Transformative Wellness: Find your Purpose

Ayurvedic Nutrition for Personalized Wellness

Breathing Into Spontaneous Calm

Zoom Breathing Practice with Chaya, Thursday, April 16th at 10:30am

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                  "Breath is central to yoga, because it is central to life, and yoga is about life."

Benefits of Regular Breathing Practices Include:

▪ Relieve Stress, Calm and balance the mind and nervous system
▪ Regulate the systems and functions of the body, mind and emotions
▪ Develop core strength
▪ Purify the body, mind and senses
▪ Reduce obstacles to clear perception
▪ Increase focus, clarity and energy

Posture Clinic; Mountain Pose

Zoom Posture Clinic Thursday, April 16th at 10:00am

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A+P:
Neck elongated in a neutral position with gaze remaining forward 
Shoulder-blades are pulled back and relaxed away from the ears
Chest is lifted and the abdominal muscles are engaged by drawing the belly towards the spine that lengthens the tailbone towards the earth
Quadriceps are engaged and rotated slightly inward pulling the thighs and kneecaps up, while externally spiraling the femur bones aligning the legs, hips and pelvis
Big toes together; toes spread apart making sure there is an even weight distribution between the feet
Arms straight and fingers extended; palms facing inward 


Tips:
Imagine a string pulling you up (shoulders, hips, and ankles should all be in the same line); stand up straight
Put a block in between your thighs to engage your legs muscles 
Practice against a wall (Heels, butt, back of head, and shoulder blades should be the only things touching the wall)
Feeling grounded, while extending towards your highest aspirations

Benefits:
Helps improve posture and balance
Reduce sciatica pain 
Free flow of energy, creating more focus, attention and vitality
Reduces stress and strain
Maintains the integrity of every pose

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Ayurvedic Nutrition & Food Fundamentals; Ama~Metabolic Waste

     Ayurvedic Nutrition & Food Fundamentals 

Includes: 6 Stages of Digestion, 5 Nutritional Disorders, 4 States of Agni, 3 Doshas, 2 Potent Energies & 1 Moment

Ama ~Metabolic Waste

When our digestive capacity, also referred to as, our digestive fire or agni is disturbed, incompletely digested food forms an internal, toxic, morbid, substance known as ama. This undigested, unripened, undigested, glue-like, sticky substance may accumulate, putrefy, ferment, and lodge anywhere in the body, with a tendency to begin at it’s weakest place (kavaigunya). Thereby, ama is the end product of poorly digested food and forms due to weak, dull or variable agni, clogging the channels, such as the blood and lymph, giving rise to diseases, such as arthritis, high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, thyroid conditions, diabetes, allergies and more.

Ayurveda’s verbiage of clogged channels and accumulation of ama, is saying the same thing as the new age verbiage, leaky gut syndrome, and is associated with the current popularity of conversations about disorders of the microbiome by vitiating our gastrointestinal tract, but Ayurveda takes it further to state that this digestive process occurs in every cell of our body, determining the healthy replication, growth and development of each cell, tissue and organ, contributing to the over all health and vitality of a person.

We can see the early signs and symptoms of ama begin to accumulate, at what we should consider the early stages of disease, and take steps at this preventative stage. Just as current research suggests that diet and lifestyle affects the outcome of one’s genetic storyboard, Ayurveda provides the same road map in an easier, more accessible and user friendly road map to do this appropriately, recognizing that it’s not one size fits all, and taking a truly holistic approach in adjusting one’s diet and lifestyle, that most often would suffice to return to a healthy condition.

To read more about the specific signs and symptoms of Ama per dosha, a health questionnaire to determine your own body and mind impurities and an ama reducing recipe, access our resources here