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Aug 2022
The Power of
Pitta Season
Hello Dear,
Here we are at the peak fire season in the northern hemisphere, realizing the destruction pitta dosha can cause when the proportion of its hot, spreading, sour (corrosive), fomenting and penetrating properties can overflow.
The water element is diminished, the earth element is scorched, the air element is polluted, and the space element is disturbed.
Behaviours of conflict, self-survival, false accusation and blame can predominate. It’s a time to truly understand Ayurveda’s ancient teachings on how to best survive this cycle while preparing for the next phase of introversion and regeneration. Dr. Lad says to wait until winter to decide on divorce, not now.
Natural law teaches us to lay low, breathe mindfully and collect scarce water or compassion. This is the time to understand our human extremes and remember the middle path of forgiveness of all wrongs, real and imagined, to help rise above the apparent losses and wounds.
Fire is the agent of transformation and does render entirely new phenomena and goes by a new name. For example, what was our food is now our own body and mind, with only an imprint of the food’s original properties and actions. Now that food is no longer called rice or broccoli; the name has become consciousness.
What is undergoing the scorching heat of self-experience?
What is timely to destroy and what is now useful to prepare to co-create?
How do you visualize your ideal regeneration?
Can the one-pointedness of Pitta be applied to liberation from suffering, attachment, expectation, and delusion?
Pitta’s positive expressions of wisdom, understanding, nobility and illumination still lay behind the evidence of what can be seen by the two eyes, in the world of duality.
Now is a good time to spread your message of light.
Be attentive to the word ‘seems’.
Focus on the third eye or Ajna chakra with daily practice, especially at the cool times of day early morning and evening.
Our focus can well forge our life’s purpose of self-realization and God-realization during these times of heated trials.
Have you reached out to help another, thereby assuaging your own burning pain?
Imbalanced pitta does evaluation, measurement, and comparison, while balanced pitta is wholly involved in the simplicity of being.
Within that arising our inborn contentment, joy, radiance and effulgence.
Meditation continues to be the first and last medicine of Ayurveda for all ailments, imbalances, sufferings and anguishes.
Meditation can cool our heated hearts.
Have you collected moon water?
On each full moon night, place a silver vessel in the moonlight and expose purified water to the moon rays toward to eastern direction from your home. Rose petals that have been offered to Chandra Devi can be added, or pure sandalwood, or perhaps a drop of colloidal silver can be soaked in the water.
Strain and sip the water in the morning after brushing for a cooling effect, to enhance cleansing, fertility, plant growth, germination and conception. Moon water can help calm emotions, bring mental equilibrium, enhance intuition and increase nurturing qualities.
Fresh moon water is to be consumed within 24 hrs.
Be wise at this time of possible sunstroke, itchy skin rashes, diarrhea, bleeding, flaring or eruption of pitta conditions, and bring your Shitali (left nostril) breathing, your practice of moon salutations for yoga stretching, and sip tea with a pinch or two of neem for blood cooling and cleansing.
Ayurveda helps us manage each season with its ever-changing qualities, properties and predominances to find balance, contentment and realization.
Breakthrough to Self Empowerment
AYURVEDA CASE MANAGEMENT MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
Are you a newer Ayurveda practitioner feeling the need for more collegial support for case management?
Do you have random or specific questions about general concerns of Ayurveda from yourself and your network?
Are you sometimes stuck on how to best manage a particular case?
When I was coming up in Ayurveda in the eighties and nineties, I felt alone and adrift from a reliable Ayurveda support system.
Now with nearly four decades of clinical experience internationally, I’ve been asked to provide a forum for sharing and strengthening the newer members of our community coming up.
Now I feel called to share my Ayurveda clinical experience focusing mostly on Kaya Chikitsa as modelled by my mentor, Vaidya Vasant D. LAD, who gave with both hands.
Join us for this new online forum created to address unmet needs to feel more secure and deepens your application of theory to practical day-to-day situations.
DATES & TIMES:
Sept. 9 Oct. 7
Sept. 16 Oct. 14
Sept. 23 Oct. 21
Sept. 30 Oct. 28
All sessions are Fridays 10-11:30 am pacific time by Zoom
*Please be on time for the all-important opening prayers*
If you’re unsure about your time zone, please send me a message: at jaisri@ayurveda-seminars.com
Your Invitation
If you have more than 600 hrs. of recognized study, here is a welcome for senior students and newer practitioners to bring your case management discussions and for patients to bring their important clinical questions.
