Healthy eating guidance
Harvard Healthy Eating Plate: Unbiased recommendations for a balanced diet.
Eat Right: The American Academy of Dietetics and Nutrition.
American Heart Association Nutrition Center – recipies, shopping tips and instructional videos.
Wellness Today Institute for Integrative Nutrition – tips and recipes inspired by holistic nutrition.
Sourcing and/or growing healthy and organic food
Fruit Share: organic fruit delivery service.
Local Harvest: find a CSA or farmer’s market in your area.
Seed Savers : dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
Food Preservation: learn to can, freeze and dry your own.
Movement
American Council on Exercise: a wide range of fitness and training programs/advice.
Runner’s World: information for runners of all levels.
Map Walk: Plan your walk/run/bike route.
Yoga Journal: information around all things yoga.
Yoga Today: online library of classes.
Rewild Your Body : natural health and fitness lifestyle tips, Wild Body workouts, healthy recipes, inspiration and more.
Stress Management
American Institute of Stress Resources to assist with managing stress/anxiety.
UCLA Mindful Awarenss Research Center: guided meditations, online classes and more.
Ascension 101: Breath Meditation Exercise.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy: Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America.
Sleep
Simple Living
Hand Crafted Travelers – Simple living in a complex world.
North House Folk School – A school in Grand Marias, MN dedicated to preserving the knowledge, skills, crafts and stories of the past and present.
Becoming Minimalist – One family’s experience, tips and inspiration for downsizing and living simply and well with less.
Inspiration
The Mattamayura Institute: The goal of the Mattamayūra Institute is to share these and other effective technologies with clarity and integrity so they can be woven into the fabric of modern life.
Tiny Buddha: Simple wisdom for complex lives
enough: an exploration of contentment, self-compassion, simplicity, conviction and common sense
Spiritual Ecology: A spiritual response to our present ecological crisis
Orion: a bimonthly, advertising-free magazine devoted to creating a stronger bond between people and nature.
We Are Wildness : An online community dedicated to helping people connect to their inner wildness.
Danielle LaPorte: Inspiration on how to set goals with soul. (we are an affiliate partner)
Recommended Reading
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Desire Map, by Danielle la Porte
Tending the Heart Fire, by Shiva Rea
Sweat your Prayers, by Gabielle Roth
Animal Vegetable Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle
The Miracle of Mindfulness, by Thich Nhat Hanh
Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson
Radical Forgiveness, by Colin Tipping
The Art of the Commonplace, by Wendell Berry
A Handmade Life, by William S. Coperthwaite
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, by Charles Eisenstein