Ayurveda For Meditators

4.9

Corso di 10 giorni

Ayurveda For Meditators

Di Larissa Hall Carlson

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Give your meditation practice a body-mind wellness boost! Ayurveda, The Science of Life, is a 5,000-year-old holistic system of medicine from India focused on living in harmony with nature to optimize well-being. Discover how healthful diet, lifestyle, and self-care techniques can radically enrich your meditation practice by enhancing comfort, ease, and clarity. Over these 10 educational sessions, you’ll discover your ability to reduce common meditation challenges (e.g. craving, aversion, restlessness, sleepiness, doubt) with Ayurveda’s straightforward seasonal-living strategies that balance the three doshas (vata, pitta, kapha). Learn how simple, pragmatic tools and choices can help reduce scatteredness, frustration, sluggishness, and other common hindrances to well-being. Short daily journaling prompts will bolster your wellness strategy, establish clear action steps, and reinforce your personal journey. Gather the tools you need to feel balanced both on and off the meditation cushion (or the yoga mat!) - enhancing mindfulness, harmony, and inner peace.

Larissa Hall Carlson

Vermont, USA

Larissa Hall Carlson, M.A. Mindfulness Studies, Ayurvedic Practitioner, and Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist E-RYT500, is an educator with 17+ years of teaching experience at some of our country’s most prestigious institutions, including The Boston Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, Juilliard School, and Tanglewood Music Center. A passionate...

Lezione 1

Ayurveda: Ancient Wisdom For Modern Meditators

Ayurveda provides healthy living strategies to harmonize the mind-body and boost overall wellness -ensuring the meditation practice can thrive. Has your meditation practice ever dwindled due to fatigue, unrest, aches, or pains? The five classic meditation obstacles (craving, aversion, restlessness, sleepiness, doubt), can be significantly reduced with Ayurveda’s seasonal diet and lifestyle practices. In today's session, learn how this science of life can directly support your meditation practice.

Lezione 2

Cosmic Matter: 5 Elements & 3 Doshas

Understanding the interconnectedness of nature’s macrocosm and humankind’s microcosm is foundational Ayurvedic theory. Discover how the five elements (ether, air, fire, water, earth) join in pairs to form the three doshas (vata, pitta, kapha), which oversee essential body-mind functions. According to Ayurveda, diet choices and lifestyle habits affect the doshas, the doshas then influence bodily systems, and as the body and mind are intimately connected, the state of the bodily systems then affects the mind during meditation. Today, consider how seasonal living can shape body-mind wellness.

Lezione 3

Mindful Balance: 10 Pairs Of Opposites & The Guna Principle

Ayurveda emphasizes the importance of mindfully observing present-moment qualities in the body-mind, and skillfully choosing foods, substances, and activities with qualities that maintain balance. This requires non-judgmental self-observation, body awareness, and mindful attention to external substances. Ayurvedic living is directly supported by mindfulness—and vice versa. Remaining present and aware is key to skillfully transforming lifestyle habits and patterns, which then affect health and wellness, which then affects the mind during meditation. In today's session, learn about Ayurveda’s principal tenet for healthy living.

Lezione 4

Fall & Winter: Vata Dosha’s Functions & Challenges

Meet vata dosha, Ayurveda’s primary energy governing body-mind movements (including arising thoughts during meditation). When balanced, vata provides cheerful liveliness, unique creativity, expansive contemplation, and stirring enthusiasm. But when vitiated, vata generally gets too much momentum—creating restlessness, fidgeting, scatteredness, and difficulty concentrating. Today, let's explore how vata dosha affects your well-being and your meditation practice.

Lezione 5

Vata Dosha: Balancing Tools & Choices

Happily, elevated vata can be reduced or prevented with Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle choices that favor qualities opposite to vata. Notably, Ayurveda recognizes that the traditional seasonal harvest provides the antidote to each season. Today, discover the vata-balancing power duo: mindful eating and warming, nourishing, comfort foods. Then, explore mindful lifestyle techniques to keep vata dosha balanced and your meditation practice harmonized all winter long.

Lezione 6

Summer: Pitta Dosha’s Functions & Challenges

Pitta is a fiery dosha, governing mental and physical digestion. When balanced, pitta provides brilliant insightfulness, dazzling astuteness, inspiring willpower, and radiant focus. But when vitiated, pitta tends to get too heated and intense—creating frustration, impatience, inflammation, and a judgmental mind. Let's identify how pitta dosha affects your well-being and your meditation practice.

Lezione 7

Pitta Dosha: Balancing Tools & Choices

Luckily, extra pitta can be reduced or prevented with Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle choices that favor qualities opposite to pitta. Examine which foods to reduce and which to favor in order to harmonize pitta’s digestive functions and provide luminous clarity during meditation. Also, explore refreshing lifestyle techniques to keep pitta dosha cool and collected all summer long.

