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7 Reasons to Eat Food on Banana Leaves 🍃 1. T

7 Reasons to Eat Food on Banana Leaves 🍃

1. Tasty! 😋- Trust me and any one who has eaten from a banana leaf, the food is tastier. The reason is because there is a natural wax coating on the leaf that dissolves into hot food to add an earthy and fresh taste to the food. Furthermore, when you eat with your hands, the feeling of the green grooves on your fingertips enhances the sensory experience of eating.
2. Chemical Free - no chemical residues from washing detergents, glazed ceramics or plastic plates. Plus, the exterior wax prevents dust to stick. Simply give the leaf a quick rinse with water before serving food on it.
3. Eco-Friendly & Economical- Single use bio-degradable plates that can be turned into fertiliser. Forget disposable utensils that cost money, and worse, cost the environment.
4. No Cleaning Up 🧼- No need to do the dishes, plus save water (and soaps) from going down the drain.
5. Anti-Oxidant Addition - The leaves are rich in polyphenol anti-oxidants. These cancer preventing compounds that inhibit oxidation to protect from cell damage permeate the food (especially when hot) that sits on the banana leaf plate.
6. Karmically Hygienic & Pure - Different foods that may not align with your diet preferences (e.g. meat for a vegetarian) and different peoples saliva are absorbed into kitchen utensils and certainly carries peoples karma/energy on a subtle level. This is why purists like Vaidyas (Ayurvedic doctors) and Brahmins (pure holders of Vedic knowledge) will not eat from utensils that others have used.
7. Poison Detector - Poisonous or toxic food will turn green when placed on a banana leaf. The synergistic outcome is revealing. This was used in traditional times to detect when someone would try poison the king via food, and can be utilised today to detect food high in chemicals such as pesticides and heavy metals.

Personally, I use a (92.5%) silver plate to eat my food in (to absorb the medicinal minerals and elements of silver). I also intend to one day obtain a golden plate to eat from.
However, I don't think one can beat the banana leaf fresh from nature to intimately mingle with the food.

#BananaLeaf #BananaLeaves #HandFood #Ayurveda

Diwali: A Time to Revive the Light in the Heart 🔥 ❤️

Today is the new moon day of the lunar month of Kartik, one of the most auspicious months in the Vedic calendar (perhaps you can feel it? so many blessings happening this month!). Tonight is considered the darkest and most dense night of the year in India.

This day is also known as 'Kaalratrii.’
(“Raatrii” = night), so tonight is also the 'Night of Maa Kaal' when goddess Mother Durga, or the aspect of nature which removes irrelevance with motherly care, is celebrated for her power to destroy ignorance and to dispel darkness.

Deepavali / Diwali is celebrated this week for 3-5 days. Ancient vedic technology called “Yagya” and “Puja” is ceremoniously utilised to influence the law of nature directly connected to the flow of wealth and abundance. (As in the video).

Guru Deva, Swami Brahmanand Saraswati, (the “king of the yogis” from 1941-53) said “You people should consider Diwali as the time to revive the aatmajyoti (Light of the Transcendent Self) in your heart.”

“Deepavali” means “a row of earthen lit lamps.”
“Deepa” = “which shines” or a “light.”
“Vati” = “a row.”
To honour Diwali, light a lamp or better, a few. Light signifies purity, knowledge and auspiciousness.

Listen to Vital Veda Podcast episode #020 Living the High Value of Life with Abundance & Affluence (Laksmi) with @yashodadevima

This time of the year is when this abundant aspect of Natural Law is most lively.

May the light of life, pure consciousness, shine on you and reflect with your flavour of radiance onto all others to enhance peace and abundance for the whole world to enjoy.

How are you honouring Diwali? Other and I would love to know! Comment👇

#Diwali2020 #Deepavali2020 #Kaalratrii #MahaLaksmi #MahaLaxmi #Ayurveda #Deepam #Sattva #Ojas #Yagya #VedicTechnology

🎥 abundant puja (ceremony) from 2018 where a small house was packed with people jamming, signing, invoking and worshipping the Divine✨

TODAY in Ayurvedic realms and in the domain of hea

TODAY in Ayurvedic realms and in the domain of health is a very important day.
It is a day where every Ayurvedic practitioner, student or Vaidya (doctor) worships or invokes Dhanvantri.
Equally important is that today is an opportunity for anyone desiring to enhance perfect health in their life. This is achieved by invoking Dhanvantri.

Dhanvantri is the aspect of consciousness that governs the health of the universe.

Dhanvantri is the primordial force in nature that has the capability to bestow immortality.
While immortality of the physical body is only achieved in extreme and unique circumstances, enlivening Dhanvantri moves one towards immortality, that is to mean, longevity, optimal health, blissful mind free of imbalances and to become established in your Absolute state of Being in tune with Cosmic Intelligence, where nothing can make or break you.

