WiseWomanhood School

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Ayurveda

REFRESH and FEEL YOUNGER with AYURVEDA

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Cleanse & Rejuvenate with Ayurveda

with Terra Rafael

This 24 minute video introduces the processes of Ayurveda that can cleanse and rejuvenate.While there are many kinds of cleanses, Ayurveda emphasizes that

  1. cleanses should be individualized to best support the person
  2. only cleansing strips the person down rather than building – rejuvenation is an essential step to the process, which again needs to be individualized according to the state of the person after the cleanse
  3. cleansing and rejuvenating is often needed to “reset”  the body into a new phase of health
  4. cleansing and rejuvenating allows the body to receive other therapies with greater efficacy

There are many levels of cleansing and rejuvenating available-

  • cleansing foods
  • simple kichari diets
  • cleansing herbs
  • pancha karma – a deeper and more complex process.

Cleansing and rejuvenating can be important in supporting healthy menses, fertility, and menopause.

You may also like a mentoring session with Terra via phone or webcam to support your learning:

Or if you want to do a cleanse, a personal consultation with Terra can help assure the best experience, individualized for your current needs.

Want More? You Might Want To Learn Beginning Ayurveda too!

LEARN AND USE AYURVEDA FOR SELF CARE

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with Terra Rafael

There are so many health tips, diets, and regimes available today. How do you choose what is best for YOU? Ayurveda can help! This class series is the place to start. It will allow you to care for yourself and your family more wisely.

Ayurveda is the timeless teaching of India to support healthy, happy life.  This way of understanding and cooperating with the language of nature includes theory, assessment, and techniques to for self care as well as more complex work to treat disease. In the USA, there are now Ayurvedic Doctors, Practitioners, and Technicians who are recognized by the National Ayurvedic Medicine Association

First created to honor Ayurveda Awareness Month, these videos are an introduction to Ayurveda from the perspective of self-care.

Each video class builds on the others.

  1. Ayurveda Basics – Video (1:11 hr) and Slideshow PDF
  2. Simple Self Assessment – Video (1 hr)
  3. Simple Self Care – Video (52 min) and Slideshow PDF and Self Care PDF
  4. Digestive Fire – Key to Health – Video (25 min) and Digestive PDF
  5. Ayurvedic Daily Routines – Video (42 min)

You may also like to have mentoring sessions with Terra:

Or Personal Consultation with Terra

AYURVEDA for LABOR AND BIRTH – interview with Terra Rafael

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This 1 hour  (MP3) interview by Sarah Lou of BirthWorks with Terra Rafael shares various aspects of Ayurveda teachings supporting healthy labor and birth. Ayurveda focuses not only on the physical but also the energetic aspects of giving birth.

The energies of Nature flow around, within and through us – We are a part of Nature. Ayurveda teaches us how to read the language of Nature so we can work WITH Nature – crucial to giving birth.

Vata Dosha is very instrumental in how things move, how the baby will come out or stay in. We spoke specifically about the Apana Vayu or downward energy of Vata Dosha, which is key to not only labor and birth, but menstrual health, pregnancy health, fetal development, postpartum, and orgasm. Learning about it and how to care for it is crucial to all phases of women’s health!

MP3:

Ayurveda for Labor and Birth

OPTIMAL MENSTRUAL HEALTH with Ayurveda

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Created for health professionals, this video class ( 5+ hours and 75 pages of notes) offers Ayurveda and midwifery perspectives on the menstrual process and how to support it. Optional Certificate of Completion available with written exam.  If you want a less intensive and technical class on Menstrual Health try:  Menstrual and Fertility Health with Ayurveda    or on Menstrual Cramps try:  Getting to the Roots of Your Menstrual Cramps . You can also schedule a private consultation with Terra Rafael .

  • the displaced uterus
  • keys to menstrual health
  • self-care between and during the menstrual period

If you are new to Ayurveda, at least take the class Beginning Ayurveda before this one.

The section on treatment of menstrual disorders with Ayurveda shares foods, habits, and herbs to avoid or use for specific disorders. Covers:

  • How menstrual disorders effect  genital organs
  • Amenorrhea and case study
  • PCOS and case study
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Dysfunctional uterine bleeding with case study
  • Fibroids/Ovarian Cysts with case study
  • Endometriosis and Adenomyosis with cases
  • Premenstrual syndrome/Hormonal Mood Swings with cases

Class Includes:

Notes for Optimal Menstrual Health & Treating Menstrual Disorders with Ayurveda (PDF)

Video 1 – Menstrual Health – Female Anatomy Review Development of sexual organs; changes during menstrual cycles; the broad ligament; uterine layers; muscular layers of uterus; relationships of internal organs; lymph, nervous system ( 5 min:40sec)Video 2 – Menstrual Health – Female Cycles Review Usual cycle; normal cycle length variations; many interacting female cycles- hormonal endometrial; ovarian; cervical; uterine position; estrogen functions; progesterone functions; Interplay of hormones before and after ovulation; development of ovum; actual ovulation photos;  long-term egg quality formation; endometrial cycle with ovarian cycles;  cervical mucus cycle;  photos of women’s cervices throughout the monthly cycle; Uterine movements due to hormonal changes; How cycles coordinate over time. (11min:33 sec)

Video 3 – Menstrual Health – According to Ayurveda  Doshas, tissues, channels:  Doshas and the reproductive; Tissues; Shukravaha srotas / Artavavaha srotas; Determining Healthy Artava/Female Shukra; Causes of Vitiation; Factors for A healthy womb and ovaries ; The yoni; yoni mudra practice; herbal sitz bath practice; marma points (42 min:50 sec

Video 4 – Dysfunctional Positioning of the Uterus   Symptoms, causes, variations, a vata problem – can push into congestion (K) or inflammation (P) as well (34 min)

Video 5 – Terra’s Keys to Menstrual Health   Includes Honoring Menstrual Cycles with Song (13 Min

Video 6 – Self Care Recommendations  Self Care Recommendations For Between Moon Times ; Self Care Recommendations During Moon Times; (13:11 min )

Video 7 – Treating Menstrual Problems with Ayurveda   (2 hrs: 52 min)

Video 8 – Treating Menstrual Problems – Endometriosis and Adenomyosis  (16 min )

Video 9 – Treating Menstrual Problems – PreMenstrual Syndrome  (25 min )

Optional exam for a Certificate of Completion

How to Receive a Certificate of Completion

Optimal Menstrual Health with Ayurveda Class

  1. Read the notes and View the Video Classes
  2. Take the Written Exam and email it to Terra Rafael at wisewomanhood@gmail.com , including your name and email address
  3. Terra will review your exam, make comments, and, if you have demonstrated your understanding in the exam, email you a Certificate of Completion which you can apply to Continuing Education Credits, such as NAMA PACE.

You may also want mentoring with Terra to discuss questions or your individual client cases.

PREGNANCY, BIRTH, & POSTPARTUM with Ayurveda

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Pregnancy, Birth, & Postpartum with Ayurveda with Terra Rafael
This approx. 2 hour class covers Ayurvedic support for pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Ancient techniques are blended with Terra’s midwifery knowledge and experience. Originally presented to the Colorado Ayurvedic Medicine Association, it will make more sense if you know some Ayurveda.

If you’re new to Ayurveda, please first take the class Beginning Ayurveda.

For the whole class series, go to Women’s Health with Ayurveda.