Lezione 8

Spring: Kapha Dosha’s Functions & Challenges

Kapha’s the powerhouse - the strong, reliable, protecting dosha governing lubrication, structure, and stability. When balanced, kapha provides peaceful confidence, enduring dependability, robust generosity, and a calm, steady mind. But when vitiated, kapha tends to get too damp and sticky—creating congestion, puffiness, sluggishness, sleepiness, and foggy-headedness. Let's identify how kapha dosha affects your well-being and your meditation practice.

Lezione 9

Kapha Dosha: Balancing Tools & Choices

Fortunately, excess kapha can be reduced or prevented with Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle choices that favor qualities opposite to kapha. Examine which foods to reduce and which to favor in order to keep kapha dosha nimble and willowy throughout the foggy, rainy, muddy spring season. Then, explore refreshing lifestyle techniques to harmonize kapha’s protecting functions and provide hearty tranquility during meditation.

Lezione 10

Living In Harmony: Seasonal Ayurveda For Meditators

In our final session, we’ll briefly review foundational Ayurveda principles, then reassess how seasonal, mindful, dosha-balancing approaches in diet and lifestyle can support enhanced well-being on and off the meditation cushion. Reflecting on all that we’ve learned, we’ll contemplate the relationship between Ayurvedic living and mindful living, and establish new action steps for ongoing self-care that supports a thriving meditation practice.

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KayK

August 16, 2024

Very informative and well presented course. Has reignited Ted my interest in Ayverdic philosophy and practice for further study. At same time I have enough to go on from the course to have an awareness and take small steps to change/ add practices into my life. Thank you Larissa.

Cathy

September 18, 2023

Your short course definitely left me wanting more - a great outcome. But I do wish my memory was better!

Betsy

May 19, 2023

Really interesting information and very helpful to my own constitution and possible practice in the future. Thank you!

Claudia

May 3, 2023

This was my first contact with Ayurveda and I simply loved it! I truly believe that we need to be in balance with nature, and this excellent and objective course gave me the basic understanding to connect dots and now pursue further knowledge. Thank you so much, Larissa!

Paul

April 15, 2023

I found this fascinating and am eager to learn more, thus have followed Larissa on Instagram as well as subscribing to her website mailing list

Fungi

April 15, 2023

Really great course which helped get even more insight into Ayurveda. I will continue to study more so I can incorporate the principles into my life, thank you 🙏🏾☺️.

Donna

March 30, 2023

This was an amazingly fulfilling course. The thorough explanation of each dosha is so helpful as I will continue to learn and understand how I am affected by my doshas. Thank you.

Melinda

March 27, 2023

Learned so much, body and mind balancing through what and how I eat. Adding the exercise and breath work for the season. Listening to what my body and mind are telling me.

KindredKarly

March 25, 2023

This course was stellar! It was so well balanced with information density, journaling practices, and short meditations. I feel like I've learned so much!

Robb

March 17, 2023

This was a very helpful course for me. I want to learn more about my own constitution and how to best keep my body, mind and spirit healthy as I age. This was the perfect place to start learning about Ayurveda. Looking forward to much more.

Jorge

March 6, 2023

As always, Larissa is a wonderful teacher and a positive influence in my health and mindfulness endeavors. Many thanks, Jorge Simes

Jilly

February 19, 2023

So informative. I appreciated the time to journal all I was learning. I look forward to learning more about Ayurveda.

Jay

February 6, 2023

This is the course that has helped me the most on Insight Timer. The teacher brings the insightful information in both an informative and clear way. With a nice, calming voice to listen to, and nice pauses in between sentences to allow information to sink in - I.e. not rushed I have learnt a lot about myself and this course has most definitely...

Nancy

December 23, 2022

This was a refresher course for me. Very well organized building on the principles and foundation of this amazing way of living in balance with nature. Thank you!

Marilena

December 16, 2022

Excellent!

Elle

September 20, 2022

Very informative and useful tools. Thank you for sharing. Sending you blessings love and light 🙏💚🌈

Patricia

August 24, 2022

Great course for an understanding of all the doshas. Great tips on how to further your study and understand your unique makeup in a detailed way. Will definitely be studying more!

Anne

August 11, 2022

Really interesting course. Found the lessons on the doshas in the body and the seasons very helpful and the diet and exercise programme something I could bring in to my daily practice

Shivani

August 4, 2022

Being born and brought up in india, ayurveda is an integral part of our food and health system at home. Still, this course gave me an insight about doshas, which I wasn't fully aware of. I hope this course will make more people aware about it to make them do their own research and embrace it in their daily lives. So thank you Larissa for making this well-paced and informative course.

Heidi

May 19, 2022

A very clear, concise and informational class. Worth listening to again. Excellent teacher.

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