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11 Health Benefits of Cranberries PLUS a Recipe! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Nov 25, 2021 – #46, Vol 11

November 26, 2021 by Leave a Comment

We often forget how good cranberries are! This powerhouse of Nature gets overshadowed by other berries, except for that one-day-a-year on Thanksgiving day! There are many so many reasons you should regularly include cranberries into your daily diet. Don’t wait for Thanksgiving to enjoy their countless health benefits. There are countless recipes online for drinks, sauces, preserves. But there is also Vaidya Mishra’s Organic Cranberry Preserve – ready to eat balancing ayurvedic and delicious (see below).
So what’s so great about cranberries? Well here is a quick look at what they do: they are a power fruit – great for the eyes, cardiovascular health, and the urinary tract. This apparently disease-fighting fruit is also one of the highest ranked regularly consumed foods for antioxidant content per serving. Antioxidants protect cells from damage by oxidative stress and free radicals, damage that can lead to serious conditions like cancer and heart disease. Some of the antioxidants found in cranberries include anthocyanins, ellagic acid, quercetin, resveratrol, selenium, and vitamins A, C and E. 

Top 11 Benefits of Cranberries
1) Antioxidant powerhouse
This disease-fighting fruit is one of the highest ranking, regularly consumed foods for antioxidant content per serving, according to the Cranberry Marketing Committee. Antioxidants protect cells from the damage that oxidative stress and free radicals can have on them. That damage can lead to serious conditions like cancer and heart disease.
Some of the antioxidants found in cranberries include anthocyanins, ellagic acid, quercetin, resveratrol, selenium, and vitamins A, C and E.
2) Rich Source of Phtyonutrients
We are still discovering the great health benefits of Phytonutrients. Phytochemicals are chemical compounds produced by plants, generally to help them resist fungi, bacteria and plant virus infections, and also consumption by insects and other animals. Phytonutrients also strengthen a plant’s immune system. They protect the plant from threats in their natural environment such as disease and excessive sun. When humans eat plant foods, phytonutrients protect us from chronic diseases. Phytonutrients have potent anti-cancer and anti-heart disease effects. Red, orange and yellow vegetables and fruit (such as tomatoes, carrots, peppers, squash, sweet potatoes, peaches, mangos, melons, citrus fruits, and berries). Dark green leafy vegetables (such as spinach, kale, bok choy, broccoli, Swiss chard, and romaine lettuce).
3) Low-calorie flavor booster
One cup of fresh cranberries contains 46 calories, according to the USDA. If you like them raw, they’re a great low-calorie snack — but their tart flavor makes them an acquired taste. Use them in cooking and baking to add a pop of flavor while not adding a lot of calories, as in these recipes:
4) Urinary tract infection preventer
Cranberries and cranberry juice have long been associated with preventing UTIs. There’s a substance in cranberries that prevents “infection-causing bacteria from sticking to the urinary tract walls,” according to WebMD.
Study results, however, are very inconsistent. Some studies suggest that cranberries can lower the chance of repeated infections in young women. However, an October 2016 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that female patients in nursing homes who took cranberry capsules for a year didn’t have fewer episodes of UTIs than those who took placebos.
5) High in fiber
One cup of cranberries contains 4.6 grams of dietary fiber. The Mayo Clinic says fiber maintains bowel health, lowers cholesterol, and helps control blood sugar. Foods high in fiber can also help control weight because they make you feel fuller for a longer period of time.
6) Full of Vitamins and Minerals
One cup of cranberries contains 24 percent of the recommended daily value of vitamin C and 7 percent of the recommended daily values of vitamins K and E, according to Self-Nutrition Data. It’s also a good source of the mineral manganese, containing 20 percent of the recommended daily value.
7) Cardiovascular Disease
Some evidence suggests that the polyphenols in cranberries may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) by preventing platelet build-up and reducing blood pressure via anti-inflammatory mechanisms.
8) Research on Cancer
Research has shown that cranberries are beneficial in slowing tumor progression and have shown positive effects against prostate, liver, breast, ovarian, and colon cancers.
9) Supports Dental Health
The same proanthocyanidins in cranberries that help prevent UTIs may also benefit oral health by preventing bacteria from binding to teeth, according to Researchers at the Center for Oral Biology and Eastman Department of Dentistry at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Cranberries may also be beneficial in preventing gum disease.
10) Ant-inflammatory Benefits
For the cardiovascular system and for many parts of the digestive tract (including the mouth and gums, stomach, and colon) cranberry has been shown to provide important anti-inflammatory benefits. It’s the phytonutrients in cranberry that are especially effective in lowering our risk of unwanted inflammation, and virtually all of the phytonutrient categories represented in cranberry are now known to play a role. These phytonutrient categories include proanthocyanidins (PACs), anthocyanins (the flavonoid pigments that give cranberries their amazing shades of red), flavonols like quercetin, and phenolic acid (like hydroxycinnamic acids).
11) Immune Support
While research in this area is somewhat limited, recent studies on the immune support benefits of cranberry are exciting. In studies on very small numbers of human participants, intake of cranberry extracts has shown the ability to improve multiple aspects of immune function, and to lower the frequency of cold and flu symptoms in the subjects. In several of these studies, the cranberry extracts were standardized to contain a known, higher-end amount of proanthocyanidins (PACs)—somewhat comparable to a double-strength cranberry juice.
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Who It’s For:
  • Change-makers
  • Healers
  • Yogis
  • Visionaries
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  • Anyone wanting to learn & live ayurveda, heal their life & pass it on
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  • Gain the knowledge, life-skills, & ongoing support you need to actualize your dharma
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xo,
Traci
Traci is a long time student of our beloved Vaidya Mishra whose lineage knowledge she joyfully and respectfully passes on in all of the Ayurvedic Living School‘s programs & workshops. A portion of your proceeds will support Chandi Co and SVAyurveda Operations.
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an introduction to SV Ayurveda as taught by Vaidya RK Mishra with Dr Teitelbaum

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In a world where we can no longer exist without technology, how can we maintain balance and thrive despite the known side-effects of exposure to EMF? Find out Vaidya Mishra’s SVA Teachings in this much requested course on EMF – details coming very soon….

We want to help you protect your purchase – there’s been an increase in lost/stolen packages.
To protect your shipment – in case your shipping address is not secure – we have now added the “signature delivery” option upon check-out on www.chandika.com and we highly recommend you select it to ensure your package is guaranteed to reach you after it leaves our warehouse. Kindly note we are unable to replace stolen/misplaced packages once they are confirmed delivered by the carrier of your choice.

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Why is Neem Good for your Skin? – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Nov 18, 2021 – #45, Vol 11

November 19, 2021 by Leave a Comment

What’s In Your Soap & Bodywash?
Do you know what the chemical ingredients and synthetic scents and additives in commercial soap or body wash do to your skin? They not only strip your skin of its natural oil balance, drying it out, but they also depopulate the colonies of friendly bacteria, AND deliver synthetic toxic chemicals -preservatives, and fragrances – transdermally and instantly into your blood stream and therefore to your entire physiology – WITHIN SECONDS!
The majority of soaps on the market carry toxic foaming agents (SLS), or preservatives (Parabens), or many more coloring and aromatizing synthetic chemicals that reduce the natural lubrication of the skin with regular use. The skin is governed by 3 ayurvedic principles: shleshak kapha, vyana vata, and bhrajak pitta. Shleshak kapha helps maintain moisture levels and keep the skin lubricated; Vyana vata keeps the balance of friendly bacteria and nutrients of the skin well distributed; and Bhrajak pitta – the agneya or metabolic principle – protects the skin by warding off unwanted particles and molecules from entering and going into the blood stream, while it invites and takes in all good molecules that are applied on the skin. Just like we take extra measures not to imbalance the 3 doshas in our stomach or whole body, just so we need to pay attention and take care of not aggravating the doshas governing the skin. When you use soaps and cleaning products with chemicals, you disrupt the balance established by these 3 ayurvedic one after another, and you may eventually develop chronic skin imbalances. For example, regular soap bars dry your skin – this means shleshak kapha goes low. When Shelshak kapha is off, then vyana vata goes high automatically, and this eventually brings down bhrajak pitta – the skin loses its intelligence as to what to absorb and what to reject. Using a drying synthetic soap bar for prolonged periods of time may eventually invite deeper imbalances.
 Vaidya’s unique SVA aromatherapy soaps are made with the best organic Shea Butter, packed with the goodness of flower and plant essences, to achieve optimal therapeutic benefits. They also all contain Sweet orange – Sweet orange is an uplifting aroma whose properties also include: digestive, diuretic, expectorant, fungicidal, stimulant, stomachic, tonic, anti-inflammatory, bactericidal, carminative. 
Discover the full range of soaps HERE. But one of our best-selling soaps is the Neem and Brahmi liquid soap and Body Wash.

