Ayurveda instructs us to live in accord with Nature, pointing us toward self-reflection, but it does so in a carefully spacious, non-dogmatic way.
A look at Summer Begins (Lixia), the seventh solar qi node in the classical East Asian calendar, and what early summer reveals about yangsheng, food, and the outward movement of life.
Most of us are not coordinated in time. We organize our lives by obligation, convenience, and weather. But in the classical Chinese medical view, time is not abstract. It is structured.