AyurPrana

Join us live and online from SoHum Mountain Healing Resort - tomorrow, October 19, from 6 - 7pm (Eastern Time) - where our resident psychologist, Dr. Eliot Steer, and Ayurvedic Ambassador, Sandy Viteri, will join in a fireside discussion about the benefits of emotional detoxification.

Sign up for this FREE webinar here: https://info.sohumhealing.com/harmonizing-hearts-webinar - or visiting www.SoHumHealing.com and signing up under Events!

Eliot Steer, PhD, is part of our treatment team here at SoHum, to support the emotional responses and releases these practices can evoke. Just as physical toxins (ama) leave the body during panchakarma, these practices can offer an emotional release - allowing for the movement of trapped feelings, supporting the healing of psychological wounds.

Sandy and Eliot will discuss how in Ayurveda emotions are known to have a home in the body, especially around certain organs, and how certain physical treatments can support the release and relief of specific emotions.

In this webinar we will explore:
✨How emotional health is also supported by Panchakarma and other Ayurvedic treatments
✨Why emotions, especially those involved with traumatic events, get trapped in the body and when a physical release occurs, an emotional one can follow
✨How emotions have a native home in our body, and how we can utilize certain treatments to support the release and balancing of these emotions
✨The support Dr. Eliot Steer provides to our guests at SoHum Mountain Healing Resort as a Vedic counselor and how he can support the cleansing of the emotional self

Don't miss this opportunity to discover how SoHum Mountain Healing Resort can be your complete sanctuary for achieving lasting well-being.

Added Bonus!

If you join our webinar, learn how to receive $700 off your stay - good through November 30, 2023 for bookings scheduled before Dec. 31, 2023!

If you aren’t able to join us at this date and time, please sign up and we will send you a recording of the webinar.

RSVP Today: https://info.sohumhealing.com/harmonizing-hearts-webinar - or visiting www.SoHumHealing.com and signing up under Events!

We can't wait to see you there!

Happy Navratri🙏

The nine nights of Navratri offer an exploration of the divine feminine. At its heart lies the worship of Goddess Durga, who manifests in nine distinct forms, each representing a facet of femininity.

The divine feminine is the feminine aspect of the divine power that connects and binds the Earth. She is the goddess energy (i.e. Shakti) that exists within all of us. Shakti is a term commonly used in Hinduism to refer to divine feminine energy. Navratri is the time to harness this feminine energy that is often associated with fertility, creativity, and intuition. It is the time to tap into Shakti that can help heal the mind, body, and soul of women.

Vishuddha
The Throat Chakra

The throat chakra is linked to self-expression, communication, and authenticity. It serves as a focal point for bringing forth your inner voice, allowing others to listen and engage with your thoughts, emotions, and knowledge.The thyroid gland is placed near the throat chakra. In Ayurveda, the thyroid gland is considered a vital energy center in the body, responsible for regulating metabolism and maintaining overall balance.

Vishuddha revolves around the idea of being acknowledged and openly conveying oneself. It entails connecting with your genuine inner voice and permitting it to radiate into the world. Your most profound aspirations, thoughts, and truths possess the potential to uplift and revolutionize the world.

A blocked throat chakra may create thyroid issues. The thyroid is viewed as intimately linked to our emotional well-being, particularly the emotion of guilt. Ayurveda believes that guilt can lead to an excess of Kapha dosha, which can slow down the metabolism and disrupt thyroid function.

When there's an imbalance or blockage in the energy of the Vishuddha Chakra, it disrupts communication. We become resistant to listening to our inner selves and others, which in turn affects our internal and external relationships. This obstruction can have a multitude of impacts on our emotional and physical well-being.

Uncover the secrets of the heart, lungs, liver, and thyroid's resonance with emotions! This fall Vaidya Vasant Lad will offer 5 webinar sessions that dive deep into the emotions. To register, please visit the link in our bio.

Join our team over at SoHum Mountain Healing Resort tomorrow, Sept. 21 from 12-1pm (ET) for a live webinar where Dr. Vrinda Devani, our Medical Director, and Julia Apodaca, our Wellness Director, will explore the Ayurvedic treatments and bodywork on offer here at SoHum.