Why Is Neem Good for Your Skin?
Neem is yet another divine very bitter tasting herb that is well known and used extensively in Ayurveda internally and externally. Neem, overall, is used for detoxification, especially of the skin, and for immuno-modulation.
In Sanskrit neem leaf is called nimba. The Ayurvedic text Bhava Prakash describes it as sheeta (cooling), tikta (bitter), grahi (enhancing absorption), katupaka (pungent effect after digestion), and krimipranut (making it hard for harmful microbes to live with).

Neem is one of the most powerful herbs for detoxifying the liver. With the compromised state of the modern physiology and liver in the world today, this herb must be used with extreme caution: if the liver is detoxified too quickly, the old toxins sitting there will go back into the bloodstream and relocate in other parts of the body with the potential to cause serious problems and disease. That’s why Vaidya developed Trans-dermal and Trans-mucosal application of this potent plant. 
Neem Transdermally is Safer!
Neem taken in large doses is very powerful. In fact, the crude form of this herb should not be taken in large doses as it may awaken the detox process faster than the toxins can be safely evacuated. Neem soap, however, delivers many of the properties of neem that support immunity but in a manner that will not overwhelm the body’s detox pathways. 
Another benefit of neem in the transdermal delivery system is that it can be used directly on targeted areas of the skin, when and as/where needed for gentle detox and to support skin immunity. For example, here is what you can expect with the Soap:
  • Transdermal absorption of neem while you bathe
  • Only the prabhavas (special qualities) of neem are delivered. The highly bitter and detoxifying rasa (taste) is not present.
  • Allows for targeted topical application of neem on specific areas of the skin
  • No SLS foaming agent or harsh preservatives found in most soaps
Try one of our many best-selling soaps. Everybody has their favorite!

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Vaidya Mishra toured and taught incessantly for 14 years from Spring 2003 – Spring 2017, building a beautiful SVA community at large. Many of his students continue his teachings and have their own center offerings and healing modalities that incorporate SVA precepts as well. We love featuring their work and latest news. Here are some courses from the community at large.

Who It’s For:
  • Change-makers
  • Healers
  • Yogis
  • Visionaries
  • Empaths
  • Anyone wanting to learn & live ayurveda, heal their life & pass it on
 Your Transformation Includes:
  • Learn ayurveda step-by-step
  • Anchor into the daily nurturing routines, foods & spices of Ayurveda & Yoga 
  • Gain the knowledge, life-skills, & ongoing support you need to actualize your dharma
  • This is YOUR PROGRAM!  
 What’s Included: 
  • Complete Ayurveda Health Coach training PLUS a 
  • Complete Life-Coach Training all-in-one
  • Thru the lens of Ayurveda
IGNITE TRANSFORMATION FIRST FOR YOURSELF, THEN PASS IT ON!
Now is your time to receive the kind of ongoing training and support you need to take your health, life and career to that next level. It’s time to bridge the confusing gap between where you are currently and what you sense is possible for your life.
xo,
Traci
Traci is a long time student of our beloved Vaidya Mishra whose lineage knowledge she joyfully and respectfully passes on in all of the Ayurvedic Living School‘s programs & workshops. A portion of your proceeds will support Chandi Co and SVAyurveda Operations.
Details:
View Evangeline’s full offerings
~ click on the banner below ~
HAVE YOU SEEN
Dr Marianne Teitelbaum’s
new YOUTUBE channel
like & make sure to subscribe
for a wealth of SVA Knowledge & Expertise
click on any image below to visit her channel

an introduction to SV Ayurveda as taught by Vaidya RK Mishra with Dr Teitelbaum

Watch ALL of Dr Teitelbaum’s Videos on her youtube channel HERE
… upcoming courses …
EMF: What CAN we do about it?
In a world where we can no longer exist without technology, how can we maintain balance and thrive despite the known side-effects of exposure to EMF? Find out Vaidya Mishra’s SVA Teachings in this much requested course on EMF – details coming very soon….

We want to help you protect your purchase – there’s been an increase in lost/stolen packages.
To protect your shipment – in case your shipping address is not secure – we have now added the “signature delivery” option upon check-out on www.chandika.com and we highly recommend you select it to ensure your package is guaranteed to reach you after it leaves our warehouse. Kindly note we are unable to replace stolen/misplaced packages once they are confirmed delivered by the carrier of your choice.

Calendar of Upcoming Events
looking for a live SVA event in your area or online?

Check out our Calendar page for upcoming courses and community events & for full contact and registration details:
Upcoming new SVA events across the US & Canada coming soooooon
stay connected….
a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips – thousands of articles and questions answered by Vaidya Mishra and his team of experts; and so much more…
home to Vaidya Mishra’s unique pranic exquisite formulations – with weekly specials and give-aways. Learn Ayurveda as you shop!

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Why Does Hair Fall Out & What You Can Do! and more! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Nov 11, 2021 – #44, Vol 11

November 12, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Why does Your Hair Fall Out & What Can you Do About It?
I’ve treated many cases of hair loss during my 35 years of practicing Ayurveda. People usually think that it’s mainly men who lose their hair, but I have seen many many women and even children lose their hair as well. 
If it is a genetic hair loss, then it will be very hard to treat. But there are many other reasons besides genetics for hair loss and if you can figure out all of the underlying causes. When it is not hereditary/genetic, then there might be a good chance that the hair can grow back.
My teacher Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra taught me how to treat all health conditions, including hair loss. He always reminded me to start by determining the underlying cause and he told me that there are usually multiple underlying imbalances associated with every health problem we encounter. 
And that’s one of the big problems we see in treating all diseases. Many people, including doctors, are looking for that one underlying cause of the specific disease that patient is presenting with, but it’s never that straight-forward: remember that each individual is unique PLUS our bodies entertain many imbalances over the course of a lifetime, and it’s best to identify all those at the root and address them before they develop into greater chronic imbalances and get set in, and then it becomes harder to correct.
What are some of the common causes of hair loss?
First, remember that the health of the hair reflects the health of your bone tissue. This means that if your bones are weak your hair might be also, since the hair (and the nails) are considered the malas (waste bi-products) of the bone in Ayurveda. Keep in mind your bones can be malnourished even if you haven’t been diagnosed with osteopenia or osteoporosis. It’s actually much more common than you think.
So what could cause bone weakness? Well, lack of good quality whole non-homogenized milk, since whole milk is one of the most nourishing food for the bones. Many people in this country have no animal milk in their diet, or if they do it’s usually low fat or skim. But it’s the fat in the milk that delivers the calcium into the bones, so if you drink low fat milk the calcium will go in one end and out the other, never making its way to the bones. 
Also, the cows must be grass-fed in order to make omega 3-s in their milk. Most of the cows in this country are fed grains and their milk contains omega-6, which can be quite harmful to our health over time. 
Plus, the milk needs to be boiled in order to melt the fat down so it can absorb into the bloodstream properly. And finally, milk should either be taken on an empty stomach or cooked into a grain. It does not mix well with other types of foods such as meats, fresh fruits and vegetables.  
So skip the oats soaked overnight in cold milk and instead cook your oatmeal with milk and spices, such as whole cardamom pods and a cinnamon stick which help you digest the protein and sugar in the milk. And you could put dried fruit such as raisins or dates in with the milk, but not fresh fruit, as it will upset your stomach.
How about calcium supplements? We recommend calcium from the ocean, such as coral and pearl, which are alive with prana, nature’s healing vibration, unlike the dumb and dead synthetic calcium supplements on the market, many of which have been made in a lab, devoid of this very important healing energy. The coral has been burnt into an ash repeatedly for a few months to make the calcium molecule so small it can absorb into the bones. Most calcium supplements on the market have a difficult time absorbing since the molecule is too big.
The bone tissue is a living tissue with old bone cells breaking down and new bone cells being added to the bones every day. It’s kind of like a scaffolding with a hard matrix of calcium salts deposited around protein fibers. The bone matrix consists of tough protein fibers, mainly collagen, that become hard and rigid due to the calcium and other minerals that adhere to it. The minerals make the bone hard and stiff and the collagen proteins give the bone its flexibility, and elasticity. So don’t forget that your bones need not only minerals such as calcium, but the collagen fibers also need to be nourished.
To nourish the collagen in the bones, you could try supplementing your diet with bone broth, if you are not a vegetarian. Simmering the bones over an extended period of time will extract the minerals, collagen, glucosamine and chondroitin out of the bones. As the bones simmer for 12-24 hours in water, parsley, celery, salt, pepper and thyme, the nutrients are released into the water in a form your body can absorb and are very nourishing for the bones. Many people are surprised to hear that the ancient doctors of India prescribed bone broth to heal both the bones and the bone marrow deep inside.

