Living Ayurveda Course with Cate Stillman Focus: 5 Senses Self-Care Learn and try Ayurvedic Self-Care for the senses. Do the practices and report the effects on the forum Reading Lesson 16: Ayurvedic Beauty Care by Melanie Sachs: (Mouth + Basics) p. 138-154 Special care of regions and parts of the body. If while you are reading you get inspired to do a practice, then stop reading and do the practice. (Eyes) Netra Basti: p. 237-242 (Nose) Nasya: p. 242-246 (Ears) Karna Purana, p. 249-250 The secret aspect of beauty refers to the energy, insight, and inspiration it takes to balance the inner and outer. Developing this special quality takes time, patience and a willingness to learn from experience. This is the mark of real maturity that ripens into deep lasting beauty that is experienced from within and seen by all from without. - Melanie Sachs Ayurvedic Beauty Care Eat Taste Heal, p. 163, Use your Sense Sensibly Optional (Skin) (this will resurface later: Ayurvedic Beauty Care: 155-179 Videos Netra Basti: Eye Care: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=f7o0t82rcxk Exercises: 5 Sense Self-Care - 2 pages Mahavakyas The three aspects of beauty are like a scale, one side holds the alankarams, or external ingredients, while the other hold the gunas, or internal ingredients. And the act of balancing itself is the third aspect, or rasa. This is magic. This is maturity. And this is beauty in its fullness. - Maya Tiwari Diet and Beauty Facials are Fun + Give your Face a Lift
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5 sense self-care As you accelerate your wellness trajectory, you will naturally desire sensory practices to optimize your perception and sensitivity. -Cate Sense Organ to Care For: Current self-care practices I do to create optimal perception Self-Care Practice I m going to try this month: Effect from Practice What I want to make a regular habit: Ears (Vata Skin (Vata Eyes (Pitta Mouth/ Tongue (Kapha Nose (Kapha
Mahavakyas (Great Statements) Choose one or more of the mahavakyas (Great Statements) from the list below to awaken your inner ear and purify your koshas. Breathe the statement in and out so that the words, the power of vak or speech, gains resonance in your cells. I am the whole. I am perfection itself. I am loved. All is being done by Consciousness. (or God, the Goddess, the Divine) All wisdom is available to me. Everything is being taken care of. There is perfection in everything, no matter how it seems. I am completely free. I am unborn, undying, beyond time and space. I am love itself. I am not the doer. I offer all this to Consciousness. I am Consciousness. I am evolution in action. Everything I need is within me. I am one with the Source of all. I am that I am. Notice the shift in your perception. Throughout the day, when you have thoughts of limitation or stress, override them with a mahavakya - a statement from your absolute nature.
Facials for Fun Feed your skin with food. Don t limit yourself to the ingredients. Instead, This could be you tonight. Fragrant Facial Mask 2 tablespoons oatmeal (superfine regular oatmeal ground in a blender) 2 teaspoons goat milk powder ½ teaspoon clay multani mitti clay (yellow clay from India), or plain white kaolin clay 1 teaspoon rose petal powder 1 teaspoon sandalwood powder 2 drops rose attar (essential rose oil from India infused in a sandalwood base) Mix all dry ingredients in a small jar with a tight-fitting lid. Take half of the dry powder and mix in 1 ounce of warm water; to this, add one drop of rose attar. Apply with a brush or the fingers. Allow the application to remain on the skin for 15 to 20 minutes before rinsing off with warm water. Almond Milk Cleanser 20 whole almonds 1 cup water 2 ounces rose hydrosol or lavender hydrosol 4 drops geranium essential oil 1 ounce vegetable glycerine Soak the almonds overnight and peel them. Blend in blender with the water and until liquefied; strain to remove residuals. Add the hydrosol to the almond milk, then the geranium essential oil, and then the vegetable glycerin. Shake vigorously before use. If kept refrigerated in an airtight container, this cleanser can last up to two weeks. Exfoliant/Scrub 1 part rice bran powder 1 part chickpea powder ¼ part hibiscus powder ¼ part rose powder ¼ part sandalwood powder ¼ part coriander powder Mix the ingredients together. When ready to use, take the amount needed and add a few drops of water to moisten before applying with circular movements to face and neck.
Give your face a lift. Simple head massage to relieve tension and press your reset button. Before you start In order to enjoy your self-massage you need to have warm hands, so before starting warm up your hands; wash them with warm water if needed. With your hands dry, rub them together very quickly; this warms them even more and builds up energy in your palms. Relax and free your mind from all the quotidian problems and stress. Now you are ready to start. Begin with a neck stretching Place your hands on the trapezius muscle, where the neck joins with the shoulders. While lightly pressing with your fingertips on the trapezius, start with a side stretching, left - and right. The stretching has to be done in a slow motion and the extension should be in the limits of comfort. Do this a few times on each side. Keeping your hands on the shoulders, continue with stretching forward backward in the same slow motion. Continue the stretching with alternative rotations; one rotation clockwise the next one counterclockwise. For rotations, the move should be as slow as possible. Repeat the rotations several times. The focus is not only on the neck s muscles, but also on the front neck, where stretching will activate the glands and lymph nodes. Shoulder squeezing Place your left hand on your right shoulder and squeeze the muscle between your palm and your fingers. Continue by squeezing the trapezius muscle, the deltoid and cover all the shoulder area. Repeat this move with your right hand on the left shoulder. Ideally, you should do this directly on the skin. Neck squeezing Place your hand on your back neck and gently squeeze it. Do not grasp between your thumb and your palm, you rather use only the palm to apply the squeeze. You can use any of the hands. Use moderate force as the neck is a sensitive area. This technique helps the neck muscles to relax and improves the blood circulation in brain. Eyebrows friction Starting from between your eyebrows, (foramen caecum), rub with both of your middle fingers along the eyebrows, distal, towards the sphenoid bone. When you reach the sphenoid bone, near the frontozygomatic suture, search for a small cavity and do a small circle fingertip friction. Alternatively this can be done with the thumb. This is an excellent tool against headaches and fatigue. Ear Massage Ear massage will help reduce the stress, increase digestion, and improve body temperature adjustment. Pull the ear backward with light force. Squeeze the ear between thumb and index applying a light pressure. Pull the earlobe downward with light force and release. This stimulates all the energetic points on the ear. This is very similar to auriculotherapy. Friction behind ears. Place the thumbs on the bone behind your ears. Applying a moderate pressure, (strong effleurage), move your thumbs downwards to the neck until you meet the shoulders. This feels great and helps the release of endorphins. Ideally, you should use some oil with this move. http://dorianbodnariuc.hubpages.com/ hub/how-to-do-a-self-head-massage