Namaste, Dear friend:

What is ripening in your own surroundings?

Now we’re coming to the end of the foraging season, both urban and rural. Watch for chestnuts, hawthorn berries, mushrooms (look up your local varieties to know what you’re picking), blue cedar berries, scarlet rose hips, and other wild seasonal foods. Soon roots will be ready for digging such as comfrey, Oregon grape, and dandelion, as their life energy moves and concentrates below ground. Always leave at least half the roots for future sustainability.

What’s your changing relationship to the weather, planetary movements and sounds of your consciousness?

November brought gusty winds and rainy days to our region. Further changeable conditions in December invite the flexibility and adaptability of Vata dosha into focus. Be ready to give enough time for planning and carrying out your day-to-day schedule, to remain safe, sound and grounded within a quickly changing, unpredictable environment and reduced sunlight hours. Be aware of slippery surfaces and those who carry on without heeding the subtle hints of this Vata season.

It’s an amazing auditory time of year expressing an array of outdoor vocabularies such as wind sounds, natural rhythms, musical riffs, apparent innovations and sweet echoes of seasons past. Can you hear the leaves fall, the birds’ call, directions change, ocean voices and the sound of everything changing?

On-time elimination is especially important for keeping Vata dosha in balance. Ayurveda suggests voiding as soon as the urge arises; if we miss the cue, the subdoshas of prana (inhalation), udana (exhalation), samana (digestion), apana (elimination) and vyana (circulation) all undergo a subtle adjustmen.t as expressions of their governing autonomic endocrine and fascial systems.

Timely lunch and bedtime are also needed to keep Vata dosha peaceful and alert. Vata season is the time for adaptation to change.

I do hope you’ll love the features and opportunities chosen for this newsletter to provide insights and programs perhaps unavailable elsewhere.

As a proponent of Ayurveda, when selecting health items, programs and opportunities for readers, I consider ethics, sustainability, uniqueness, responsibility and value.

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PULSE ASSESSMENT in SURREY, BC.
by Ayurveda doctor, Jaisri M. Lambert
March 20 – 30, 2020

Are you an Ayurveda student or practitioner seeking post-graduate guidance and mentorship in Pulse Assessment According to Dr. Lad? As a most fortunate long-time student of Dr. Lad, I’ve been so graciously given his blessing to further give with both hands, sharing his precious knowledge of case management’s most important assessment skill, the Nadi Pariksha or the art of entering the patient’s lifestream, especially as felt at the radial site.

Learn to attune your fingertips and heart to specific locations, cadences, directions, relationships, strengths, and weaknesses in your client.

Required Textbook: Secrets of the Pulse, Edition II.

Apply now and learn about the referral and early-bird discount programs.

$3997 Early Bird investment applies until March 1, 2020.
$4397 thereafter.
This is a NAMA PACE Approved Program.
Download flyer here

If you have completed Part I with me, you are eligible to apply for Part II only, space permitting. $2197 if paid by Feb. 20th.

Your investment strengthens your value as a provider and may be earned back shortly.
 

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SHARE AYURVEDA CONFERENCE
May 22-24, 2020
University of British Columbia, VANCOUVER, BC.

Theme: Research & Education in Ayurveda in Canada

Location:  Alumni Centre, University of British Columbia
Schedule: Friday, May 22, 2 to 5 pm
                 Practitioners’ Professional Forum, Boardroom
Saturday, Sunday, May 23-24
                 Conference Events & Luncheons,
                 Jack Poole Hall.
Tables:      Call for sponsorship options

Local Volunteers are needed for Registration, Video Recording, Website management, Marketing, and Social Media.

Please phone Jaisri at 604-290-8201
or email  jaisri@ayurveda-seminars.com
between Dec.4-Jan.13.

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TURIYA THERAPY in VANCOUVER, B.C.,
by Ayurveda doctor, Jaisri M. Lambert
June 19-29, 2020

Join me for this rare opportunity to practice Marma Therapy for helping develop inner stillness and profound body awareness, with the purpose of self-healing. Our karmic history records in the connective tissues or fascia for unfolding our destiny in this golden opportunity of the human body. Self-realization occurs by itself within the stillness of inner awareness.

