Sunrey Wellness

According to Ayurveda, our eyes, being a hot/pitta organ, can get strained and fatigued, especially as summer draws to a close and heat accumulates. 🌡️

Ayurveda offers soothing remedies like ghee for balancing pitta and refreshing eye washes to moisturize and clear excess heat. 🍃 Plus, incorporating herbs like Amala and Triphala internally can support digestion and overall well-being. 🌿

Interested in diving deeper into Ayurvedic wisdom? Let’s connect for personalized coaching! 🌟 Book your 1:1 coaching session now! Link in bio 🔗

We are not solitary beings, but threads woven into the fabric of existence. 🌿 sharing time in nature opens us up to the commonalities of our being and those of our living relatives: the trees, birds, water… 🌲🦅🌊

Embrace your individual interconnectedness to nature and realize the beauty & abundance that we have with the world around us. Explore how breathing with the trees connects you to something deeper within you & find that silence is just another form of fully living.

Join me on mindful well-being hikes throughout the month of May, dates will be released soon!

🌲🏕️👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏾🍲🧆Nature, camping / glamping, workshops, delicious food, community …. DID SOMEONE SAY RETREAT!? The Campout+Retreat is here May 31-June 2 in Georgia! And I will be leading Ayurveda workshops!

Come join the fun, the incredible outdoors and amazing women leading this retreat. A weekend to embrace nature, nurture your soul and empower YOU!

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🌳Reconnect with nature and rejuvenate your well-being as you immerse yourself in the present moment, guided by the rhythm of your breath.

Join me on these outdoor journeys, where you can restore balance to your nervous system and also refresh your mind and nourish your soul. These hikes provide a precious chance to tune out the noise of the world and rediscover inner peace and tranquility. 🌿✨

Next hike in April 21st

Check out the link 🔗 in the bio for details.

Also stay connected for more of these outdoor journeys throughout the whole month of May!

Spring Season is here— how are you balancing in this season? Let me know in the comments what resonates with you.

Choosing open-heartedness allows you to become the warrior and healer within the temple of your body. Embracing your experiences through empathy and compassion starting with yourself, more than solely being receptive to external ideas from the outer world.

The most effective way to build internal (emotional, mental, physical, spiritual) harmony is to connect with the rhythms in nature.

Attune to the phases of the moon and offer your internal rhythms a space to pause, breath, self reflect/self inquiry, and check in with the person that you really want to be.

What are these lunar phases?

Dark Moon: Emotional Nadir. A time when the moon is completely dark. A day before the New Moon. During this phase the moon calls us to rest, withdraw, and self- inquiry. Vata is at its peak.

New Moon: The first day of the new moon cycle. The moon is dark, and almost invisible in the sky. During this phase we are called to embrace spaciousness, set intentions & focus. A time when vata has just peaked.

First Quarter (Waxing Moon): A period between the new moon and full moon. As the moonlight is increasing so is our energy. During this phase re-establish your intentions, keep watering the seeds planted in the new moon. Turn outward.

Full Moon: The moon is entirely illuminated and visible in the sky (if it’s not behind the clouds). During this phase the energy is activated and at its peak. A time to take action, collaborate, and celebrate your intentions & manifestations.

Last Quarter (Waning Moon): After the peak of the full moon, the moon starts fading into the dark moon. A time to slow down, release, turn inward.

Join our Moon Circles! We gather during the Dark Moon & Full Moon nearly every month, delving into the moon’s energy through ancient wisdom. Experience insights from Ayurveda, Ta**ra, Yoga, ancestral knowledge, and western sciences to help you reconnect with the version of your-Self you seek.

First Circle: January 11th @7:30pm EST. 🔗Link in bio.

🌀As the Vata season sets in, I find solace and rejuvenation in the embrace of Mama Nature through hiking. I hike to heal, to find balance amidst the brisk winds and transitioning elements. In this season of change and movement, nature serves as a grounding force, offering stability and calmness. Hiking not only nurtures my body but also my mind & soul, providing a sanctuary amidst the flux of the Vata season.

