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Ayurvedic Psychotherapy
Matthew provides Ayurvedic
Consultation
and Yoga Therapy on a private basis to
those who are seeking to resolve long-term
health challenges, those who are recovering from
injuries, and those who desire to further their
spiritual evolution. He makes use of the
traditional methods of Eightfold Diagnosis,
questioning, Ayurvedic Psychotherapy, and investigation of the
Ayurvedic astrology (from
the East Indian system) with particular focus on
the unfolding karma of health and vitality.
Rates and Policies:
Ayurvedic
Consultation and Yoga Therapy is the
application of time-honored techniques to
wellness, healing, and personal transformation. This
individualized process evaluates all appropriate
aspects of your life circumstance and draws on
the full depth of the Ayurvedic and Yogic traditions to help
you nourish your physical, mental, and emotional
needs. As well as being able to offer holistic
treatment regimes for specific challenges such
as diabetes, asthma, and auto-immune disorders,
Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy can manage or relieve chronic pain
caused by general muscular tension, mental
confusion, and emotional stress.
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Your protocol is typically structured
around 2 private consultation/instructional
meetings, spaced a week apart. Your unique Ayurvedic constitution,
structural condition, illness patterns, injury
history, dietary habits, and life goals will be
assessed and analyzed. Then, Matthew will build a
personalized home-study program that may include
some or all of the following: dietary and herbal
suggestions, asanas (body
liberation), pranayama (breath liberation),
sleep-enhancement practices, yama/niyama
(personal and social integrity), and meditation
(mind liberation), along with the tools you will need to
retain this discipline of self-discovery.
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An important thing to bear
in mind is that Ayurvedic medicine and Yoga
Therapy generally works from the gross to the
subtle. Briefly, this means that primary
aggravating factors must always be addressed
first. Postural, dietary, herbal, and
meditative therapies will only really begin to
work when the most basic needs of physical and
emotional health are satisfied.
This pattern may
sometimes appear in reverse. For example,
if you would like to lose weight, we will
obviously analyze your relationship to food and
exercise patterns. However, if there is
emotional stress or sorrow in your life, this
will most likely need to be addressed first, as
it is virtually impossible to lose weight under
stress. If you are living with a cancer
diagnosis, we will obviously look at your diet,
the appropriateness of herbs, breath
enhancement, and meditation. But if there
is some underlying grief, bitterness, or anger,
these will most likely have to be raised to
inquiry in order to proceed, because they often
lie at the heart of complex disease conditions.
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In short, we can say: you
can't expect herbs to help you if your diet is
unbalanced; you can't expect your sleep to
improve if you're overworked or using caffeine;
you can't expect meditation to help you if your
basic mental environment is compromised.
Every client of Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy should understand that it
is the whole person within their whole
circumstance who is receiving treatment.
Every client of will receive some or all of the
following tools:
- a general prakriti
(constitutional) assessment, employing many
diagnostic techniques such as pulse and tongue
analysis
- dietary evaluation
and suggestions, including possible herbal
therapies
- physical postures
appropriate to your build and condition
- breathing exercises
for home practice
- personalized
contemplation/meditation homework
- training in nasal
irrigation (sinus cleansing)
- guidance in
establishing your dinacharya (daily
routine), and planning for seasonal cleansing
- written
assignments to help retain your learning
- instruction in
personal ritual, according to the Vedic
traditions
You can view a sample of the kind of protocol
that is provided for all clients
here.
DOWNLOAD OUR CONSTITUTIONAL ASSESSMENT
QUESTIONNAIRE HERE.
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Our rates
and policies are as
follows:
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2 sessions (90
minutes each), $275, includes full
typewritten personalized programme. This is
ideal for those with several
lifestyle/dietary/emotional symptomologies
they would like to improve. The first
session is exploratory, and then the second
session involves receiving a typewritten programme of Ayurvedic
self-renewal featuring
lifestyle/dietary/herbal suggestions.
During the implementation of these practices,
full e-mail support is offered.
