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Ayurvedic Wisdom Series: Food Basics - What You Eat Affects Your Body and Mind with Vidya Chapman * Class 2 of a Four-Class Series

Thu, Mar 04

6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Eastern Time

Tuition: $20/class or $70 for Series

 

or Register for Second Class Only

Planting the Seeds of Good Health through Ayurvedic Wisdom: Ayurveda is an ancient science of self-healing, a holistic science that teaches how to stay healthy and how to live one’s daily life in harmony with nature. Each person represents a specific combination of the five elements: ether or space, air, fire, water and earth. Each one is part of a much bigger picture. With a basic foundation in Ayurvedic principles one can learn how to keep oneself in balance, for overall well-being and happiness.

  • It is recommended to register for these four classes as a series, as subsequent classes build on the previous ones. However, they can also be taken separately. Information from the previous classes will be elaborated on.
  • Class 2: Food Basics - What You Eat Affects Your Body and Mind

    Ayurveda places a great deal of emphasis on diet and lifestyle. Our bodies and minds reflect what we eat, drink and digest. The quality of the food, the quantity, the taste and even the power of digestion are influenced by what one consumes.

    You will learn how to stay in sync with yourself and with nature through the foods you eat. What you see, hear, taste, touch and smell can now be balanced with a new-found awareness.

    Vidya (Denise) Chapman is a certified yoga teacher since 2001, a licensed massage therapist, an ayurvedic practitioner and professional member of NAMA. After a life-threatening illness in 2002, she was introduced to Dr. Vasant Lad at Ananda Ashram. In 2007 Vidya travelled to India to study yoga with Nischala Joy Devi and Bhaskar and to see Ayurveda in its homeland. She is a graduate of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded by Dr. Vasant Lad, and of the Gurukula and Panchakarma Therapy programs at his institute and clinic in Pune, India. Vidya has taught Ayurvedic principles, philosophy and cooking at several yoga teacher trainings, as well as marma therapy, shirodhara, abhyanga and other ayurvedic body therapies at the Sivananda Yoga Retreat in Nassau, Bahamas.