Save your seat today - https://info.sohumhealing.com/journey-to-renewal-webinar

Spend an hour learning about how Ayurvedic bodywork can support your wellness goals, strengthen your immune system, and enhance your vitality. Where you can watch a live treatment demonstration - visualizing yourself receiving all the nourishment and release your body, mind and consciousness deserve!

✨5,000 years of wisdom poured into your being!
Ayurveda, a 5,000-year-old healing and wellness system from India, offers numerous bodywork treatments that support the natural healing and rebalancing of your entire system in body, mind, and consciousness.

Dr. Vrinda Devani and Julia Apodaca will not only share their knowledge of Ayurvedic medicine and the benefits of bodywork, but also highlight the specific treatments offered at SoHum Mountain Healing Resort, each carefully curated for you. Whether you seek relaxation, rejuvenation, or relief from specific health concerns, this webinar will provide you with a deeper understanding of the transformative power of Ayurvedic therapies.

✨The choreography of Abhyanga, LIVE!
Watch a LIVE demonstration where 2 therapists perform a 4-handed, warm-oil body massage known as Abhyanga - the sequence we use at SoHum Mountain Healing Resort is that used by world- renowned Ayurvedic physician and author Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc, founder and director of The Ayurvedic Institute.

✨Added Bonus Savings!
Join this webinar and learn how to receive $700 off your stay - good through September 31, 2023 for bookings scheduled before Dec. 31, 2023!

If you aren’t able to join at this date and time, please sign up and you will receive a recording of the webinar.

RSVP Today - https://info.sohumhealing.com/journey-to-renewal-webinar

⭐Unlock the secrets of the cosmos ⭐
Join us to learn vedic astrology or Jyotish, the science of life starting on September 25th!

What is Jyotish?
Jyotish, derived from the Sanskrit words "Jyoti" (light) and "Isha" (lord) and it is the divine science of understanding the cosmic light and its influence on our lives. It is an integral part of Ayurveda and focuses on deciphering the celestial patterns to guide us towards a more harmonious and purposeful existence.

Here's why Jyotish can be so impactful to your life:
⭐Self-Discovery: Jyotish unveils your unique cosmic blueprint, helping you understand your innate strengths and weaknesses.
⭐Life Guidance: Gain clarity on life's challenges and opportunities, enabling better decision-making.
⭐Health and Wellness: Discover Ayurvedic insights to enhance your physical and mental well-being.
⭐Relationship Harmony: Uncover compatibility dynamics to improve your relationships.
⭐Spiritual Growth: Connect with your higher self and align with your true purpose.

Visit the link in our bio to enroll and let the transformation begin.

🌿 Hit the reset button on your well-being! 🌿
Join us on a transformative journey of self-discovery and rejuvenation with our 9-Day Guided Home Ayurvedic Cleanse starting on October 2nd!

🌞 Why Now? 🌞
As we transition from summer to fall, it's the ideal time to cleanse your body and mind. Let go of the lingering summer heat and embrace the crisp autumn air with a refreshed perspective.

✨ What You'll Experience ✨
📚 Daily access to Ayurvedic practitioners to deepen your knowledge.
🌟 Boost your immunity, mental clarity, and vitality.
🤝 A supportive community to share your journey.
🧘‍♀️Yoga and reflection exercises to harmonize body and mind.

