Last Call For Share Ayurveda Conference
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Summer Solstice Newsletter 2022
Dear friend:
Now is the LAST CHANCE for participating the most significant Ayurveda conference in Vancouver since the first Share Ayurveda Conference in 2018, which was so very well appreciated.
Tomorrow is the last day to join with yoga classes and lunches included, but not too late to join by Live-Streaming until June 22.
LAST CALL FOR ENROLLING IN THE 2022 SHARE AYURVEDA CONFERENCE!
JUNE 19 (NOON PACIFIC TIME) IS THE FINAL REGISTRATION DAY TO INCLUDE LUNCHES
JUNE 22 (NOON PACIFIC TIME) IS THE FINAL REGISTRATION DAY FOR LIVE-STREAMING, EXHIBITOR TABLES AND PROFESSIONAL FORUM.
JUNE 24 1-5PM PROFESSIONAL FORUM FOR THOSE PLANNING THEIR LIVING FROM AYURVEDA
Be part of this important conversation about the future of Ayurveda in Canada.
Your voice matters! All those practicing, teaching, learning, manufacturing, distributing and co-creating with Ayurveda are welcome $57 Cdn Professional Forum Tickets.
Tickets for Saturday June 25 and Sunday June 26 $327 Cdn. Includes morning yoga & meditation class, delicious vegetarian lunches if registered by June 19 at noon pacific time.
Tickets for Saturday or Sunday (specify on purchase) $197 Cdn. Don’t be late!
Click Here To Purchase Your Tickets Directly
**10% off for Seniors over 65 and Full-time Students or
**Teachers/Group Leaders enroll 5 participants for 50% off and
10 participants for your FREE ticket
Have you shared this opportunity with your friends and family members who need to know more about Ayurveda? All who have benefitted from Ayurveda and who want to learn more from professional experts need to be in-person. Second best is Live-Streaming.
Do you need Continuing Education Units for your professional development association?
The Canada Ayurveda Research & Education Foundation’s volunteers have put together an outstanding program of speakers, panels, fundraising and community enrichment!
Enroll now and participate in the unique, historic event bringing the most eloquent voices of Ayurveda to you. Location: Alumni Centre at UBC in Vancouver, BC.
POST CONFERENCE ABHYANGA OPPORTUNITY WITH JESSICA KRUSE IN SURREY, BC JUNE 27-30. TO BOOK, CALL: 780-878-0780 FROM JUNE 23 OR EMAIL HER AT: Jessica@LaVidaVeda.ca
EVOLUTION OF THE CANADA AYURVEDA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION
© Jaisri M. Lambert, Ayurveda Doctor (NAMA) June 2022
Ayurveda is a vast, inclusive, and pure Science of Life, originating in Asia and now bringing her timeless wisdom to western seekers. To help resolve today’s needs for holistic, nature-based solutions, we can turn back to the ancient medical scriptures of Ayurveda.
To help develop an integrated, sustainable health care discussion in Canada, Ayurveda comes from ancient times to guide us through today’s health challenges. We’re faced with chronic health care concerns, pandemic exposures, and unprecedented mental health concerns.
The Canada Ayurveda Research & Education Foundation is a federally registered non-profit organization established in 2017 to help support understanding and integration of Ayurveda into daily living of Canadians. Our first Share Ayurveda Conference at UBC and the Vancouver Public Library was met with so very much appreciation in 2018
Ayurveda for physical health is a sister science to Yoga, intended for psychological health. These two intertwined Vedic sciences offer principles and practices that are easy to understand and implement for every person, family, community, and nation.
Lifestyle medicine is a new branch of health sciences, though ancient in origin, as Ayurveda dates back 10,000 years according to the World Health Organization, and scholarly writings from 3,500 to 5,000 years ago.
Ayurveda is a science of prevention of disease through daily habits such as morning practices including elimination, meditation, stretching, etc., habitual thinking, food science and alignment with nature’s cycles, engaging the equal and inexorable law of cause and effect.
Let me give you my personal example. My mother had migraine headaches all my childhood and so much of her time was spent in bed and on pills designed to suppress pain, but not to remove the causes.
After her passing, my father gave me her thick medical file to read, as he knew I was interested in anatomy, physiology, and mental wellness.
Over the decades of my mother’s countless medical visits, only one psychiatrist identified the cause of her chronic depression as unresolved grief from the death of her first husband when she was pregnant with her eldest daughter during WW II. Migraine was the manifestation, and not the cause of her pain and suffering, stated a small mention on a single page of her file.
‘Don’t cry’, my mother was told by family at the time, thereby suppressing her experience and never coming to truly resolve the inner conflict, regardless of long absences in ‘rest homes’ and hospital wards over the years of my youth.
At age 17, I also began to manifest migraine syndrome and quickly realized the Fiorinal prescribed by the doctor, would not help, and that hormonal factors were probably involved. I was using self-evidence without understanding or naming this scientific method, part of Vedic reasoning of validity.
The migraine syndrome continued until my mid-thirties, after coming to the path of meditation and first hearing terms like, ‘satva’ (truth), ‘rajas’ (enervation) and ‘tamas’ (inertia) as the three primary modes of energy. This was my doorway to eventually discovering Ayurveda, the Science of Life, a sister science to yoga.
As my Ayurveda studies continued during my thirties and forties, the interconnectedness of life began to dawn on me. Integration of all that is became obvious and not obscure. The wholeness of life began to change my thinking, my parenting and life choices.
