Bhaswati Bhattacharya – Creating Sacred Moments: Practical Skills From Ayurveda

The Good Life is a life worth living, marked by happiness and satisfaction. But when depression and anxiety, worry and anger rule the mind, both physical and mental health are compromised. After witnessing generations of war and trauma, ancient traditions grounded societies by encouraging and teaching how individuals to prioritize calm, simplicity and alignment with cosmic consciousness. Steadily acknowledged as the foundation of the sacred, alignment is the use of our senses and actions to bring quiet to cacophony and sensory simplicity and sweetness to complicated encounters.

In this course, we will experiment with practical skills from Ayurveda that align the mind with cosmic calm. You will implement only those that work for you, and explore why some rituals do not appeal. We will raise our self-awareness and conscious experience in the present moment.

Join author-healer and physician-scientist Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya, a scholar in healing systems, as she explores the importance of aligning the mind, also known as rebalancing your Vata.

What You’ll Learn In Creating Sacred Moments: Practical Skills From Ayurveda

COURSE READING/RESOURCES:

* Optional readings are for further learning and are not essential to this course.

1. Ayurveda – A Brief Introduction and Guide, by Vasant Lad. The Ayurvedic Institute, 1996.

2. The Three Doshas, in Dr. GG Gangadharan. Ayurveda: The True Way to Restore Your Health and Happiness, Ebury Books, Penguin Random House, 2021.

3. (Optional) Svoboda, RE. Prakriti Your Ayurvedic Constitution. Sadhana Publications, 1998.

In this primer on the doshas of the body, Dr. Svoboda explains how the doshas weave through everything in our daily lives and how we can understand mental and physical health as well as longevity by knowing the doshas. Robert E. Svoboda BAMS, is a Texan who left medical school to study Ayurveda in the 1980s, and is the first American to be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. He is author of 12+ books on Ayurveda.

4. Cleaning the Senses: The Eyes. in, Bhattacharya, B. Everyday Ayurveda: Daily Habits That Can Change Your Life in a Day, Penguin Random House, 2015.

The foundation of all ayurvedic treatments is a good daily routine, known as dinacharya. Ayurvedic texts describe routines that align the human biochemical and bioelectric systems with the physical forces in nature — the sun, moon, gravity, and water. This bestselling book explains in simple terms the scientific basis and the practical application for lifestyle rituals still followed by Indians today.

5. Daily Routines, in J Kodikannath, AY Gregory. The Parent’s Complete Guide to Ayurveda, Shambhala Publications, 2022.

6. rtucarya, in Sebastian Pole. Ayurvedic Medicine-Principles of Traditional Practice, Churchill Livingstone, 2006

7. (Optional) Charaka Samhita. Sutrasthana.

The online project took one of the entire classic medical texts of Ayurveda and brought 108 people together to translate it into English. It is highly cross-referenced, but it requires medical knowledge, linguistic knowledge and a sense of the universal sciences. Nonetheless, it is worth seeing. The digest on the sections related to daily routine is provided in the link above.

8. Broken Clocks, in The Circadian Diabetes Code, by Satchin Panda. Rodale/Penguin Random House, New York, 2021.

9. Molecular Clocks throughout Body, Not Just Brain, Keep Tissues Humming – Scientific American.pdf

10. Holistic ABIHM Self-Assessment Quiz (.pdf). Created by the American Holistic Medical Association in the 1990s, this quiz is an excellent exam of self-care.

11. (Optional) Dopico XC, Evangelou M, Ferreira RC, et al.

Videos (9)

• Creating Sacred Moments – Class 1 – Be In The Present Moment
• Creating Sacred Moments – Class 2 – Eat Food That Supports Mental Calm
• Creating Sacred Moments – Class 3 – Work On I-Am-Not-Enough Issues
• Creating Sacred Moments – Class 4 – Build An Altar
• Creating Sacred Moments – Class 5 – Move Your Body
• Creating Sacred Moments – Class 6 – Fall Into Daily Routine
• Creating Sacred Moments – Class 7 – Rituals of Gratitude Attract Alignment with Reality
• Creating Sacred Moments – Class 8 – Bathe and Imbibe Pure Water
• Creating Sacred Moments – Class 9 – Breakthro

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