EP05: Deacon Carpenter - A Modern Ayurveda Story

01/09/20 • 82 min

Chara has a conversation with Deacon Carpenter a Clinical Ayurveda specialist, entrepreneur and author who’s road to becoming a modern healer has been anything but ordinary! From his awkward overweight beginnings as a teenage immigrant from the UK to the USA, to healing himself at an early age with the help of Ayurveda and yoga to a lifetime rollercoaster ride through the healthy and not so healthy worlds of fashion, media & advertising, technology, Big Pharma and the military industrial complex. He’s learned first hand the secret to what holds us together, tears us apart and ultimately heals the mind, body and soul... and it might not be what you think! Definitely have a listen!

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EP04: Evolving your yoga as you "Grow Up"

In this episode Chara and Maria talk about what it takes to make sure your practice continues to serve you as you age. What are the signs when your practice needs to adapt and change to serve you better, as you age, or anytime? Why is there so much resistance to changing and adapting practice to aging, and what teachers can do to help their students overcome that resistance? Once we do acknowledge that change needs to happen, where do we start? What happens when you age? What can potentially go wrong, and what do we need to do in yoga to address or ideally prevent problems? How can we adapt yoga without making it into a geriatric, boring practice?

How can an understanding of the ashramas (the traditional yogic stages of life) help us to reorient and adapt our practice and our teaching? What skills and resources do teachers need to cultivate in their students to help them navigate changes in an empowered, safe way? What does using yoga to age well look like? Join us for this wide ranging discussion.

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EP06: Eating Like You Love Yourself. The Ancient approach to a healthy diet.

Maria and Chara talk about the Ayurvedic approach to healthy eating along with Chara's book on the subject.

We explore:

Why Chara wrote her book after initially resisting the pull to focus her Ayurvedic teaching around food
How organising the book in seasons allowed Chara to address both the Ayurvedic approach to food and the application of ayurvedic Principles to people’s daily life
How the sister sciences of ayurveda and yoga differ in their intentions and approaches to eating.