Don't miss our 3-Year Anniversary Special: $50 off if you enroll now!
Visit the link in our bio to enroll and let the transformation begin. 🌟

🌿 Discover the Science of Serenity! 🌿
Tune in Aug. 10 for an enlightening webinar to discover the science behind Panchakarma and the physical benefits of Ayurvedic treatments! Join practicing board-certified physician and Ayurvedic Practitioner Dr. Vrinda Devani, and Ayurvedic Counselor Sandy Viteri to learn how Ayurveda can promote harmony and well-being in both body and mind. Don't miss this transformative event! https://hubs.li/Q01-7RrT0

⏰ FINAL HOURS to build your library! Don’t miss this special discount on past webinars that explore the spiritual, emotional, and the physical techniques of Ayurveda that enable us to care for our whole Self. Learn from the world’s master of these subtle and life-changing practices himself - Vasant Lad! Offer Good Until July 31, 2023 @ 11:59pm ET

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✨Tomorrow evening, June 30, from 7-9 pm✨ release the past to transform your present with world-renowned Ayurvedic physician, author, and founder of The Ayurvedic Institute, Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc., as he shares insights and practices supporting the healing of trauma and cultivating joy!

Join us LIVE from the AyurPrana Listening Room in Asheville, NC - in-person or online - as we explore practical techniques drawn from Vasant Lad’s 50+ years of clinical experience as he offers methods to release stagnant emotions and promote healing from trauma.

According to Ayurveda, when psychological memories are unreleased, they remain in our physical being - creating fear, anxiety, anger, grief, and unhealthy cravings that adversely affect our overall physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Topics Vasant Lad will explore:
⭐Perception: Understand how the individual mind is connected to the universal mind and how that impacts our perception

⭐Functioning: Explore the inner workings of the mind according to Ayurveda, including an introduction to the concept of the “Antaḥkaraṇa” or inner equipment of experience.

⭐Remedies: Discuss a few natural techniques and practices that can support clear perception and help process trauma to prevent further imbalances in the mind/body from manifesting.

“Psychological stress is caused by not being in the present moment, as it is. In the present moment, we see ‘what is’ and immediately we create stress by seeing the opposite of this - what should be, could be, would be. These are mere ideas.”
~ Vasant Lad

Get your tickets today and join us live for this life changing event - https://liveayurprana.com/products/2252149

Can’t make the live event on Friday, June 30? Sign up for the online option and we will share a high-quality recording of the seminar!

Hello, dear friends! We would like your help. We're planning the topics for the live webinars with Vasant Lad, Founder and Director of , in 2024, and would love to hear your thoughts!

What are some of the topics, subjects, or mysteries you've wanted to hear Vasant Lad dive into? Here's a chance to find out - let us know in the comments below some of your suggestions, or vote for your favorites with your likes 👍 🧡

These topics can range from practical knowledge to spiritual practice and guidance. These could also be explorations of Ayurvedic insights into life, personal wellness, and the philosophies and mythologies that swirl in between. We're very excited to hear your thoughts!

We will bring these topics to Vasant Lad, and he will pick those which he feels are important to address at this time - but we'll be sure to let him know your favorites!

Please be respectful of the space and other people's comments in it - we appreciate you in this 🙏

Thank you!
~ The AyurPrana Team

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Proper times of eating and quantity of food

According to Ayurveda, we should only eat when we are hungry. Many imbalances occur in the body when we eat without hunger. In this way, the digestive fire gets easily overwhelmed by the food it needs to digest, and that food remains, partially or improperly digested in the GI tract as Ama; toxins or metabolic waste. It is said that these toxins are the root cause of all diseases.

The digestive fire, reflecting the course of the sun in the sky, is at its peak at midday. Thus, the largest or most difficult-to-digest of our daily meals should be taken at around midday. Depending on the strength of an individual’s digestive fire, they may take an additional 2 smaller meals during the day. The meals should be well spaced, allowing 5-6 hours in between for complete digestion to take place before giving the Agni a new meal to digest.

To know more about ayurvedic nutrition, join Sneha Raichada, MPT, CAP, E-RYT-200, AyurPrana Founder and Dean of Education at The Ayurvedic Institute, as she explores practical nutrition from an Ayurvedic perspective - with a particular focus on how, what, and when we eat can impact our overall health and wellness - https://liveayurprana.com/products/2093711

While the system of Ayurvedic medicine originates in ancient India, and we typically use a variety of spices to cook with, Ayurvedic nutrition is not limited to Indian food and recipes. Ayurvedic nutrition or the science of ahara, is a way of eating informed by an understanding of the prevalent qualities or gunas that the food possesses, as they relate to the five great elements; space, air, fire, water and earth.

