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What is The Ayurveda Sanctuary?
The Sanctuary is a three-hour Online Workshop Series taught by renowned Ayurveda teacher and bestselling author: Acharya Shunya. Each Sanctuary takes a deep dive into nuanced aspects of the topic of that day. An immersion experience is created where the teacher can impart subtle knowledge from varying perspectives (body and psycho-spiritual) and the participants can feel held so they not only learn the knowledge but can also embody it.
Originally these workshops were an exclusive offering to Acharya Shunya's year-long self-healing program called Alchemy Through Ayurveda. In 2023 Acharya Shunya will open the Sanctuary to the wider public. She wants her pioneering teachings on Ayurveda lifestyle medicine to awaken health and wellbeing and reach more people across the globe.
Acharya Shunya believes there is a gap in the contemporary healthcare system and true health. Western medicine is failing to empower us. We need and desire appropriate food and immunity enhancing and mind, body, soul-rejuvenating strategies. When Ayurveda is taught and practiced within a psycho-spiritual and holistic context it restores health without creating side effects. It enhances quality of life, personal power and wellbeing and brings joy through alignment with the laws and biorhythms of nature.
Traditional Ayurveda: Relief from What Ails Us
Ayurveda is a 5000- year old ancient Indian science of health and healing. It is meant to be imparted in all its purity and without dilution; spiritually, psychologically and ecologically rooted in tradition and grounded in the holistic life transformative wisdom of the Vedas. Acharya Shunya literally grew up with Ayurveda in her Vedic lineage - one that goes back 2000- years in the heartland of India. She studied and lived Ayurveda everyday for 14 years under her grandfather and Guru, 'Baba' Ayodhya Nath's tutelage. For the last two decades she has been advocating for and leading traditional Ayurveda education on the world stage.
Acharya Shunya is a champion for a return to the original tradition. She imparts a deeply holistic model and cautions learning modernized and diluted versions of Ayurveda that are so readily available. Tap into true knowledge from the source texts to attain abiding health awaiting within each one of us!
The Sanctuary offers Acharya Shunya's unique and celebrated Ayurvedic teachings in a digestible, half-day workshop format.
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The Invitation
We invite seekers of true health and wellbeing of the body, mind and soul. Experience this original wisdom as a blessing for your being.
This is a rare and special opportunity to study with a master of the tradition for a half-day immersion in food and lifestyle practices, mind-stablizing tools and spiritual insights. It is an invitation to heal the body, mind and soul through the timeless path of Ayurveda, the sister science of Yoga and Vedanta.
The Sanctuary will give you new insights, hopes and possibilities. New pathways to health will open as you discover your own unique healing journey.
How Does This work?
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Four sanctuaries shall be offered year after year, in the same week and month, beginning with the first workshop in January, 2023.
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Each Sanctuary is a stand-alone, exclusive workshop. It will have a body-based wellness focus, while always addressing the mind, soul, and social dimensions of life.
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Each Sanctuary is beneficial for beginners and advanced students to practitioners. No prior knowledge required.
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You can sign up for one workshop or all four.
Why Does This work?
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Health is not just a possibility that you are lucky to achieve. It is a reality, an underlying natural state of being.
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Once you shall learn to live in alignment with Nature’s intelligence, health will manifest.
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This is the promise of Ayurveda, India’s five-thousand-year-old system of health and healing.
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From Acharya Shunya's Book: Ayurveda lifestyle Wisdom (Sounds True, 2017)
The Benefits
Previous workshop participants describe Acharya Shunya's Ayurveda workshops as life altering and profoundly effective. They facilitate breakthroughs in understanding and empowering health and elevating consciousness.
Read student testimonials and stories of transformation by clicking here.
While a year-long systematic study is ideal, the Ayurveda Sanctuary is a great place to check out Ayurveda, and its potency when taught by an insightful and compassionate teacher. For those already studying or practicing Ayurveda the Sanctuary is an opportunity to go deep into a topic and learn subtle aspects that cannot be found in texts.
Participants will also get to listen in on short dialogues between Acharya Shunya and students from her year long Alchemy Through Ayurveda course. This added community aspect will additionally make the Sanctuary a beautiful abode of learning, connections and hope!
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The Teacher
Acharya Shunya is a globally-recognized exponent of classical Ayurveda anchored in classic Vedic spiritual tradition. Author of several bestselling books including international bestseller "Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom", that was nominated amongst top -10 books in alternative medicine by Health Line, in 2017, Shunya was also recognized amongst top-100 teachers in Ayurveda and Yoga by Spirituality and Health Magazine in 2016. She has served as advisor to Government of India on international Ayurveda affairs ( 2016 to 2018); and she also served for two consecutive terms as President of the California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine (CAAM). Acharya Shunya has taught at Kripalu, Omega, Sounds True, University of California – San Francisco, Los Angeles and Berkeley, Stanford University, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), 1440.org, Shift Network, The International Ayurveda Delegates Assembly (a 60-country consortium), World Ayurveda Congress WAC) and the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA). She was also invited to present on the status of “Ayurveda and Yoga in the United States” to the Government of India, a rare honor bestowed upon by Acharya Shunya by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, India, in 2016.
