Greetings, Dear friend:

Early July from my garden, I began plucking organic red rose petals, just at their peak maturation for sun-drying, and soon to store in clean glass jars away from light. Organic rose petals are sweet, cooling, subtle and have an affinity for the positive heart.

Consider these properties for using them appropriately for teas, potpourris, amulets, confetti, blessingway or proposal celebrations, spritzers, tub baths or any uplifting purpose. Rose scent invokes self-confidence, compas-sion, forgiveness and of course romance. What are your favourite uses for organic rose petals?

Each day the garden reveals something fresh and enlivening. Spearmint patch is maturing and I’m thinking ahead to its harvest, timed as the sweet blooms mature. Homegrown organic summertime herbals make such lovely wintertime gifts.

St. John’s Wort is beginning to flower along the north entrance, with stunning yellow blooms. This year the two volunteer (squirrel-planted) walnut trees are now over six feet tall, and may well give their first nuts! The three hazelnut trees leave their nuts in abundance, to feed first the local critters, leaving plenty for us two-leggeds!

The most spectacular area of my garden is the Concord grapevine, which again this year is off to an amazing yield! Stay tuned. . . . Plenty of tending to do meanwhile, along with hosting these opportunities in Ayurveda. Pass these on to those who may benefit from this newsletter, OK? Thank you!
 

REPRINT: Question & Answer from Facebook
June, 2019

From Chetana Karla Shakti of
https://www.facebook.com/gratefulsurfyoga/
In response to a colleague’s recent enquiry about the relationship between addictive behaviours and dopamine:

“… the question is, how to keep the brain floating peacefully and dopamine-like, and if not, how to ride it out. Going to put that out to the hive mind. experience? views anyone?”

Here is my reply with recent edits:

Yes, the triad of these neurotransmitters: serotonin (more pitta-like), melatonin (more kapha-like) and dopamine (more vata-like) function well when in synch together, so their cycles dominate during their own natural times of day and night. 

For example, so-called 'Bi-Polar' disorder, is associated with chronic sleep disturbance. Pills will not remove the causes, nor even the effects. Sleeping late can slowly lead to many psycho-spiritual 'diseases'. Arising early leads to sleeping early. Positive shifts occur within a few days of avoiding daytime sleeping.

Restoring healthy evening and morning routines, cultivated with the support of meditation, can help normalize this neuro-transmitter tripod, once disturbed. Regular meditation practice is the proven method of rejuvenating one's mind, to be alert in the morning, sleepy at bedtime and enjoying each day. Worry thieves away contentment and has not yet solved any human dilemma. 

Pranayama, herbs and a support system can help very much to recover normal dopamine cycles. One must be present and compassionately aware of unresolved, uncomfortable feelings until they morph into solutions, which happens by itself simply be being present to now while breathing peacefully, fully and deeply, with awareness, compassion
and intention.

Contentment (santosh) comes with balanced dopamine, in relation to all other related natural cycles. Help someone each day and feel joy, without the expectation that tomorrow's donation also brings happiness. Yes, the daily meditation is a gratitude practice; cause becomes the effect. So, enquire carefully about cause and effect.

Neuro-transmitter secretion is an effect. The cause is found in qualitative thinking, according to the Samkhya creation model of Yoga & Ayurveda.

A brief glimpse into a very large topic. I hope this helps.
Jaisri M. Lambert, Ayurveda Doctor (NAMA).
 

UPDATE: C.A.R.E. FOUNDATION

July 7, 2019, at 11 am a few dedicated volunteers gathered to share ideas about our 3 educational goals and 4 research goals, generated over the last 2 years of community and collegial discussions. New volunteers Yodih and Kamala are coming forward to help meet our current needs for the website, fundraising, and grant-writing. Timelines and budgets were presented, prepared by April. Now it’s time for implementation! If you live in the lower mainland and would like to participate at this stage, please call Jaisri at 604-290-8201.

May 22-24, 2020
SHARE AYURVEDACONFERENCE - SAVE THE DATE!

With less than a year remaining to plan our main C.A.R.E. Foundation fundraising program, we are uplifted by last year’s amazing conference at UBC and the Vancouver Public Library.

For 2020, our venue is again the Jack Poole Centre at the Alumni Centre at the University of British Columbia, easily accessible by public transit and car. Accommodations are on-site for visitors from out of town and we plan an online local billeting experiment.

