“Ayurveda isn’t only a mesenteric science, Ayurveda is the science of health and life- close to biology in a way but goes deeper. It accepts the energetics around, what quantum physics believes as well it is a spiritual science.” M.V.S

It has informed and infused all the world healing.

An innate science- coming from our own understanding of self. In many chapters of healing systems around the world- you may track their roots to Ayurveda.

Right now I am studying the Respiratory System, the teacher is very well spoken and I am finding his timing to explain things and the details he give interesting and easy to relate to. He looks like Pitta Kapha person, I hope to one day meet him. The introduction to the Respiratory system is that respiratory is about respirit. Re-connecting with spirit.

Primordial cause of disease is: forgetting true nature of spirit. This is just a profound and deep thing- but the more I consciously make time to connect to my spirit- the more I understand this concept- however, my manifested world lives mostly in the normal, thought dictated realm… but it sure is interesting- but I hope to begin working towards manifesting more enlightenment, self compassion and confidence to attract those things that I desire- but don’t feel I am worthy or ready for.

Here are my notes from one of the classes, I was so inspired by the class that I want to come back to some of his quotes and shared thoughts to explore further and write more about it in the future… but at the moment I just need to keep on going…10 more hours to watch in this module and lots of readying and studying and home-work to focus on.

Medicinal part of the plant is the spirit, every plant is a spirit medicine in itself.

The best herb teachers are the plants themselves and your spirits experience.

There is a huge part of Ayurveda that is infused with buddhism. 

Medicine buddha- (look up story)

Purification Buddha (White light practice/Vajrasattva)

If we want to enter heaven on earth, we just need one conscious step and one conscious breathe.

He is saying we are very similar to trees. 

Our digestive system is like the roots.  

What fuels us most is our breathe.

Our lungs are our biggest form of purification/ we expel more from our breathe than in the bathroom.

The quality of our breathe directly affect our quality of life.

5 sheaths of the body, the breathe is the bridge between the body and the mind.

The mind is meant to be a tool- and the breathe is the user guide to that too. Most of us walk around controlled by the mind- but we can come back to the breathe and re-center ourselves.

A good Ayurvedic practicer walks with their heart first and there head and feet behind this. (This is beautiful.)

Seeing all the different levels of everything and the individuality of everything and yet how it’s all interconnected- shows God.

There is a good quote (screen shot) by Karma Lodru Gyamtso.

No thing is greater than, equal to, or less than any other thing. Each individual entity is incomparable, intimately interconnected and uniquely perfect, and as such, is deserving of reverence. Spirit arises from a Fractal Tapestry of the Sacred Elements animated harmoniously as a Network of beings.”

“To see fully that the other is not you is the way to realizing oneness… nothing is separate, everything is different… Love is the appreciation of difference.” Swami Prajnanpad.

Two great Dangers of an aspiring AyurVaidya:

• misusing power
• getting trapped in dogma

Dharmo raktashi raktasah- The dharma Protects those who protect it

Alchemy of Merit

Set Sacred Space (chanting, incence, alter), Set Intention (very important for you to put it in or have someone else put the intention into it- if someone else makes the medicine for you- alignment is really important), 

Give Dedication, Leave Sacred Space.

1. The consciousness and the great teachings of Ayurveda are all within our heart.

The Four Noble `Truths:

1. Existence Contains Suffering.
2.  There is a cause for suffering which is ignorance. (Desire and clingy). Ignorance leads to the three poisons. Raga (Greed/Attachment), Dvesha (Ill Will/Anger/Aversion)
3. Cessation of Suffering is possible. This occurs through transmuting the poisons…. (see screen shot)

Texts about spaciousness. 

WE ARE 99% SPACE- SO IF WE EVER THINK WE ARE STUCK, PRETTY EASY TO CHANGE THAT 1 %

If we aren’t rigid- reality isn’t rigid to us.

We are a network of eco systems much like the world is… much like all of life is an ecosystem.

