"Ayurveda has provided me with the foundational tools for which to build a healthy and happy life upon, and it is my soul mission to share this profound knowledge with the rest of the world because everyone deserves to lead a happy & joyous life.." - Shay
Written by Shay Maclean, the co-founder of the Ayupōtheca Retreat, a Modern Ayurveda & Yoga retreat, for self healing & self realisation.
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AYURVEDA FOR MODERN TIMES
What does this really mean and why is it so important to bring Ayurveda (ancient knowledge/science/wisdom of how to live healthy) & Yoga (unification of mind body spirit for self realisation) back to its people?
Because in our purposely busy, well groomed, highly conditioned, white picket fenced lives we have lost our way chasing the shiney dollar sign and in that race not only have we forgotten that our true nature, is nature.. We’ve forgotten HOW to work with it, and are now suffering the implications of going against it. And above all we have forgotten WHY (our purpose) we really care about anything at all anymore. Modern humans have stopped acknowledging their spiritual intangible side because from the moment they wake they live purely in the mechanical/physical realm and get lost in all the doing, that they forget they’re a human-being and it’s their birthright to actually enjoy their life experience.
There’s a magnitude of unexplained mental and physical dis-ease in the west now that conventional systems are simply not equipped to understand and with so many people suffering, desperate for answers as to what ails them, it’s created a movement of people searching for true health, true spirituality, true medicine, true purpose but the problem is they’re getting lost on this journey because there’s so much information out there.
We have created the Ayupōtheca Retreat with Eva Lucie Daniela, founder of Retreats Collective, to demystify the ancient wisdom of nature's algorithms to help us all reclaim our true vitality so that we can reach for our potentiality in this lifetime.Together we aim to bring forth the long lost wisdom that's easily comprehended & integrated for those living a modern life.
Most of us are living so far removed from our natural environment there’s no wonder we no longer recognise our internal signals of when to feel hunger, when to feel tired, when to protect ourselves from real danger (hello unexpected anxiety panic attacks fight or flight mode). Majority of the world now struggles with a “disregulated nervous system” and they cannot switch back into “rest & digest” (gut problems aren’t rocket science you know, although great marketing will attempt to fool you into believing it is to push yet another gut healing product!)
We’ve been conditioned to fear our body, our mind, our environment, other people, all forms of conflict, all kinds of pathogens/allergens/viruses, life, death, love, gluten/food, we have been conditioned to fear everything! So much so that we lose trust in everything and we no longer trust our gut/instincts/intuition or the world; this is a very vulnerable place to be in life. When this level of sympathetic nervous system response is at play in the celiac plexus (the bundle of nerves at the end of the Vagus nerve ironically running from brain down into the gut, which its job is to warrant a stress response and put us on high alert) and if we have dislodged nahbi that’s not centered due to some repressed unreconciled emotional trauma) it’s a recipe for a daunting, jaded and fearful life..
Together we will explore simple yet profound non-judgmental, non-dogmatic ritual (Spirit-ritual) practices proven to help to regulate the vata which dominates the nervous system, embody the present moment, to stand strong in yourself and your ability to overcome any challenge and ultimately reclaim your autonomy so that you can digest, transform and eliminate all that life throws at you.
“We should not fear what’s outside of us & beyond control, what we should fear is being out of control inside ourselves yet not having the tools to re-gain our control” - Ayupōtheca
All about the Doshas and daily rituals to be continued in the next article..
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