Thinning hair can also be a result of a lack of iron in the diet, which can occur if the diet is too low in iron (this is especially common in a vegetarian diet) or if the person is losing too much blood. This happens quite often from a heavy menstrual flow every month.
There are great herbal combinations to prevent too much blood loss during your cycle — herbs which recalibrate the ratio between estrogen and progesterone, and there are lots of iron-rich foods you could add to your diet, such as black mission figs, raisins, dates, blackstrap molasses, prunes, dried apricots, cooked greens, and cooked beets.
Ayurveda also recommends the use of iron bhasmas, which are Ayurvedically prepared iron supplements processed through repeated incinerations to aid in the absorption of the iron into the cells in the same way the calcium and other minerals are prepared.
The ancient doctors of India wrote in their Ayurvedic textbooks that we need something from an animal everyday in our diets. So vegetarians must make sure they are getting plenty of milk and milk products, such as yogurt, panir and other freshly made soft-curd cheeses. Many people who lose their hair are deficient in animal protein since, as stated before, the matrix of the bones is made of collagen, which is from animal protein.
And don’t forget: the fat tissue transforms into the bone tissue, so you must eat plenty of good healthy fats in the diet to nourish both your fat and bone tissues: fats such as cultured ghee made from grass-fed cow butter, organic cold-pressed olive oil, avocados, nuts and seeds.
Sometimes after a big stressor people will lose their hair. This is because the cortisol that they release from the adrenal glands during the period of stress both loosens the hair follicles, allowing the hair to fall out and disturbs the hair growth cycle, causing less hair growth. Once the stress is over or if you have learned ways to deal better with the stress, then the hair will usually grow back.
We use various versions of Ashwagandha in Ayurveda to prevent the release of too much cortisol when we’re under stress.
If the thyroid is weak the bones will suffer and the hair will fall out. There could be numerous reasons for a weak thyroid, such as fluoride in the drinking water, which is a poison to the thyroid. Drinking fluoridated water over the years will depress the entire function of the thyroid gland, causing the hair to fall out. Fluoride also disrupts normal bone formation, which could be another cause of thinning hair. In one study women in a high fluoride community had double the fracture risk of women in a low fluoride community. 
Also mercury depresses thyroid function. Even low levels of mercury may lead to thyroid inflammation, hypothyroidism and depression as the mercury binds to the sites on the thyroid gland that the iodine is supposed to bind to. Mercury is found in immunizations, especially the flu shot, in many species of fish, in old dental fillings, and in the air pollution, especially if you live near coal-powered plants. The thyroid gland is the only gland that uses iodine, so any iodine that comes into the body gets sucked up by the thyroid gland and is used in making the thyroid hormones. But mercury looks similar to iodine, so when it comes into the body, the thyroid actually prefers the mercury over the iodine creating either a hypothyroid or a hyperthyroid condition, both of which can make the hair fall out. 
A large part of the hypothyroid cases I see everyday in my practice are caused by these heavy metals and the vast majority of the autoimmune diseases of the thyroid, Grave’s Disease and Hashimoto’s, present with an overload of these two heavy metals. Think twice before drinking fluoridated water — most filters won’t filter it out and you can’t even remove it even if you boil the water. And if you must get the flu shot for your job ask for the one which doesn’t contain mercury — I have treated hundreds of cases of autoimmune thyroid disease which developed after receiving the flu shot every year resulting in high mercury levels disrupting (or “torturing”) as Vaidya Mishra used to call it, the thyroid gland.
So in these cases, the answer isn’t to give thyroid hormones, as they will actually put the thyroid into hibernation since it’s no longer called upon to make its hormones. Instead you have to chelate out the fluoride and/or mercury using remedies based on cilantro- cilantro is excellent for pulling out heavy metals and evacuating them from the body. Then you have to strengthen the thyroid gland using various herbs and herb formulas recommended from ancient times.
In the case of autoimmune thyroid diseases you must direct your therapies towards fixing the misguided immune system, which means focusing your attention on healing the friendly bacteria in the gut, the liver and the bone marrow. At the same time you’re healing the immune system, you have to also support the thyroid gland to perk it back up. 
Nowadays our immune systems are severely compromised from taking too many pharmaceuticals which disrupt these 3 parts of the immune system. See my book Healing the Thyroid With Ayurveda for a more in-depth discussion on how to heal the immune system to effectively reverse autoimmune diseases.
There are other causes of thyroid weakness: if Vata goes high, if the diet is too light, such as a raw foods diet or a vegan diet, if you go to bed past 10:00 PM, or if you’re constantly rushing through the day. All this activity and rushing wears out both the thyroid and the adrenal glands. And if you are in a constant state of aggravated Vata, multitasking your way through the day, then the adrenal glands will dump out cortisol, their stress hormone, which shuts down the thyroid gland. 
And birth control pills totally disable the thyroid gland as these chemicals infiltrate into the blood. This is because they deplete selenium, zinc and the amino acid tyrosine from our bodies. These are all the vitamins and minerals that are necessary for proper thyroid function. 
And the high doses of estrogen contained in the birth control pills increase the activity of TBG (Thyroxine Binding Globulin), which binds thyroid hormone. This causes lower levels of free thyroid hormone available for use by the body. Here’s an analogy I always use when counseling on the thyroid gland: we make the thyroid hormone, but it travels around the body in an automobile (bound to TBG) and just circulates around until it is needed. Once the body signals that it needs more thyroid hormone, it has to let go of the TBG, or get out of the car, so it can absorb into the cells and have its desired effects. When TBG is high, as is the case while taking the birth control pill, the body is asking for the circulating thyroid hormone, but it can’t get out of the car! Then your body suffers the consequences of low thyroid function.
So now that we’ve figured out some of the most common reasons for hair loss and have addressed these issues,  we can start talking about what to do for regrowing the hair. But a cautionary note: If you just take these remedies for hair growth without focusing on what is causing the hair to fall out in the first place, you won’t get very far.
We have lots of herbal formulas for hair growth which can be taken both orally and wonderful herbalized hair oils which can nourish the hair follicle and encourage the growth of the hair again. Some of the hair oils are based on aloe which cools down the heat in the scalp which comes from very hot toxins coming through the pores which can disrupt the hair growth as well. 
There are four types of toxins, ama, ama visha, gara visha and electromagnetic toxins. Ama visha is made inside the body when the food doesn’t digest well either because digestion is poor and/or the food is too heavy (think peanut butter, almond butter, tofu, hard cheeses, and cold dairy products, red meat, etc). If the food doesn’t combust properly in the gut it remains stuck there, never absorbing into the blood stream, just rotting and fermenting, forming an acid toxin called ama visha.
If you have taken way too many pharmaceuticals, like antibiotics, birth control pills or immunizations, these types of toxins coming from outside the body are called gara visha.
Both ama visha and gara visha are very hot toxins, which can burn the hair follicle on their way out of the body, so our aloe hair oils cool this heat down, preventing the itchy and flaky scalp that accompanies these hot toxins as they ooze through the pores.
Remember — your skin is the largest organ in the body, and it’s an organ of elimination, which means it’s dumping out toxins all day long through the pores. And that includes the skin on the scalp as well. Normally you don’t see or feel the toxins as they come out, but if there is a lot of ama visha or gara visha there, they will burn the follicle or the skin on their way out, causing all kinds of skin and scalp conditions, and of course, falling hair. 
Vaidya Mishra put Bhringraj in all the hair formulas – it is one of the most famous herbs for regrowing hair in Ayurveda. He also put herbs to nourish the bones as well as herbs to calm down the Vata so that we could address all the underlying causes of hair and bone loss.
I hope this information helps you realize that there are other ways which can regrow hair besides taking pharmaceuticals or receiving steroid injections to the scalp, which even the doctors have admitted don’t really work. These injections are especially scary for little children to receive, plus giving them a phobia of doctors after their many painful injections. One of my patients got up enough courage to ask her dermatologist to be honest with her and asked if she had ever seen steroid injections work to regrow hair, and the reply was that “honestly, no, the doctor has never seen them work”!
So you might as well try to find an approach that is more holistic, one which will treat all the underlying causes of the problem, and not just trying to force the hair to grow back while ignoring the other areas of the body that are crying out for help.
Thank you,
Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum
Cinnaminson, NJ
856-786-3330
Drmtelteibalum.com
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Community Courses
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Certified Instructors
Vaidya Mishra toured and taught incessantly for 14 years from Spring 2003 – Spring 2017, building a beautiful SVA community at large. Many of his students continue his teachings and have their own center offerings and healing modalities that incorporate SVA precepts as well. We love featuring their work and latest news. Here are some courses from the community at large.

