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At a certain point in
every course, a bunch of students muster the
courage to gang up on me and ask if I really
practice all of this stuff! "And if you do",
they ask -- "what does it look like?" "And --
where do you find the time???" The questions
have become so common that I decided to record
my general answer, and make it available here.
I'll probably have to update this clip every 6
months, however, because Ayurvedic daily routine
is always self-adjusting...
In this streaming clip (about 40 minutes), you'll hear about the
daily patterns of someone who's been practicing Ayurveda (very imperfectly) over the last number
of years: I'll speak about my constitution and
its demands, the daily priorities of self-care
that keep me from being a misery-guts, and help
me to be of occasional use to others, my ideal
hours for work, sleep, and family life, the
herbs that work for me, impulses and blindspots
I have to be careful of, my seasonal cleansing
regimes, etc....
I hope it demystifies the whole thing a bit --
that underneath the Sanskrit terminology and the
Vedic worldview there is a simple flow of gentle
intuition that this gorgeous artform, over time
and with patience, helps you release from
within.
photo by
ekpark
Matthew's life under the thrall of Ayurveda:
Click
here to read about the entire AHECP.
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