VLW Store/Ayurvedic Yoga for Winter: Balancing Cold & Dry

  • $90 or 2 monthly payments of $45

Ayurvedic Yoga for Winter: Balancing Cold & Dry

  • Course
  • 18 Lessons

WHY: Want to learn how to adapt your practices of yoga āsana, prānāyāma, and meditation to meet the changing qualities of the season? Connect to the natural world through the way that you move and breathe. 

HOW: If you need alternative pricing to be able to afford the class, please reach out separately to villagelifewellness@gmail.com

WHAT: This online series will focus on practices to balance late fall into winter, elements of ether and air primarily; and as the season progresses into moisture, we balance cold and damp. Warm up and nourish together through some gentle practices of yoga and Ayurveda. This series will also include additional informational videos and recipes to watch and return to at your leisure throughout the week to make the season a little easier on your body and mind. Our lives sessions will be recorded as well and added to the library.

When:
Join us for this weekly ONLINE class, January 14th - Feb 11th, Wednesdays, 6-7:15 PM EDT where we will explore yoga from an Ayurvedic, elemental point of view.

Curious about Ayurveda and want to learn a little before class? Free pre-course material is offered including a 2 hour video on the basic lens of Ayurveda. Also enjoy extra goodies like recipes and writing after each class to return to throughout the year.

Contents

Pre-Course Materials

This introduction to Ayurveda video was done as a workshop, coming to you gratis with this course to provide essential background information regarding the 5 elements, three doshas, and 20 qualities or gunas that inform the basis of understanding seasonal practices. 


Introduction to the Tridosha
Ayurveda for Self Care Class 1 Handout.pdf
seasons.final (1).pdf

Vāta

Balancing dry, light, cold, clear, subtle, mobile, rough qualities through yogic practices...

Vata Pacifying Diet.pdf
love through sweet.pdf
sour words
Salty Taste
Roasted Butternut and Carrot Soup.png

Lifestyle

Seasonal practices to balance both vāta and kapha, depending upon your location and the degree of dry/wet winter. 
Dinacarya for all doshas
dinacarya planner.pdf
Self Care in vāta season

Agni

Learn about the various types of metabolism through this pranayama class. 

How much can you process right now?
How to make a ginger appetizer
Almond Date Ojas Balls copy.png
Agnihotra/ Homa Fire

Pranayama and Meditation for Fall

Relax. Restore. Refresh. 
cleanses recipes.pdf
Nasya and Pranayama: Wellbeing from the neck up

Recap and Relax

Recipe Giveaway