taking my own advice

So I was walking last night with a friend who last year had dropped the program...He was in town for a weekend seminar... He is going through a really difficult thing and to be honest, I can't say I didn't warn him. But, at any rate, we all have to go through a bit of darkness before we can frolic in the sunshine... So I recommended that he start creating his own space online by publishing his thoughts in a blog, much like this one. It is a brilliant idea and I started this last october to let people know what was going on and explain a bit of what i am doing with this crazy ayurveda stuff... and at some point, it became too complicated to explain all of this stuff and I became too busy and blah blah blah and my writing for the most part stopped. So, I made an agreement with myself. I am going to continue with my blog... in the way i intended so many months ago... and i believe that now it will be easier as i am assimilating this stuff so much more deeply and fully.

And it is a good exercise for explaining things outside of my current vernacular. So, this also means that questions are welcome... just attach them in the comments... and i will start to answer them...

I am seeing clients and up until now I have 2 regular yoga clients per week and five full ayurvedic clients and i am faced with having too many clients for the program and that is okay :)

Also I realized something a week or two ago... and it is this... people are sick... and i have agreed to recommend them to an MD when I see a need for referal... I have spotted one case of diabetes that i believe will be considered minor once tested. and this is the beauty of ayurveda... very early detection... there is still a major possibility that this can be managed and healed... but it also means that next weekend, I am to tell a woman that I believe she should be tested for diabetes. hmmm.. forgot that where mostly i am in these relationships with clients who are improving... the other edge of that sword is the side where there is an issue... and i have to tell them.

I have also located a case of fibromyalgia and the nice thing is that I can also provide the treatment protocol for what is called vata pushing pitta in mamsa dhatu...

this is our language of pathogenesis... vata pushing pitta into mamsa dhatu... what that means is that the movement principle (air/space) of the body is pushing the transformation (fire/water) principle in to the muscle tissues. This is of course not the only manifestation of the vata pushing pitta paradigm in the body and mind... but we are taught to treat both the root cause of the imbalance as well as the manifestations of the imbalance.

hmm... i am writing to you from the top of the mountain... in fact i am at a startbucks located across from a green space that shows views of prehistoric volcanoes a hundred or so miles away... the cumulus clouds are nestled comfortably overhead. They may in fact be stratocumulus perlucidus clouds... I do not know... but that reference is a tipping of the hat to my dear friend jerry... I started looking the terms up after our chat...

the winds are steady and the day has a tremendous calm... we could say the doshas, vata pitta kapha are in good harmony for this climate... :)


ciao for now...

but take a walk out your front door and allow yourselves to be in the environment... see that all that there is is part of you... you are a microcosm of this cosmic macrocosm

chikitsa

been a while since I have been here...

and i have a little confession

i began seeing clients... or as I can now refer to them as patients... and for the most part i feel pretty good... however my client this week is a really hard case and I felt like i really couldn't help her.

I felt like she really needed treatment that is beyond my abilities at this point... and then last night, i think i came through...

our lecture was regarding chikitsa... which is sanskrit for treatment... and suddenly this world started to really open up to me again... and i realized that although I feel a bit like I really need to have more tools at my disposal... I have only been in school since october...

and I guess my understanding is rather incredible considering that...

so I feel more confident than I have in a while... and i tell you this while also feeling like i really wish that I had three weeks off and then started a new trimester... i am sad that I have to wait until january to continue... but i guess it is also an opportunity to see what i do understand...

HI!!

 

hmmm... what can we do here!

 

so different... it was like a dream

this morning i awoke to a great surprise...

a rainy morning!


so i had to stay there... snuggling with kitties and listen to such enchantment... living in quite possibly one of the driest places on earth... the sound of rain is miraculous... and as i walked to school with the drizzle in my hair and a chill in my skin, i noticed that above me just a bit further up the mountain... it is snowing... my rain is that snow... a little lower...

i final down and many to go before i sleep...
and miles to go before i sleep...

and miles to go before i sleep

it's my party!!

today i am 33... and i am happy...



it is a funny thing you know, to have a birthday and realize that you are older and i guess most people i know are a little shy about becoming older... women also dont so much want to admit how old they are... but i have to say... although i did not put much stock in another birthday, this one is almost a testament to my practice, my choices and my life...

i am a practitioner of ayurveda, meditation, pranayama and thoughtful living... and it is this attention and awareness that brought a 33 year old woman into a position where most people think i am a lot younger than i am, even though my hair is grey. this 33 year old woman is healthier, happier, and more conscous in life and creativity and lerning than i ever was when i was younger... and i believe this to be due to food and lifestyle...

so this old young late sits writing to you from a tea house listening to jazz and observing all that this existence is , as far as i am able... and i write to you with a bliss in my heart... in my cells... and i hope for all who read this to take one hour out of thier day to do and be totally aware of what they are doing... no guilt, no judgement no pride... just do each thing with total awareness... no multitasking... if you eat, eat. if you smoke a cigarette, don't read and listen and drive at the same time, just smoke. if you notice the bird, observe it... be with the notification... no judgement, no guilt, no pride...

hey! i heard that gasp... that's right, i am not advocating smoking, i am simply asking you to really look at what you are doing and be with it... eventually you can ask yourself these actions are supportive of you happiness...

it's my birthday and i feel so good... i hope you can give this gift to yourelf i love you

the day before...

it's funny what happens when you stoop and sit and listen to the birds...

i have been looking at new things to learn and continuing to expand my education and then i am sitting somewhere and i listen to the birds... it is definitely spring time here and the birds are playful and frolicking... and i received an email...

ellie wrote and said... "One more thought; give your pitta minds a break! Take a walk, dance, breath fresh air, roll around in the greening grass, climb a tree!"

i think she is right... and so today i have walked around and thought about all the people i love... i spoke with one or two... and now i am enjoying a cup of chai and writing to you... so here is a little toast to rolling around in the grass!!