOM at checkout before May 11th.
Neti Pot: I never thought 6:30 a.m. could be so much fun.
A few months ago I pried my hands off of $22 and bought a Neti Pot from The Chopra Center's website. (Apparently in addition to be concerned with my syncrodestiny and my ability to grow younger and live longer, Deepak Chopra is also concerned with my nasal cavities.) I had been "Neti Potting" for months with just a juice glass. Now I see that an actual Neti Pot is essential to obtain the full benefits of the practice and saves an inordinate amount of time and dish washing. According to wikipedia, Neti Potting, as I call it, is officially known in western cultures as Nasal Irrigation and is "an ancient Ayurvedic technique known as Jala neti, which literally means nasal cleansing in Sanskrit, where the practitioner uses a neti pot to perform the irrigation. "
This morning I woke up barely able to breathe. I have been stuffier than usual lately, as I have been dedicating my personal time in the morning to more creative endeavors than neti potting. Like so many things that bring me true pleasure in life, Neti Potting is more fruitful as a daily practice. So this morning diverted from my routine by impassable sinuses, I went straight to the mini-day spa otherwise known as my bathroom, poured 1/8th of a teaspoon of sea salt into the Neti Pot and summoned the hottest water my faucet produces. I mixed it up, stuck the spout of my beautiful hand-fired Neti Pot up each nostril and watched the water, snot and mucus pour out of the opposite nostril and voila. With in minutes I could breathe through both nostrils.
The first breathes after Jala Neti are unlike any other breathing I do throughout the day. They are yoga breathes, deep, cleansing, cathartic inhalings of spirit. Inspiration literally translates as the breathing in of spirit. With out full, deep breathes, exactly how creative or productive can I be in the morning?
The first time I did a neti pot I remember thinking, "Oh, now I know the exact location of my sinuses.” As the Neti Pot's elixer fills them I picture my face turning into an anatomy chart with my nasal cavities highlighted by the hot salty solution. The next few minutes are spent in homage to Cameron Diaz's elevator scene in My Best Friend's Wedding where she impersonates the symphonic range of her fiancé’s snoring capabilities with various gargling, snotting, and snorting. In other words, Neti Potting is best done in private. So that the snot, saliva, and salt water that are thrust about in the name of clear nasal passages don’t frighten any small children or potential life long mates. In other words it is a discombobulated unattractive process but it lets me breathe easier than I ever have before.
This morning I woke up barely able to breathe. I have been stuffier than usual lately, as I have been dedicating my personal time in the morning to more creative endeavors than neti potting. Like so many things that bring me true pleasure in life, Neti Potting is more fruitful as a daily practice. So this morning diverted from my routine by impassable sinuses, I went straight to the mini-day spa otherwise known as my bathroom, poured 1/8th of a teaspoon of sea salt into the Neti Pot and summoned the hottest water my faucet produces. I mixed it up, stuck the spout of my beautiful hand-fired Neti Pot up each nostril and watched the water, snot and mucus pour out of the opposite nostril and voila. With in minutes I could breathe through both nostrils.
The first breathes after Jala Neti are unlike any other breathing I do throughout the day. They are yoga breathes, deep, cleansing, cathartic inhalings of spirit. Inspiration literally translates as the breathing in of spirit. With out full, deep breathes, exactly how creative or productive can I be in the morning?
The first time I did a neti pot I remember thinking, "Oh, now I know the exact location of my sinuses.” As the Neti Pot's elixer fills them I picture my face turning into an anatomy chart with my nasal cavities highlighted by the hot salty solution. The next few minutes are spent in homage to Cameron Diaz's elevator scene in My Best Friend's Wedding where she impersonates the symphonic range of her fiancé’s snoring capabilities with various gargling, snotting, and snorting. In other words, Neti Potting is best done in private. So that the snot, saliva, and salt water that are thrust about in the name of clear nasal passages don’t frighten any small children or potential life long mates. In other words it is a discombobulated unattractive process but it lets me breathe easier than I ever have before.
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