The Elements of Ayurveda Podcast

Episode 39

Episode #39 Colette and Amy discuss the challenges with finding balance in our personal and professional life while on our Spiritual path. They discuss the following:

• Life is a journey of self realisation
• Balancing this journey with family, job and social life
• Finding a like-minded community
• Installing a new operating system
• Using the gunas as a guide for your life 
• Advice from Sadhguru of the ISHA foundation
• The importance of starting your day with self-care
• Colette’s spiritual path
• Discriminating your actions
• Being curious about life
• Using your dreams as a reflection tool
• Being flexible in life
• Guidelines from Ayurveda and Yoga

Episode 38

Colette speaks with Wendy Yellen, a former psychotherapist who closed her practice completely because she no longer believed in any of the many traditional and non-traditional therapies she was certified in. They simply weren’t enough.

Wendy then rediscovered Eidetics. Eidetics, is an ancient healing art that, as modern science is now discovering, is a direct link to the brain chemicals that influence emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing.

Wendy has been named one of the International Top Three Transformational Experts in her field, and has been accelerating personal transformation for almost 40 years.

She knows how to bring your ‘true self’ to the forefront, so that you are living, breathing, loving and expanding from all of you. In this episode Wendy performs a live demonstration of Eidetics with Colette!

Receive Wendy’s free manifesto via the link below…

myspiritualmanifesto.com

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Episode 37

Episode #37 Colette discusses the 3 Bodies & 5 Koshas of Ayurveda and Yoga which will help us to understand our journey to self-realisation and understanding our ‘true self.’ She discusses the following:

• The 3 bodies of physical, subtle, and causal
• The 4 stages of the waker, the dreamer, the deep sleeper, and the final stage of enlightenment
• The 5 koshas or 5 layers of the body
  • Annamaya kosha or our anatomy
  • Pranamaya kosha or our physiology
  • Manomaya kosha or our phsychology
  • Vijnyanamaha kosha or our wisdom
  • Anadamaya kosha or body of consciousness
• Our journey from the gross to the subtle layers of the body
• Guidelines from Ayurveda and Yoga on how to progress on this journey to self-realisation

If you’re interested in getting guidance from Colette on your journey to self-realisation, please click on the link below…

Elements of Ayurveda Online Services

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Episode 36

Episode #36 Colette chats with Amy about compassion and how it’s something we really need in the world today! They discuss:

• What is compassion
• Compassion vs. empathy
• Compassion and the kapha stage of life
• Honouring each person’s humanity
• Compassion vs. Codependency
• How Ayurveda promotes compassion
• Judgement vs. Compassion
• Having compassion in difficult circumstances/relationships
• The importance of self-compassion
• Breathing into pain/suffering with compassionate curiosity
• Being ok with imperfection
• Compassion and the gunas
• The golden rule

Amy mentioned the self compassion work by Kristin Neff and you can find her website here.

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Episode 35

Episode #35 Colette chats with Dr. Eric Grasser, who is one of the world’s foremost experts on the integration of Ayurveda and Functional Medicine. They discuss:

• Dr. Grasser’s educational journey 
• Bridging the gap between ancient wisdom & modern medicine
• What is functional medicine
• Combining functional medicine & Ayurveda
• Being an active participant in your healing journey
• Getting back to basics with dinacharya (Ayurveda’s daily habits)
• Dr. Grasser’s meaningful medicine protocol
• The future of artificial intelligence in medicine
• The importance of an individualised approach to medicine
• The future of medicine

Click on the link below for Dr. Grasser’s website

www.drgrasser.com

Find all the info on Dr. Grasser’s health bootcamps here

www.healthbootcamps.com/gut

To register for Colette’s Daily Habits for Holistic Health course click here…

Online Daily Habits for Holistic Health course

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Episode 34

Episode #34 Colette speaks with her friend Claire about her journey with burnout, infertility, pregnancy, postpartum and how Ayurveda helped her during these struggles, transitions and maintaining balance today. They discuss:

• Claire’s burnout story
• Finding balance after burnout
• Life transitions and trying to stay balanced
• Claire’s struggle with infertility
• Her holistic health journey and finding Ayurveda
• Understanding individualised Ayurvedic lifestyle and nutrition 
• Claire’s fertility journey to a successful pregnancy
• Dealing with postpartum highs and lows
• Preconception cleansing to welcome baby #2
• Dealing with a Pitta/Vata imbalance postpartum 
• Letting go of being Super Mum!
• How essential oils helped calm her Vata imbalance
• Finding balance with home, work and Nature

Check out Claire’s website below and follow Claire on Instagram…

Claire Blackie Aromatherapy website

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Episode 33

Episode #33 Colette and Amy discuss emotional eating which can be triggered by numerous factors in our lives. They discuss Ayurveda’s and Yoga’s perspective and guidelines for emotional eating. They discuss the following:

• Our earliest emotional relationship with food
• Emotional regulation with food
• Reasons we overeat/undereat
• Ayurveda’s perspective on emotional eating
• What is ‘real’ hunger
• Hunger and the senses
• Emotional eating and neurotherapy
• Creating new positive habits from the inside out
• Amy’s Emotional Eating and Yoga workshop
• Ayurveda’s guidelines to eating
• Ayurvedic cleanses to retrain the body and mind
• Relationship between mindfulness and addiction
• Restructuring your day to prevent old patterns returning
• Tips and guidelines for the inner work

Read Amy’s article on Emotional Eating, Yoga Therapy and Neuroscience on Yogamate’s website.

Find out all the details on Amy’s Emotional Eating & Yoga Workshop here…Emotional Eating Workshop

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Episode 32

Episode #32 Colette discusses the Ayurvedic tips and guidelines to help us stay cool and healthy during the summer season. She covers the following topics:

• The energies of summer 
• The similarities between summer and the Pitta dosha
• Why Pitta can go out of balance so easy during summertime
• Signs of imbalance in the Pitta dosha – physically and emotionally
• How to maintain balance, preventing imbalance in the body & mind
• Guidelines on bringing in the opposite qualities of Pitta with food, activities and lifestyle
• Tips on how to treat these imbalances naturally
• The accumulation of heat at the end of summer
• The importance of a post-summer cleanse to release heat

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Episode 31

Episode #31 Colette chats with Dr. Christian Kessler, a consultant physician and research coordinator, specialising in internal medicine and complementary medicine at the Charité Medical University Clinic for Complimentary Medicine and The Immanuel Hospital Berlin, Germany. They chat about the following:

• Dr. Kessler’s studies in the effectiveness of Ayurveda on chronic diseases and Masters in Indology. 
• The goal to scientifically and socially advance Traditional Indian Medicine in Germany and Europe.
• The exciting research study that was recently published in PubMed. This research aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Ayurvedic treatment compared to conventional conservative care for knee osteoarthritis patients.
• The methods used to apply this research.
• Dr. Kessler’s view that Ayurveda is not just a tool but a toolbox and a personalised multi-modality approach that can benefit Western medicine.
• The challenges with researching a multi-modality health system like A
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Episode 30

Episode #30 Colette and Amy discuss how to move forward when we’re stuck in a rut. They share their experiences and tips on what helped them:

• Taking small steps without having it all figured out
• There’s never the ‘perfect’ time to do something 
• Vulnerability, self-forgiveness and compassion
• Your mistakes are your greatest lessons
• Accepting what has happened and then asking “Now What?”
• The value of spending time in Mother Nature
• Why Spring is the perfect time for new projects
• The importance of knowing your strengths
• What are your personal and professional values
• Be grateful first
• Flowing with the energy rather than forcing
• The power of visualisation 

Suggested homework: Write down your personal and professional values

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