Tentative Schedule:

Friday        2-5 pm Professional Forum for Practitioners

Saturday   7am-6pm
                 Yoga, Opening Ceremonies, Presentations

Sunday     7am-4pm
                 Yoga, Presentations, Closing Ceremonies
                 4pm-6pm Ayurveda Assn of Canada meeting

A Vegetarian Ayurveda Lunch will
be served at about noon Saturday & Sunday

Tentative Features:
                Tables for Sponsors & Stakeholders: 6’ tables
                 Emphasis on Research and Education in
                          Ayurveda in Canada

Volunteer Needs:
               Audio/Visual recording, live-streaming,
                          follow-up web posting, etc.
               Website for C.A.R.E. Foundation
               Early registration for S.A.C. May 22-24, 2020.
               Sponsor Coordination
 

FLASH:
VACATION HEALTH RETREATS,
SURREY BC, SUMMER 2019

Where are you in your health transitions?
How is your sleep? Digestion?
Do you feel a need for deep rest and
a deeper understanding of Ayurveda?
Do you feel a need for support to implement
your personal Dina Charya?

Is summer the perfect time and place for your Personal Ayurveda Health Retreat with me here in Surrey, BC, a quiet suburban location near Vancouver, BC? Enjoy the bird-life, air quality, slow speed of daily summertime living and supporting your Ayurveda daily practices tailored to you.

Learn to let go of the intensity and offer yourself quality time, putting your health first at last. If not now, then when? Give emphasis to your all-important meditation times and regular lunch of six tastes. Choose to focus on your optimal digestion, assimilation, elimination, and mental revitalization.

Habitual, early deep sleep is critical for balanced Vata and stress management. Learn to restore your mind, body, and consciousness this summer with your own personal residential holiday program according to Ayurveda.

Explore your inner knowing while nourishing the long-term best interest of your well-being. Spend more time alone, learning about yourself through the lens of Ayurveda. Immerse in slowing down your bio-rhythms for self-realization and self-care, with daily self-care discussions together.

Only one 5-day Ayurveda vacation program is still open, arriving Sunday evening, July 14, and departing Saturday morning, July 20, 2019. A very few 3-day programs remain available in late July and August.

Call now for dates and rates and to secure your spot! For further information, to view or forward the flier, please click here.
 

CONSULTATION APPOINTMENTS
ON SALTSPRING ISLAND
AUG. 3-4, 2019

This unique program is planned by the amazing Micheline Wong, Physiotherapist par excellence, and a graduate of my Pulse Assessment program, among many superlative features of her professionalism. Her healing bodywork is truly amazing and as a meditator, she knows that a holistic approach is needed for sustained wellness.

A very few Ayurveda consultation appointments are available together at her new office in Ganges, both follow-up for existing patients and intake for new patients, space permitting. Book early to ensure your reservation!

To prepare, please review the “Consultation” pages on my website and outline your concerns, health history, and current daily routine.

Please email these to jaisri@ayurveda-seminars.com by July 31. Your preparations help us make good use of precious time together.

To confirm your Ayurveda consultation appointment with Jaisri and Micheline on Saltspring Island August 3-4, 2019, please call Micheline at 604-780-2740.

For more information and to prepare for your appt., please call Jaisri at 604-290-8201 and visit
ayurveda-seminars.com/ayurvedic-consultations.htm

 

UPDATE: PANCHAKARMA IN INDIA
Nov. 26 to Jan 6 or Dec. 10 to Jan 6, 2019

Spaces are filling up this year long before our Sept. 1st payment deadline. If you know this health retreat opportunity is right for you, please send your deposit or payment now to ensure your spot, especially if you require private accommodation. Some participants from prior years are repeating, and we may have to close registration this year.

This is the ultimate health retreat I feel, after searching many years, finally hosting my first group in 2015, and now in our 5th successful year. The hospital retreat centre in Tamil Nadu near Coimbatore is founded in the classic principles of Ayurveda, providing a living example for optimum individual and community life practices, and animated by gifted senior doctors and practitioners.

‘Life-changing’ is often overheard, describing this unique life experience of health and well-being with like-minded people together in India, hosted by Jaisri M. Lambert, Ayurveda Doctor (NAMA). Final payment deadline is Sept. 1, 2019.

For more information, please call Jaisri at 604-290-8201 8am-5:30 pm Mon. thru Sat. Pacific time.
To view the Panchakarma in India flier, please click here.

I LOOK FORWARD TO RECEIVING NEWS OF YOUR AYURVEDA JOURNEY AND SEND GOOD WISHES FOR A HEALTHY, HAPPY SUMMER FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WITH AYURVEDA, YOGA, AND MEDITATION.

Yours in respect of our Mother Earth and all her children in this wondrously compassionate cosmos,

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