Good morning!! Today was routine at the Ayurvedic Retreat. I had all the treatments, walks, yoga, and started ghee again. ( beginner dose). Taking ghee is hard on you emotionally and physically. You get really tired, but keep up with massages and yoga. Being active is key. I went to the cooking class, which really interests me, but I need a good Ayurvedic cook book, and I got the details of the recommended book. Keeping low carbs is a good option for me. The weight is starting to go down. I can now do yoga poses without a fat gut getting in the way. I do feel better, and I am getting stronger slowly. On my return to Canada, I plan to eat mainly vegetarian, but will not be slavish. However, I will try to keep to some Ayurvedic principles that are very healthy. Cooking will be a new part of my life, and cooking with herbs, spices too, but not too much. Many herbs are healing, some spices are lovely but not that good for me on a regular basis. Ayurvedic cooking is not fatty, but I will certainly reduce the carbs. For me, quality of life is in purifying the body and mind by showing restraint with food. This is a spiritual value that I want to work on. Our society is based on more of everything, including food, so I want to try and live a life of less in everything. Indians, mostly live with way less than we do. More, for me, is not better quality of life. We all make our own choices.
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Above: Ramesh and James who do the pounding with these bags of herbs etc. Good for many things including weight loss. The bags are reheated each time they do the pounding on your body. It is not painful.
Above: the massage bags. Sometimes they end the strokes by wiping your feet with the bags!!
Above: my room at Ayurvedic retreat. Below: In the kitchen with the cook, Mahon, and Dr. Muli in the white coat. Nutrition is healing. Food here is delicious.
Above: Sheimugan my yoga teacher, and acupressure guy, and below.
Below: Sheimugan doing the Wheel
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