Dhanvantri is the custodian of wealth, health and wisdom.
Health and wealth are welded together in supportive kinship.
Wealth ultimately expresses itself as spiritual and worldly abundance. An abundant reservoir of physiological energy.

Dhanvantri is revered as the celestial healer and physician of the Gods. He is also called Sudhapani, which means “carrying nectar in his hands” or “who’s hand is equal to nectar.” Dhanvantri consciousness maintains balance in the subtle realms of creation (Devata).

Similarly, Vaidyas, Ayurvedic practitioners and the healer within Everyone have been created by Cosmic Intelligence to maintain balance in this world and uphold the health of the planet.

Celebrating Global Ayurveda Day contributes to the collective awareness of the wisdom and role of Ayurveda as Nature’s intrinsic healing power, inspiring individuals to live a life in sync with the cosmic rhythms of Mother Earth, Mother Nature and Cosmic Intelligence.

EVERYBODY has Dhanvantari inside of them. It is an aspect of yourself that has the variabiltiy to be neglected, lie dormant or become enlivened.
Awaken Dhanvantri to heal yourselves, others and contribute to balance and unity in the world.
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Ways to honour Dhanvantri today, see comments.

How will you or how do you honour Dhanvantri? Comment👇

#dhanteras

A dog will recognise his master in whatever way he

A dog will recognise his master in whatever way he dresses. The master may dress in robes, suit and tie, or stand naked, but the dog will always recognise his master.

If we cannot recognise God, our beloved master, when he comes in a different dress from another religion, then we are less than that dog.

~ Narayan Prasad, recounted by Radhanath Swami.

📷 transcending in front of the fire the morning after a party.

Transcend religious differences and meet each other at Unity.

Thoughts on this? Comment👇

#Brahman #Ayurveda #Veda #VedicWisdom #SameGodDifferentPath #Transcend #VedicMeditation #TranscendentalMeditation

Nangali Going walk about with a group of men on

Nangali

Going walk about with a group of men on a sacred mountain that is traditionally communed with by Indigenous mobs as a rite of passage for boys and men.

Deeply connecting with nature and the subtle Beings that locally dwell on the mountain.
Grandfather and grandmother trees that nourish, protect, welcome and guide me with warming hospitality and ancient wisdom.

Untouched raw space and silence so isolated from human life that it showcases me death consciousness by eliminating all thoughts that are not present to this time and space. The bush has my utmost attention concentrated in seclusion.
No walking tracks but bush bashing with absolute reverence and care.
One water creek down a steep rocky slope with vines as obstacles and spontaneous rain water collection to hydrate our bodies bashed by the bush.💧

The masculine (that in most cases dominates in boys and men) usually causes us fellas to process our emotions and experiences inwardly ourselves. In most circumstances, we don’t necessarily know how, nor have been taught how to do this well.
Minimal to no sharing or talking about fundamental relations and experiences. So I highly value with great gratitude having brothers that I love, trust and respect to share and open up discussions which I hardly have engaged in the past.

Do you participate in men’s or women’s circles? Comment below👇

Tag a boy or man who could do with some balanced rites of passage and time with men and he can email us for info.

#ChopWoodCarryWater #ShivaMountain #HolyMountain #ShivaShakti #SacredMasculinity #MensCircle #MensGroup #SacredMasculine #Nangali #Ayurveda #Purusha 📷 most photos @jethrojamesphoto

Aloe Vera: A juicy medicinal succulent that you i

Aloe Vera: A juicy medicinal succulent that you implement into your diet and/or herbal regimen. 🌿   Learn the benefits, therapeutic applications and ancient wisdom behind this common plant that grows abundantly.  Learn how to harvest, purify and prepare Aloe Vera and about the best Aloe Vera products to buy.  IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS
🌿The Ayurvedic Wisdom on Aloe Vera
🌿Aloe Vera for Female Hormones and Menstrual Health
🌿Digestion & Aloe Vera
🌿Microbiome & Aloe Vera
🌿Aloe Vera as a potent Laxative
🌿Aloe Vera for Liver Health
🌿Aloe Vera for Blood Sugar and Diabetes
🌿Skin Health and Aloe Vera
*🌿Granti (helps removes tumours), Cancer and Aloe Vera
🌿Aloe Vera for Eye Health
🌿Aloe Vera for Animals and Pets
🌿Different Parts of the Aloe Vera Plant
🌿How to Take Aloe Vera
🌿Growing and Harvesting Your Own Aloe Vera + Preparations
🌿Preserving Aloe Vera
🌿Aloe Vera Products
+ more

Do you use Aloe Vera? How?
What did you take away from this podcast?
Have you increased your desire to use Aloe? Comment 👇

(Ever since I recorded this podcast, I have been harvesting fresh Aloe and regularly and applying it to my face and loving the facelift☺️).
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I thought Salmon was one of the most healthy fishe

I thought Salmon was one of the most healthy fishes… but I was wrong. 🐟

I have never in my practice condemned meat or fish.
I have always taught my patients HOW to eat meat and fish. In fact, meat and fish in Ayurveda are utilised as medicine.