Who It’s For:
  • Change-makers
  • Healers
  • Yogis
  • Visionaries
  • Empaths
  • Anyone wanting to learn & live ayurveda, heal their life & pass it on
 Your Transformation Includes:
  • Learn ayurveda step-by-step
  • Anchor into the daily nurturing routines, foods & spices of Ayurveda & Yoga 
  • Gain the knowledge, life-skills, & ongoing support you need to actualize your dharma
  • This is YOUR PROGRAM!  
 What’s Included: 
  • Complete Ayurveda Health Coach training PLUS a 
  • Complete Life-Coach Training all-in-one
  • Thru the lens of Ayurveda
IGNITE TRANSFORMATION FIRST FOR YOURSELF, THEN PASS IT ON!
Now is your time to receive the kind of ongoing training and support you need to take your health, life and career to that next level. It’s time to bridge the confusing gap between where you are currently and what you sense is possible for your life.
xo,
Traci
Traci is a long time student of our beloved Vaidya Mishra whose lineage knowledge she joyfully and respectfully passes on in all of the Ayurvedic Living School‘s programs & workshops. A portion of your proceeds will support Chandi Co and SVAyurveda Operations.
Details:
View Evangeline’s full offerings
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A message from Rose Carol
After many years of practicing and studying Ayurveda and Vedic Sciences (since 1977) and spending literally thousands of hours in deep silent meditation, I want to pass on the lifelong benefits that my teachers, Vaidya Mishra and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi have given to me before it’s too late. The study and practice of Ayurveda has been like a lifelong best friend, supporting me and giving me a stable framework no matter what is happening in my environment and internal life. I feel now is a perfect time to share this ancient wisdom because there is so much uncertainty in the world these days – politically, environmentally and with worldwide pandemics. What better time to befriend and instill an ancient knowledge to prevent illness, develop an enlightened consciousness, and at the same time be able to better help our family, friends, and the community.
The curriculum that I am sharing is really the nectar and juice of everything that I have learned over the past 40 years, it’s beyond vata, pitta, and kapha - I am offering knowledge and Vedic practices that awaken the healing power of prana and cultivate the nervous system so that you will be able to realize the intelligence of your true unbounded nature and experience more peace and stability in your life even during the most chaotic and challenging times that we are currently in. Studying Ayurveda at this time in history will allow to you grab onto that which is everlasting in the midst of changing transitions we are all experiencing.
Studying Ayurveda can resonate with your being and relieve great fear and anxiety and well as deepen perception of the unity and wholeness of life. There’s an ancient verse from the Bhagavad Gita, that says; Even a little of this knowledge relieves mankind from great fear. The nine months of study of Ayurveda and Jyotish (Vedic Astrology as an extended option) will birth a greater sense of steadiness, refined awareness, and greater well-being as well as give you skills to teach and coach others. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or want to sign up call or text 847 636 2744, rose.carol.zivin@gmail.com or and check out the curriculum at https://ayurvedalearningcenter.com/curriculum-details
With love
Rose Carol, M.A., LPC
HAVE YOU SEEN
Dr Marianne Teitelbaum’s
new YOUTUBE channel
like & make sure to subscribe
for a wealth of SVA Knowledge & Expertise
click on any image below to visit her channel

an introduction to SV Ayurveda as taught by Vaidya RK Mishra with Dr Teitelbaum

Watch ALL of Dr Teitelbaum’s Videos on her youtube channel HERE
… upcoming courses …
EMF: What CAN we do about it?
In a world where we can no longer exist without technology, how can we maintain balance and thrive despite the known side-effects of exposure to EMF? Find out Vaidya Mishra’s SVA Teachings in this much requested course on EMF – details coming very soon….

We want to help you protect your purchase – there’s been an increase in lost/stolen packages.
To protect your shipment – in case your shipping address is not secure – we have now added the “signature delivery” option upon check-out on www.chandika.com and we highly recommend you select it to ensure your package is guaranteed to reach you after it leaves our warehouse. Kindly note we are unable to replace stolen/misplaced packages once they are confirmed delivered by the carrier of your choice.

Calendar of Upcoming Events
looking for a live SVA event in your area or online?

Check out our Calendar page for upcoming courses and community events & for full contact and registration details:
Upcoming new SVA events across the US & Canada coming soooooon
stay connected….
a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips – thousands of articles and questions answered by Vaidya Mishra and his team of experts; and so much more…
home to Vaidya Mishra’s unique pranic exquisite formulations – with weekly specials and give-aways. Learn Ayurveda as you shop!

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What’s Diwali Got To Do with Dharma?! and more! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Nov 4, 2021 – #43, Vol 11

November 5, 2021 by Leave a Comment

What’s Diwali got to do with Dharma?
Diwali – or deepawali – also known as the “festival of lights” is primarily known as a Hindu festival where the practice of lighting countless lamps into the night symbolizes “victory of light over darkness”… Wonderful as this characterization may be, it also erases the historical and cultural significance and normalizes it so that heads-of-state can send out banal wishes without risking being politically incorrect! It’s good to be reminded of what diwali really celebrates… 
This 5 day festival that is marked 20 days after Navaratri – the 9 nights of Shakti culminating in the 10th day of victory or Vijayadasmi – is really the celebration of the return of Sri Ram, his consort, Sita, and brother Lakshman, along with Hanuman, back to Ayodhya after a period of 14 years spent in exile. When the party flew back home on the “pushpaka vimaan” – the “airplane” that belonged to Raavan’s brother, Kuber, all the city of Ayodha lit countless oil lamps to welcome their awaited king and queen back from their tribulations. 