🌿 Take steps into Nature's embrace with : Hike-A-Thon 🏞️ For 10 days devoted to healing and adventure!

🗓️ Nov. 20th- Nov. 30th
📍 in person near Hartford, CT or virtually by committing to walk/ hike wherever you are

🦋hike. donate. connect to community

🌟 This isn't just a fundraiser—it's a transformative journey towards personal wellness and a collective good. We believe in the profound power of nature to heal our minds, bodies, and spirits.

✨, a non-profit organization, aims to raise $30,000. Partnering with Sunrey Wellness, our goal is to cover 34 miles in 10 days and raise $500 to support this mission."

👣 Whether you're a seasoned hiker or just starting, this event is your gateway to a fulfilling walking or hiking ritual.

🌅 As your companion on this journey, I'll send you daily morning messages, guiding your thoughts and infusing deeper meaning into each step.

🌿 Ready to start this transformative ritual? Register, donate your miles, and share your walks through the free Strava app. Let's walk towards wellness together, making every step count for ourselves and the community we support. Join me today and start your walking/ hiking ritual.

Links 🔗 in the link in bio.

🌀As the Vata season sets in, I find solace and rejuvenation in the embrace of Mama Nature through hiking. I hike to heal, to find balance amidst the brisk winds and transitioning elements. In this season of change and movement, nature serves as a grounding force, offering stability and calmness. Hiking not only nurtures my body but also my mind & soul, providing a sanctuary amidst the flux of the Vata season.

🌿 Take steps into Nature's embrace with : Hike-A-Thon 🏞️ For 10 days devoted to healing and adventure!

🗓️ Nov. 20th- Nov. 30th
📍 in person near Hartford, CT or virtually by committing to walk/ hike wherever you are

🦋hike. donate. connect to community

🌟 This isn't just a fundraiser—it's a transformative journey towards personal wellness and a collective good. We believe in the profound power of nature to heal our minds, bodies, and spirits.

✨ Together, let's set achievable goals: covering 34 miles in 10 days and raising $500.

👣 Whether you're a seasoned hiker or just starting, this event is your gateway to a fulfilling walking or hiking ritual.

🌅 As your companion on this journey, I'll send you daily morning messages, guiding your thoughts and infusing deeper meaning into each step.

🌿 Ready to start this transformative ritual? Register, donate your miles, and share your walks through the free Strava app. Let's walk towards wellness together, making every step count for ourselves and the community we support. Join me today and start your walking/ hiking ritual.

Links 🔗 in the link in bio.

🌚In Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of medicine, the concept of the dark moon is intricately linked to the lunar cycle & its influence on the human body, mind, and spirit. Ayurveda recognizes the profound connection between the natural rhythms of the universe and the internal rhythms of the human body. According to Ayurvedic principles, the moon has a significant impact on the doshas, which are the fundamental energies that govern various physiological and psychological processes in the body.

The dark moon refers to the period when the moon is not visible in the night sky, commonly known as the new moon phase. In Ayurveda, this phase is associated with a subtle, transformative energy. This period is considered highly auspicious for activities related to self-reflection, cleansing, and renewal.

Join the Sunrey Wellness community on October 13th to connect and reflect on the Libra ♎️ New Moon energy and the eclipse happening on Saturday, October 14th. Link in the bio.

On this Indigenous Day, we honor the rich tapestry of cultures, traditions, and wisdom passed down through generations. It's a day to celebrate the resilience, strength, and enduring spirit of indigenous communities around the world. Let us embrace the beauty of diversity, acknowledging the deep-rooted connections between humanity and nature. Today, we stand in solidarity, appreciating the profound contributions of indigenous peoples, and pledging to preserve and protect their heritage for generations yet to come. Happy Indigenous Day!" 🌿🌍

🌞Summer solstice is when the sun reaches its highest position in the sky & for a moment it stands still before taking way to the southern hemisphere. This day is the longest day of the year & in many ancient traditions communities stood & watched the sun transition & honor her wisdom. In the Mayan tradition, the ancestors gathered to build ceremony for spiritual initiation & change.

