Axis Yoga Teacher Training students have the opportunity to apply specific Ayurvedic practices to their daily lives and track the results of the experience. This student found that the process encouraged the ability to ‘stay conscious.’ And by doing so she was able to learn from healthy practices that had previously fallen away from her […]
Quite some time ago, I was introduced to ayurveda, the sister science to yoga, by wonderful teachers in the Denver-Boulder area. But then life took over, and both my yoga and ayurveda practices suffered. While asana stayed in my life much of the time, pranayama, meditation and ayurveda took a back seat, sometimes not even […]
My personal experiment morphed into selecting and creating a checklist around daily practices recommended by Dr. Lad (at least most of them), making dietary changes, and adjusting my pranayama and meditation sadhana. My experiment was to track my practices and my physical and mental states during these practices to identify what changes, if any, I […]
In terms of the ayurveda experiment, the results were meaningful to me: 1. Ayuvedic Daily Routine. (a) While I have felt overall very healthy for quite some time, the morning rituals of Dr. Lad’s, including tongue viewing and scraping, kept me in touch with what I am eating and how that is affecting my body […]
Overall, the personal experiments in the YTTP provide the opportunity to isolate certain practices, apply these practices in day-to-day life, and track the experience to find out what happens, if anything. The structure provides support to ‘stay conscious’ otherwise you can’t report on anything. So, after some initial resistance, I have come to value the […]
Axis Yoga students have the opportunity to apply Ayurvedic principles to their lives through their second Teacher Training course experiment. This student writes about her life-long experience with depression and her new hope with Ayurvedic healing.
Choosing what specific aspect of my life I wished to address with Ayurvedic therapy was not hard. From a very young age, depression has governed my life. While my depression racked my personal, private life I was still an ambitious person. I excelled in everything I did; it didn’t matter if it was school or […]
I feel as if I have lost my fire for life, which is ironic since I am a Pitta-Kapha person and fire is what gives Pittas their zest. I realized that a lot of my symptoms were showing up as symptoms of too much Kapha. I hypothesized that my depression could be, in part, due […]
Finally I decided to do two things I really didn’t want to do: vamana dhauti. The laughter yoga was initially ridiculous. I felt really REALLY stupid being surrounded by a bunch of people with wide-open eyes pretending to laugh. About halfway through I eventually dissolved into giggles, which made it hard to do some of […]
After everything was said and done I think the few Ayurvedic therapies did improve my symptoms a bit. Nothing worked like a miracle and kept me from feeling any sort of depression, but they helped enough that I noticed a difference. I think that Ayurveda might be the answer I’ve been looking for. I even […]