Workshops
Spring Renewal Cleanse Workshop
Spring Cleanse Renewal Retreat
March 18th 11:00 am - 2:00 pm and March 19th 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
(For Women Only)
It’s that time of year again, spring!
It is time to cultivate the viriditas, the greening power of spring renewal, through a guided Ayurvedic cleanse and time in sacred space and nature with a circle of women.
We will be gathering Sundays March 18th and 19th for a non-residential retreat to enliven our inner fire (agni/digestion), cleanse our body of accumulated toxins (ama), and renew ourselves mind, body, and spirit in a circle of women at the lovely SEAreniTEA healing sanctuary on the pristine Gaviota Coast.
This workshop will be limited to 10 lucky women, so register soon to save your spot.
On Saturday we will gather to learn the basics of Ayurveda, the five elements and the three doshas, and to review the new Anahata Healing Arts Ayurvedic Cleanse Guidebook so that you can begin your self-guided home cleanse with confidence and clarity. We will then have a kitchari cooking demo followed by lunch and fresh tea from the gardens beneath the grand cypress. We will be nurtured by the beauty of the land and the sea and the circle of sisterhood under the wisdom of the cypress tree, which historically has been associated with healing, uprightness, and eternal life. Cypress trees thrive in poor soil and harsh climates and can teach us about resilience and adaptability.
On Sunday we will gather and open with gentle yoga asana, appropriate for all levels, followed by a lecture and demonstration about the gifts of Ayurvedic Abyyanga, the original transdermal medicine. We will discover together how to receive herbal intelligence through oiling the skin and practice the protection of our nervous system with a ‘spacesuit of love’.
We will close our weekend with a traditional fire ceremony (homa) to make offerings to the seven tongues of Kali (the flames of the fire) and observe the teachings of Ayurveda in a living and vital way, seeing that indeed our inner fire of digestion is a sacred fire into which we offer the gifts of food and nourishment to the holy vessel of our body. (Homa will be weather dependent due to possible risk of fire if there are high winds.)
Investment for this weekend renewal retreat is $250.
If you Register before February 12th early bird discount is $200.
You can register below.
Once you register, please send payment through PayPal to iinhale@hotmail.com with a note that reads ‘Spring Cleanse Renewal Retreat 2023’.
Your spot is reserved once payment is made. Payment is non-refundable but can be applied to massage, private yoga instruction, or Integrative Holistic Health Counseling with Anahata Healing Arts if you have an emergency and are unable to attend.
Register Here
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Spring and Fall Cleanse Workshops in the Ayurvedic Tradition
Typically offered in person in March and September around the equinoxes. We meet two Sundays for several hours to learn about foundations of Ayurveda, dinacharya (daily practices), simple yoga for self care, and review of the cleanse guidebook and procedures. This cleanse is nourishing, grounding, and upregulating for the digestive capacity (agni) which is the foundation of good health. Folks have enjoyed over the years the support of a lovely circle of people in process together in the challenges and gifts of Ayurvedic cleansing.
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Women’s Day Retreat
Learning to make traditional herbal infused oil called thaila together while learning the traditional and delicious Ayurvedic practice of self massage or Abhyanga. We also share in meditation, and ritual together. Each participant goes home with a beautiful copper oil warmer and an 8oz bottle of thaila, plus the means and method to make their own in the future.
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Native Plant Hikes
It’s been a bit since I’ve done one of these, but in the past they have been great fun. Visiting the local creeks and canyons together to reach the high places and visit the first peoples, the plants. We often do a circle with meditation somewhere along our hike and learn about the gifts of the old souls that have lived here on this land for millennia and longer, how to respectfully harvest, ways of using plants for medicine and magic, and more.
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Biodynamic Compost Loaf Workshop
A beautiful method for making compost with a rich and diverse microbiome to divert materials from the landfill while also creating life in the soil and abundance in the farm and garden! Offered at The Waldorf School of Santa Barbara.
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Amazon and Ayurveda, At the Confluence of Two Wisdom Streams
This is an online workshop on similarities and mutually beneficial support between these two systems of wisdom and devotion to plants and the natural world as “Mothers and Goddesses” who give us “light, energy, sustenance, your soul, you who are a conscious being.” Aka Ayurveda and the Mestizo Shamanism of Peru and the Amazon. There is a concurrent understanding in both traditions of sound being the ‘thing itself’ (think mantra and Icaros), as the stuff of the universe (Nadha Brahma, the world is sound), and a method for harmonizing our health on all levels of being through consciousness and vibration.