(That being said, a vegetarian diet for most people is generally considered the healthiest diet).

Back to fish.🐟
One recommendation I always stress to my patients is to avoid fish with high mercury levels. This is because all around the world our oceans are perniciously contaminated with mercury in addition to the micro-plastics and other toxic pollutants.

So my general recommendation was and still is avoid high mercury fish: Bass, Lobster, Snapper, Tuna, Grouper, Marlin, Shark, Swordfish and Tilefish (top 9 highest in mercury).

When my patients smirked at no tuna anymore, they would always be relieved when I told them they could eat salmon.

While salmon can be wonderful for health, there was a crucial consideration I was missing….

Is the Salmon Farm Raised?

Conditions at fish farms are the same as conditions at factory farms – overcrowded, ill and infected animals are fed whatever it takes to grow them as big as possible.

To “mitigate” this infected environment, anti-biotics are added to the fish feed.

So now you get food on your plate that includes diseases, beneficial bacteria killers and the pernicious issue - emerging antibiotic resistant strains that enter your body.

The fish farming industry is also very unsustainable, plus an economic disaster for the wild caught-fish industry.

Farmed fish is now so common, that if you bought fish recently or ordered it in a restaurant, chances are it was farm raised. Note that farmed salmon is one of the worst and unhealthy types of fish you can eat.

More about Meat as Medicine and how to optimally eat meat and protein intake in my upcoming online course on Ayurvedic Nutrition next year.

What seafood do you acquire? Or do you refrain from eating it? Comment below👇

#FarmedFish #WildCaught #SeafoodDisaster #Ahara #Ayurveda #MeatAsMedicine #MedicinalMeat #CarnivoreDiet 📷 Michelle Parsley

Practically Embody the Three Doshas and Restore B

Practically Embody the Three Doshas and Restore Balance

This November 13 - 15, starting on Dhanvantri day: the Universal day when Ayurveda permeates the collective, my dear friend @josh_blau and I will be offering an Online Immersive Retreat.

The idea of this is to empower you with a deep and practical experience of the three doshas, Vata, Pitta, Kapha.

Understanding these three root energies of humanity through direct experience will then allow you to contribute to the balance in the collective.

This tangible understanding of the doshas will be provided through yoga practice, pranayama, meditation, ceremony and wisdom sessions.

Turbulence and un-stability are clearly dominating the collective now, and balance is required by those who have the capability and valour to bring it.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Morning Session:
* We will start our morning practice with a Puja (offering ceremony)
* Dosha inspired Yoga practice followed by pranayama & meditation
* Followed by a lecture on the specific dosha of the day

Evening Session:
* Evening Yoga Nidra practice
* Followed by Satsang (collectively gather in unity) & evening lecture on Ayurveda

Each session will end with journaling & homework.
Each day will focus on a different Dosha & experientially enliven that dosha within us.

All sessions and practices will be via zoom and will be recorded for you to keep.

Opportunities for a private mentoring session and consultation with Josh and I are included.

Link in bio to learn more and join the immersion.

#Ayurveda #LearnAyurveda #Dosha #Vata #Pitta #Kapha #AyurvedicYoga #Dhanvantri #Dhanvantari

Alzheimers: PREVENT the Tsunami that Dries Out Br

Alzheimers: PREVENT the Tsunami that Dries Out Brains 🌊 🧠

Experts are warning that “tsunamis of Alzheimer’s” are approaching the shores of human blood-brain-barriers.

Alzheimer’s is predicted to bankrupt the American Medicare system by 2033!

It has now become the third leading cause of death in USA!

Unfortunately, people blame these neuro-degenerative conditions on old age and think it is “normal.”
They think it is “normal” for their parents or grandparents to go into an old age home with these conditions.
While this may be becoming the “norm,” it is NOT natural.

Alzheimer’s is becoming known what clinicians call “Type 3 Diabetes.”
This is because one of the main pathologies of Alzheimer’s is insulin resistance in the brain.
This means your brain is starving of energy.

Prevention has never been so important.

Ayurveda emphasises that we should have the same cognitive performance at 85 years old then we did at 30 years old. Maybe you have met elderly in their 80s, 90s, or even hundreds who are fully alert and cognitively able.

