This programme will take you on a deep, transformative journey through enhancing your daily rhythms and rituals, self care practices, diet, exercise, connection to spirit and connection to nature.
As your personal guide, each week (for ten weeks) I introduce one new Ayurvedic practice with the theory and supportive information behind it. Then, easy yet impactful methods are given to help you implement this wisdom into your daily life and truly embody it.
You change the way you live, to change the way you feel.
The 10 week Programme
Week 1: Meal times
Optimal meal timing in rhythm with nature; enhancing your digestion; losing or gaining weight; alleviating minor health ailments/allergies/inflammation/mucous/ buildup of undigested food; supporting your body to heal.
Week 2: Evening Ritual
The importance of a relaxing evening routine and an earlier bedtime; connecting more with your body clock, honoring and addressing your need for getting deeper rest and waking up with more energy.
Week 3: Morning Ritual
Starting the day right; taking a minute to mentally set yourself up for the day you want to have; deeply hydrating the body; evacuating the bowels; allowing clarity; connection and gratitude into your day.
Week 4: Breath Based Exercise
Ayurvedic and Yogic insights to exercise;creating your optimal breath/body practice; partnering the breath and the body to clear stagnation, combust disease and calm inflammation.
Week 5: Eat More Plants
A natural, seasonal and nutrient dense approach to your nourishment; listening to your body’s needs and intuition; eating local foods; boosting your immune system and getting connected to your local ecosystem.
Week 6: Self Massage
Abhyangha – Ayurvedic oil massage as a daily ritual for deep and impactful self-care; the ins, outs and benefits. Self-love in action.
Week 7: Meditation
Taking time each day to sit in silence; creating or refining your daily practice; gaining patience, acceptance, balance and ease; feeling nourished from the place of not doing.
Week 8: Healthy Eating Guidelines
Meal timing and spacing in tune with the natural cycle of the day; incorporating the 6 tastes for your unique needs; fasting for your body type; attuning your tastes and listening to your gut.
Week 9: Sense Organ Care
Scheduling in Ayurvedic self-care practices like tongue scraping, oil pulling, nasal flushing; using medicated oils to boost immunity to healing damage now and prevent problems later; protecting your senses to perceive the world accurately and wonderfully as you age.
Week 10: Easeful Living
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Altering your perception to alter your reality; cultivating ease in your relationships; allowing stress, overwhelm or anxiety to fade into the background; scheduling in simple rituals for body, mind and spirit; freeing up space for clarity and creativity; creating and stepping into your potential.