Nami.Ayu.Care

Dear friends,
I will soon start an online mini-course for seekers of health and Well-being.

My recent healings at the clinic have had phenomenal results due to empowering education. This has activated self-awareness, agency and advocacy, which changes the course of disease and life.

I dream of a world in which healing is driven by the self-agency of the individual.

Ayurvedic Medicine makes this possible.
It has a shared language of human experience relatable by patients, physicians, and caregivers alike.

After twenty years in Integrative Ayurvedic medicine across India and the US, I have realized the distinct opportunity it offers is that:
'It treats the PERSON with the disease, not necessarily the disease directly itself.'

This opens up a treasure trove of avenues to heal. Healing is a non-linear phenomenon in an open system that is highly sensitive, unpredictable, and responsive to multiple dimensions of inputs. This 'Atlas' of Healing is a complex terrain with multiple guideposts and cues that inform behaviors and interventions to prioritize.

These are coded in the language of Ayurvedic Medicine.

While an Ayurvedic Doctor is trained to recognize and treat them, the people are not. People, however, can be educated to recognize them and make informed choices depending on what their body, heart and being, are informing them. This requires access to Well-being, a powerful calm centeredness that allows one to take stock of the lay of the terrain.

Witnessing the terrain, recognizing the guideposts, and making informed choices depending on available avenues is self-agency. Once we know this self-agency is simple, it simplifies the complexity of healing.

Self-agency is possible only by knowing how to access Well-being, esp amid a storm or disease. Thus, ironically, Well-being is a pre-requisite for healing and not an outcome of it.

Maybe, if we solve this puzzle together, we can make a profound economic and quality of life impact.

So, starting September 15, 2024, I will share these teachings in a crisp online course with evidence-informed practical tools from the perspective of accessing well-being.

The course is:
Thriving Well-Being: Life Skills with Integrative Ayurveda.

It is a course for anyone curious to explore the science and develop an experiential relationship with it. It is to activate processes of self-healing while building trusting partnerships with other healers and healthcare providers (if needed)

It entails what I wish seekers of well-being and health would have universal access to.

Note: This is not a course to diagnose and treat diseases. We always recommend having a close partnership with your primary care provider.

Registration link:
https://ayu.care/pages/ayurveda-for-thriving-well-being

For twenty years I have remained fascinated by this point of union of the two sciences.

Clue and teaser: Its the root of all diseases and the source for all health.

Find more here!
https://youtu.be/Dm0eNtvUOLg

My new post on Substack, "Well-being in the face of disease" starts like this:

After five weeks, my heart palpitations are finally calming down right now," she said.

We were about fifty minutes into our session.

Ms.Percy was a successful C-suite executive for a biotech company that was promoting a biologic to treat an autoimmune disorder. Unfortunately, she had received the same diagnosis five weeks ago.

She knew a lot about the disease. She had access to the best experts in the field. She was knowledgeable about the medication for it.

So, when she came to me for Ayurvedic advice, I informed her, "My responsibility as a Vaidya is to 'treat the person who has the condition. It will naturally alter the disease process."

She stopped, appearing both hopeful and bewildered. 'What does that even mean?' her expression said. Throughout the consultation, she remained open and curious.

She shared what she knew about the impending disease trajectory, the disease's progression, and the benefits and risks of the suggested conventional treatment for it.

She was struggling with several anxieties as a result of her recent diagnosis:

1. Fear of the disease itself.

2. Fear of adverse effects of targeted medicinal interventions.

3. Fear and despair about the end of her life as she knows it.

4. She was afraid of what she was consuming, which could be causing the disease.

5. Fear of other unknown behaviors that could accelerate the disease.

Integrative Ayurveda has an angle to address all of these fears by breaking them down into concerns. It is a path that enables her to access the best of all her options.

https://lnkd.in/gq5nzW7z

Integrative Ayurveda for Seasonal Allergies My top three Universally Safe Practices to take the edge off

Dear friends

I have started writing on Substack. This is my fourth piece.

It's the distillation of my understanding from the conversations in the clinic, and events in my life as I find ways to address the deep roots of disease in people, communities and sub-cultures.

I write with the goal to empower with the principles of Ayurveda, not reliant on products and practices.

I hope you enjoy the reads.
Please subscribe to get them oven fresh in your inbox. Comment, share and engage if you find them useful.

Love,
nami

https://open.substack.com/pub/namyata/p/well-being-in-the-midst-of-a-storm

My dear people,
I am back after my second motherhood transition. She has made me a better mom, a better Ayurveda doctor, a better spouse, a better human. I was able to take counsel of the both Eastern and Western sciences to orchestrate my journey.

I have put them together in an accessible succinct online program called 'Unconditional Well-being'

Its four Sundays and sliding scale for the Launch!
I hope your will join.

Please find it event here!
https://ayu.care/pages/well-becoming

To spring back from Motherhood 2.0, post partum depression and the whole shebang, I used Pragya, a powerful concept in Ayurveda.

To precious to lose, I share the concept in a talk and conversation organized by a premium ghee brand - Mahaghee on Sunday, Sept 18th, 11 AM PST.

Join us here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuduirrzoqG9C5IkZOXHASIyLA-2GKIEv0

And oh, if you want to experience what ghee should taste like, order at mahaghee.com. Use the code Nami9 for free shipping!