Foods such as root vegetables, whole grains and nuts have the heavy, or guru qualities of the Earth element. Liquids in general such as water, juices, and soups have gunas similar to the Water element. Spicy, hot or pungent foods like chilli, mustard and ginger have the hot, ushna quality of the fire element. Crunchy, dry substances like crackers, dried fruit and salads have the same qualities of the Air and Space elements.

In Ayurveda, we see all bodily and mental imbalances as a manifestation of excess of any or all of these elements in the individual. Excess Vata dosha (air and space elements) can manifest as bloating, constipation, and anxiety. Excess Pitta dosha (fire element) can manifest as acidity, rashes and irritability. Excess Kapha (earth and water elements) can manifest as lethargy, weight gain and depression.

Furthermore, we can use the Ayurvedic principle of ‘like increases like’ to correct elemental imbalances in our body system through intentional food choices. For example, bloating is seen as an excess of the air and space elements or Vata dosha in the body, so in order to correct this excess of light, dry, rough and cold qualities, we would increase the consumption of warm, heavy, unctuous foods that have an affinity with the opposite elements; fire, water, and earth.

Join Sneha Raichada, MPT, CAP, E-RYT-200, AyurPrana Founder and Dean of Education at The Ayurvedic Institute, as she explores practical nutrition from an Ayurvedic perspective - with a particular focus on how, what, and when we eat can impact our overall health and wellness - https://liveayurprana.com/products/2093711

The Shad Rasa is the concept of six tastes of all food substances. What we mean by a ‘balanced diet’ in Ayurveda, is one that includes a good balance of all six tastes, each of which has a specific action on and affinity to particular organs in the body;
🍠The sweet taste, madhura is associated with the thyroid gland
🫁The sour taste, amla is associated with the lungs
🧂The salty taste, lavana is associated with the kidneys
🫀The pungent taste, katu is associated with the stomach and heart
☕The bitter taste, tikta is associated with the liver, spleen and pancreas
🍌And the astringent taste, kashaya is associated with the colon.
Too much or too little of a taste can manifest as imbalance in the body and mind, and we can use substances with particular tastes to correct imbalance using Ayurveda’s effective ‘like increases like’ principle of treatment.

Curious about these concepts and learning more about the Ayurvedic Perspective on Nutrition?

Check out our immersion on Ayurvedic Nutrition for Self Healing with the amazing Sneha Raichada - https://liveayurprana.com/collections/courses/products/2093711?gc_id=15345869169&h_ad_id=563707280539&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2v-gBhC1ARIsAOQdKY3d9GTlp6mGnhIMvavwrzyrOw-yXwGsj1QCTV34jVruX7myDhNpu3caAstWEALw_wcB

The sacred science first developed thousands of years ago in Vedic times when martial artists used energy points therapeutically to recover from injury as well as to inflict injury on their opponents. 

Sushruta, known as the father of surgery and living at least as far back as the Buddha over 2500 years ago, refined this ancient science and emphasized the importance of avoiding these vital pranic points when making incisions as a surgeon.

Veins, arteries, nerves, tendons, bones or joints intersect at marmani, so touching them even gently sets off a complex biochemical and neuroelectrical impulse that affects sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system functions and the release of endorphins and neurotransmitters - this translates to an effect on how we feel, our mood, and our experience of pain.

Marma points are so vital in their effect that specific marmani can be pressed to induce labor, bring back consciousness, or even cause instant death if damaged.

