• Do you understand your universe from an energetic level? Delve into the basics of Ayurvedic Theory from the inside out. ah-yer-vey-duh: “The science of life” – 5,000 year old wisdom that
  ranges from simple to complex. Dive to understand the principles that underlie this powerful medicine.
• Bring ayurveda into the kitchen, bathroom, studio, meditation space and yes, even the car. Simple tips to make your life a whole lot easier and way more comfortable!
• Learn the in’s and out’s of daily self-massage. Explore the benefits of this fundamental preventative disease technique both in your body and through deeper study.
• Fiery temper or cool as a cucumber, light as a feather or firm as a rock, discover the advantages of characterizing yourself to understand your nature. Understand your unique constitution on a deeper level to will connect with your body, make friends with your mind, and understand your various “neuroses” to connect better with those you love.
• We will develop or strengthen your meditation practice in order to be able to connect with Being, and tap into our inner body anatomy.
• Tune into the Divine by delving into the seasons – what we can learn simply by listening to the rhythms of nature and how they manifest in the body. The seasons, the lunar cycle and even the daily rhythms affect each constitution in different ways. Gain a level of understanding that will help you to deal with these transitions in a health-full way.
• Classify emotions, foods and more using the 10 pairs of opposites (the gunas) to articulate what you are observing in a clear and concise way.

• Prepare your body for the transition into the colder months. Boost your immunity and replenish your stores of energy through cleansing and observing.
• Agni – the secret to perfect health – how your immunity is connected to your digestive tract and what to do about it.
• Ama – sticky toxins need a way out – discover how to identify ama and begin to clear it from your system.
• According to ancient wisdom if you don’t relieve your bowels within an hour of waking you are constipated. Learn to identify common causes for this dis-ease in our culture. Learn a few simple changes that will affect how you feel throughout the day… including a bowel movement upon arising.
• Identify the six tastes. Explore new recipes that are specific for the end of Autumn.
• Differentiate between healthy and unhealthy cravings.

• During this month you will create a kitchen sanctuary – reduce clutter, clean out the pantry and transform your kitchen into a place you love to be in – clean, safe and organized.
• Learn techniques to train your awareness into your intuition when you cook – reduce the percentage of time you cook from recipes and start to listen to what your body needs and how to best serve your family a healthy, healing meal.
• Integrate routines to prevent setbacks during the long holidays season.
• Adopt breathing practices to optimize your energy body as we move towards the Winter Solstice.
• Explore cooking for the kapha season without the associated feelings of heaviness and bloating that can come with the comfort foods of the season.
• Take a tour through your subtle body anatomy – understanding the various levels and pathways of the body will help to create opening and to reveal health histories that will provide insight and understanding on multiple levels.

• Incorporate various hints and practices to help boost your immune system and keep your family healthy and happy through the winter.
• You will be guided with specific tools to deepen your spiritual practices to boost your immune system, absorb nutrients,and create winter thrive. Be supported in our inward season.
• Schedule a post-holiday detox/rejuvenation for yourself, and maybe even your family! You will receive a simple menu to allow yourself to align your life with your highest priorities.
• Spice water – experiment with those spices in the kitchen! Experience the power of the seeds, roots and leaves of the medicine you have right in your kitchen.
• Delve into your health history – start to reveal patterns and the progress of disease in your body and mind.
• Gain an understanding of the 6 stages of the disease process and learn to identify early symptoms and solutions.

• Distinguish what helps a woman synergize her body with the moon cycle. Integrate basic routines to help yourself, or your woman be in touch with her creative power center.
• Investigate through your inner body what the force of Pitta, heat, transformation and inflammation is all about… and what can go wrong.
• Integrate raw and cooked soups to become the mainstay of your evening meals. We’ll explore recipes for various doshas and troubleshoot integrating more living foods in winter for all body types.
• Learn about mixing spices (masalas and churnas) to treat various imbalances, including the common cold, sinus issues, and other winter maladies.
• Determine what makes a women feel discomfort with PMS, menstruation, and menopause. Implement rituals and routines to avoid future discomfort, and the tools to help others break basic outof-sync patterns.

• Incorporate kitchen practices to skillfully transition from Winter into Spring. (Most people lose their wellness-edge and get sick between seasonal transitions).
• Learn to detect the nature of Kapha in your body and mind. We’ll explore the 5 subdoshas of Kapha, what they do, what can go wrong, and how to change the energies in the body for kapha to alleviate.
• Practice an ancient technique for clearing ancestral patterns with tarpana, an Ayurvedic method of cleansing tarpaka Kapha.
• You will update your health history with information gained from the subdoshas of Kapha.
• Digest the skinny on using herbs, supplements, and vitamins. Become your own plan-based pharmacist.
• Detect what is happening in the waste channels (srotas) from the inside out.

• Demystify your lymph system. Practice the basic “shaking” technique for clearing lymph.
• Cleanse your blood of stagnation and inflammation so that you enter the summer season clear, clean and cool.
• Hone in on the best yoga poses for Spring.
• Spring is Kapha Season. We’ll investigate kapha imbalances, preventing the accumulation of kapha and how to use food, spices and herbs to treat symptoms in yourself or others.
• Determine what subtle shifts happen in YOUR body during spring and hone your routines and rituals accordingly in the kitchen.
• Develop your repertoire in the nutrient realm with designing elixirs, juices, and smoothies to meet the needs of various conditions.
• Grab recipes and simple strategies for the family to transition out of heavier food and into lighter spring fare.

• Knowing how to access information from your pulse (and other’s pulses) is a time-tested tool. Learn the beginning techniques for reading pulse. Also, gain a simple practice in pulse therapy.
• Learn how to harvest wild greens that are thriving in your local wild lands.
• Grab great recipes and which health conditions they treat to enhance your green living in Spring. By now, you will realize how much you know how to use food to create heating or cooling in the body.
• Holistic dental care is an emerging field, with roots in ancient Ayurvedic techniques. This month we’ll hone in on our home dental care.
• Explore the 4 deeper layers of tissue, according to Ayurveda.
• We’ll do an inner body investigation of fat, bone, bone marrow and reproductive fluid. You’ll gain a basic technique for assessing which doshas (energies/qualities) are in which tissue ofyour body. This inner-body information in the gateway to preventing future imbalance and disease.

• Explore the energetics of wild foods over cultivated foods in your awakened subtle body.
• Discover the connection between raw wild green prana and your deeper energy.
• Create an easy plan to optimize your summer health. Learn the best self-care practices for you in summer, and to instill simple pleasures like herbal foot bathing.
• Incorporate simple kitchen sadhana practices for a living foods summer.
• Learn basic solutions to acute and chronic summer health issues, including summer allergies, acute inflammation, acute infections, eye issues, summer weight gain, summer sinus
  problems, hives and eczema.
• Enjoy time for the course review and reflection on the process of your own transformation.

Books you need for the course.

• Textbook of Ayurveda: Fundamental Principles by Dr. Vasant Lad ($32 on Amazon.com).
• Eat, Taste, Heal by Yareda, et al
• Ayurvedic Beauty Care: Ageless Techniques to Invoke Natural Beauty by Melanie A. Sachs
• Fresh by Sergei and Valya Boutenko or Living Cuisine by Renee Loux Underkoffler

Optional books: 

• Ayurvedic Tongue Diagnosis – by Walter Kacera
• Green – Live Food Cuisine by Dr. Gabriel Cousens