This is natural health. This is your birth right.

Beta Amyloid Plaque Deposits (that deposit in the brain during Alzheimer’s) is actually part of your Defence Response.

We need to acknowledge why Beta amyloid plaque is there in the first place.

Alzheimer's and Dementia has been well understood by Ayurveda for thousands of years.

Read the full article to Learn to pathology and How to help Prevent and Heal Alzheimer's - See the blog in the LEARN section on my website.

#VatRoga #Dementia #Ayurveda #NeurolgocialHealth #Alzheimer’s #Veda #Nasya #CognitiveFunction #synapse art by Travis Bedel

While the masculine flavour of creation upholds th

While the masculine flavour of creation upholds the Absolute field of Pure Consciousness, which is also the field of the unmanifest, it is the feminine flavour of creation that contains the mechanisms that make the unmanifest manifest.✨

The feminine, known in the Vedas as Prakriti/Shakti/Sita/Devi, is the force of Natural Law that creates all expressed values on the basis of the pure intelligence of the masculine.
The masculine is known as Purusha/Shiva/Ram in the Vedas.

The unmanifest Purusha/Shiva upholds the manifest, giving it energy and power.
But without Prakriti/Shakti, there is no expression of the Self, the Self remains hidden within itself.
Without Prakriti (feminine), there can be no manifest creation.

But do remember, Purusha and Prakriti are one and inseparable.

How powerful are the masculine and feminine aspects of life and consciousness, that this polarity even exists at the most subtle levels of creation?
But do remember, the universe is birthed through mother.

Now read that👆🏼again.

More about the divine masculine and feminine, particularly the divine feminine and it’s creative energy, in the latest #VitalVedaPodcast episode #046 with @ydmmeditation - dropping in time for the sacred 9 Nights of Mother Divine #Navratri starting this Saturday.

How are you honouring the Devi? Comment👇

#ShivaShakti #PurushaPrakriti #Devi #Navaratri #JaiGuruDeva #JaiGuruDev #Veda #Ayurveda #DivineFeminine #SacredFeminine #YashodaDevi #Shakti

The destiny of the world lies in the hands of wome

The destiny of the world lies in the hands of women.
Woman is the creator. She has beauty, charm, grace and wisdom. She has her hand in the hand of God.

Woman is at the top of creation. This is her place and her Dharma, and this she must never loose, for if she does, there will be wars, suffering and cruelty, because she is the opposite of all these things. The nervous system of a woman is by nature more refined and much more delicate. She is the first to sense the good, the pure, the beautiful, the divine.

By nature, man is more gross. His position is to deal with the world, so he must be able to deal with stress.
Woman is balance, a balance of all nature. She takes in all the stress of her husband and children and does not pass it on. Must not pass it on. Healing is in the lap of the mother; she heals the child's soul. Her place is to see that man goes for higher consciousness. The love of mother that comes through the hands of every woman is Mother Divine. A woman should not get so tired. Her structure is for finger things.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

This weeks marks a divine time in the vedic calendar and in astrology: Nine Nights of Mother Divine, known as “Navaratri”, starting October 17.

I will be sharing more about Mother Divine in the next couple weeks, but for now - subscribe to the Vital Veda Podcast as we have a much awaited BONUS episode coming up on Devi (Mother Divine) and Shakti (Creative Feminine Energy) with an embodiment of Devi herself, @ydmmeditation (back by popular demand, the podcast guest with the most requests from the VV community).

Link in bio for more on Mother Divine, The Universal Mother and all her aspects.

#ShivaShakti #Devi #Shakti #MahaDevi #DivineFeminine #SacredFeminine #Maharishi #Soma #Ayurveda #Navaratri #Navratri #DurgaDevi #DivineMother 📷 @_alexanderklein_

How can you expect to fully heal any condition and

How can you expect to fully heal any condition and radiate vitality when sleep is not optimal?
Sleep is your main bio-rhythm - we need to optimise our sleep to improve all aspects of health.

In the latest episode of #TheVitalVedaPodcast I provide you with The Ultimate Sleep Guide.😴
I discuss:

* How sleep manifests according to Ayurveda and what actually is sleep.
* How dreams occur.
* Definition of Healthy and Proper Sleep
* The causative factors for improper sleep.
* Day-Sleep
* Excess Sleep
* Methods to Promote Optimal Sleep
* Pacify your nervous system.
* Melatonin
* Clean and optimal bedroom environment.
* Foods for healthy sleep.
* Herbs for healthy sleep.
* Treatments for healthy sleep.
* Children sleep and night terrors
* Night owls.
+ more! 😴 💤

🎧LINK IN BIO🎧

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