The Elements of Ayurveda Podcast

Episode 295

Ayurvedic Doctor Simmi Chopra practices in New York and has a double Masters in Biostatistics and Molecular Biology from Rutgers University and JNU which helps her to understand health problems from both mainstream as well as the Ayurvedic perspective.

Colette chats with Simmi about her passion, geriatric health and preventing age-related diseases. They discuss arthritis in detail and focus on osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. They cover the following topics:

• Preventing age-related diseases in the Pitta stage of life.
• Types of arthritis and how each manifests in the body.
• The samprapti or progression of arthritis.
• Ayurvedic treatment of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
• Diet and lifestyle guidelines to help manage arthritis.

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Check out Simmi's website here.... www.sidhayur.com

Here's the buttermilk recipe mentioned in this episode.

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Episode 287

Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya is a licensed, board-certified physician-scientist and Fulbright Scholar with a focus on the wisdom and science of authentic medicines such as Ayurveda. 

In this episode I chat with Dr. Bhaswati about a recent article she wrote titled, Better Living Beyond Chemistry. In this article Dr. Bhaswati writes about how modern science, looking through the lens of chemistry, has a reductionist approach to medicine. We discuss the following:

• What modern medicine is lacking when looking through the lens of chemistry. 
• How medicine is a reflection of our spiritual vibrations.
• Why big data isn't conclusive.
• How Ayurvedic evidence is observed over thousands of years.
• The need to integrate prana and nature into modern medicine.

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 Episode 284

Vaidya Jayarajan Kodikannath represents a lineage of Ayurveda Practitioners from Kerala, India. He is the CEO and Academy Director of Kerala Ayurveda (USA) and is the President of NAMA, the National Ayurveda Medical Association in the US, with a mission to make Ayurveda as a credible profession in the Western world. 

Colette asks Dr. J his thoughts on the progression of Ayurveda in the West and they discuss the following:

• The global importance of Ayurveda.
• The status of Ayurveda in the West.
• Regulations in place to maintain adherence to the original Ayurvedic texts.
• Concerns with sustainability and environmental factors.
• Dr. J's outlook for the future of Ayurveda. 

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Episode 281

Jackie Christensen, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized educator in natural health, herbology, and Ayurveda. She serves as a faculty member for many prestigious colleges, including Mount Madonna Institute. Jackie is a Master Herbalist and in this episode, Colette chats with Jackie about the following:

• Herbology 101.
• Jackie's personal journey in becoming a Master Herbalist.
• The difference between Eastern and Western herbology.
• Jackie highlights some of her favourite herbs.
• Wildcrafting tips and how to make a milk thistle tincture.
• Concerns on over-harvesting of herbs.

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Check out Jackie's website here.... practiceayurveda.com

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Episode 238

Vaidya Jayarajan Kodikannath is a classically trained Ayurveda doctor and an accomplished teacher representing a lineage of Ayurveda Practitioners from Kerala, India. Dr. J is CEO of Kerala Ayurveda (USA) and is President of NAMA the National Ayurveda Medical Association in the US. 

"Ayurveda is not a disease management system, it's the management of the individual with the disease". - Dr. J

I heard Dr. J say this quote recently and I asked him to discuss in detail for this episode and in particular we wanted to talk about managing the senses as there is often lots of focus on the diet and lifestyle. We discuss the following:

• What is disease.
• The establishment of disease in the body.
• How Ayurveda addresses disease.
• How our sensory inputs impact our health and wellbeing.
• What happens in the body when our body perceives stress.
• How to manage our sensory inputs, our mental health and our emotional health.

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Episode 237

Ayurvedic educator, Mary Thompson discusses the eight factors affecting food utility and digestibility.

The eight factors which Mary breaks down are:

1. Prakruti - the nature of the food.
2. Processing - its impact on the quality of the food.
3. Food combining - choosing ingredients.
4. Quantity - tips on portion size and when to stop eating.
5. Habitat - where your food comes from.
6. Time - time of day, time of life, season.
7. Conscious dining - awareness during all stages of food preparation, eating and digestion.
8. Self-Responsibility - making empowered choices.

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Check out Mary's website and resources here... marythompsonayurveda.com

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Episode 232

We’re living in challenging times and this is resulting in a feeling of uncertainty and lack of stability in our foundational needs, like that of safety and security. This underlying stress can affect our body, our mind, our emotions and our behaviour.

In this episode, Colette gives some great advice from Ayurveda on how to manage these stressful times. She focuses on simplifying the information on how to balance the doshas:

• Vata is balanced with structure, routine and grounding practices.
• Pitta is balanced with cooling, calming and less intensity.
• Kapha is balanced with more movement, lightness and social activities.

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Episode 230

The first female lineage-holder of her distinguished Vedic tradition, Acharya Shunya is an internationally renowned scholar, teacher, author, speaker and scholar of nondual wisdom (Advaita) from India, and a classically-trained master of Yoga and Ayurveda.

In this episode, Colette chats with Acharya Shunya about her most recent book, Roar Like a Goddess: Every Woman's Guide to Becoming Unapologetically Powerful, Prosperous, and Peaceful. They discuss the following:

• The definition of Goddess and the powers of a Goddess.
• Why it's time to Roar Like A Goddess.
• Vedic wisdom on empowered womanhood.
• Vedic Goddess Shakti and her chief Goddess manifestations
  • Goddess Durga
  • Goddess Lakshmi
  • Goddess Saraswati
• Breaking free from patriarchal conditioning.
• Awakening our Goddess powers.

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Connect with Acharya Shunya via www.acharyashunya.com and www.awakenedself.com

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Episode 227

Dr. Paul Dugliss is a pioneer in the American medical system being one of the first physicians to integrate the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda into modern healthcare. He returns to the podcast as a follow-up to episode #219 Ayurveda, The Chakra System and Human Needs.

In this episode, we discuss the ten facets of the heart and cover the following topics:

• What are the ten facets of the heart.
• Meeting our foundational needs.
• Cultivating the ten facets.
• Accessing our true nature via the heart chakra.
• Heart-based meditation.
• The transformational effect of meditation.

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Check out the links Dr. Dugliss mentioned:

1. New World Ayurveda www.newworldayurveda.com
2. Heart Based Meditation www.heartcenteredworld.net

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Episode 219

Dr. Paul Dugliss is a pioneer in the American medical system being one of the first physicians to integrate the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda into modern healthcare. He has devoted his life to bringing Ayurveda to the mainstream with the New World Ayurveda School and continues to bring to his students an ever-evolving understanding of what living as a conscious, whole person, rooted in the heart means. 

In this episode, Colette chats with Dr. Dugliss about the correlation between the charka system our mental/emotional needs. They discuss the following:

• The role consciousness plays in our overall health and wellbeing.
• The five koshas of the body.
• How the chakras affect our mental/emotional programming.
• The importance of physical and mental health to access consciousness.
• The chakra system and the correlating endocrine system.
• How to nourish the chakra system.

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