The victory celebrates not only the return of Sri Ram to his rightful throne, but inaugurates a period of great dharmic righteous living, since Sri Ram had spent 14 years battling and vanquishing asuras and demons. In particular, the most powerful of them all, the 10-headed egotistic ruler of the 3 worlds, Raavan. This victory is commemorated as dussehra – that is: “killer of the 10 heads.” With his return to Ayodhya, Sri Ram re-establishes the rule of dharma with his victory over Raavan as narrated in Valmiki’s Ramayana.
While it can be read in so many ways, the story of Sri Ram is the story of sticking to one’s dharma first and foremost. Dharma does not mean you will live in comfort and happiness following your desires. It means you will do what you know is meant for you to do as your duty – whether you like it or not! Sri Ram went into the forest, exiled, even though his coronation was meant for that exact same morning. He was stripped of his royal garb and title, and put on the hermit’s shirt and wondered in the jungles barefoot, as a mere mortal. He upheld his dharma. When we uphold our dharma, then the whole universe conspires to bring us more than what our hearts and minds can desire. Vaidya Mishra used to remind us: when you do what you know is right, you will only desire what you deserve…

After the battle between good and evil personified by Sri Ram and Ravaan, the story of the churning of the cosmic ocean of milk, the “samudra manthan” puranic story, we also become victorious, and Laxmi appears in our own lives, as well as Dhanvantari, and many other wondrous gifts as well. 
This diwali, may we all aspire to find and live in accordance with our dharma – no matter how hard the path seems at first. For those of us who are at a loss and who do not know how to find their dharma: allow your dharma to find you. Be still, so you can hear. It beckons…Jai SiyaRam!

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Vaidya Mishra toured and taught incessantly for 14 years from Spring 2003 – Spring 2017, building a beautiful SVA community at large. Many of his students continue his teachings and have their own center offerings and healing modalities that incorporate SVA precepts as well. We love featuring their work and latest news. Here are some courses from the community at large.

Who It’s For:
  • Change-makers
  • Healers
  • Yogis
  • Visionaries
  • Empaths
  • Anyone wanting to learn & live ayurveda, heal their life & pass it on
 Your Transformation Includes:
  • Learn ayurveda step-by-step
  • Anchor into the daily nurturing routines, foods & spices of Ayurveda & Yoga 
  • Gain the knowledge, life-skills, & ongoing support you need to actualize your dharma
  • This is YOUR PROGRAM!  
 What’s Included: 
  • Complete Ayurveda Health Coach training PLUS a 
  • Complete Life-Coach Training all-in-one
  • Thru the lens of Ayurveda
IGNITE TRANSFORMATION FIRST FOR YOURSELF, THEN PASS IT ON!
Now is your time to receive the kind of ongoing training and support you need to take your health, life and career to that next level. It’s time to bridge the confusing gap between where you are currently and what you sense is possible for your life.
xo,
Traci
Traci is a long time student of our beloved Vaidya Mishra whose lineage knowledge she joyfully and respectfully passes on in all of the Ayurvedic Living School‘s programs & workshops. A portion of your proceeds will support Chandi Co and SVAyurveda Operations.
Details:
Fall
Online Health Series
with Cary Twomey
Thursdays, 4-5:30 PM (Central)
Sept 30th, Oct 14th, 
Oct 28th, Nov 4th
Class Fee: $200 

Join us for our Fall Online Health Series, where you will be supported throughout the Fall season with four bi-weekly, 90 minute live sessions with Cary. Each week you will learn a new aspect of how to care for yourself in the Fall, how best to approach our diet, daily self-care, exercise, gentle cleansing routines, how to tend your psychological and spiritual well-being, and how to connect to and remain in relationship to the deep Self, the Light of the Soul. 
All sessions will be recorded and available in our portal for easy access if you are not able to be there for the live sessions. We start this Thursday, Sept 30th, but it’s not too late to join in! You can register here and catch up on the first session in the class portal.

View Evangeline’s full offerings
~ click on the banner below ~
A message from Rose Carol
After many years of practicing and studying Ayurveda and Vedic Sciences (since 1977) and spending literally thousands of hours in deep silent meditation, I want to pass on the lifelong benefits that my teachers, Vaidya Mishra and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi have given to me before it’s too late. The study and practice of Ayurveda has been like a lifelong best friend, supporting me and giving me a stable framework no matter what is happening in my environment and internal life. I feel now is a perfect time to share this ancient wisdom because there is so much uncertainty in the world these days – politically, environmentally and with worldwide pandemics. What better time to befriend and instill an ancient knowledge to prevent illness, develop an enlightened consciousness, and at the same time be able to better help our family, friends, and the community.
The curriculum that I am sharing is really the nectar and juice of everything that I have learned over the past 40 years, it’s beyond vata, pitta, and kapha - I am offering knowledge and Vedic practices that awaken the healing power of prana and cultivate the nervous system so that you will be able to realize the intelligence of your true unbounded nature and experience more peace and stability in your life even during the most chaotic and challenging times that we are currently in. Studying Ayurveda at this time in history will allow to you grab onto that which is everlasting in the midst of changing transitions we are all experiencing.
Studying Ayurveda can resonate with your being and relieve great fear and anxiety and well as deepen perception of the unity and wholeness of life. There’s an ancient verse from the Bhagavad Gita, that says; Even a little of this knowledge relieves mankind from great fear. The nine months of study of Ayurveda and Jyotish (Vedic Astrology as an extended option) will birth a greater sense of steadiness, refined awareness, and greater well-being as well as give you skills to teach and coach others. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or want to sign up call or text 847 636 2744, rose.carol.zivin@gmail.com or and check out the curriculum at https://ayurvedalearningcenter.com/curriculum-details
With love
Rose Carol, M.A., LPC
HAVE YOU SEEN
Dr Marianne Teitelbaum’s
new YOUTUBE channel
like & make sure to subscribe
for a wealth of SVA Knowledge & Expertise
click on any image below to visit her channel

an introduction to SV Ayurveda as taught by Vaidya RK Mishra with Dr Teitelbaum

Watch ALL of Dr Teitelbaum’s Videos on her youtube channel HERE
… upcoming courses …
EMF: What CAN we do about it?
In a world where we can no longer exist without technology, how can we maintain balance and thrive despite the known side-effects of exposure to EMF? Find out Vaidya Mishra’s SVA Teachings in this much requested course on EMF – details coming very soon….

We want to help you protect your purchase – there’s been an increase in lost/stolen packages.
To protect your shipment – in case your shipping address is not secure – we have now added the “signature delivery” option upon check-out on www.chandika.com and we highly recommend you select it to ensure your package is guaranteed to reach you after it leaves our warehouse. Kindly note we are unable to replace stolen/misplaced packages once they are confirmed delivered by the carrier of your choice.

Calendar of Upcoming Events
looking for a live SVA event in your area or online?

Check out our Calendar page for upcoming courses and community events & for full contact and registration details:
Upcoming new SVA events across the US & Canada coming soooooon
stay connected….
a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips – thousands of articles and questions answered by Vaidya Mishra and his team of experts; and so much more…
home to Vaidya Mishra’s unique pranic exquisite formulations – with weekly specials and give-aways. Learn Ayurveda as you shop!

