The Elements of Ayurveda Podcast

Episode 275

Kamalesh Ginger Hooven is interim Provost of Mount Madonna Institute, where she is the Director of the Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy program.

Kamalesh returns to the podcast to discuss the energy of prana, our vital life force energy and pranayama, breathing practices. This is a great follow up to the previous podcast episode #274 The Respiratory System (Prana Vaha Srotas) where Colette explains in detail how the prana vaha srotas carries this vital energy through the respiratory system. 

Colette chats with Kamalesh about the following:

• The energy of prana.
• What is pranayama.
• The relationship between the breath and the body/mind.
• The three parts of the breath.
• How to begin your pranayama practice.
• Types of pranayama:
  • balancing
  • heating 
  • cooling

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Episode 250

Monica is a busy single mother with her own prenatal massage and yoga business. She had been practicing yoga for many years and when she discovered Ayurveda it deeply resonated with her. 

Monica connected with Colette in 2021 to help her tailor the Ayurvedic wisdom to her needs and help her implement the practices into her life. She then went forward to do the Ayurvedic Digestive Reset Cleanse in July 2022. In this episode they discuss the following:

• Discovering Ayurveda in her Yoga practice.
• Balancing her Kapha/Vata constitution.
• Having self-compassion with implementing changes.
• Reframing self-love and self-care.
• How the Ayurvedic cleanse resulted in a paradigm shift.

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Episode 240

Kamalesh Ginger Hooven is Provost of Mount Madonna Institute and she is the Director of the Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy program.  

In our previous episode together #234 titled, Integrating Yoga Therapy and Ayurveda we discussed the three bodies, five sheaths, tanmatras and the internal limbs of Yoga.

In this episode we discuss the eight limbs of yoga in detail and how to tailor an Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy program to an individual.

We discuss the following:

• The eight limbs of Yoga:
  • Yama - disciplines
  • Niyama - positive observances
  • Asana - preparing the body to take a seat in meditation
  • Pranayama - breath control
  • Pratyahara - sense withdrawal
  • Dharana - focused concentration
  • Dhyana - meditative absorption
  • Samadhi - bliss or enlightenment
• Tailoring an Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy program keeping in mind the doshas, elements and the three principles of Ayurveda:
  • every cause has an effect
  • like increases like
  • opposites decrease

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Episode 199

Yoga, the sister science of Ayurveda manifests itself as four major paths. Patanjali, the Indian sage who is believed to have authored the Yoga Sutras, derived the four paths of Yoga for further enlightenment of people.

These four paths are like the branches of a tree with the roots deeply embedded in our inner self.  Colette describes these four paths, which are:

1. Bhakti Yoga
2. Karma Yoga
3. Rāja Yoga
4. Jñāna Yoga

Connecting with our true nature lies by connecting to these internal roots rather than searching for it outside of ourselves. Ayurveda and the four paths of Yoga help us navigate this journey to self-realization or to our true nature.

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