Nami.Ayu.Care now takes appointments on their Page.

Hello Health Seekers! We have our August topic ready and would love to hear your questions!
Thursday, August 19th • 1pm PDT / 4pm EDT
TOPIC: Revisiting the pandemic - an ayurvedic approach to infectious viral fevers
https://www.facebook.com/events/365834471650029/
Register for this Facebook Live event and come with your questions about ayurveda, viruses, pandemics and more! Vaidya-Scientist Nami is looking forward to sharing these answers with you!
Feel free to post your questions in the event discussion prior to meeting.
This event is FREE and open to anyone interested in ayurveda or alternative, natural health care. Please note that you need to join the Facebook group in order to access the event information.
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/539775700324526/)

As Education Chair at California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine, I had interviewed my mentor who has six decades of pioneering research in Ayurveda for the past and the road ahead.

Here is the link:
https://tinyurl.com/em9ks4cf

Interview questions:

1.You conceived and implemented Ayurveda research in the 1970s when it wasn't in anyone's mind space. Can you share how you started this? And what compelled you to remain dedicated to it for the next five decades?

2. You have been a great team player and a leader in multiple interdisciplinary of health. I have seen your style of asking questions that help experts with openness to reflect for growth. What are some other responses you have for the development of interdisciplinary intersystem dialogue?

3.Reverse Pharmacology is a rational response to the crisis in new drug development. It has guided many projects in the pharmacy education and Pharmacology departments all over India. How can a novice, especially from outside of India, access this rich heritage you have led?

4. The ideas of prakriti genetics occurred to you in 1994. It eventually led to the development of ayurgenomics as a field. Can you share the story of how this occurred?

5.We used to have many discussions about non-product-based Ayurveda research. And how models of clinical investigation need to be developed for traditional health systems. (Ayurvedic statistics, observational therapeutics, vaidya- scientists)

6. I have seen you continue your journey and mission despite all odds and crisis. Your spiritual resilience is the foundation for consistent and dramatic influence on people who wish to rise above and beyond. I see you derive joy from your work without any expectation in return. Your mind remains agile and enthused despite setbacks and challenges with physical health at this age. Theoretically this is a classic function of 'swasthya' in Ayurveda. What is it that you know about health that we maybe don't understand individually? How can we mainstream it?

Vaidyas in India have successfully and tirelessly served the patients of COVID-19.

Their experience and expertise need to be acknowledged, supported and learnt from to combat for the imminent third wave.

I proposed how and its receiving much appreciation at all levels in India.

Here is the link:
https://tinyurl.com/EVOLVE-AYUSH-COVID-GUIDELINES

On the first Thursday of every month - we mingle to share stories, ask questions about Ayurveda practice and forge friendships that can last a lifetime. Here, we nurture Ayurveda as it nurtures and heals us. This also time to whine and poke fun, and ideate , strategize and evolve.
This is a space to bring together AWCs, AWPs, ADs, BAMS, MD(Ayu) and PhD(Ayu). It will be a private zoom session where everyone will have an opportunity to share without typing!
Further program details will be posted in the group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1675910979270440/about See Less

See you Next Thursday!?
Click to join: https://youtu.be/a1bAfQbNOdc

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I'm getting great feedback that this is a very informative and useful video! Spread the care and love and hopefully save lives!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU4YYBIzXHU

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For families battling COVID-19 infection in India. Curated do's and dont's. You are not helpless. You can do this! Kickstart your healing!

Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/IU4YYBIzXHU?t=2

In less than 48 hrs, a zoom session!
Sign up for the live session and Q&A
Register here:
https://tinyurl.com/dialogues-with-nami

Crafting Session Two!

Happening Apr 22nd 2021. 1pm-2pm PST
Event link: https://fb.me/e/4r4AX1yy7
To post your questions
Join FB page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/539775700324526/
OR post them in a google form:
https://tinyurl.com/sanghaquestions

Happening Apr 22nd 2021. 1pm-2pm PST
Event link: https://fb.me/e/4r4AX1yy7
To post your questions
Join FB page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/539775700324526/
OR post them in a google form:
https://tinyurl.com/sanghaquestions

Inaugural Sangha link and introducing S.H.I.F.A - https://mailchi.mp/dd4e95f50a16/inaugural-sangha-link-and-introducing-shifa

Inaugural Sangha link and introducing S.H.I.F.A

Yay! Thank you everyone for coming to my first FB live. It doesn't show my ppt, just me, so next time I'll do my hair instead of making a ppt ;)

This is how we will spend the hour in the Inaugural session. Bring your friends, family and co-workers!

Here is my invited talk at Stanford's first Evidence-based Traditional Medicine conference. I chose to speak on Integrative Ayurveda Nutrition as, after a decade of application, I am convinced of its profound impact on reversal to health. I draw my advice from multiple sciences embedded on the trajectory of Ayurveda's path for healing. I have attempted to share it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOQKJvMAjaA

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I am an invited speaker at the first ever Evidence based Traditional Asian Medicine Conference organized by Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education planned for later this week.

There are 850+ registrations so far, worldwide and I will speak on Integrative Ayurveda Nutrition: Premise and Promise on Thursday, March 4th 2021. Hope you can join and share with those inclined!

https://med.stanford.edu/care/events/evidence-based-traditional-asian-medicine-conference-2021.html

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