But to the theme of this blog: teaching yoga and ayurveda. When I first started my lending library on Perry Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, my childhood home, I'd no idea that my studies would lead me first to Canada and then to India, and finally, well not finally, but on the way, to Texas.
I wanted to share my love of reading, travel, and adventure with my whole neighborhood then, as I do now. This past June I reconnected with my friend Sunita Tarkunde in Houston. She's a nurse and ayurvedic practitioner who has opened a beautiful center offering ayurvedic counseling and treatments. I gave her a copy of my book ("Physical Poetry: Uniting Yoga and Ayurveda") and asked her how it had come about that she'd been able to open her center. She told me the story of its recent beginnings and advised me to "teach what I know." With that encouragement, I'm plotting ways to do just that.
Some call yoga and ayurveda "sister sciences." I'm more and more convinced that ayurveda really forms more of a BASE for yoga practices. The seasonal cleansing, the attention to the rhythms of the daily cycle with its morning and evening rituals involving cleansing ablutions, the necessity to eat a balancing diet, appropriate to your own nature--all this supports and nurtures the eight limbs of yoga practice. Please stay tuned for further details about fall "playshops" where we will savor the richness of herbs, spices and essential oils, and begin to understand how to live a life in yoga, on AND off the mat.
