We all plant seeds . . . which are you planting? which are you tending? which are you weeding?
Mental wellness is inseparable from our health choices. When we give our bodies, especially our gut microbiome, healthful foods and experiences, we cultivate mental and emotional wellness.
According to Ayurveda and Yoga, we establish mental wellness just as we plant a seed in the ground and nurture it. The ground is our body, breath, voice, thought patterns, and feelings.
In this course, we will fertilize the unique qualities and potentials of our inner terrain with yoga classes, breathwork, sacred sound, and contemplative reflection.
Through these practices, we observe, tend, weed, and water our bodymind.
Join Scott as he unpacks the rich teachings from the Yogic & Ayurvedic traditions about how our minds function. He will also share the Ayurvedic & Yogic practices that support mental wellness.
In this course, we will:
- reveal the mental conditioning that operates in our lives on personal and collective levels
- learn practices for strengthening discernment and clarity
- renew our relationships to the foods and tastes that we love
- bring to light the workings behind food cravings
- discover why we self-medicate with food
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cultivate homeostasis in the five elements of our bodymind
Course Overview:
Welcome & Course Orientation
3 off-the-mat experiential sessions
+ Q&A with Scott
6 yoga classes
Physical and Subtle Body Practice with Scott
Guest Teachers
Dr. Robert Svoboda
Dr. Robert Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training he was tutored in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. He is the author of twelve books including Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution and the Aghora series, which discusses his experiences with his mentor during the years 1975 – 1983.
Dr. Samoon Ahmad
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
A practicing physician for thirty years, Dr. Ahmad has dedicated his professional life to helping individuals find balance in their mental and physical well-being. He founded the Integrative Center for Wellness to execute his innovative vision of incorporating psychiatric treatments with nutritional therapies to emphasize wellness of both the body and the mind. He specializes in treating patients with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, stuttering and weight management issues.
10% of the profit from this course will be
donated to:
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Scott Blossom
For more than 25 years, Scott Blossom has integrated Traditional Chinese (TCM), Ayurveda, somatics, and evidence-based nutrition into his clinical practice and educational offerings.
In addition to his clinical practice, Scott currently offers online integrative wellness courses on the intersection of microbiome science with Āyurveda and yoga-based somatic practices.
He received his Biology degree in 1993 from UC Santa Cruz, his licensure in TCM from the Santa Barbara College of Oriental Medicine in 1998. Scott has been mentored by and worked alongside renowned Āyurvedic physician and scholar Dr. Robert Svoboda for more than twenty years.
Always passionate about integrative medicine, Scott began his career pioneering yoga-based wellness classes and acupuncture with the staff and patients at the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara and Hospice of Santa Barbara. He has served on the faculty of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda since 2009.
Scott's mission is to inspire a regenerative revolution for individuals and society through multidimensional self-care, sacred reciprocity, and collective healing. Personally, this takes the form of an ongoing commitment to working with other white-bodied folks to become allies in social, sexual, and gender justice.
In 2011, Scott founded DoctorBlossom.com, a site dedicated to Ayurvedic education & nutrition.
WE have tiered, class-equitable, pay-what-supports-you pricing.
We believe that pricing doesn't have to be a weapon of classism: it can and should be a joyful act of service that creates stronger communities. Our model is inspired by the Green Bottle Model from Worts + Cunning.
We also want to help to create a conscious, intentional and value-aligned culture of payment.
Please read the following criteria and determine which price is appropriate for you:
- Highest price: You have access to financial security, own property, or have personal savings; if you are able to pay for "wants" and spend little time worrying about securing necessities in your life; if you have economic privilege and power in our community, this price is for you.
By choosing this price, you are “paying it forward” and contributing to a more equitable world by supporting course access for those with less.
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Middle price: You may be paying off debt or working to build savings, but you also have access to steady income. You do NOT spend most of your time thinking about meeting basic needs such as food, shelter, medical care, child care, etc.
Making this investment might mean you might have to cut back on some discretionary spending in your life (such as going out to dinner, buying coffee, buying a new outfit, or going on vacation), but the sacrifice is short-term, and will not harm you in the long term.
Lowest price: You have access to basic needs such as food, housing, and childcare, though sometimes it may feel difficult. You are able to put away money each month to save up to be able to pay for the program, but the middle tier price would mean that you have to save for longer than 12 months.
To apply for a scholarship, please send a paragraph about your financial need & your motivation to partipcate in Ayurveda & Yoga for Mental Wellness to [email protected]
Questions? Email the Doctor Blossom Team at [email protected]