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Friendly Bacteria in SVA – with Dr Teitelbaum; and more! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Oct 28, 2021 – #42, Vol 11

October 29, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Krimi-s vs Yogini-s
~ with Vaidya Mishra
Why do we need “friendly” bacteria? And what is their role in our bodies? Science is catching up to learn what Ayurveda has known since time immemorial, namely that friendly bacteria are the micro-organisms that not only our body thrives on, but without which we would be gravely ill. Vaidya Mishra taught that “yoginis” or friendly bacteria are necessary for the reception and delivery of pranic Energy from food and drinks, for the digestion and absorption of minerals, for the production of ojas, and so much more…. thank you Vaidya Mishra for this precious SVA knowledge…

Vaidya Mishra trained many doctors and therapists in SVAyurveda, and they are now continuing their work in the SVA tradition. Here is a powerful article and video by Dr Marianne Teitelbaum and the impact of friendly bacteria on our health overall.
Here’s to YOUR health always…

Candida albicans is a common yeast which actually lives in harmony with us in small amounts in our GI tract, the mouth and the vagina. Our friendly bacteria found in these places prevent it from over-growing, however, if these friendly bacteria become depleted, then candida can start to multiply as much as it wants since its surveillance team is missing.
Medications such as antibiotics, steroids, birth control pills and immunizations destroy this delicate friendly bacteria leaving you prone to an overgrowth of yeast, which can cause itching, burning, swelling, fatigue, cravings for sugar, brain fog and bloating. Not only that, once the yeast fills up in the gut it can migrate out of the gut, causing little perforations on its way out, known as leaky gut, which predisposes you to food allergies as the immune system launches its attacks on the food which has leaked out.
Modern medicine responds to yeast overgrowth by giving antifungal medications and creams, such as Monistat, Nystatin, and fluconazole. Some doctors have been known to treat yeast infections using antibiotics, which never sounded right to me since taking antibiotics is what caused it to overgrow in the first place since antibiotics kill the friendly bacteria while attacking the pathogens, resulting in yeast overgrowth. 
Holistic doctors use more natural sounding remedies which don’t require prescriptions — such as grapefruit seed extract. It was found that fungus cannot grow on grapefruit seeds so this has been used since the 1980’s to treat yeast. Also used are garlic capsules, turmeric capsules, pau d’arco tea, and selenium, to name a few.
It turns out that both approaches, the modern medical model and the holistic model killed the yeast…and then it promptly grew back.
Then finally, in 1986 a book came out which described once and for all how to treat yeast by starving it to death by avoiding foods that it likes to eat. The only problem is that just about all foods can feed yeast, so the patient was left without too many foods to eat and in the end began starving themselves to death along with their yeast. And in the process of avoiding most foods known to mankind in order to get rid of their infections, they become quite neurotic about their diet, since just about everything they ate caused the yeast symptoms to return.
And the worst part of it all is that after two years of starving the yeast to death, the yeast was still thriving. 
I had been trying to treat yeast for the first eight years of my practice and was not having much success, and then I was very fortunate to attend a lecture in which a doctor came from Europe to show us why we were having no success in our various approaches to treating yeast. He took a drop of blood from a patient who had yeast overgrowth and put it into a very expensive microscope where he could project the image onto a screen where we could see the yeast swimming around happily in the person’s blood.
The patient was then instructed to take a probiotic, and then we examined his blood again. And…nothing happened. The yeast was as happy as ever swimming around undisturbed by the probiotic.
This was repeated over and over again on dozens of patients who had yeast in their blood using several probiotic companies, all to no avail. Nothing seemed to touch the resistant yeast.
And then suddenly, a person was instructed to take a probiotic from a company called Natren. I remember gasping as I saw on the screen how the probiotic attacked the yeast, like on a battlefield, totally breaking it apart, creating incredible explosions going on right before my eyes. The whole room was filled with doctors who were totally astounded by this. 
I couldn’t wait to get back to my busy practice on Monday morning to order this amazing probiotic and start it right away on my weary patients who had been diligently taking their garlic pills, grapefruit seed extract, turmeric capsules, and selenium to no avail, and who were pounds lighter from their starvation diets. 
I contacted Natren and they told me that the owner of the company was a microbiologist who took the culture over from Russia, but also figured out how to protect the culture without destroying it during the manufacturing process.
I was told that most probiotics do in fact start out with a high amount of active probiotic culture but that many of the cultures die during its processing, leaving behind a very ineffective probiotic. They also told me that unless the probiotic states on the bottle “100% potency guaranteed” then it probably had mostly dead cultures.
I got up enough courage to have the patients discontinue all their yeast overgrowth remedies and yeast starvation diets and just used the probiotic. And to my surprise the yeast died off in most of the cases within two months, this after trying to kill it for two years. And it hardly ever came back.
But of course there were always a few who still were not helped enough by the probiotic. And luckily, it was around that time that I started studying with my Ayurvedic mentor and teacher, Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra. He was happy to see that I had already figured out that trying to kill the yeast and/or starve it to death did not work, but instead had shifted my approach to regrowing the friendly bacteria and let that do its job in mopping up the yeast. 
He told me that it’s not always the best approach to try to kill infection in the gut because when you do you will always kill more friendly bacteria in the process. The better approach, he told me, was to create conditions where the bad guys, the pathogens, leave town.
So he proceeded to develop two other remedies, one which acts like a fertilizer to help the friendly bacteria to grow, and the other which is like adding new topsoil into the garden, both of which would allow the seeds, the probiotics to grow. 
And once the probiotic cultures regrew back into the gut: it was like a miracle in that the yeast finally died off once and for all without going through all the difficulties of taking all the remedies to kill it and starve it to death.
And from then on yeast overgrowth has been easy for me to tackle in our patients. 
So Vaidya Mishra was right: we never needed to try to kill the yeast, whether with prescription drugs or natural remedies. Instead, we just had to create an “unfriendly” environment where it would not be able to survive, let alone thrive. In practical terms, we had to heal the lining of the gut so the probiotics would have good conditions to grow, and then leave it up to the friendly bacteria to destroy the pesky yeast. 
And one other thing Vaidya Mishra taught me was that if you just take a round or two of an antibiotic or maybe one immunization or a short round of steroids, it will kill the friendly bacteria in the gut, which then will need probiotics to replace them. But if you take several rounds of antibiotics, or stay on birth control pills for several months or even years, or receive several immunizations and/or steroids, then the repeated doses of these medications not only destroy the friendly bacteria, but also the mucus layer that they are growing in, which is what led him to develop the two other remedies to help heal the lining of the gut.
That’s why sometimes just taking a probiotic might not be enough. This is why some remedies such as slippery elm, marshmallow root and deglycyrrhized licorice might be necessary to regrow the mucus layer in the gut where the friendly bacteria grow. Otherwise the friendly bacteria might not be able to grow effectively, kind of like trying to plant seeds in sandy soil: you may get a little growth, but not robust enough to ward off the yeast.
Then there are prebiotics, which are a type of non digestible fiber that act as a food source for the beneficial bacteria. Because these prebiotic fibers are not digested, they remain in the digestive tract where they can feed the probiotics. Artichokes, chicory root, and pectin are some good prebiotic foods. Pectin is found in the stewed apple we recommend every morning: peel the apple, chop it into fours, add 2 whole cloves and cover it with water in a little pot. Let it cook until soft, discard the cloves and eat before breakfast.
Another source of fiber which encourages the growth of the friendly bacteria is sweet Thai tamarind. Don’t get the fermented tamarind paste available in Indian markets, but learn how to cook with the actual tamarind pods for best prebiotic support.
Keep in mind that the vaginal tract and bladder can also lose their friendly bacteria, resulting in bacterial vaginosis, yeast overgrowth and UTI’s. You can find specific probiotics for the vaginal tract and bladder in most health food stores. 
D-mannose is a fiber which can act like a prebiotic to enhance the growth of friendly bacteria in the bladder, and taken along with cranberry juice can discourage the overgrowth of pathogens in the bladder which would otherwise cause UTI’s.
So now, when I take on a patient with yeast I know that it is a fairly easy problem to overcome if you get a good case history. You have to see how long they were on the offending medications which destroy the friendly bacteria to help figure out if they just need some probiotics or if they need extra help regrowing the mucus layer and some prebiotics to guarantee a nice thick turf of friendly bacteria in all the mucus membranes of the gut, bladder and vagina. 
And the patients are so grateful to finally overcome their nagging yeast infections which they have been plagued with for months and sometimes even years.
I hope this information will help prevent you from having to take so many remedies which won’t help anyway and lead you away from following a diet which will deplete both you and your yeast at the same time.
Dr Marianne Teitelbaum
1.856.786.3330
Feeling Lost? Need Guidance?
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SVA
Community Courses
with
Certified Instructors
Vaidya Mishra toured and taught incessantly for 14 years from Spring 2003 – Spring 2017, building a beautiful SVA community at large. Many of his students continue his teachings and have their own center offerings and healing modalities that incorporate SVA precepts as well. We love featuring their work and latest news. Here are some courses from the community at large.

