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Plant Your Seeds of Success
Namaste,
May is the season of spring cleanses, to shed excess Kapha from having accumulated during the winter and early spring phases. Now is the time for intermittent fasting, to adjust your body to eating early in the day, and not late in the day.
It is a time when nature is burgeoning, and the planting season is upon us.
Take time to plant your seeds of success for 2024, and start projects between now and summer solstice, after which time the solar rays will begin to diminish.
Take full advantage now of nature’s golden opportunity for new ventures, organizations, and programs.
It is also a time when blooms are featured by nature to help bring cheerfulness, joy, and praise. Some blooms from my own journeys and home are included in this newsletter to bring these feelings to you.
If remembrance of God is the most important investment of each day, may these mandalas bring you a sense of wonder and awesomeness, and take you to your inner joy!
Spring is when the water element is flowing from its congealed state to express as a flow of freshness, because soon it will be spent into evaporation, when thirst must also be quenched.
Conserve water now, so we can continue to drink one to two litres daily to help cleanse the body each day, whether in abundant or drought conditions.
Water is to be held in the mouth to become warm and begin pre-digestion, before swallowing in small amounts, to help the irrigation process of all seven dhatus, and channel systems. Ayurveda teaches to avoid cold water and gulping.
Ayurveda also teaches to avoid mixing different waters, which may have been stored differently or otherwise have differing properties such as temperatures, and therefore actions. Water-borne contaminations can be avoided or reduced.
Water is the superior beverage above all others!
More people are now recognizing the common sense of Ayurveda’s nature-based living reflections, to follow nature’s law of cause and effect, for long life and happiness.
Check out these upcoming events and features to help uplift your Ayurveda journey:
SATTVIC COOKING CLASS
In the quest for healthy, sustainable living, we first considered the vegetarian diet, then we began to understand Ayurveda’s message of the doshic diet for individual balance, now we’re moving towards the Sattvic food choices, for a body/mind interface of peacefulness and meditation.
Join us before May 27 to qualify for your pre-payment discount, and bring a friend whom you feel will benefit.
Key words are simplicity, locally sourced, freshness, lightness, digestibility.
Ayurveda has recognized the critical role played by food choices and food preparation in the mind/body relationship, or post-digestive effect (Vipak) resulting from the energies of our meals.
Where: Jaisri’s home kitchen in Surrey, BC
When: June 8 & 9 2024, 10am - 4pm
Saturday: Lunch Items
Sunday: Breakfast Items
Food as medicine is a main principle of Ayurveda. Whole, natural, local fresh foods are favoured, but how to simplify recipes for you and your family?
This program will be of interest to those new to Ayurveda seeking to achieve optimum digestion, and those familiar with Ayurveda meal planning to help refine their post-digestion, and support calm in the mind/body relationship.
You’ll meet other sincere Ayurveda seekers.
Bring a friend, space-permitting!
Investment
$297 CAD + GST until May 27 at noon
$327 CAD + GST thereafter until June 6
NAMA Members are eligible for NAMA PACE Credits for 12 contact hours. Please convey your membership on registration.
For more information, please email:
Only 4 spots left at present!
Jyoti Natasha Samson, P.Eng., AyHC, YTT500+
Jyoti is an intuitive healer with an engineer’s mind.
She has a deep background in mathematics and sciences, Yoga, Ayurveda, Psychology and Energy Healing, and integrates these applied sciences to bring order back to the human psyche, towards greater happiness and contentment, all with the spiritual undertone of Mind, Body, Soul Healing.
Her private practice is in beautiful Port Moody, BC, and she’s a regular presenter of sister sciences Yoga and Ayurveda, at the Saltspring Centre for Yoga.
She’s a graduate of the Mount Madonna Institute’s most excellent program and had the benefit of meeting Dr. Lad as a guest teacher when he was still travelling widely.
Now 82, his teaching is limited to his own Institute in North Carolina and Pune, India. Check out: www.ayurveda.com
Jyoti supports the evolution of mindsets through deep-dive experiential retreats, individualized health programs, follow-up classes and her many other online tools for self-healing, with ancient, proven sister sciences of Yoga (mental health) and Ayurveda (internal health) for holistic balanced living.
The focus of her offering is to shift one’s mindset and vibration to align with their soul’s purpose.
Jyoti is passionate about each person’s search, like her own, for evolving to realize one’s full potential in career, relationships, health, vitality, and spiritual alignment.
Learn more about Jyoti Samson’s transformational group retreats: https://nourishyoufirst.ca/workshops/more-from-life/
Her in-depth personal consultations: https://nourishyoufirst.ca/consultations/holistic-personal-counselling-mind-body-soul/
Astounding online yoga classes: https://nourishyoufirst.ca/workshops/weekly-online-yoga-classes/
I’ve chosen this path because of always trying to grow myself.
I believe in the value of revealing the root cause of our physical, psychological, and energetic issues, to help remove obstacles that hold us back.
Ram Dass said, “We are all just walking each other home,” “home” being our true Self, the Divine or pure love. I’m here to help walk you home.
For connecting in person, you can reach her at:
778-833-1726, or natasha@nourishyoufirst.ca
PULSE ASSESSMENT SEMINAR
According to Dr. Vasant D. Lad
June 20-24, 2024 10am-5pm
This program is now offered once a year only at the summer solstice weekend.
Join us for a Guru-Kula style program, learning in person with me, by Dr. Lad’s personal blessing and encouragement to teach this amazingly comprehensive method.