You will learn protocols such as the General Session, Balancing of each of Vata, Pitta, and Kapha pathways, according to individual concerns and disturbances. This program is the time to be reminded of one’s own unchanging inner stillness, amidst this whirlwind of daily living.

Turiya Therapy helps restore order, so there is no disorder in body and mind. Neuro-plasticity occurs by itself, but now with a deep awareness of our inner unique path to unconditional love. For over thirty years I’ve made my livelihood with these tried and true techniques based in ancient marma science. Understand yourself and others like never before.

Many miracles of self-healing have been witnessed and experienced by the grace of Sri Dhanvantari, the God of Healing according to Ayurveda. (Call the ‘doer’ what you will.) Experience and be empowered to share with others the deepest of energy healing techniques.

Suggested Prerequisite: Ayurveda Studies Program of 70 hours or equivalent.

Apply now and learn about the referral and early-bird discount programs.

$3997 Early Bird investment applies until May 25, 2020;
$4397 thereafter.
New participants and previous graduated see flyer.

NAMA PACE Credits in progress.

Your investment will be earned back shortly as you strengthen your value as a provider.

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BENCHMARK ABHYANGA TRAINING
EDMONTON, ALBERTA
With Jaisri M. Lambert and Jessica Kruse
Sept. 18-28, 2020
 

This program has been about 2 years in development. It will provide Continuing Education Units for Registered Massage Therapists in AB, Canada. Though we’re now announcing the program for the first time, registration is already building up,

The program structure is five days of practical learning followed by a day for rest and integration, then five days of practical integration to perform a single and dual Abhyanga for Vata, Pitta and Kapha individuals.

Jessica Kruse is an amazing teacher and healer with Yoga and Ayurveda. She lives between her home town of Edmonton and her adopted home in Costa Rica, sharing her deep knowledge of life experience as enhanced by yoga therapy, Ayurveda theory and practice.

We feel this training represents the best program in the marketplace today, a benchmark in the profession. Its focus is to train professional bodyworkers and healers seeking to develop their interest in Ayurveda. This knowledge opens incredible doors of profound self-realization.

This program already has registrants, so enroll early to ensure your spot. The class size is limited.

To view/print/forward the flier, please click here to
check out the discount program. Register now at
www.lavidaveda.ca

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HAND-DYED SCARVES FROM TRIVANDRUM

Ancient techniques using organic, plant-based dyes have been used to create these wonderfully light and lovely scarves—perfect for holiday gifts. Creator of this line is the amazing Jill Talve, Ayurveda practitioner in Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY. Please contact her for everything Ayurvedic from consultations to classes to treatments to events. Jill is also a singer of bhajans and a skilled musician, specializing in harmonium and chanting.
Please contact her at Jill@everveda.com
or call 516-624-3210.
 

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YOGA-AYURVEDA GETAWAY
NOV. 1 – 22, 2020
BEST COSTA RICA YOGA TEACHERS’ TRAINING

Jessica Kruse includes significant emphasis and insights into AYURVEDA in this best quality Yoga Teacher Training program. You’ll be uplifted and enriched by the location, the program content and mostly the presenter.

Jessica is my long-time graduate with good knowledge in Pulse Assessment, and my teaching assistant at the Abhyanga training in Edmonton in September. Please see ABHYANGA TRAINING above.

Jessica is responsible for organizing this event and puts her heart and soul into each and every training, treatment and consultation. She is a true gem in our community with so very much to share.

For more information and to register, please go to
http://www.lavidaveda.ca/training/costa-rica-ytt-2020/

For more information about the venue, please click here: https://luavillas.com
 

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Thoughts to consider:
 

“Truth is a pathless land,”
                                           Krishnamurti
“Truth and Love go together,”
                                          Vaidya Vasant D. Lad, M.A.Sc.
“Love is the means and the end,”
                                         Master Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj.

This is the season of gratitude and gifting.
Can I live up to the gift of unconditional love?
A work in progress. . . .
Can we gift one another with The Present?

Dr. Jaisri M. Lambert
Ayurveda Doctor (NAMA)
Founder,Ayurveda Seminars & Consulting Ltd - 2004
Share Ayurveda Conference
Founder, Canada Ayurveda Research & Education
(C.A.R.E.) Foundation - 2017
604-290-8201