Who It’s For:
  • Change-makers
  • Healers
  • Yogis
  • Visionaries
  • Empaths
  • Anyone wanting to learn & live ayurveda, heal their life & pass it on
 Your Transformation Includes:
  • Learn ayurveda step-by-step
  • Anchor into the daily nurturing routines, foods & spices of Ayurveda & Yoga 
  • Gain the knowledge, life-skills, & ongoing support you need to actualize your dharma
  • This is YOUR PROGRAM!  
 What’s Included: 
  • Complete Ayurveda Health Coach training PLUS a 
  • Complete Life-Coach Training all-in-one
  • Thru the lens of Ayurveda
IGNITE TRANSFORMATION FIRST FOR YOURSELF, THEN PASS IT ON!
Now is your time to receive the kind of ongoing training and support you need to take your health, life and career to that next level. It’s time to bridge the confusing gap between where you are currently and what you sense is possible for your life.
xo,
Traci
Traci is a long time student of our beloved Vaidya Mishra whose lineage knowledge she joyfully and respectfully passes on in all of the Ayurvedic Living School‘s programs & workshops. A portion of your proceeds will support Chandi Co and SVAyurveda Operations.
Details:
Fall
Online Health Series
with Cary Twomey
Thursdays, 4-5:30 PM (Central)
Sept 30th, Oct 14th, 
Oct 28th, Nov 4th
Class Fee: $200 

Join us for our Fall Online Health Series, where you will be supported throughout the Fall season with four bi-weekly, 90 minute live sessions with Cary. Each week you will learn a new aspect of how to care for yourself in the Fall, how best to approach our diet, daily self-care, exercise, gentle cleansing routines, how to tend your psychological and spiritual well-being, and how to connect to and remain in relationship to the deep Self, the Light of the Soul. 
All sessions will be recorded and available in our portal for easy access if you are not able to be there for the live sessions. We start this Thursday, Sept 30th, but it’s not too late to join in! You can register here and catch up on the first session in the class portal.

View Evangeline’s full offerings
~ click on the banner below ~
A message from Rose Carol
After many years of practicing and studying Ayurveda and Vedic Sciences (since 1977) and spending literally thousands of hours in deep silent meditation, I want to pass on the lifelong benefits that my teachers, Vaidya Mishra and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi have given to me before it’s too late. The study and practice of Ayurveda has been like a lifelong best friend, supporting me and giving me a stable framework no matter what is happening in my environment and internal life. I feel now is a perfect time to share this ancient wisdom because there is so much uncertainty in the world these days – politically, environmentally and with worldwide pandemics. What better time to befriend and instill an ancient knowledge to prevent illness, develop an enlightened consciousness, and at the same time be able to better help our family, friends, and the community.
The curriculum that I am sharing is really the nectar and juice of everything that I have learned over the past 40 years, it’s beyond vata, pitta, and kapha - I am offering knowledge and Vedic practices that awaken the healing power of prana and cultivate the nervous system so that you will be able to realize the intelligence of your true unbounded nature and experience more peace and stability in your life even during the most chaotic and challenging times that we are currently in. Studying Ayurveda at this time in history will allow to you grab onto that which is everlasting in the midst of changing transitions we are all experiencing.
Studying Ayurveda can resonate with your being and relieve great fear and anxiety and well as deepen perception of the unity and wholeness of life. There’s an ancient verse from the Bhagavad Gita, that says; Even a little of this knowledge relieves mankind from great fear. The nine months of study of Ayurveda and Jyotish (Vedic Astrology as an extended option) will birth a greater sense of steadiness, refined awareness, and greater well-being as well as give you skills to teach and coach others. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or want to sign up call or text 847 636 2744, rose.carol.zivin@gmail.com or and check out the curriculum at https://ayurvedalearningcenter.com/curriculum-details
With love
Rose Carol, M.A., LPC
HAVE YOU SEEN
Dr Marianne Teitelbaum’s
new YOUTUBE channel
like & make sure to subscribe
for a wealth of SVA Knowledge & Expertise
click on any image below to visit her channel

an introduction to SV Ayurveda as taught by Vaidya RK Mishra with Dr Teitelbaum

Watch ALL of Dr Teitelbaum’s Videos on her youtube channel HERE
… upcoming courses …
EMF: What CAN we do about it?
In a world where we can no longer exist without technology, how can we maintain balance and thrive despite the known side-effects of exposure to EMF? Find out Vaidya Mishra’s SVA Teachings in this much requested course on EMF – details coming very soon….

We want to help you protect your purchase – there’s been an increase in lost/stolen packages.
To protect your shipment – in case your shipping address is not secure – we have now added the “signature delivery” option upon check-out on www.chandika.com and we highly recommend you select it to ensure your package is guaranteed to reach you after it leaves our warehouse. Kindly note we are unable to replace stolen/misplaced packages once they are confirmed delivered by the carrier of your choice.

Calendar of Upcoming Events
looking for a live SVA event in your area or online?

Check out our Calendar page for upcoming courses and community events & for full contact and registration details:
Upcoming new SVA events across the US & Canada coming soooooon
stay connected….
a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips – thousands of articles and questions answered by Vaidya Mishra and his team of experts; and so much more…
home to Vaidya Mishra’s unique pranic exquisite formulations – with weekly specials and give-aways. Learn Ayurveda as you shop!

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Protein Paddies with Garcinia Chutney for Autumn? and more! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Oct 21, 2021 – #41, Vol 11

