Mind-Body connection Healing approach Emotional Imbalances Awareness creation/conscious choice making

1. Coaching and Ayurveda
a Path of Healing and Transformation
July 8 2020

2. Coaching and Ayurveda
• My story: from corporate - to patient - to student to teaching/practicing
• Mind-Body connection
• Healing approach
• Personal example: how Ayurveda helped me (i.e. Anger: Pitta, Fear: Vata,
Avoidance/depression: Kapha
• Emotional Imbalances: Ayurveda perspective
• What makes me attracted to both?
• How do they supplement each other?
• What are the parallels?
• What has happened to me once I went through both?
• Awareness creation/conscious choice making

3. My Personal Transformation
Corporate Executive ---> Patient ---> Student ---> Practitioner

4. Nature Out of Balance
• Vata: à Creator à Fear/Insecurity : what’s wrong with me?
• Pitta: à Leader à Anger/Unacceptance : what’s wrong with you?
• Kapha: à Nurturer à Avoidance/Attachment/Depression : I don’t want to deal
with this
Emotional & Physical Imbalances - the Dosha perspective
’Bringing Our Nature to its ‘Original’ State’

5. • Mind – Soul connection – Manovaha srotas
• Blocked by :
1. Emotions: root cause Attachment
2. Rajas & Tamas (food, lifestyle, knowledge)
• Sattva: à the mind illumined by the spirit. Will power,
resilience, optimism. Mental agni to digest emotions
• Rajas: àMovement
à ambition, greed, lust, materialism, and a desire to control
and dominate
• Tamas: à Inertia
àapathy, lethargy, bad habits, delusion, depression, self-
destruction
• 6 Emotions-enemies : digested by Sattva or we get stuck:
Lust, anger, greed, attachment, pride/ego, envy/jealousy
• Cultivating Sattva and Unattachment – just living one’s Dharma
Emotional & Physical Imbalances - The Guna of the Mind
Sattva – Rajas - Tamas

6. • Aroma therapy
• Color therapy
• Mantras / Music Therapy
• Massage / Tactile Therapy
• Taste therapy and food
• Meditation
• Herbal supplementation
• Yoga
• Pranayama
• 64 kalas
Some Ayurvedic Methods to Restore Balance in the Mind and Body

7. Guna (Qualities) – Transformation at the Essential Level
BEFORE AFTER
Imbalance of qualities:
cold, dry, rough, light, mobile, hard, dense, dull
To bring Balance in qualities:
warm, weighty, oily, stable, soft, smooth, liquid,
No meaningful purpose
Anxiety
Obsessive thinking
Irritability
Fears
Low self esteem
Hormonal imbalance
Living from a state of scarcity
Victim
Looking for inputs from outside
Improved Self Value
Conscious choice making
Focused/clear mind
Meaningful Relationships
Healthy response to stress
Open to flow of Love, Life, Compassion
Living from a state of abundance
Meaningful Purpose
Wisdom
Intuition
Restful sleep

8. How Ayurveda and Coaching complement each other
Mental
(emotional, spiritual)
Physical
Ayurveda • Ancient wisdom,
knowledge, awareness
of one life’s purpose
• Direction/Guidance
• Cellular level impact and
transformation (dhatu, agni,
doshas, mala, srotas, gunas)
Coaching • Awareness of self and
self limiting beliefs
• Courageous action /
commitment
• Physical awareness of body
sensations/knowledge and
embodiment of new desired
way of being
Body – Mind – Spirit connection
Mental wellbeing Physical wellbeing
Holistic
wellbeing

9. 1. Holistic and Healing Approach
• Mind-Body-Soul
• Emotional and physical transformation towards healthy state
2. Awareness creation
• Clarity of the Current state
• Clarity of the Goal
• Clarity of the roadblocks on the way
3. The road ahead
• Conscious choice making
• Courageous action
• Commitment
Key Similarities in approach: Ayurveda and Coaching

10. Appendix

11. 6 areas of comparison : Ayurveda and Coaching
Ayurveda Coaching
1 Approach Discovery session. Treatment plan Discovery session. Coaching
contract
2 Main focus The entire Human System (25 components) Soma- the entire human system
3 Means of action Change in diet, change in lifestyle, true knowledge à
change in health/transformation
New awareness à
action/embodyment à
permanent change/transformation
4 Philosophy Soul is the only conscious component of the human
system. It’s the electricity that powers our beings. It
never gets ill nor dies. It knows all. Unconditional love
We are complete and perfect by
definition. We have all the
answers within us. Unconditional
positive regard
5 Cause of
disease/undesired
state
Disease comes from our erroneous association with any
part of us which is not Soul à wrong use of the system
Limiting believes, erroneous
conclusions, behaviors, thinking
6 End goal Four aims of life: Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha Living a fulfilling life fully
expressing own potential in
service to others