Retreat vs. Vacation

May 12, 2024

Did you ever feel like you need a vacation after your vacation? I went on my first yoga retreat as a “research trip.” I love to travel. I love yoga. How can I combine the two…oh, right, a yoga retreat! One week in Tulum Mexico making connections with people I now consider dear friends, eating delicious fresh prepared meals in an idyllic beach front setting, and I was convinced that

who we are

May 4, 2025

Half Moon Ayurveda and Integrative Health is a collective of alternative health and wellness practitioners and therapists located at 1520 Sansom Street in Philadelphia. We fuse ancient healing modalities with current research to bring you the best in holistic healthcare. Our mission is to offer affordable, high quality, and effective treatments and health and wellness education. We aim to put your health and well being back into your own hands.

Ayurvedic Diet :: a simple thing we complicate

May 4, 2025

That’s what we do in the west, right? We analyze, categorize, synthesize, and essentially complicate things. Upon learning a little bit about Ayurveda, right away we focus so much on wanting to know exactly what our main dosha is and how we can meticulously avoid eating foods which may aggravate that dosha. So much so that we become scared out of eating at all and maybe even become put off

Ayurveda on Relationships

May 4, 2025

Often we are asked the Ayurvedic understanding of relationships. There are many ways to approach this topic according to Ayurveda. One way is to think about the cycle of life which is shared universally by all things. This life cycle begins with pure existence, then birth, next maintenance, followed by decay, and finally death. It is very easy to think about living entities this way, but what if we think