Past Sanctuaries
What's Included in Each Sanctuary
LIVE wisdom transmissions by
Acharya Shunya
LIVE teachings and demos by
Assistant Teachers
Access to Session Recordings
Q+A+ Share
opportunities
Meditations, Yoga, Soul Evoking Rituals
Enroll in Individual Workshops
All Four Sanctuaries
Bundle Offer
Enroll in the bundle to attend the Mental Health session live on 29th Oct 2023 and to get the recordings of the following past workshops.
# Heal Your Gut
# Women's health & Sexuality
# Perfect Sleep
We would be happy to honor a refund within 10 days from the date of purchase
Mental Health
Ayurveda specializes in a unique approach to self-manage our thoughts and change the quality of our mind-based awareness from one that is stuck in depression, anxiety, grief, loneliness and emotional stress to one that is illumined, enabled and intelligent. It emphasizes emotional balance, spiritual development as well as physical balance. It even looks towards cultivating a healthy relationship with our environment (natural and social), so that we can live in harmony with all of existence. Ayurveda believes these interconnected aspects of our lives contribute to sound and sustainable mental health. Do not miss this very special opportunity to change the trajectory of your life by learning to support your mind with Ayurveda.
Sunday, October 29, 2023 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM PST, US
Heal Your Gut
Ayurveda’s 5000 years of experience in healing the gut makes this course ideal for anyone dealing with beginning or advanced digestive issues. It is also ideal for someone who wants to proactively optimize their digestive health. You will learn unique insights as well as practical tools and wisdom on how to diagnose the state of your own metabolism (agni) and restore it to health. This includes the use of Ayurvedic spices in cooking, home remedies, yogic-breathing techniques, unique meditation and yoga postures, all oriented to support and bring balance to digestive health. You will learn two recipes that will become your go to recipes for healthy digestion that are both delicious and easy to make. This workshop will expedite your journey towards improved gut health.
Women's Health & Sexuality
Women's bodies require special care, especially as they age and transition from birth to youthful and fertile years, and then to menopause and beyond. Their breasts, womb, menstrual and post menstrual cycles deserve attention. Women's sexuality is tied to both their biology and beliefs - important topics that will be covered in this in depth workshop. Acharya Shunya will share specific kitchen spices and herbs that support women's health and improve libido, as well as strategies that help one age gracefully. If you are a woman, or someone who supports a woman-partner, friend or are a grown child of an aging woman, this workshop will serve as a great resource. You will find Ayurveda's ancient wisdom a beautiful balm for women of all ages.
Perfect Sleep
Sleep is paramount for good health. Modern lifestyle and stress is often a challenge to a good night's sleep, creating the grounds for much emotional and physical distress. In this workshop learn how you can restore sleep to its natural rhythm and quality and in sync with the lunar and solar biorhythms. Gain insights on foods to avoid and common lifestyle mistakes that compromise sleep. You will learn the best times to go to bed and wake, wind-down practices and recipes that will help you sleep soundly. Specific self-massage techniques, essential oils, herbal teas and mantras can also restore your natural relationship with sleep. Yogic practices like pranayama (breathing techniques), yoga asanas and mudras also help calm the body, mind and nervous system before bed. This sanctuary will cover many tools and practices to help you restore your sleep.
Meet The Assistant Teachers
Vimala Devi
Concepts
Chef Sanjai
Recipes
Lakshmi Tracy
Cunningham
Beauty
Soumya Kristin Renee
Yoga
The Sanctuary is Rooted in Tradition
Acharya Shunya was fortunate to have been born in a 2000-year old spiritual Vedic lineage of teachers and healers from India. She was in an ancestral home with her legendary grandfather and lived traditional Ayurveda from a young age. Acharya Shunya conveys the deeper knowledge of Ayurveda, maintaining the original beauty, authenticity, purity, and power of the teachings often lost to modern teachers.
Acharya Shunya’s 14 year Ayurveda education took place inside a traditional wisdom school (Gurukulam). In addition to being clinically sound, it was suffused with spiritual insights from the Vedas, integrated with Yogic and Advaita (nondual) philosophy and enriched with ancestral food and herbal wisdom. This background created a strong foundation for awakening health and lasting wellbeing.
Today, Shunya imparts this lineage enabled wisdom of Ayurveda wholeheartedly, to anyone who cares to study with her. Her students reap profound spiritual wellbeing and unprecedented healing at the level of the body and mind. Moreover, Acharya Shunya has used the spiritually integrated model of Ayurveda to deeply examine her relationship with herself and the world. In doing so, she was able to overcome her own physical and emotional challenges, remove the veils of self-ignorance and awaken to a deeper truth, to reside in a state of abiding health, inner peace and soul contentment.
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