Later, I transitioned to offering seminars and consultations according to Ayurveda, under the guidance of my beloved teacher of Ayurveda, Vaidya Vasant D. Lad. Later, I left to live in the US where my knowledge was recognized, appreciated and in demand. Stereotypical brain drain.
Coming back home in 2004 for my father’s end of life care, it was clear that the knowledge of Ayurveda was needed in Canada. Fortunately, my father became receptive at the age of 90 to Ayurveda, having observed my chosen educational and lifestyle path since the late nineteen eighties.
Witnessing him move from early dementia, chronic arthritis, and cardiac disease since age 50 to cogency, mobility, and relative vigor until his departure at 97, brought the realization that knowledge of herbal medicine was critical to healthy aging. He had been taking some eleven prescription drugs when I first returned home, and was on a fast decline. Over the next seven precious years with herbal supplementation, our favorite pastime together was Jeopardy. I saw the value of holistic care for elders.
The C.A.R.E. Foundation plans to develop a program for Ayurveda Home Care Aide training for B.C. gov’t approval.
Now in my mid-seventies, with over thirty years of continuous Ayurveda study and practice, I feel called to serve in Ayurveda research and education, while continuing my private consulting practice under Ayurveda Seminars & Consulting.
Later this month on June 24-26, after a four-year pause, the second Share Ayurveda Conference at UBC to help participate in the discussion of Ayurveda as Future Integrative Medicine. Welcome.
To bring your voice to the conversation, please sign up for the Professional Forum on Friday, June 24. www.carefoundation.net
Sat. & Sun. ticket purchase online: www.carefoundation.net/payments
Bring your friend to the weekend conference program, on June 25 and 26. Enjoy morning yoga and meditation and the excellent speakers on a variety of Ayurveda topics for everyday well-being of body, mind, and consciousness. Meet leaders and experts in the Ayurveda community.
Health care is in crisis in BC while solutions are at hand with integration of systematized Ayurveda, the world’s oldest holistic medical science.
Our first goals for the C.A.R.E. Foundation are:
- To develop an Ayurveda Elder Home Care-Aide Training Program
- To further develop the Ayurveda Self-Care for Multiple Sclerosis Program
- To create an Internet Portal for Ayurveda Research Worldwide
- To research Local Indigenous Herbal Classification According to Ayurveda
TO VOLUNTEER YOUR HELP & SUPPORT FOR THESE PROGRAMS, PLEASE REACH OUT TO:
www.carefoundation.net
www.ayurveda-seminars.com
SUMMERTIME TIPS
Summertime is the peak of Pitta season, a time to emphasize the anti-inflammatory factor. Alkalizing foods such as the Pitta-pacifying choices work best for cooling the systems of body and mind. To print your free handout, click here: www.ayurveda.com and search for Food Guidelines in the search bar.
Common summer complaints include rashes, stings and bites, nausea, heat exhaustion, irritability, midnight sleeplessness and all ‘itis’ conditions such as bursitis, blepharitis, gingivitis, meningitis, IBS or inflammatory bowel syndrome, loose bowels containing undigested food particles and spreading conditions like fungus and yeast infections. Fevers are also more prevalent in summer.
Fortunately, for many centuries, Ayurveda has conveyed how to best cool the body and mind with Shitali pranayama, sipping warm lime water, eating light food, waking early, resting during the hottest part of the day, breathing from the left nostril, wearing white or silver colors, using cooling perfumes such as rose or sandalwood and creating a cooling environmental effect from air tunnels. Air tunnels have been used historically for desert climates to create cooling breezes.
Some Yoga poses to practice during morning time of the hot season, help to cool your channel systems and strengthen the small intestine (main seat of pitta dosha) are:
Chandra Namaskar Moon Salutation Series
Ardha Navasana Half Boat
Salabhanasa Locust
Dhanurasana Bow
Ustrasana Camel
Matyasana Fish
Janu Sirsanana Knees beside ears
Virasana Hero
Shavasana Corpse
Summertime can bring an increase in hair loss due to the fiery quality of pitta over-heating the hair follicles. Use a cooling hair oil such as sunflower or bringraj (eclipta alba herb), a medicated oil used to help keep the scalp and hair roots from overheating. Apply for 45 minutes before your morning shower, then shampoo, to help support healthy hair and cool-minded thinking.
To read more about HAIR LOSS, please click here
Herbs especially useful in summer include brahmi, bacopa (both have affinity for central nervous system), manjistha (affinity for blood circulation), amalaki fruit (useful for all systems, take on empty stomach), neem (affinity for liver and skin), golden seal root (useful for infections such as viral, bacterial, fungal, yeast), gokshura (affinity for bladder), and guduchi (affinity for all systems). For specific questions and answers, these can be presented to our Mentorship Program starting in September. Keep note of your important questions and bring them to this program. TO REGISTER, PLEASE CLICK HERE
You know I love your feedback about our programs and your Ayurveda journey. Thanks for sharing this newsletter with friends, colleagues, students and those interested in co-creating and supporting our Canadian Ayurveda community. Each one brings a unique contribution, not comparable to any other.
With acknowledgements of the vast history of Ayurveda from its divine Source to today’s worldwide needs for health as the foundation of spiritual progress and service in the world.
Sincerely,
Jaisri M. Lambert, Ayurveda Doctor (NAMA),
Canada Ayurveda Research and Education (C.A.R.E.) Foundation
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