Living Ayurveda for a Weekend
Friday, February 7, 2025 – Sunday, February 9, 2025 PDT
IN PERSON OR ONLINE
With Lalitha Vaidyanathan
Health is a positive state of happiness achieved through the normal condition of the doshas (constitution), dhatus (tissues), agni (digestive fire), and malas (waste). as well as a serene state of body, mind and senses. The strength of agni and doshas varies throughout the seasons.
The Ayurvedic lifestyle is based on three things:
• Routine – Performing healthy practices at the same time each day embeds them in your lifestyle. Your body will know when to prepare itself to wake up, digest food and go to sleep. Regularity in your routines is essential. All of the body’s processes will benefit.
• Moderation – Provides balance to our lives and prevents overindulgence. Most commonly, the road to ill health begins with a lapse in judgment. Even though we know better, we frequently choose to make unhealthy choices, most often in pursuit of sense pleasures. This might be overloading the stomach with an excessive meal and disrupting our sleep cycle by staying up too late and sleeping during the day, or suppressing natural urges to cry, yawn, or even go to the bathroom.
• Tuning in to the natural rhythm of the doshas and agni – They naturally fluctuate during the day, by season and across phases of life.
Bring balance to your life!
Special Guest
Daily Schedule
Friday 2/7
6:00–7:30pm Yoga Asana Class
7:30pm Vegetarian dinner
Saturday 2/8
6:00–7:15am Satsang (meditation, chanting and a short talk)
8:00am Light breakfast
10:00–11:30am Yoga Asana Class
12:00pm Vegetarian lunch
1:00pm Karma Yoga
2:00–4:00pm Ayurvedic Daily Routines: Dinacharya
4:00pm Nasya Demonstration (Ayurvedic Nasal Treatment)
5:30pm Guidance on Ayurvedic ritual of eating
6:00pm Vegetarian dinner
7:30pm Guidance with nighttime routines
Sunday 2/9
6:00–7:15am Satsang
7:15am Guidance with morning routines, including self-abhyanga (please bring an old tshirt and an old pair of socks you don’t mind getting oil on)
8:15am Shower and clean up
Book an Ayurvedic body treatment at this time (optional, by appointment)
9:00am Light breakfast
10:00–11:30am Yoga Asana Class (optional) or rest time
12:00pm Vegetarian lunch
1:00pm Karma Yoga
2:00–3:30pm Afternoon Workshop: Ayurvedic Teas and Spices for your Dosha
6:00pm Gentle Yoga Class OR
5:30–7:00pm Satsang and Soup (optional)
Arrive Friday by 6:00pm and depart Sunday at 4:00pm, or stay for a gentle yoga class or evening Satsang.
Suggested text: Practical Ayurveda. Available in our boutique. (We ship.)
Ayurvedic body treatments available for an additional charge by appointment.
Bring an old tshirt and an old pair of socks.
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