🌞The summer is a time of expansion, mobility, & luminosity. In this season, the fire element takes charge with the water element as its assistant. In Ayurveda it is considered the Pitta season.

🌞Depending on your constitution this time of year might be the fire that you need to move things forward or this might be a time that you start off motivated & then burn out half way through the summer, and loose your natural harmony.

🌞This time of year, when the fire element is at its highest, can be a transformational time to harvest the inevitable change of expansion, activation & maximization of energy. In this celebration, we will learn to balance our body, mind & energetics for the summer, accessing the brighter parts of us to feel radiant w/out burning out.

🌞This sacred ceremony & ritual will be a guide you can come back to all summer to reconnect to your inner Sacbé (a Mayan white path) to align with the 5 elements of nature through the path of purification, building, and expansion.

Through this 3 hour program, you will receive:

- Purification techniques
- Pranayama practice
- Meditation practice to calm the mind
- Ayurveda summer rituals
- Mayan at home fire ceremony

If you can’t join us live, this will be available to you with surprise resources!

✨Link in the bio✨

Join for their 4th annual Global Healing Festival, a space that nourishes the healing and liberation of Black women and women + femmes of color! The festival is online and 100% free to attend live on June 9th! Link in bio https://embodiedblackgirl.com/ghf-2023

Love radiates!✨

Even when you think you are not making a difference, yet when you are doing it from a place of love, the ripple effect will always make an impact.

The Process & Pathway of Disease - Ayurveda

Sampratpi & Vyadhi Marga

Understanding the process of disease can help us understand & identify symptoms at an early stage of discomfort.

➡️Through the pathway of disease (Vyadhi Marga), there is the inner pathway through the digestive system (Abhyantara Marga), a pathway with:
Stage 1: Accumulation
Stage 2: Provocation
External factors (diet, climate, & lifestyle) start affecting our inner body.

➡️As disease continues, we start seeing symptoms in outer pathways through the lymphatic & circulatory systems (Ba(a)hya Marga). In this pathway:
Stage 3: Spread
Even through we see symptoms & signs in our external body, we decide to indulge in factors that aggravate the dosha.

➡️If disease progresses, it enters into the deep tissue & organ pathways (Madhyama Marga), and in this pathway we have:
Stage 4: Desposition / Localization
Stage 5: Manifestation
Stage 6: Destruction
In these stages, the Doshas are now affecting & impacting the function & form of the tissues (dhauts). Showing up as chronic or deeply developed disease.

✨✨There is one more stage that can be implemented into this process and that is, PURIFICATION!

According to Ayurveda, there are practices & natural medicine that can often reduce symptoms, get to the root cause of disease & be freed from the manifestation of disease.

Start by observing your body & how external factors (diet, climate, lifestyle) impact you. If you are at a place that you need guidance & support work with an Ayurvedic Coach that can shine light to areas in your life that need a change.

To work with me: sign up for my newsletter or DM the word, “I’M READY” for more information on 1:1 Ayurveda Wellness Coaching.

If the above information feels obvious or that it makes sense to you, that’s a great sign that you’re listening to your intuitive body.

The list above are only a fraction of some of the foods in the aggravating kapha category. ⚜️A golden rule in Ayurveda is that “like increases like” and “opposites balance” Think of kapha’s qualities to help identify if the food you’re eating are aggravating or not.

❌Avoid GRAINS that are excessively heavy, moist, or dense.
⚜️A golden rule in Ayurveda for pacifying kapha, is to limit the grain quantity & add more veggies /legumes to your meals.

❌Avoid OILS in your cooking if possible, try steaming, boiling instead, but if oils is your thing in cooking keep your cooking under the pacifying oils for kapha.
⚜️A golden rule in Ayurveda for kapha is that oils are already heavy & dense, so feeling excess kapha stay close to lighter oils.

