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 […]
Being a student at Axis Yoga Teacher Training provides a wide range of experiences. Through personal experiments, students embody certain yogic principles in order to gain a greater understanding of their meaning and application. This student chose to apply a few specific dietary and lifestyle recommendations for his Ayurveda experiment.
I chose to remove dairy and wheat for the dietary portion of my Ayurveda experiment and remove the news media for a psychological component. I have chronic sinus issues that, while not debilitating have nevertheless been in my physical make-up most of my life, thus the Kapha dietary avoidance of dairy and wheat. The psychological […]
My journey started the night before the official “start” of the experiment when I went to the store to find some things to tide me over, so to speak. I worked to plan my breakfast and lunch menus since those are the occasions where I do most of the dairy and wheat consumption. Little did […]