Ayurveda

What is Ayurveda?

Why you want to learn more about it and how does this fit into our weekly affirmation and intention setting practices?

Ayurveda is one of the world’s most ancient and comprehensive healing systems from India. It is known as “The science of life” which simply means that through this lifestyle program we CAN find the right balance in every area of our life – physically, emotionally, mentally, energetically & spiritually.

The purpose of Ayurveda is to help us return to our natural state of health and overall wellness.

We all deserve to feel good!

The goal of Ayurveda is to help us all create balance in all areas of our life – body mind and soul.

We all deserve to find this balance!

We all deserve to BE healthy, feel healthy and empower ourselves to find balance in all areas of our life. This is not a “one size fits all” program, there is ancient wisdom and science behind every part of Ayurveda. Ayurveda taps into our body’s innate healing abilities and our intuitive senses.

The 3 P’s of Ayurveda

Ayurveda is…

1. Personalized – through Ayurveda you find out your unique personality characteristics (known as your doshas) and then we each tailor the tips, tools and treatments individually to find how to balance our dosha based on our own individual needs and what is out of balance for us.
2. Preventative – Living an Ayurvedic lifestyle offers us choices that can create overall health and wellness in our lives. As Ayurveda taps into our innate and intuitive healing abilities, we essentially have the capacity to prevent diseases that we may have otherwise been prone to attract or contract.
3. Practical – There are many simple tools, tips and practices of Ayurveda that we can all experiment with to find the right balance for us individually.

Ayurveda teaches us how to live our daily life in a way that produces overall wellness in all areas of our lives. It gently guides us to be a part of our own healing process. Through the 6 pillars of health, we can find our way to discovering our best life.

The 6 Pillars of health

1. Nutrition
2. Movement
3. Sleep
4. Emotional Wellness
5. Mindfulness & meditation
6. Self-care

Ayurveda has been effectively healing many Souls for over 4000 years. Just imagine taking this ancient healing wisdom and combining it with our modern times… could this program help you feel better than you have ever felt in your life?

I know it has for me.

I have never felt better in my life!

And I thought I was already pretty healthy!

I have spent my life’s purpose bringing health and wellness to others in the yoga, fitness, meditation and life coaching world. This journey began for me many years before I discovered Ayurveda.   

I embarked on my own journey to find health and wellness within myself as well.  Teaching for me has been the most amazing journey of all. I have learned so much about myself in every class, workshop and retreat I have both taught and attended.

What an amazing journey this has been…

I am over 55 years old and I have personally achieved really good health over the years. I have managed to keep myself fit, overcome many injuries, heal my “chronic” back pain, work my way through countless nutritional programs & what I would say have been some very borderline eating disorders. I have effectively dealt with anxiety and other emotional and mental challenges that potentially were very close to ruining my life. Many of these struggles for me, took many years to unpack, uncover and heal.

When I enrolled in the Chopra Education program to learn about Ayurveda and to essentially teach it – I had no idea how profound of a program this was. My years of struggle to get to where I was, physically, emotionally, mentally & energetically & spiritually definitely helped pave my way, however what Ayurveda showed me above all else is how this ancient wisdom system wraps up everything I had spent years individually trying to balance in my life into one full program.

Honestly, in my opinion Ayurveda has it all. I went from feeling healthy most of the time to feeling better than I have ever felt in my life. This is because with Ayurveda we find balance in our physical body, in our mental mind and when we find it in our soul – we have found all around wholeness.

This Ayurveda experience has brought into my life; greater health, peace beyond anything I have experienced before, the ability to BE happy no matter what is unfolding around me (most recently the passing of my beloved Mom) and helped me to tune into my intuition on a whole new level.

That has just been my experience

Which is why I am so passionate about teaching this to others

Ayurveda is a consciousness based lifestyle program… meaning there is a deep understanding that we are so much more than the thoughts we think, the roles we play in this life or the body we inhabit during this lifetime.

Ayurveda teaches a complete body, mind and soul alignment and as you learn more about this program, if it feels right to you, then you can adopt many of these practices into your life and experiment with the benefits they bring to you.

We venture into a deep dive of understanding ourselves on a whole new level. Over time we learn more about our dosha types and how to balance them. We learn the knowledge and science behind the balance. We learn how to tune into our senses, our intuition and all of nature around us, within us and beyond us.

Last week in our intention setting “tap in” we shed some light on what we want more of in our lives and then we affirmed to ourselves that we do deserve it!

We all deserve to feel good.

We all deserve to feel healthy.

We all deserve to be happy.

We all deserve to BE healthy, body, mind & soul.

We all deserve to live with less physical pain.

We all deserve to live with less mental & emotional anguish.

We all deserve to learn more about ourselves and grow individually as people!

If we believe we are deserving of all of these, then…

We are never too old or too young to make some changes.

We are never too old or too young to learn something new.

We are never too old or too young to find balance in our lives.

If you truly believe that you are deserving of better health then…

One can never be too sick to begin the journey back to better health.

One can never be too broken to be fixed.

One’s mind can always be open and willing to find a way – but you have to want it AND believe it.

 It is never too late to begin your wellness journey

The most powerful tool we have for healing is our own body, mind and Soul.

Ayurveda teaches and empowers this inherent healing power within us all.

 This Week’s Affirmation and Intention Setting

Affirmations – pick one or create your own…

• I deserve to feel good
• I deserve to be healthier
• I deserve to age gracefully
• I deserve less pain/anxiety (fill it in with what you want less of)
• I deserve to grow and learn

Intention (create your own if you wish)

• “I am ready to begin (or get back on track with) my wellness journey”

Action…

Do at least one thing today that supports the affirmation you choose

YOU ARE WORTH IT.

We all deserve to have abundance in all areas of our lives. It is time to claim yours now.

If you are interested in Ayurveda classes – there are a lot of options available that may suit your lifestyle. We offer live virtual zoom classes, recordings to go at your own pace, in-person classes or private Ayurveda coaching sessions with Leslie.

Contact Leslie to find out which option is best for you at

Call or text at 780 722-3442 or email leslie@wellnessdefined.ca