Ayurveda Workshop

Instructor: Phyllis Parker, certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor

Considered by many scholars to be the oldest healing science, Ayurveda is a holistic approach to health designed to help people live long, healthy, balanced lives. The term Ayurveda is taken from the Sanskrit words ayus, meaning life or lifespan, and veda, meaning knowledge.

“When diet is right medicine is of no need, when diet is wrong medicine is of no use”

Definition of Health according to Ayurveda: The soul’s innate ability to express effortlessly when unhindered by the body or the mind. This only occurs when the doshas are balanced.

What to Expect:
Enjoy a tea for digestion and a healthy snack. You will get a notebook with info to take home

Learn:

• Your unique phyco-social body constitution – dosha.
• A dosh is made up of 2 elements and defined as a “fault”.
• Ayurveda is about prevention, meaning intervention occurs first.
• Biology of the elements begins at the cellular level, comprise tissues, organ and digest and assimilate all that comes in.

Identify:

• Prakrti/vikriti – what you are born with and what has changed, change brings symptoms.
• Understand ama – toxins and how they lead to illness/disease. 
• Food to avoid, or limit, wrong combinations, foods that create AMA -do harm.
• Learn how to build immunity.
• Yoga as a treatment for healthy digestion.
  

Payment collected day of, venmo preferred.

RSVP (RSVP requested, but not required)