Panel Discussion: Ayurveda’s Contribution to Health and Wellbeing. Panelists: Kashyapa Fisher, Dr. Sheila Patel, Dr. Rammanohar

In our opening session, Kashyapa Fisher, Dr. Sheila Patel and Dr. Rammanohar share their thoughts on Ayurveda’s contribution to health in our modern times.

Know Your Ayurvedic Constitution, Dr. Sheila Patel

The ancient health science of Ayurveda is built around the five elements of ether, air, fire, water, and earth. The unique combination of these elements come together to make up the doshas, or constitutions—vata, pitta, and kapha. Each dosha has several corresponding qualities that are expressed in the physical, emotional, and mental aspects of one’s being. All of us have some aspects of each dosha, but one or two doshas tend to dominate, informing everything from our digestion to our emotions. In this talk, Dr. Sheila Patel will discuss the importance of knowing your knowing your Ayurvedic constitution.

Conscious Eating using Ayurveda Principles, Meenakshi Gupta.

In Ayurveda, conscious eating is learning to eat the things you love sensibly. It is breaking old, mindless eating habits and closely gauging your appetite to eat when you are hungry and stop when you are satisfied. This is a skill that helps you to get to a healthy physical body and healthy mind. In this talk, you will learn. 

• How to create wholesome, well-balanced meals that nourish the body, mind, and spirit by gaining familiarity with individual and seasonal dietary considerations as per Ayurveda.
• Understand The difference between emotional hunger and true hunger.

Ayurveda’s Approach to Stress and Anxiety, Dr. Rammanohar

According to Ayurveda, the body and mind make one continuum, and when the body is affected, mind is affected and vice versa. Stress and anxiety can have roots in the mind or the body and involve the derangement of Vata dosha and Pitta dosha. For this reason, treatments targeting the physical body and aiming to pacify Vata and Pitta will be beneficial in managing stress and anxiety. However, the root cause of all diseases is stress and anxiety, which arise from wrong and excessive thinking. This is called Prajnaparadha in Ayurveda. The ultimate treatment for stress and anxiety is correcting the thought process by cultivating control of the mind and nurturing spiritual awareness and knowledge. Ayurveda offers a spectrum of approaches for management of stress and anxiety that begins with herbs and physical treatments and culminates in spiritual counselling.

Ojas: what holds us together, against all odds…., Kashyapa Fisher.

This session will introduce participants to a selection of core philosophical tenets, unravelling some of the threads that weave together the unique universe of Ayurveda. Chief among these: that death is in fact the natural state and life, a most unusual phenomenon, is always an exception, predicated upon continuous and sufficient cause. We will explore the deeper significance of diet, lifestyle, medicine and perception as the causes and effects of life, death and experience beyond skin.

Dinacharya: Designing a daily practice to support a vibrant and healthy life, Sunny Rose Healy.

Learn about the art and science of harnessing time for self-transformation. Dinacharya (daily routine) is one of the single most powerful Ayurvedic tools for improving overall health and wellbeing, and the foundation of a vibrant, healthy, happy life. In this 90-minute webinar, Sunny Rose Healey will present her take on this powerful tool and explain how to create your own dinacharya, including how to choose practices, nourishment, and timing.

Ayurveda as a Spiritual Sadhana (Practice), Dr. Vasant Lad

Dr. Lad describes Ayurveda as the art of living in harmony with nature, and in harmony with the surroundings. What he offers patients is more of Ayurveda’s lifestyle wisdom: finding balance with nature and living a spiritual life. In this closing session, on Ayurveda as a Spiritual Sadhana, Dr. Lad shares how underlying Ayurveda is a spiritual component that invites one to connect with the “cosmic consciousness”. Connecting with this greater intelligence is often cited as the ultimate path to healing.