Properly Cleaning Your Tongue

Properly Cleaning Your Tongue

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Ready to add a new activity as part of your morning habits? Have you ever heard about scraping your tongue?   I invite you every morning, before brushing your teeth and before breakfast, to use a tongue scraper or a...

Raining October

Raining October

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] For Costa Rica's east coast visitors, October is a good time to visit (weather-wise). For our Pacific-side readers, we're usually in the heart of the rainy season. How much rain, for how long, depends on your location....

Learning Spanish – Useful Nouns

Learning Spanish – Useful Nouns

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Learn Spanish a little at a time. Howler has many lessons online for you to read, learn and practice. These are Useful nouns for you to put into practice. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column...

Spanish: Colorful Expressions Too

Spanish: Colorful Expressions Too

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   Here are some Spanish words and phrases to learn when traveling or living in Costa Rica. Take your time and learn them, it is always helpful to practice while you are out and about enjoying the areas....

Food Combinations For Healthy Digestion

Food Combinations For Healthy Digestion

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]It is no surprise to see on the market today so many digestive and dietary aids for the stomach, along with pills for gas and indigestion.  Most of these conditions likely begin with poor food combining.  Ayurveda, an...

Costa Rica 2022: Through the Lens

Costa Rica 2022: Through the Lens

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]For all of the scenes, sensations and experiences that words can’t adequately describe, countless generations have relied on the universally understood language of pictures. Legacies of priceless paintings set the stage...

Spanish: things to do with your hands

Spanish: things to do with your hands

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Learning Spanish words for what to do with your hands is like unlocking a secret code to a world of gesticulated magic. Imagine you're a maestro, orchestrating a symphony of motions—think "abrir" (to open) as you...

Pet Care in Rainy Season – Let’s Prepare

Pet Care in Rainy Season – Let’s Prepare

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Pet Care in Rainy Season - Let's Prepare Our Pets.  As rainy season starts, reproduction of insects and increased proliferation of viruses, bacteria and parasites cause multiple illnesses.  Virus outbreaks, especially...

Ayurvedic Medicine: Digging Deeper to Understand Your Dominant Dosha

Ayurvedic Medicine: Digging Deeper to Understand Your Dominant Dosha

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]The background information in Howler’s last two articles about Ayurvedic medicine set the stage for what we’ll cover this time. In part 1, we identified the three doshas — vata, pitta and kapha — and then provided a quiz...

Surfing and Yoga Go Hand in Hand

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] BEST COSTA RICA ADVENTURE DEALS [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Let’s take a moment to reconnect to our breath. Inhale deeply through your nose. Fill your lungs down to their very...

Lifestyle Feature – Sound Journey to Self-Healing

Lifestyle Feature – Sound Journey to Self-Healing

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Lifestyle Feature - Sound Journey to Self-Healing: A Gentle Natural Healing Tool.  So there I was, completely submerged in a bath of sound and vibration coming from some of the most amazing instruments I’ve ever seen (or heard)...