❌Avoid SPICES. Salt!
⚜️A golden rule in Ayurveda about kapha & spices is that most spices will be great for kapha! You want well-spice your foods specially through the pungent, bitter, and astringent tastes.

❌Avoid FRUITS that are super sweet or sour, feel too watery, dense, or heavy.
⚜️A golden rule of Ayurveda is to have fruits on their own. Enjoy them as they’re totally, preferably between meals.

❌Avoid VEGGIES that feel heavy, oily, watery, or dense.
⚜️A golden rule in Ayurveda is to cook all your vegetables, it makes it easier for your body to digest.

❌Avoid SEEDS if experiencing excess kapha. Seeds tempt to be heavy, dense, & oily.
⚜️A golden rule in Ayurveda, if you do consume seeds, keep it in the pacifying category for kapha & make sure that it’s in small quantities & in occasion.

If your Kapha has been out of balance this season, start implementing some of these foods into your daily consumption. Kapha is a heavy, slow, and dense dosha that is best pacified with light, well-spiced & easy to digest foods.

⛰️To pacify Kapha bring pungent, bitter, and astringent tastes that will help encourage your kapha signs to move.

Through these walks we are inviting in mindfulness. Creating a space for BIPOC women to connect with the earth & their own breath. Mental Health wellness comes from preventative care, relationship with nature, community connection, & sacred silence. Come & take this experience with the outdoors & allow yourself the embrace of mama earth.

Nature is a great free healer, the breath is also a great free healer that has been with us from birth and will be with us until the end.

This is a free event for the community to come hike & heal together!

Each week there will be a focus on the different sections of the Nature Meditations Deck by ! Which we will have on the hike days. If you are interested in getting your own deck, check out

Topics:
First hike — Nature Meditations
Second hike — Walking Thoughts
Third hike — Strengthening Affirmations
Fourth hike — Massages from Earth

Who should come:
SUNREY WELLNESS is inviting identifying BIPOC women to come & connect to Mama Earth & their breath with community.

To register for a hike in Connecticut & Massachusetts:
Check out the link on the bio for free registration & more details on each hike.

Disclaimer, we are not licensed therapists, these events are to build community through holistic wellness practices.

Uttara, has multiple meanings, as many words in Sanskrit do. Some of Uttara’s translations are seen above. My favorite meaning is “infinite void”, which one is yours? Let me know in the comments…

Our womb has big power & personality. One of its big powers is that it digests like any other organ in your body, and it also absorbs & detoxifies. The womb (if you are a bleeding woman) purifies your body every month, and when you connect to it’s creativity & sexuality you uphold a great power (this can be done even for non-bleeding women).

“Wise women & wounded creatures” - Katie Silcox

If your relationship with your womb has been one of trauma or non-existing, this can be an opportunity for you to reconnect to that wisdom you already inherit. Honor your menstrual cycle with the lunar cycle, and if you aren’t menstruating 🩸anymore connect with the moon cycle.

Use the wisdom of the Nitya’s to guide you through this natural rhythm.

🩸New moon: detox, purification, emotional release
🩸 Waxing moon: gathering strength, prana (energy) rebuilding, rejuvenation
🩸 Full moon: highest immunity, celebrate, ceremony
🩸 Waning moon: cleaning, moving inward, moving

“Because yoga is not fixed. Yoga is creation. I know the way that you teach will be different from the way I teach, and the way I teach is different from the way my father taught. We all have different experiences, different backgrounds, different perspectives on yoga and why it is important for us.
So it is not a surprise that different people find different things through the same yoga teaching. Even in our own yoga institution different teachers will teach in different ways according to their own perspective and priorities and interests in yoga. The Yoga Sutra says that each person gets different things from the same teaching based on his or her own perspective. There is nothing wrong with this. This is how it is.” - T.K.V. Desikachar

You might have that feeling where your body is asking you for a detox. 🦠

Sometimes you just know, the feeling is there! Sometimes we need to be put aware of the symptoms & signs that are bodies are ready for a detox.