Yes, practice is needed to master the subtle skill of Pulse Assessment, the most important of the eight assessments of the classic ASHTA VIDHA PARIKSHA.
This Pulse Assessment program includes understanding the NADI PARIKSHA grid, and how to detect so many subtle indicators over 103 contact points in 3 fingers at 7 levels.
Plan ahead for this most enriching fellowship of learning and prepare to immerse yourself in the science and art of Pulse Assessment.
In January 2024, I was invited to teach this very program to about 21 Ayurveda doctors in India, who learned very well, due to their experience and grounding in the principles and vocabularies of Ayurveda.
It was wonderful to guide 2 medical officers, 2 senior doctors and the remaining junior doctors coming up in the next generation of leadership in holistic healing practice and education, to find their way with this powerful method.
In India, most doctors graduate without the benefit of this detailed method, available only the fortunate ones with a mentor or apprentice. Most graduate in large classes, so the Pulse Assessment skill began to fall away.
They recognized the good fortune and opportunity to learn this skill, conveyed to me over many years of sitting at Dr. Lad’s right hand, at his own request and still today I continue as a beginner student in his saintly company.
The most recent time in his classroom company was Dec. 24 2023 at the Sharanya Hospital in Tamil Nadu, when his topic was ‘Nadi Pariksha & Cancer’.
At the program end, Dr. Lad called me to the front of over a hundred Ayurveda doctors and introduced me as he had done several times prior, as his ‘oldest student’.
He commented about historical time spent together and noting that I was well aware of his current topic, having been in classroom since 1988, (except for the Covid lockdown period).
It’s a long love story by now, one that includes his sincere blessing for me to pass on this precious knowledge, otherwise mostly inaccessible.
His presence comes through in all my activities of teaching, consultation and writing, I’m told by those who recognize Dr. Lad’s unique presence.
To join this seminar and learn this critical Ayurveda Assessment skill with me at my home, enrol now and plan to return to future programs with a 10% discount for all returning participants.
This is a must attend for practitioners, as it involves so much more than Pulse Reading knowledge. 5 lunches included!
Pre-requisite:
600 hrs. of NAMA-recognized Ayurveda education or equivalent.
NAMA members eligible to apply for PACE credits, 30 contact hrs.
Date: Thursday, June 20 to Monday, June 24
Times: 10 am - 5 pm
Graduation June 24, 5-6 pm
Friends, Family and Alumni Welcome for
Certificate Ceremony and Potluck Dinner!
Previous graduates are eligible for a additional 10% discount until June 1st at noon, space permitting.
REGISTER NOW
https://ayurveda-seminars.com/courses/nadi-pariksha/
AYURVEDA TREATMENT IN INDIA
Final Payment Deadline: June 30, 2024
November 18- December 29, 2024
Tamil Nadu, India
This is the last time I’m committing to host a group to Tamil Nadu, India for Ayurveda treatment. World uncertainties and politics have made it clear to me that the future is now uncertain for travel abroad.
So, for those of you who have said you want to take advantage of joining me for this journey of a lifetime, kindly take note now.
Our destination hospital is now booked well ahead, and last year several applicants were turned away after the deadline, as no space was available for them.
They would not have the benefit of my hosting. I can guide and help only those in my group, of course. Ayurveda cleansing and rejuvenation is not a spa experience, rather a deep dive into our mind/body habits and assumptions.
If you feel ready to experience radical healing, transcendental realization, and joyous rejuvenation, in an atmosphere of love and pure science, now is the time for YOU!
Like others before you, you will:
*Discover ancient principles of spiritual living in action
*Experience loving therapies and doctors’ supervision
*Relax into expert medical insights for your best outcomes
*Understand the language and tried-and-true practices of Ayurveda
*Take home life skills and experiences for top quality self-care
Pre-requisites:
You must be on your Ayurveda self-care program to be ready for your best treatment benefits.
Your consultation update is needed to help ensure you are a candidate who can take full advantage of Ayurveda treatments.
Benefits:
You’ll meet others from around the world who choose Ayurveda for restoring and maintaining their healthy function of body, mind, and consciousness. You may want to attend morning and evening traditional prayer recitations or take part in question & answer sessions called ‘Satsangs’, and join weekly community activities.
This ancient art of Ayurveda cleansing and rejuvenation has the power and know-how, to change our destiny of healing.
FEATURED EVENT:
MOUNT MADONNA INSTITUTE
MMI, one of my beloved Alma Mater’s, near Watsonville, CA, is hosting an innovative Research Symposium
October 5, 2024 online from 8:30am – 5pm
I’m registered for this unique and ground-breaking online symposium and suggest that all interested Ayurvedists also sign up to participate, learn and share the latest in Ayurveda research in the west as part of a worldwide web of information studies and sources.
If your interests lie in Ayurveda Research in the west and its part in Ayurveda Research worldwide, consider joining this innovative forum.
Registration link:
https://www.mountmadonnainstitute.org/calendar/research-symposium
Dear your comments and feedback always mean so much to me, and I thank you for taking the time to convey your thoughts and feelings about this newsletter. Many tell me they read every word, feel inspired, and always learn something useful.
You are in my mind and heart with every word and feature.
Sending good wishes for a peaceful spring season, spreading the wisdom and contentment of Ayurveda, as you live your daily life!
Jaisri Lambert, Ayurveda Doctor (NAMA)
604-290-8201 (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm Pacific time)