To learn more about Marma, Join our Online Course where we will dive into the marmani of the body and explore their significance and impact on the physical, mental and emotional states of our being.
https://liveayurprana.com/collections/courses/products/2102869

The day and the hour when we are born is important! A unique celestial influence that is in harmony with our individual karma. This map of the heavens has very clear impacts as we live our lives under these influences.
Insightful interpretations of these charts don't just emphasize our fates, but lead to better decision making, allow for deeper self-knowledge, and can empower us to overcome limitations so we can move towards our purpose and ultimate potential. 🕉️

We all know the vital importance of being in the right place at the right time - as such we are all naturally attracted to understanding our place in the time and space we are in. What has drawn us as people to reading these esoteric sciences is the desire for insightful transformation - for ourselves and for those around us. 🔥

Due to uninformed decisions, we often reduce our expectations, taking lower risks and attaining lower levels of satisfaction. Our life experience can become less deep, and our joy can become diminished. ‘’You sow and you reap, you sow and you reap’’ is a reflection the law of karma, which can be interpreted and projected through Jyotish, as a model to understand reality. 🪐

The esoteric sciences like Jyotish offer a profound opportunity to support ourselves or our clients in understanding what can be done to move towards a more positive outcomes in all aspects of our lives. 💚

Are you curious about the timeline of your life? Whether you are in a surge or in a slump? Want to learn how to utilize both in the best way using astrological remedies? Take a look at our upcoming Jyotish focussed learning opportunities centered around the Lore of Light!

Join us from March 20 - April 19, 2023, for a full course on Vedic Astrology: Life Counseling Through the Science of Light - https://liveayurprana.com/products/2104029 - The subject of this course will be natal astrology which assess the patterns in the cosmos at the time of one’s birth. We will review the building blocks of Jyotish which include signs, planets, houses, asterisms, and the combinations they create.

On April 22, 2023, join world-renowned Ayurvedic physician, author, and teacher Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc, as he guides us into the world of Medical Jyotish: Vedic Astrology for Healing - find out more and save your seat here: https://liveayurprana.com/products/2104037 ✨

We hope to see you soon!

Join us online tonight at 7pm EST on the AyurPrana YouTube channel to see the live broadcast of The Journey Within - https://www.youtube.com/

The Journey Within is a spiritual exploration and Satsang (a sacred gathering) led by world-renowned Ayurvedic physician, lecturer, and author Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc.

Vasant Lad’s lineage of Ayurvedic teaching reaches all the way back to the ancient Vedic traditions, and aims to support healing the whole being in body, mind, and spirit. To keep access to the ancient spiritual teachings free and available, Vasant Lad launched The Journey Within series at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic so that people could still gather in satsang and dive into the teachings through online live sessions.

Vasant Lad founded the first Ayurvedic School in the US, The Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, NM, after moving from India in the late 1970s. In the summer of 2022, the Institute moved here to a new campus on Orange Street in Asheville, NC.

Find out more about The Ayurvedic Institute here: www.Ayurveda.com
Explore more ways to learn from Vasant Lad and a host of incredible teachers through AyurPrana: www.LiveAyurPrana.com

🌱Last Chance to Register for the Winter Home Cleanse!🌱

The traditional Ayurvedic cleanse aims to eliminate these accumulated toxins and energies from the body. Before these toxins can be expelled, we must first kindle the digestive fire - we do this to make sure our body has the capacity to “digest” and burn the toxins that get released from the deeper tissues during the cleansing process.

Benefits our past cleanse participants experienced:
> Clarity of mind and spirit

> Greater sense of inspiration and vibrancy

> Positive weight loss

> More comfortable digestion

> More energy

> Improved relationship

> Less chronic pain

To register for the cleanse, please visit https://liveayurprana.com/pages/cleanse

While making new year resolutions is very easy, sticking to them is often very difficult. Alternatively, setting intentions, provides accountability and allows us to take control of our personal choices and life.

The act of setting intentions is one of the best ways to keep yourself on a track to meet your goals and achieve the level of happiness you desire. When we bring awareness to our intentions, we can manifest a life full of love, gratitude and hope.

Intensions are a gentle yet effective reminder of your higher purpose and that the things you do and say in the course of a day can help you get there. They help you live a life of intention and gratitude.

Prioritize Your Health & Wellness in 2023!

It's the time to rediscover your natural energy levels and reinvigorate your whole self with seasonal cleanse support from AyurPrana’s Ayurvedic Practitioners!

Don't miss your last chance to order cleanse kits with FREE shipping.

To register for the cleanse, please click the link in the bio.

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