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Ayurvedic Psychotherapy: 10 1-hour sessions, $700
plus gst
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follow-up
sessions are assessed at $80 per hour, or part
thereof (minimum 30 minutes)
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it is our policy to try to be creative in
accepting payment from those in need by means
of trade, or work-study
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it is
preferable that fees be paid
online,
as RYA has no office staff -- it is better to
keep the money out of the consultation process
Natural change,
supported by learning and practice, comes at a
slow and steady pace. A first consultation
may help you notice obvious imbalances, but
usually three or more appointments are necessary
to begin to absorb the experiential learning
requested of the student of Ayurveda and Yoga.
It should be noted that the treatments
prescribed by these traditions are often
exploratory in nature, and require consistent
application and self-observation to achieve the
kind of lasting results that indicate progress
in the evolution of body, mind, and spirit.
This gives you, as the client, certain
responsibilities, which are detailed in our
Informed Consent and Client Agreement.
If you have further questions
about whether or not Yoga Therapy and Ayurvedic
Consultation is right for you, you may fill out
our
inquiry form.
We will do our best to respond within 24 hours.
Below you'll find
testimonials from past clients. You should also view our
Library of
Articles for more information on
perspectives and practices.
IMPORTANT NOTE #1: Yoga
Therapy and Ayurvedic consultation focus upon
overall quality of life, which makes its
statistical assessment nearly impossible.
As an experiential therapy of self-realization,
it cannot be taken into the lab and administered
in controlled settings. The reason for
this is simple: there are no controls for the
human mind, which, according to Ayurveda, is the
central causative factor in disease.
Naturally, therefore, the claims of the
tradition, and by extension those claims implied
by this website, have not been evaluated by
Health Canada or the FDA, and are not intended
to supplant the advice and care of licensed
medical doctors in the allopathic tradition.
IMPORTANT NOTE #2:
Yoga Therapy and Ayurvedic consultations may be
cancelled up to 48 hours in advance for a
refund, less a booking fee of $15. This
programme is meant to be regular in application,
and cumulative in effect. To honor these
requirements, the full
5-consultation programme should take place over no
more than a 10-week period. Any cancelled
appointment will have to be rescheduled within
one
week of its original time, or it will be
forfeited.
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If I were to sum everything up, I think the most
wonderful aspect of meeting with you has been
the greater internal acceptance I've felt as a
result. Ayurveda seems to put even more puzzle
pieces into place for me. My digestion has
improved significantly, my skin troubles (rosacea
& excema) have all but cleared up, years of
insomnia are behind me - and I feel as though I
understand how to maintain these lovely new
patterns without having to be rigid about them.
You are a wonderful guide, Matthew. Your ability
to read me at our first meeting astounded me,
and I continue to appreciate your counsel and
advice.
I'd also say that I don't think I'd have gone
off the pill had I not felt the incredible
effects of the cleanse we did this year. Indeed,
I think it was a moment of samadhi, honouring my
body, spirit, and mind, that led me to be able
the courage to do that. That would not have
happened without our work together. And I
even have one more thing to add: This is the
first time in 8 years that I haven't experienced
seasonal allergies. It suddenly occurred to me
last week that I haven't had any symptoms this
season - simply amazing! No runny nose, no
itchy eyes, no lumpy bumpy skin - amazing!
-- anonymous client
"After
I initially finished my time with you and with
the Yoga therapy I felt
like it had "changed my life" and changed my
outlook on my life. I felt
extremely connected to my body and knowing of
what was going on inside it.
I still feel that I am more aware of exactly
what it going on. From the
foods I eat, to exercise, to the energies around
it- I have found I am a
better listener and 'understander-er' of what it
feels. The other biggest
impression and thing I learned from the Yoga
therapy was the process and
honor of breathing. I feel so much more alive
because I am using it to the
potential and more aware of the three basic
parts of expansion-inhalation
and exhalation." -- Ellana Kelter
We
have been telling people how much the yoga has
helped Dick. He thinks he won't need back
surgery. Isn't that just wonderful! Thanks
again for all you have done for us. It was the
best 90 dollars we have ever spent. -- Jan
and Richard Gates
You were clear, professional and very, very
human with me at all times. -- Mike Irwin,
MATC
"I
highly recommend your class to anyone in my
situation. My illness was my motivation and in
the transition from "old habits" to a completely
different life and life-style, your emphasis and
patience and perseverance encourages me to
continue." -- a breast cancer survivor
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