Module 1: Understand Your Physical & Emotional Body Types to Prevent Sickness, Maintain Your Health & Enhance Your Longevity
According to Ayurveda, knowing your body type (which you can learn from our dosha quiz), is like having access to the owner’s manual for your car. It will give you the right information about how to prevent sickness, maintain your health, and enhance your longevity. It will provide insight into your strengths, weaknesses, health predispositions, likes, and dislikes. It will also help you identify your longevity imbalances and what action steps you can take to resolve them.
In this first module, you’ll review the concept of a dosha. The “three-dosha theory” describes how the quantities and qualities of three fundamental types of substances called wind/air (vāta), bile/fire (pitta), and phlegm/earth-water (kapha) fluctuate in the body according to the seasons, time of day, process of digestion, and several other factors — and thereby determine changing conditions of growth, aging, health, and disease. These doshas make up your physical body type and provide answers regarding the health concerns linked to them based on your Ayurvedic Lifecycle.
Module 2: Repair the Lining of Your Gut, Lungs & Stomach to Boost Your Immune System
In this module, you’ll learn immune boosting strategies that focus on repairing the lining of the gut, lungs, and stomach — your first defense in an immune event. We’ll discuss how diet, lifestyle, breathing, and herbal medicines can boost your mood, energy, digestion, and immunity.
A strong immune system is essential — and we’re only just learning how essential it is! The immune system is carried by the lymphatic system, which starts in the digestive system. Here we find gut immunity, which makes up some 70% of our immunity. New studies have found that respiratory immunity is directly linked to gut immunity, tying our immune strength to how well we digest.
The key to immunity is found in the inner skin of the body, the epithelium — the linings of the digestive and respiratory tracts, where immunity starts. When stress, poor digestion, poor sleep, bad food, and a hectic lifestyle are present, this inner skin lining the digestive and respiratory tracts can be affected and make us more vulnerable to the next cold, flu, allergy, or vaccine reaction.
Module 3: Replace Stress Reduction With Stress Prevention to Protect Your Body From Stress-Related DNA Damage
In the West, we have taken tools like yoga, breathing, and meditation and turned them into stress reduction techniques, for which they have proven extremely effective. Traditionally, these techniques were a natural part of a daily and seasonal routine, geared toward enhancing self-awareness and tapping into an inner joy and bliss that allowed stress to be readily released.
Today, science has linked stress to a shorter life, accelerated aging, more frequent sickness, mental health concerns, and most importantly, poor quality of life. According to the longevity science of Ayurveda, doing and accomplishing less is not a solution for stress. Training the nervous system to be calm, centered, and at peace in the face of stress is offered as the key to health, longevity, and happiness.
The techniques in this module have been proven to reset our calm center and protect the body from stress-related DNA damage that directly accelerates aging.
Module 4: Reset Your Sleep Imbalances With Ayurvedic Rejuvenation Therapies for the Best Sleep of Your Life
Study after study reinforces the importance of a good night’s sleep. For many, getting those eight hours a night is a challenge. While it is common to think insomnia is caused by having too much energy to settle down and sleep, the actual cause is too little energy — being in a deep state of chronic depletion, burnout, or exhaustion.
Most sleep aids offer sedation to arrest the symptoms of a sleep-deprived, overactive mind, further sedating an already exhausted system and rarely addressing the underlying cause of insomnia. Stress and exhaustion disrupt the delicate balance between nature’s circadian rhythms and the body’s biological clocks.
Module 5: Still Your Mind With Ayurvedic Breathing, Intention & Meditation to Slow Aging, Improve Cognitive Functions & Enhance Your Mood
Studies link meditation techniques to better health, increased longevity, decreased DNA damage, improved mood, enhanced cognitive function, fewer visits to the doctor, and much more. The research was so impressive, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn focused her research on the effects of meditation. She found that certain practices slowed aging by 30% in one study and by 43% in another.
The science mapping the health benefits of breathing, meditation, and intention is cutting edge. According to Ayurveda, what we put our attention on becomes our reality. Science is now suggesting that when we still our minds, balance our respiratory gases (breathing), and then subtly introduce an intention of healing during meditation, the results can be quite significant.