We’ll go in-depth together through the lens of the classic Ashta Vidha Pariksha or Eight-Fold Assessment of traditional Ayurveda while nourishing our Ayurveda community and experiencing the importance of counselling.
Join us and invite your Ayurveda colleague or study buddy to lift one another up together along the way.
Tuition: $315 when prepaid by Sept. 5; $345 thereafter
General Enquiries: FREE!
Participants outside Canada: $299USD
Your location: Online
Panchakarma in India
Three years have passed since hosting my last group of patients undergoing the deep-acting process of panchakarma.
Join me as host for travelling to India from mid-November to the end of December.
Our purpose is for cleansing and rejuvenation according to ancient Ayurveda, the world’s oldest holistic medical science.
Soon it will be too late to ensure our group will be housed together, a critical factor for our group experience. Sept. 1st is the payment deadline.
Check out this recent patient blog post published in Civil Society Online, to understand more deeply why I host panchakarma groups in India, and why so many guests return:
Here’s a description of the experience of panchakarma from Vaidyagrama
DON'T MISS OUT, REGISTER BEFORE:
12 pm Sept 1, 2022
CANADA AYURVEDA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION
The C.A.R.E. Foundation is a federally registered non-profit organization currently operating on volunteer participation.
We’re extending an invitation for a legal expert in federal non-profit management, program development and fund-raising, to join with us and help support our growing activities and structures.
You are encouraged to volunteer for any of these programs in which you have expertise and time to offer.
Here’s the current progress report on our four start-up goals:
Elder Home-Care Aide Training Program:
Our timeline is now set for complying with the library of the BC Ministry of Education requirements for Post-Secondary Education.
By this time next year, we plan to submit our completed application.
Time and costs are significant for compliance with all requirements.
At present, all endeavours for this program are volunteer, so if you have specialized related skills in Elder Home Care, or Program Development and would like to be involved, please do let me know.
Also, if you are in a position to financially support the substantial application fees, a salary for the program developer and budgetary requirements, please connect with me to understand our needs going forward.
Multiple Sclerosis & Ayurveda Program Manual Completion:
The manual is on track to complete during 2022 and become available to join the pre-recorded videos course with Micheline Wong, P.T. and Jaisri Lambert, A.D. (NAMA).
This program is to support those facing neuro-muscular symptoms such as weakness, tremors, numbness, brain fog, pain, degeneration and inflammation, etc.
This Introduction to Ayurveda for MS lays out the basic philosophies of Ayurveda anatomy & physiology, lifestyle management tips and some herbal guidance.
The Manual is to help guide those seeking holistic solutions to understand their self-care program while providing a deeper understanding of the causes and effects of debilitation.
Internet Portal for Ayurveda Research Worldwide:
Application for funding for this important international project will be sought through the Indian AYUSH Ministry of the government of India.
Stay tuned to progress on this front to provide Canadian physicians and front-line health care professionals with access to the great storehouse of Ayurveda research on diseases, lifestyle and plant-based solutions for those seeking patient-centred management for Integrative Medicine practitioners.
Many Canadian physicians are unaware of the depth and breadth of existing Ayurveda studies and findings.
This project proposes to link providers with easy access to existing and ever-expanding research from India and abroad, opening a significant horizon to those unable to access this codified knowledge until now.
Ayurveda Traditional Herbal Classification of Local Indigenous Medicinal Plants:
This program is presently the least developed of our four start-up goals but is likely to become the longest in duration.
Though many excellent publications from the BC government are available, the local indigenous medicinal plants have as yet to be studied according to the classical Rasa (taste), Virya (thermal effect), Vipak (cellular uptake) and Prabhu (unique effect) descriptions to form a Materia Medica.
This program is expected to lead to job creation, local harvesting and manufacturing, preservation of traditional indigenous knowledge and cultural reconciliation.
Our Canadian Ayurveda community has long discussed the importance of giving emphasis to locally sourced medicinal substances.
Benefits include sustainable wild-crafting, the revival of plant-based knowledge systems and public health care support through the lowered risk of side effects.
You know I love to hear from you, especially during these interesting times when appearances may seem to suggest the Light is less available.
However, Light is ever-increasing according to the science of physics.
So why are we forgetting the abundance being showered?
Whatever we focus on will increase our consciousness, so please let us focus together on the grace and unity available to us all.
If you’ve been touched and inspired by what you’ve seen here in this newsletter, thanks for forwarding it to those seeking like-minded solutions.
Yours in service of the Ayur-Vidya,
Jaisri Lambert, Ayurveda Doctor (NAMA)
604-290-8201 (Mon.-Fri. 9 am-5 pm Pacific Time)
