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Ayurveda—reset renew rebalance

The three main pillars of any Ayurvedic healthcare plan include resetting your circadian rhythm, renewing your digestion and keeping your constitution in balance. I offer a range of services to achieve this.

It all begins with an Ayurvedic consultation. Next practice the three pillars of Ayurveda. Finally you need to commit to the changes consistently to really experience the benefits.

To support you in this I offer an Ayurvedic consultation, a 21-day supported challenge and a 12-week supported, personally designed healthcare plan.

Ayurvedic consultation

This consultation identifies any imbalances after which I email you food and lifestyle advice to bring your constitution back into, and keep it, in balance.

What you get

60-minute in person consultation at Neal’s Yard Therapies in Bath, or an 80-minute online consultation. Prior to the consultation I will email a health form to fill in. During the consultation we will take a thorough look at your health history and discover any constitutional imbalances—one of the foundational causes for disease and illness. After the consultation I will email dietary and lifestyle advice.

The 21-day supported challenge

I walk you through all three pillars supporting you to incorporate these into your life. If you book within 2 weeks of your consultation the cost of the consultation is deducted. The 21-day challenge includes a consultation, so you can book straight into these if you prefer.

What you get

This challenge introduces you to the three pillars of Ayurveda—circadian rhythm reset, digestive renewal and constitutional rebalance—through a personalised 21-day challenge. The package includes an Ayurvedic consultation, 4 coaching sessions and email or what’s app contact, To Do lists, Menus and other helpful handouts.—book a discovery call if you would like to know more.

The 12-week health programme

This programme builds on the 21-day challenge, helping you to develop a firm foundation for health. If you book this within 2 weeks of either a consultation or 21-day challenge the cost is deducted. The 12-week health programme includes a consultation, so you can book straight into these if you prefer.

What you get

The 12-week health plan is for those who really want to put the power of an Ayurvedic approach into practice. When we have been feeling below par for a while, it can take time and support to turn the ship around and start heading out into clear waters. That’s what this 12-week health plan is all about. At the end of the 12 weeks you will have everything you need to create your own Ayurvedic health plan for your changing needs.  The package includes an Ayurvedic consultation and builds on everything in the 21-day challenge—book a discovery call if you would like to know more.

Hypnotherapy for stress

Embedded in my Solution Focused Hypnotherapy training, and where appropriate I can include futures coaching. The process usually takes 8-12 weeks to start turning things around, and during that time you will learn how to do this for yourself, prior to stress levels getting too high—when stress levels are high it is difficult to access the part of the brain that you need to be in, to support your brain to manage the stresses in your life—book a discovery call if you would like to know more.

Futures Coaching

Using the John Whitmore model of coaching, we identify your goals and how you will achieve them. These sessions can be combined with Solution Focused Hypnotherapy to support you to fire up the neural networks that will you to achieve your goals, and I can provide personally written recordings to support this process.

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Soil

Soil is part of the Earth’s eco-system, which has successfully supported life on Earth for millions of years, while human civilisations, which have been around for a fraction of that time, have come and gone.

Soil, which is vital to life on earth, is a beautiful non-renewable resource that feeds everything on the planet. It is a living eco-system, an amazing mix of minerals, water, air, organic matter, as well as countless organisms – the decaying remains of once-living things. This microbiome provides for life on earth.

Soil microbes help regulate our emotions and immune response, play a key role in determining the nutrient content of our food. They decompose matter supporting the nutrient uptake of plants, while plants secrete compounds to feed nearby microbes. Microbes also enable plants to manufacture a series of chemicals called phytonutrients or antioxidants, these protect plants from pests and other stressors, and give fruits and vegetables their colour, smell and distinctive flavour. These same chemicals directly benefit us by stimulating our immune system, regulating our hormones and slowing the growth of human cancer cells.

Dr Zach Bush, a renowned US based physician, argues ‘the health of our soil microbiome is the single most potent factor determining how healthy, or unhealthy we are.’.

For a long time it was assumed there were things in the soil that were trying to kill us, but recently scientists have realised that the living microbiome within the soil is there to protect us. That the soil is full of a diverse amount of microbes which our immune system has evolved to live with and learn from – research is suggesting that a healthy diet includes plant microbes.

This understanding – that soil is alive and we are both part of a living, collaborative eco-system – has led soil scientists to question the modern farming methods that employ the use of pesticides, herbicides and tilling, because all these approaches kill the microbiome in the soil. This approach, especially since the 1990’s with the introduction of glyphosate (an anti microbial herbicide), coincides with a huge rise in allergies, cancers and chronic diseases. Glyphosate is also water soluble, and so it travels from the soil into the water system.

The planet has a fantastic water cycle that contributes to the Earths eco-system. Water from the oceans and rivers and streams evaporates into the air from the heat of the sun. Once in the air it rises up and cools down creating droplets in clouds that form together, and when they get too big they fall to the Earth as raindrops due to gravity. There’s a study on the Cornucopia Institute website that showed 75% of air and rain studied had glyphosate in it. Zach Bush MD, who specialised in cancer research, has shown that an area in America where allergies, cancers and chronic disease has sky rocketed, coincides with the introduction of glyphosate use – run off from the area of land where glyphosate started to be used went into the Mississippi River, and it tributaries fed the water systems where a huge increase in allergies, cancers and chronic diseases  were happening.

Farming that relies on this modern technique of chemical use is killing off the life in our soil, and research shows that this is happening faster than it is being formed. This has led to a soil movement embedded in research that is looking at how to address this. The focus has been to find a way of farming that will bring balance back into the Earths eco-system, address climate challenges, human health, and have the capacity to feed everyone – we’ve seen so clearly during the COVID pandemic that people going without food has more to do with economic inequality than lack of food on the planet.

And so, welcome to Regenerative Agriculture, a system of farming that has the potential to achieve all these things. Research has shown that within one year of farming in this way the soil microbiome returned.

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After healing 15 years of digestive issues in 3 months with an Ayurvedic approach, I trained in Ayurveda and Hypnotherapy, and wrote ‘Your Peaceful Belly’ to share how to look after your digestion, support strong immunity & relieve stress.

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After healing 15 years of digestive issues in 3 months with an Ayurvedic approach, I trained in Ayurveda and Hypnotherapy, and wrote ‘Your Peaceful Belly’ to share how to look after your digestion, support strong immunity & relieve stress.

Buy “Your Peaceful Belly”