Creating Health and Wisdom through Ayurveda @ The Yoga Place

This document outlines the eight week course I am facilitating titled "Creating Health and Wisdom through Ayurveda".

There are 8 parts to this

1. A preamble which explains how health, happiness and Self expression occur when we live a life when our individual nature (prakriti) is in harmony with Nature. Disease or imbalance is primarily caused through a lack of Wisdom - of our own true nature and of the Nature of the Universe. Through Ayurveda we can gain this Wisdom, health and happiness.
2. Part two outlines the objective of this course and the benefits which will flow when you achieve it.
3. Timing and dates
4. Costs
5. Course style
6. Prescribed reading
7. Course content
8. Joining the course

Preamble

According to Ayurveda, health, happiness and the capacity to express ourselves fully comes from living a life which is in harmony with our individual nature and Nature itself. Disease and unhappiness are a reflection of disharmony which is caused primarily by a lack of Wisdom about our true nature.

There are four main requirements for living in harmony with ourselves and nature.

1. A framework to understand the forces and laws of Nature

2. Awareness of our own individual nature (constitution) within this framework

3. Awareness of Nature, its cycles and their impacts on our own nature

4. Choosing behaviours which bring our nature in sync with Nature - living a life that is true to ourselves in harmony with Nature.

This places the responsibility for your life and health directly back into your hands. It is our behaviours which largely determine your health and happiness. Collectively your behaviours make up your "lifestyle".

This notion of life as an ongoing process of self discovery, self expression, constant adaption, change, learning and evolving is important to grasp. This is how life works. If this process is stopped we become stuck , fall out of harmony with Nature, and become diseased in one way or another.

In our modern world of processed foods, eating out, air-conditioning, allopathic medicine etc. we have lost touch with our bodies, emotions and Nature. We have been conditioned to treat ourselves as machines - the mind and science is king and Nature, our bodies and emotions have been repressed. From Ayurveda's perspective, this behaviour is the result of a lack of Wisdom of our own true nature (prakriti) and the Nature of the Universe.

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Course Objective and outcomes

This objective of this eight week Course - Creating Health and Wisdom through Ayurveda - is to assist you in ongoing process of self discovery, self expression, health and happiness.

• During the eight weeks you will be learning about the laws and forces of Nature according to the Ayurvedic worldview.
• You will be developing an experiential awareness of your own individual nature within this framework.
• You will be learning about how various things such as food, the weather, emotions, the time of day, your age and your surroundings (colours, smells, people etc.) effect you.
• You will be experimenting with these variables during the class and between classes. Through these experiments you will be able to experientially link the Ayurvedic ideas to your subjective experience - you will be discovering who you really are and how you are connected and influenced by the Universe and everything in it.

This new awareness will help you in many ways

• You will learn to understand and accept yourself more (self-awareness and self-acceptance)
• You will learn to understand and accept others for who and why they are the way they are
• You will recognise the Universe in your Self and your Self in the Universe. This sense of connection or union is the basis of true non denominational Spirituality
• You will be learning a new way to experience and see the World
• You will learning which lifestyle factors bring out your best and which ones put you out of balance. You will be able to use this to design a lifestyle which brings out the best in you and- for mothers, the best in your children ( Note- many problems with children's health can be fixed by eliminating food which unbalances the constitution).

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Timing & Dates

We will meet every Friday morning for one and a half hours: 10am -11.30am starting on the 30th October and ending on the 18th December.

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Costs

The cost of the course is $200. This excludes the prescribed reading material and other things which you will be buying to experiment with - food, essential oils / incense etc.
Coaching clients - your cost is $100.

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Course Style

The "style" of our work will be inter developmental and experiential I will be acting as a guide and facilitator to coach your own Wisdom out of you. I will be requesting that you experiment and try on what you learn and uncover between our sessions. This means that the majority of what you get from this course will come from what you do between sessions. Once you truly "get" Ayurveda and who you really are this learning will continue for the rest of your life. Self responsibility is a key word.

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Prescribed reading



Course Content

Week #
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight

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Joining the program

You will need to reserve youe space. You can do that by contacting me either by phone or e-mail

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