Module 6: Stimulate Your Digestive Strength & Gut Immunity to Detoxify Your Body From Pollutants in Your Environment
Since the introduction of processed foods, pesticides, and preservatives, our ability to digest well has been severely compromised. According to Ayurveda, 85% of all disease begins with a digestive imbalance and more than 75% of the population complains of some digestive issue. The ability to digest well is directly linked to our ability to detoxify, and with 70 million tons of pollutants dumped into the atmosphere each year, even organic food and spring water are contaminated.
Instead of fixing the root problem, we have been told that taking digestive enzymes or removing hard-to-digest foods such as wheat, grains, dairy, nuts, beans, lectins, tomatoes, and others from our diets are solutions. The reality is that these hard-to-digest foods have a hormetic effect that challenges our digestion system, stimulating digestive strength and gut immunity. In this module, Dr. John troubleshoots each aspect of the digestive system and offers lifestyle, food, and herb options to reset the function and immunity of your digestive system.
Module 7: Recalibrate Your Circadian Cycle to Prevent Accelerated & Unnecessary Aging & Live Longer
A circadian rhythm, or circadian cycle, is a natural, internal process that regulates the sleep/wake cycle and repeats roughly every 24 hours. It can refer to any process that originates within an organism and responds to the environment. Circadian rhythm sleep disorders are a group of sleep disorders that share the common feature of a disruption in the timing of sleep. Circadian in Latin means “around or approximately” (circa) “a day” (diem). Circadian rhythm is the name given to your body’s 24-hour internal clock that controls your body’s sleep-wake cycle.
Circadian rhythms also affect the turning on and off of our biological clocks that determine the best time to eat, sleep, exercise and even take your herbs and medicines. The average American spends 90% of their time indoors that has created a sunlight and infrared light deficiency that is linked to accelerated and unnecessary aging. Ayurveda tells us that properly transitioning from one season to the next with seasonal foods is the key to preventing disease.
Module 8: Explore LifeSpa’s Ayurvedic “Short Home Cleanse” to Reset Your Digestion & Cleanse Your Organs of Pollutants
Today, more than 90% of the world’s population are breathing polluted air that is above the safe levels set by the WHO. In this module, Dr. Douillard will guide you through an Ayurvedic detoxification process called LifeSpa’s Short Home Cleanse that is proven to detox pesticides and environmental pollutants by over 50%. It is a 4-day kitchari and ghee cleanse that has been well studied.
Women’s World magazine conducted a focus group with 40 people who performed this cleanse — the average cleanser lost 11 pounds and it became the magazine’s next cover story. The Short Home Cleanse is not just a detox — it addresses the reason why we become toxic in the first place. It is a digestive reset — a liver, lymph, and tissue cleanse that helps heal the intestinal environment and restore a healthy microbiome.
This home Ayurvedic cleanse aims to restore digestive and detoxification function first, before the cleanse. The Short Home Cleanse is not just an intestinal cleanse, but an ancient detox technique now backed by modern science. Studies show this cleanses toxins from deep tissues in the brain, muscles, fat, and joints. The Short Home Cleanse can be done while working or resting, and will be adjusted to your individual sensitivity.
Module 9: Detox Old, Unwanted Emotions to Experience an Unburdened Heart & Mind for Inner Peace & Clarity
Ayurveda understands that the old emotional patterns of behavior we carry are primary causes of aging, stress, and degeneration. According to Ayurveda, the result of poor digestion is something called ama, Sanskrit for “raw, undigested, or uncooked.” Mental ama is what Ayurveda calls the emotional toxins stored in both fat and muscle that are responsible for the habit of repeating old, unwanted patterns of emotional behavior.
Studies suggest that up to 95% of our thoughts, actions, and behaviors come from impressions made in the first six years of life. Most of us are locked into repetitive patterns of behavior that unconsciously make us perform the same unproductive or unhealthy behaviors, again and again. Ayurveda recognized this and created tools to help us become conscious. Many of those tools are taught in this course.
Only by becoming aware of when we engage in patterns of behavior that do not serve us, can we change them. In this module, Dr. Douillard will share his Ayurvedic self-inquiry guide and take you step by step through how to free yourself from old, unwanted emotions.
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