Spring Offerings
Friends,
I just wrapped up a 12-day work intensive with Tiger for the digital platform. We filmed considerable new content we will roll out over the next few months.
Additionally, we planned two upcoming retreats:
Berkshire Yoga & Hiking: Fall 2023 Weekend Retreat
Oct 20-22, 2023
and
Wellness Week on Hilton Head Island, SC
April 25-28, 2024
Please drop us a note of interest if you'd like to consider attending.
But first, these offerings….
Ayurveda for Healthy Weight Workshop with Larissa and Kari
March 14, 2-4pm ET on Zoom
5-Day Gentle Ayurvedic Cleanse with Larissa Hall Carlson and Kari Harendorf
April 3-7
Depending on location, Spring 2023 has started, stopped, and started again. Our Cleanse will help you shed 'all things winter' and optimize your digestion.
Quick anecdote. One of the best things about my Ayurvedic studies has been stitching together all the threads of life, yoga, anatomy, nutrition and spiritual learning. For example, I have been passionate about nutrition since my early years, which I have studied formally and informally since the third grade. I distinctly remember how, as an eight-year-old, I came home from school after the first day of a big nutrition block and told my family that we could no longer drink soda with dinner. After that, I never drank one again. The rest of my family is another story. ;)
Nonetheless, I appreciate how achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is hard for millions.
The stats are staggering:
Percent of adults aged 20 and over with obesity: 41.9% (2017-March 2020)
Source: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2017-March 2020 Prepandemic Data Files-Development of Files and Prevalence Estimates for Selected Health Outcomes, table 5
Percent of adults aged 20 and over with overweight, including obesity: 73.6% (2017-2018)
Source: Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Severe Obesity Among Adults Aged 20 and Over: United States, 1960-1962 Through 2017-2018
How is it that with the weight-obsessed culture we live in and all the fad diets permeating every corner of the print, digital and social media, we seem to be getting bigger by the decade?
Unhealthy food, processed food, fast food are cheaper and more readily available. Eating healthy, real food, requires extra time and effort and costs more initially. The money you spend on your plate now, saves money in your pocket later if you consider what you aren’t shelling out to doctors and pharmacies in future years.
The reality is, much of our “processed food” is not “real food.” Industrial food products are wreaking havoc on our biology and ruining our digestion. Moreover, they perpetuate food addiction—thus making people fat.
We need to take a step back and look at the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda, a practice that has helped generations of people for millennia to improve their digestive health and take control of their health goals.
Surely you have heard the adage, "You are what you eat."
Ayurveda takes this further by additionally emphasizing the importance of how you eat, where you eat, and with whom—conscious eating.
Ayurvedic nutrition is a critical topic. Larissa and I have passionately spent decades studying this topic, and we are thrilled to deliver this Workshop together for you.
Please share these details with someone you feel would benefit from it.