💚You might consciously or unconsciously know that you have been taking in toxins, and let’s face it, even with the “best” diets 🧐 out there we are taking in toxins from the few drinks we’ve had these past few months, the candles we smell, the cloths we wear, the products we use, the the air outside. All this to say, not to alarm 😵‍💫you, but to make you aware & acknowledging that we are living in modern times. 🫣

🌿Ayurveda is very wise & knows that our body is very intelligent & intuitive where it detoxifies many of the toxins (ama) that we consume (through our minds, body, & spirit). BUT there are many things that don’t get processed

&

✳️WHAT happens to the accumulation of unprocessed toxins?

Well, we store them in our body & then it starts manifesting into symptoms & unpleasant experiences in our systems.

🧃AND we want to experience PLEASURE, JOY, VITAL ENERGY! But to feel all that we need space in our body to make room for all that JUICINESS.

A cleanse, an Ayurvedic cleanse offers this gentle (but transformational & profound) detoxification process that we all can use. AND it provides rejuvenation, so we don’t feel depleted after the active phase.

If you feel ready for an Ayurvedic Cleanse, read about it, learn how you can do a safe at-home cleanse. If you rather follow an Ayurveda Wellness Coach or Practitioner look for guided Ayurvedic Cleanses happening in the Spring & Fall.

🌞SUNREY WELLNESS will be hosting a Fall 2023 Ayurvedic Cleanse!

Leave a ♥️, in the comments if you feel any of these truths in your heart. Let me know down below which truth you feel the most.

These are such beautiful messages of Our Lady of Truth! If you sometimes feel suck & resistant to fully express your truth due to other’s feelings & thoughts of what they might say. These messages can offer you a perspective that your truths matter, regardless of how evident the change may be or how subtle. Truth can offer deep healing, even when it may feel hard to say it.

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Mother Mary Oracle

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8 Ayurvedic Lifestyle Oral Health Tips!

We might know that oral health is important, but how important is it really? 🦷

According to Ayurveda our oral health is the main window to the health of our inner organs & tissues of our body. The food & drinks that we consume come in through the mouth& into our digestive system. If the mouth & all its components aren’t completely clean many unwanted toxins will be joining the food into the belly causing digestive & immunity issues.

If you are in discomfort with cavities, receding gums, tooth sensitivity or cracked teeth 🦷 try these tools for your most optimal oral health!

So that your teeth shine ✨ as much as you do!

Kapha the elemental constitution of earth + water.

What side of Kapha are you in? Even if your constitution is made more of Vata or Pitta, we all have all three doshas to some percent. Taking a look at when Kapha is in balance or out of balance can give us an understanding where our bodies are & adjust our actions during the day to find a balanced dosha.

Kapha dosha is the elemental composition of earth & water⛰️ 🌊
looking in the body as stability & security.

BUT, when Kapha dosha is imbalanced in the mind it can cause feeling lethargic, sluggish, & unmotivated.

“Too much stability leads to congestion, stagnation, or feeling stuck in life.”

To support Kapha in the Kapha season & when we have excess Kapha in the mind & body, we need to move! So try these practices to move stagnated energy & start feeling vibrate again.

🌞Include more pungent, bitter, & astringent tastes to your foods. This is will support your gut & from you feeling low in energy. It will warm, dry (the mucus), & stimulate your digestion. 🥘

🌞Take a walk & practice gratitude daily. Going outside even if it’s cold, will help move your Kapha dosha. Take at least a 15 minute walk outside & appreciate the good things in life.
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🌞Listen to fun update music. Music is a great medicine for the soul. Music creates activity & heat in the body, & that’s what we need when feeling an upsurge of Kapha. Play music that makes you dance in the morning between 6-10am. 🎶🪘

Let me know in the comments, do you feel reflected with the kasha dosha? Which practice will you give it a try?

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