Venue: The Drama Studio,

St. James Senior Boys School Church Road Ashford TW15 3DZ

Enquiries & Registration : Tel. 07944 265560 Seminar@foundation-for-harmonious-living.com

Foundation For Harmonious Living

Introduction to Ayurveda & Panchakarma

Promoting Health, Happiness and Harmony in Everyday Life

Conducted by

Dr Sunil Joshi MD(Ayu)

Ian Wood BSc, MCSP, MBAcC, AMAPA

David Boddy MA, DipJ ,FIoD

Dr Sunil V. Joshi

He is one of the world's foremost Ayurvedic Doctors and is perhaps the best Panchakarma Physician alive today. He is the author of the best selling book published by Lotus Press, ‘Ayurveda & Panchakarma’. Dr Joshi is head of clinical education and studies for the European Institute of Vedic Studies and is head of foreigners Ayurvedic education at the government run, Kavikulaguru Kalidas University, Nagpur, India. He has directed and run Vinayak Ayurveda Centre, a Panchakarma Clinic in the USA since 1995 and before this he was Ayurvedic Consultant to the Chopra Centre for Well Being. Since 1985 he has also been the director and head doctor for the Vinayak Panchakarma Chikitsalaya Clinic in Nagpur. Dr Joshi is involved regularly in International conferences and seminars including speaking recently alongside Dr Deepak Chopra, Dr David Simon and Dr David Frawley. He is also on the advisory panel to the Indian government which sets national standards for Panchakarma Clinics.

Dr Joshi is available three times a year for Consultations at Ian Wood’s clinic in Twickenham. NEXT 7/8/9th MARCH 2011 (booking details below).

For more about Dr Joshi’s work see his website: http://vinayakayurveda.com and www.atreya.com

Ian Wood

Ian is a Practitioner of Ayurveda & Acupuncture and a Chartered Physiotherapist with an holistic clinic in Strawberry Hill in Twickenham. He also passes on his experience gained from over 23 years of meditation and other similar practices. He teaches meditation for health and wellbeing and tutors and supports meditation with the boys and young men at St. James Senior Boys School. Ian has studied Ayurveda with the College of Ayurveda in London, with the American Institute of Vedic Studies under the guidance of Dr David Frawley and with the European Institute of Vedic Studies taught by Vaidya Atreya Smith. He has completed a Clinical Internship with Vaidyas Alaknanda Rao and Deepali Kshire at the Panini Ayurvedic Clinic in Pune in India. He continues to receive clinical training and guidance from Dr Joshi and has experience of Panchakarma treatment in Nagpur from him and his team.

David Boddy

David has been involved in practising and teaching meditation for many years. He is the Headmaster of St James Senior Boys School which offers a vegetarian diet and meditation and quiet time as daily practices. David also hosts ‘Silence on Sundays’, a West London meditation group. His Masters thesis was on the subject of ’Meditation and Mindfulness Practices in the Art of Dying.’ He has also experienced Panchakarma with Dr Joshi in Nagpur.

Venue: The Drama Studio,

St. James Senior Boys School Church Road Ashford TW15 3DZ

Enquiries & Registration: Tel. 07944 265560 Seminar@foundation-for-harmonious-living.com

Presents

A One Day Seminar / Workshop on Sunday 6th March 2011 from 10.00 am to 4.30 pm

Introduction to Ayurveda & Panchakarma

The aim of this one day seminar/ workshop is to provide participants with an understanding of how Happiness, Health & Harmony in everyday life depends on the intelligent co-ordination of the four parts of life: Atman (Spirit or Awareness), Manas (the mind), Indriyas (the senses) and Sharira (the body). Ayurveda, the science of life (ayu means life and veda, science or knowledge), is not just a medicinal approach to health but is a complete philosophy of life, which understands that the non-material components of our lives - our consciousness, mind, thoughts and emotions - animate and direct our more physical parts.

Dr Joshi will explain how the three intelligent principles or Doshas of Vata (movement ), Pitta (transformation), and Kapha (cohesion), can be brought to their constitutional level of health by means of diet, lifestyle, medicinal herbs and various treatments, especially Panchakarma.

Panchakarma (Rejuvination), is an integral part of Ayurveda, where the basis of the disease process is eradicated by removing ama (toxic residue of undigested food) and mala (natural metabolic waste products) and restoring the balance to the doshas. This balance provides a blanket immunity to the mind/body to enable the individual to withstand infections, food allergies, disturbances in the environment and the general stresses of life.

The practical Pranayama workshop will provide course participants with the experience of how simple breathing techniques can help to restore the flow of life energy, increase vitality, promote health and calm the mind and emotions.

The Meditation workshop will build on this effect, allowing participants to experience how connecting with Awareness or Consciousness itself and coming to inner peace and stillness, promotes health and wellbeing.

‘To achieve health & wellbeing,

freedom from stress and disturbance in the mind and body,

follow the path of intelligent action seated in Awareness itself.’ Foundation for Harmonious Living

‘Ayurveda is the knowledge that indicates the appropriate and inappropriate,

happy or sorrowful conditions of living, what is auspicious or inauspicious

for longevity, as well as the measure of life itself.’ Charaka Samhita

Recommended Reading:

Ayurveda & Panchakarma The Science of Healing and Rejuvination

Dr. Sunil V. Joshi M.D. (Ayu) Lotus Press

Copies will be available on the day.

9.30 Arrival and Refreshments 10.00 Ayurveda in Daily Life Dr Sunil Joshi 11.15 Refreshments 11.30 Pancha Karma Dr Sunil Joshi 12.45 Ayurvedic Lunch 1.45 Pranayama Workshop Harmonising Prana (Life Energy) Ian Wood 2.30 Refreshments

2.45 Meditation Workshop David Boddy

3.30 Panel Questions SJ/IW/DB

4.30 Finish

To Register: Please email or telephone Ian Wood—details on back page. Fee: £ 40.00

COURSE PROGRAMME