HEART of Ayurveda

19/05/2023

https://www.heartofayurveda.net/2023-workshop-series-starts-june-3rd/

19/05/2023

I am looking Forward to our new Ayurveda Cooking and making wWorkshops

Hi everyone, I'm happy to announce that from June 3rd, the 2023 Ayurveda Workshop Series will start. Just like last year, the workshops are in a series of seven however, you don't necessarily need to do all of the workshops together to get a full understanding of the benefits of Ayurveda. For people...

04/02/2020

heART of YOGA ❤️🧘‍♀️🙏🤸‍♀️Hi Everyone...I'm starting Yoga classes again in my new Studio in Grange, from this Thursday 6th of February, 6-7.30pm, small classes, fully integrated Yoga for health and well-being, integrating body, mind and breath. 40 years experience of Yoga and teaching and a background in health and Ayurveda. Suitable for all levels. Contact me on 0431 730 270 to secure a spot. Starting a Monday morning Yoga class, from 8-9am soon...let me know if you are interested. Private classes available on request.

04/02/2020

I have recently returned from a trip to Kerala in South India, often referred to as the ‘Home of Ayurveda’, where I was resident at two Ayurveda Hospitals to experience and study first-hand, more about Ayurveda. At the Pranaadha Ayurveda Hospital I underwent full Panchakarma, Keralan style, and learnt from personal experience the different Panchkarma techniques, including massage styles and the use of oils, prescribing of medicines, and special Panchakarma foods, and daily routines.

We had many enriching experiences at the local Temples, at the Oman Harvest Festival which celebrates with special food, Flower Mandala Art and Pujas, hosting the Annadanam, the sacred offering of food to spread joy, health and well-being at the Kali Temple and enjoyed and learnt to prepare the local Keralan-style food. People in Kerala are so open-hearted, joyous and happy and wanting to share, so we made friends with so many locals and felt enriched by just being there.

The Ashtangam Ayurveda Hospital and College was higher up in the hills of Kerala and quite remote with little local chai-stop villages, rice-fields, and Jungle where a lot of the Ayurveda plants flourish. It was so amazing to see a Hospital in beautiful surroundings with smiling healthy doctors, good food, tailor-made treatments, yoga and lifestyle, a herb and medicine-making area, re-cycle policies and solar power and a wealth of knowledge and devotion to Ayurveda. Here, we attended Out-patient sessions in the mornings with different specialist doctors, gaining a knowledge and respect for how they prescribe and their heart-manner with patients, who often came in with whole families together. In the afternoons we attended specially provided lectures and workshops, including techniques of Panchakarma, medicine plant growing, preparation, and production, from raw materials to enormous vats bubbling with concoctions of plants and herbs over wood fires, to the final bottled preparation. We visited the anatomy and physiology department, observed minor surgery techniques and learnt the identification of the local Ayurvedic plants.

What a rich and humbling experience, everyone was so generous and embodying true Ayurveda qualities. I feel this has enlivened my Ayurveda practice and knowledge and given me a deeper understanding of Ayurveda that I can share with others, and has also encouraged my appetite to learn more about Ayurveda. Yoga is such an integral part of Ayurveda and I am keen to recommence my Yoga Classes in the Community.

06/09/2019

Pancha karma is the detoxifying therapy in Ayurveda, removing AMA or toxic waste from the system, using 5 detoxifying therapies to correct the balance of the doshas. In Praaanadha Ayurveda we have the true Kerala style, swimming in oil massages, steam, herbal bolus, Nasya and wonderful simple nourishing Kerala food. Yoga and Kalari daily, with visits to the local temples and plant identification...

04/09/2019

Studies I Ayurveda at Praaanadha Ayurveda Hospital

08/06/2019

Thank you to all the beautiful women on the ‘Meeting of Two Hearts’ Yoga and Ayurveda Retreat and for the wonderful gift 💝 of Putu’s magical massage.

05/06/2019

The Meeting of Two Hearts 💕 at Shala Bali 7 day yoga and Ayurveda Workshops with Simi Roche and Meredith Russell

23/09/2018

Workshop 7. 'Beauty is not in the face. Beauty is a light in the heart'. beautifully said by Kahlil Gibran. I am looking forward to our next Ayurveda Yoga workshop on the Ayurvedic Concept of Beauty, this Saturday 29th of September, 10am - 4pm, the last workshop for the year. In Ayurveda, beauty starts from the inside out by creating health through detoxing, diet and lifestyle for your dosha, balancing Agni and cultivating Ojas, which has the outer effect of radiance and the inner effect of bliss. This is related in Western science to the secretion of two hormones, serotonin and melatonin from the pineal glad.
Ojas is the end product of the healthy development of the body tissues, the 7 dhatus. BEAUTY AND HEALTH GO HAND IN HAND. Join me for Yoga, Rejuvenation of the chakras, delicious Ayurvedic Lunch in our Spring Garden dripping with radiant blossoms and recipes for a variety of beauty treatments, making Lepas or facemasks out of natural ingredients, treatment of skin problems, use of oils and aromas and the Ayurvedic marma point facelift.

14/09/2018

The main aspect of yoga practice that actively uses marmas is the practice of Pratyahara, the 5th limb of Yoga. Pratyahara literally means 'sensory withdrawal'. There are internalisation practices designed to control the senses and motor organs and introvert the mind, for example, closing the eyes and ears to look and listen within or practicing silence to control the vocal region. More physical forms of pratyahara involve tightening and loosening the muscles and joints which affect the related marmas, clearing the energy in the organs and system of the related marma. Each marma point has various organs, systems, senses, nadis and chakras that it governs and through working on a particular marma, we can control these aspects in a therapeutic way. Essential oils can also be used on these points to enhance healing.
Join me for this Ayurvedic Marma point massage workshop tomorrow, 10am -4pm, with Yoga, Ayurvedic lunch and full Marma point workshop with comprehensive notes for future reference. $100 for the day in my beautiful spring garden by the seaside. Ph. 0431730270.