Ayurvedic Consultations

Generally, when you are getting sober, you need an entire “mind make-over,” in order to start changing your emotional and mental states. We all have our preferences: they are rooted in our pre-verbal brain. Generally, if a stimulus doesn’t feed our emotional state, we often avoid it. How many times have you put a sad song on repeat after a breakup? Ok, maybe I’m outing myself. Just saying, we have to bring mindfulness to the roots of our preferences.

In my “16 Weeks to Resilience” Program, the first 8 weeks introduces Mindfulness practices along with one yoga pose a week to begin a bottom up reprogramming of the nervous system and to give access to tools for reducing mental/ emotional symptoms like anxiety and depression. Students are encouraged to start or end the day with 2 minutes of physical practice, while focusing the mind on an intention. This initiates perhaps the most difficult of tasks: making space for new self-care routines. Accomplishing this, even a few days a week, you have made a huge leap toward healing!

Once a foundation of basic mindfulness is laid, we can introduce some new resources to balance digestion, build immunity and increase clarity. We start with looking at the things we do everyday.

So we start adapting what we do, one or two routines a week. The better we feel, the more we are inspired to do. We start small: build little successes, which is very much a part of trauma recovery. When we gain a sense of trust in our agency, our ability to protect ourselves from pain, and accomplish our goals, our confidence rises and we shift from victim to survivor, then perhaps we even start to thrive.

Ayurvedic practices generally aim to increase purity, balance digestive fire, and build immunity. Balancing our digestive fire has the effect of reducing ama, or toxic undigested material. Ama is the origin of candida, of Atherosclerosis in the veins, plaque in heart disease, even the amyloid plaque in the brain found after Traumatic Brain Injury and in Alzheimers.

Trauma Informed Ayurveda can help take the -Ama out of Trauma, leaving us more deeply rooted in Tru-th! Cleaning the body sounds great, until you start cleansing and you can either be retraumatized feeling everything come up. It is much easier with someone to guide you through the stickiest parts of letting go….

The benefits of these services are on the cusp of being acknowledged by a larger medical community. For example, in Bessel Van Der Kolk’s The Body Keeps The Score, he notes that yoga is more effective than any pharmaceutical drug in reducing anxiety and depression, and is more accessible than even a formal mindfulness practice.

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