Ayurveda Well-Being Series for North Central Michigan College Lifelong Learning
Wednesdays October 26 – November 2
6:00 – 7:15pmET
On-Line Course via Zoom
$100
Payment expected at time of registration.
Ayurvedic Self-Care Wisdom for Greater Wellbeing
The tumult of change, loss, and unknowns over the past few years has caused stress in many people’s bodies and minds. If you’ve noticed a change in digestion, mental focus, emotional health, sleep patterns, or energy levels, this course will help you start new path to feeling better.
This 4-week adventure into Ayurveda’s ancient holistic wisdom and its system of easy, effective self-care rituals will create lifelong benefits in your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. Each week provides an Ayurvedic perspective on the lungs, brain, heart, and liver. Wellbeing in these vital organs creates holistic vitality wealth in all aspects of life- personal, professional, family, spiritual, and creative.
“A healthy person is free from dependency on antacids or enzymes to digest food, coffee to “get up and go” in morning, a glass of wine to calm nerves, sugar binges to boost energy, and, a nightcap or pill to fall asleep. ”
Kellen will share simple daily self-care investments for each vital organ. Self-care rituals you can make in order (and holy chaos) to breathe easier during allergy season, avoid catching seasonal bugs, have better focus at work, experience smoother emotions, and partake in the upcoming holiday treats, sans feeling bloated or catching that post-holiday cold. These tips will easily merge into your daily routines and become lifelong habits for enjoying holistic vitality.
Investing in Your Wellbeing Creates Lifelong Benefits
In this course, you will learn and understand:
The function of four vital organs- lungs, brain, heart, and liver; and, how they relate to Ayurveda’s five elements – space, air, fire, water, and earth.
The relationship between these vital organs and subtle body - nervous system and pranic (energetic) body.
Two ways these vital organs are affected during fall and winter season, and, become depleted through poor lifestyle and food choices.
Two easy, effective, and enjoyable holistic self-care rituals to support vitality in these four vital organs.
Ayurvedic self-care tips, common foods, and easy yoga poses to support vitality in your lungs, brain, heart, and liver.
Assignment Adventure:
Students keep a “Vital Organs Adventure Journal”- to explore cause and effects of autumn, weather, foods, and daily habits on the 4 vital organs.
Integrating new bedtime routine, based on Kellen’s teaching and suggestions.
By End of Course, You Will:
• Recognize when a vital organ is stressed; and know how to restore balance by using 1-2 easy, effective Ayurvedic self-care techniques.
• Perform a breathing practice to support mental wellbeing.
• Know how to use an Ayurvedic acupressure point for each vital organ.
Have greater appreciation for beauty in life’s simple things and in nature’s healing magic.