Ayurveda for Yoga Teachers

Description

Contents:

• Ayurveda: Body/Mind Balance
• Creating Health Through Ayurveda
• Yoga: Body/Mind Synergy
• The Subtle Body
• Ojas: The Essence of Physical Form
• Cultivating and Protecting Ojas
• Factors That Decrease Ojas
• Ama: Removing Toxicity with Ayurveda
• Types of Ama
• Agni: The Digestive Fire
• Using the Fire of Transformation
• Reducing Ama with Asana and Ayurveda
• Prana: The Movement Underpinning Life
• Vayus: The Five Primary Forms of Movement
• Prana and the Yoga Sutras
• The Five Elements
• The Three Doshas
• Dosha Functions
• The Principles of Ayurvedic Healing through Yoga
• The Energetics of Asana and Pranayama
• Yoga and the Mind
• Nature of the mind
• Doshas and Sense therapies
• Meditation according to Doshic types
• The Three Gunas of Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas
• Seasonal Ayurveda