Well- It’s 10:30 on a Friday night and I’m trying to watch my Respiration Class Videos but the internet is being sooo slow… but I am super interested in what is being talked about.

Some of my notes I made today from watching class lead by Michael van Sciver. I had never met him before or been one of his students- but I like his style.

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

it has informed and infused all the world healing

an innate science- coming from our own understanding of self.

respiratory system- respirit. re-connecting with spirit.

primordial cause of disease is: forgetting true nature of spirit.

the 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.

My one teacher 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.

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)

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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 mear 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).