WINTER with AYURVEDA

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We were meant to listen to this video last week but ran out of time….here it is…for todays session.

“And like a door or a pathway, activating a marma energy point, opens into the inner pharmacy of the body. The body is a silent, universal, biochemical laboratory—operating every moment to interpret and transform arising events.Touching a marma point changes the body’s biochemistry and can unfold radical, alchemical change in one’s makeup. Stimulation of these inner pharmacy pathways signals the body to produce exactly what it needs, including hormones and neurochemicals that heal the body, mind and consciousness.”

Dr. Vasant Lad, Ayurvedic Physician

WINTER with AYURVEDA

We continue unravelling the age-old teachings of Ayurveda, balancing the elements of air, ether, water, fire and earth, that make up this universe of which this body is part of.

We continued developing a sequence of 8 Breathworks: Daily Pranayama:1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th and 6th in the sequence practiced today.

  1. Bhastrika (Bellows breath) 
  2. Kapalabhati follows (Shining Skull)
  3. Anuoma Viloma (Alternate Nostril Breathing)
  4. Agni Sara 
  5. Brahmari (Bee’s Breath)
  6. UTJAYI Breath (Breath of Victory)

We continue our practice together  –  more tools in our tool belt with Utjayi Breath  –  Strengthening THE IMMUNE SYTEM for WINTER along with the marma points for Thyoid. our immune system.

Tyler Wauters on Walking in the Woods

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Tyler Wauters:
Walk in the Woods.

When we walk through a forest path, there is a vibration sent out that is a form of communication, a form of language. When we enter a forest, it is up to us to learn how to communicate with it by communicating with our own inner workings, mending the relationship, by igniting the knowing that the forest is the nature within us, that we are not separate.

Our work here is to connect to our inner nature and to connect to nature that is all around us.

AUTUMN with AYURVEDA

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We continued developing a sequence of 8 Breathworks:
Daily Pranayama:1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th in the sequence practiced today.

  • Bhastrika (Bellows breath)
  • Kapalabhati follows (Shining Skull)
  • Anuloma viloma 
  • Agni Sara follows 
  • Brahmari (Bee’s Breath)

We continue our practice together  –  more tools in our tool belt!
We clean house to invite the “king”. Pranayama is “cleaning house”
The visit with the King of course is the most important happening. However, without cleaning house, and without the invitation, the visit will be incomplete.
As the dust clears, the clouds dissolve, our true nature reveals itself – ever present. In silence it is peace, in action it is joy.

Dr. Vasant Lad on Activating a Marma Energy Point

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Like a door or a pathway, activating a marma energy point, opens into the inner pharmacy of the body. The body is a silent, universal, biochemical laboratory—operating every moment to interpret and transform arising events.

Touching a marma point changes the body’s biochemistry and can unfold radical, alchemical change in one’s makeup. Stimulation of these inner pharmacy
pathways signals the body to produce exactly what it needs, including hormones and neurochemicals that heal the body, mind and consciousness. 

Murdhini marma, is the energy point enabling moment to moment awareness, meditation.

Dr. Vasant Lad

Hatha Yoga Pradipika on “Shining Skull Breath”

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“Shining Skull Breath” Kapalabhati invigorates the brain and awakens the dormant centres which are
responsible for subtle perception.

Hatha Yoga Pradipika

What is Ayurveda?

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The Sanskrit word Ayurveda translates to āyuh, life, and veda, knowledge or science. It is an ancient healing system rooted in India that has been practiced for thousands of years. Ayurveda’s scope encompasses all realms: physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual, and thus addresses the whole person, body, mind and consciousness.

The universe is composed of five elements: ether, air, fire, water, and earth. These five elements combine in varying proportions to create the three doshas: Vata, the principle of movement, Pitta, the principle of transformation, and Kapha, the principle of cohesion or building block material.These elements and doshas that comprise the macrocosm also make up our individual constitutions. The purpose of Ayurveda is to bring balance to these doshas and elements amidst the changing times of day, seasons, and phases of our lives, in order to promote and maintain quality and longevity of life.

One of the subtle healing practices that Ayurveda guides us into is Meditation and Breathwork (Pranayama).

Remembering Wednesday. Jill’s gentle companion dog.

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On the occasion of the death of a beloved pet – Wednesday, Jill’s companion, dog, we sat in silence, her presence palpable. Sending love and peace to Jill and her family and Wednesday, through this mysterious, familiar transition and a knowing of eternity,, our true nature.

AUTUMN with AYURVEDA


Rough, Cold Dry yet Damp…FALL and CONSTIPATION – Macro and microcosm mirroring. VATA – Air and Ether elements aggravated inside and out.
Alleviating and soothing with warm and unctuous foods….
Mind and Body grounding and calming….

We continued developing a sequence of 8 Breathworks:

  1. Daily Pranayama:1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th 6th in the sequence practiced today.
  2. Bhastrika (Bellows breath)
  3. Kapalabhati follows (Shining Skull)
  4. Anuloma viloma
  5. Agni Sara follows
  6. Brahmari (Bee’s Breath
  7. Utjayi breath (breath of victory

Sadhguru on Being “Shit-Scared”

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Sadhguru

If you get scared, you will either have loose motions or get constipated. That/s why we say “shit-scared”. What is happening in your mind and what is happening “down there” are connected.

Charaka Sutrasthana (Ayurveda teachings) on Imbalance in Our Bodies

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Though air and ether (Vata) imbalance in our bodies, diseases are innumerable. And amongst the eighty diseases that are the most commonly manifested with a vata imbalance, constipation, depression, sleeplessness and a restless mind, are naming a few.

Charaka Sutrasthana

Why do I sit in Silence?

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More of a rhetorical question, shared this evening. Giving ourselves the space and time to transcend space and time, to just BE, remembering our true nature, to rest in the perfume of silence, what no words can express: Truth, love, beauty, understanding, peace and joy.


We watched a snippet from Francis Lucille’s video:
The teaching is the silent transmission|

AUTUMN with AYURVEDA

We continued developing a sequence of 8 Breathworks:

  1. Daily Pranayama:1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th in the sequence practiced today.
  2. Bhastrika (Bellows breath)
  3. Kapalabhati follows (Shining Skull)
  4. Anuloma viloma
  5. Agni Sara follows
  6. Brahmari (Bee’s Breath)
  7. We continue our practice together – more tools in our tool belt!
  8. We clean house to invite the “king”. Pranayama is “cleaning house”


The visit with the King of course is the most important happening. However, without cleaning house, and without the invitation, the visit will be incomplete.
As the dust clears, the clouds dissolve, our true nature reveals itself – ever present. In silence it is peace, in action it is joy.