We are all gardens- and everything is gardens.

Wood peckers/ story

Darkana- the near nature of everything. every relationship we have in this life is another way for us to understands ourselves deeper.

Exhale is most important- letting go of everything that doesn’t serve us- letting go of accumulated karma to bring in new prana.

Exhaling fully is the healthiest thing you can do for yourself.

Always start with exhale.

When you exhale out, you are creating negative space and when you soften the belly and move the abs and diaphragm down and moving the chest back and down- you are giving more space for you lungs- so you are getting a better amount of oxygen into your lungs and that can go deeper into different branches of your lungs- the more air you can take in, the more oxygen you take in, the more prana you have in.

Prana- Apana balance… moving apana down and bringing in prana.

Main muscles groups for Respiration:

Diaphragm (Inhalation: Diaphragm pulls the lungs down sucking air in. Requires effort. 

Exhalation: Diaphragm relaxes and lungs become smaller-pushing air out. No Effort. We can control our breathe and it’s also involuntary, 

Intercostal Muscles,

Helps raise and lower the rib cage. Elevation assists inhalation. Depression assists exhalation.

Abdominal Muscles: Contraction occurs during strong exhalation to assist in pushing air out of the lungs. Not normally activated in normal breathe. Takes softening of the belly to breathe down into your belly, abdominal is used during kaphalabhati, 

Serratus Anterio: Also helps raise and lower the rib cage. Elevation assists inhalation. Depression assists exhalation It’s activated when breathing into your back, the muscle fibers underneath the scapula. ternocleidomastoid, Scalene muscles.

(Practice feeling these muscles groups).

Cleansing ourselves from bhutus (bhoot)  ignorant/evil spirits…   sweat lodges, beach with ocean and wind, fever

Adultery/ pitta imblances/old me versus the new me.

living outside your morale code/ living different than before/ living with guilt/ friction with the body and fever may occur.

Grief- weakens the system and can cause fever

pranavahasrota and purishavaha srotas are related.

gratitude and grief reside in lungs- gratitude is the cure for grief. our lungs can’t harbor both at the same time.

Passion of love- over heatedness/ also if make love when you are weak- it can drain your ojas more

Maybe when we suppress fevers they may go deeper into the dhatus- it’s best to allow the fever to run it’s course.

Theory: if you suppressed serious fevers throughout your life you may have serious hot flashes. 

How hot you are are your symptoms will result on how you dealt with fever throughout your life.

hot flashes

moon calendar: track your hot flashes/emotions/period/etc

Avoiding extremes of hot and cold together. The body doesn’t do well with extremes.

Sauna and then cold plunge- could be good for some people, but may trap in heat in a pitta person and the heat often causes rash.

jwara-Nidana (causes)

• Living out of harmony with nature.
• Poor digestion and ama
• Intake of poisons or toxins
• Unseasonable weather and temperature changes
• Food that is too hot when the body has been stricken by grief or fear
• Ignoring the gods and the influence of the stars (living out of touch with nature and the world around us).

-Working and paying attention to the different 27 different 

moon chambers

A lot of people get sick 2 weeks after the equinox because of our weakened part of the body and our weaker digestion. It related to the movement of the earth and the fact its going faster.

The more we live with the rhythms and patterns around us…

Why day time sleep is to be avoided unless exhausted:

we are a whole ecosystem… 

we have daytime microbes and nighttime microbes.

If you are napping in light doesn’t effect those.

Patterns in our body may be thrown off.

Chinese medicine has the organ clock, certain times of the time- our organs are doing different  work… 10-2 is a good time for our body to sleep so our liver can do its work.

We want to protect our ojas- if we have Vata or Pitta Pakruti may be okay to sleep- with Kapha could be more harmful.

Quick Power naps or Yoga Nidra- could be a good replacement.

claudia welch has written beatuifully about ayurvedic treatment of hot flashes 

naracha? 

change of season/vata- but actually our body is being weakened and our pattern relocated our ama into our weaker parts.