October 22, 2021 by Leave a Comment

In Autumn, have you noticed that your digestion can be off? That you are likely to experience “vishmagni” – sometimes high sometimes low agni or appetite? In other terms, you may feel hungry but then you take a bite and you lose your appetite; or conversely, you have not eaten all day and you know you should feel hungry and yet you don’t! This can be caused by many factors, but at the end of Summer and beginning of Autumn, this can be a common situation. If you don’t correct it, it can result in additional imbalances, weight gain, mood swings, and other conditions. And no, it is not possible to correct this through fasting! Specially not in Autumn. While fasting may be recommended for specific body types under specific conditions, fasting in the Fall is the last thing you should do, as your vata will get further imbalanced making you feel tired, spacy, foggy, give you dry skin and dry mouth, lack of sleep, etc. There are full protocols for helping with “vishmagni,” however, there are simple easy things you can also do. First off: don’t skip or delay meals. NO MATTER WHAT. Eat nourishing light meals in the following manner:
1) Wake up with sunrise and stew and apple/pear with 2 cloves.
2) One and a half hour later – around 8:30am, have some cooked grains – oats, millet, amaranth, etc. Cook with a cardamom pod or Madhur Masala.
3) Around 10:30am, if you are hungry, have 5-8 soaked almonds or some soaked walnuts, or a pear;
4) Lunch between 12-1:30pm will be ideal – 1 protein, 2 vegetables, a side of grains, and a chutney or salsa;
5) 3-4pm: have a fruit or a handful of soaked nuts with raisins, or a date;
6) 7-8pm: dinner consisting of a light protein with one vegetable and some grain on the side;
7) warm calming tea or milk – around 9am before bed.
A regular nourishing dietary routine like this is your best bet for keeping vata dosha in check and your digestive fire on in the Fall. However, there are other things you can also do. In terms of diet.
There are many specific fruits and vegetables that Ayurveda recommends for this season to pacify vata, but none stands out as much as Garcinia indica. Also known as Garcinia cambogia (“vrikshamla” in Sanskrit) is mentioned in the ayurvedic “nighantu”-s (or glossaries) as a vata and kapha dosha pacifying dravya or food ingredient. When we consume it with vegetables (zucchini, leafy greens, etc) and grains (rice, millet, etc) , it also pacifies pitta dosha. It is known to enhance absorption of nutrients due to its thermogenic potency; to sharpen the taste buds, clears away ama or toxic build-up in the oral cavity; and makes body lighter because it carries the following 3 rasa-s or tastes: amla (sour), katu (pungent) and kashai (astringent). These 3 rasa-s enhance metabolism in general. More specifically, the amla rasa or sour taste also enhances and supports protein metabolism because it enhances agni in the mamsa dhatu or muscle tissue. In addition, the 3 rasa-s together help clear and unclog the channels too.
Garcinia’s first property is “amla” or sour, and we know that the sour taste is “agneya” or thermogenic. Due to this property, it pacifies kapha in all the 7 “dhatu”-s or tissues. But it also pacifies thirst because it pacifies vata in the stomach, samana vata, as well as in the chest or udana vata. In general, it is a wonderful fruit that balances the entire stomach and all the dosha-s in the stomach, enhancing coordination amongst them all: samana vata, pachak pitta, and kledak kapha – the 3 principles which support digestion: a) movement of space and air in the stomach; b) enzymatic levels; c) lubrication levels. When the stomach dosha-s are balanced, so many aspects of overall health also follow suit.
Vaidya’s SVA lineage always recommends that nutritional items be consumed as food, not as capsules with active ingredients isolated – for example consume turmeric as part of your meal, not as a capsule. And the same applies to Garcinia. To achieve the purpose of optimal health or even just weight loss, you need to have a total program including diet and lifestyle.
In this spirit, here are some delicious protein paddies made with Garcinia Chutney or masala/spice mix. Protein is necessary for overall health, yet can be hard to digest. Even if it is paneer or lentil protein. Garcinia helps break down the molecules and enhances their absorption, thus pacifying all 3 doshas. Plus it tastes a-m-a-z-i-n-g!!! Enjoy!
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Osteoporosis is a disease in which the density and quality of bone are reduced. The word osteoporosis literally means “porous bone.” It is a disease where the body either loses too much bone, makes too little bone, or both.The incidence of osteoporosis is extremely high, affecting over 200 million women. It affects about 1 out of10 women aged 60, 1 out of 5 of women aged 70, 2 out of 5 of women aged 80 and 2 out of 3 of women aged 90. 
First, we must think of the bone as a living tissue. It isn’t static as we might think, but instead the bone is in a constant state of flux and is continually being remodeled where the body is continually replacing old bone with new bone. As we go through the day we may form tiny micro-fractures in the bone. But there are different types of bone cells which aid in this repair process.

The first type of bone cell is called an osteoclast, from the Greek words for “bone” and “broken.”
This type of bone cell breaks down the bone, disassembling and digesting the protein and mineral of the bone at a molecular level in a process known as bone resorption.
The second type of bone cell is the osteoblast, from the Greek “bone” and germinate.” The osteoblasts synthesize special proteins and collagen in the areas recently broken down by the osteoclasts which will eventually become strong mineralized bone. Thus, these special bone cells build up the bone cells.
There has to be a balance between the amount of bone being broken down by the osteoclasts and the new bone formation created by the osteoblasts. If the bone breaks down more quickly than it is formed, from increased resorption, decreased formation or a combination of the two, then osteoporosis will result.
At any one moment 2-5 percent of your skeleton is being remodeled. At any point in time there are millions of these tiny areas of bone undergoing active repair in your body. The osteoclastic resorption phase of remodeling lasts for 3-5 weeks and the osteoblastic bone formation and remineralization phase takes another 3-5 months to complete.
common causes of osteoporosis 
Chronic low-level inflammation is one of the primary causes, at a very deep level, of bone loss. The body responds with acute inflammation if there is an injury or an infection, but when this inflammatory response continues on for months or even years, instead of being reparative, the immune system becomes unbalanced and can become destructive to the body.
Factors which cause inflammation could be from lack of friendly bacteria in the gut, allowing for chronic gut infections to grow, such as candida albicans yeast, small intestinal bacteria overgrowth (SIBO), parasites and bacterial overgrowth in the large intestines. These friendly bacteria can become depleted through the use of numerous pharmaceuticals such as antibiotics, steroids, acid reflux medicines, birth control pills and immunizations. Once the friendly bacteria is depleted, chronic infection can occur, and along with it, chronic inflammation, since inflammation is the byproduct of the immune system attacking the infective agents.

Another cause of chronic inflammation comes from overheating of the liver. Nowadays, with the 80,000 environmental toxins combined with dietary toxins create a massive amount of toxicity in the liver causing it to overheat as these hot acidic toxins are filtered through it every minute of the day and night. The liver also converts the blood plasma to blood which causes the blood to overheat as well, which actually means that the heat in the liver spills out into the entire body as the liver heats up the blood as it undergoes this transformation, and now the heat is dispensed throughout the entire body, leading also to chronic inflammation.
Now the blood becomes too acidic and hot, causing the bones to give up their calcium to alkalinize the blood.
And here’s another very important (and often overlooked) factor contributing to osteoporosis: keep in mind that the osteoblasts and osteoclasts are made in the bone marrow. Nowadays many of the environmental toxins (such as air pollution and pesticides) and pharmaceuticals (such as the toxins in the immunizations and many other medications) settle in the bone marrow.
So here’s where the problem lies: when there is either chronic inflammation or toxins in the bone marrow, the stem cells in the bone marrow mistakenly start to make more osteoclasts, the bone cells which break down the bones which results in too much bone loss and not enough bone growth.
Another cause of osteoporosis can be from oxidation of fats in the blood. These oxidized fats come from cooking with refined vegetable oils, and these types of toxic fats that form when you heat these dangerous oils divert the stem cells away from osteoblast formation and toward fat cell formation. The ancient doctors of Ayurveda cognized this issue as well, as they stated in their text books that each of the 7 tissues (blood plasma, blood, muscle, fat, bone, bone marrow and reproductive fluids) transforms into the next tissue. For example the blood tissue undergoes a transformation and eventually becomes the muscle tissue. Now this is very interesting, the fat tissue transforms into the bone tissue, so the ancient texts stated that it’s important to have good quality fat in order to form strong bones. Oxidized fats sitting in the fat tissue form a poor quality fat tissue giving rise to poor quality bone tissue.
Some other causes of osteoporosis
Hormonal imbalances: 
Both low estrogen and thyroid problems contribute to bone loss
High Vata can emaciate the bones. Vata is aggravated by rushing through the day, eating a diet low in fats or milk, going to bed late and high stress.
Inactivity, on the other hand, can also deplete the bones. When you exercise regularly, your bone adapts by building more bone and becoming denser.
Smoking reduces the blood supply to the bones and the nicotine in cigarettes slow up the production of the bone-producing cells or the osteoblasts. Smoking also decreases the body’s absorption of calcium.
Insufficient Intake of milk and/or poor quality of milk: milk is the number one best food for the bones, but it has to be taken in the correct way. And we want the full fat milk since the fat in the milk delivers the calcium into the bones. Drinking low fat milk will not help to nourish the bones enough. 
Low levels of Vitamin D: Most of us don’t get out in the sun enough or we live in areas with lack of sunlight for a large part of the year. Vitamin D helps the absorption of calcium into the bones.
Poor quality fats in the diet cause weak bones while a diet with good fats, such as ghee, olive oil, whole milk, yogurt, soft curd cheeses, avocados, nuts and seeds will form very strong bones.
Excessive alcohol intake can slow bone formation and speed up bone breakdown.
Coffee — the acids in coffee also contribute to bone loss as the bones have to give up their calcium to keep the blood alkaline
Sodas – the phosphoric acid in the sodas interferes with calcium absorption and results in the loss of calcium from the bone.

HOW CAN YOU PREVENT AND/OR TREAT OSTEOPOROSIS?
The standard medical treatment years ago was to give hormone replacement therapy, known as HRT. But this type of therapy was largely discontinued after a major 15-year research program, the Women’s Health Initiative, demonstrated that the HRT caused an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, breast cancer and colorectal cancer. 
Now the most common form of bone medication is known as bisphosphonates. These medicines poison the osteoclasts, allowing unnatural bone formation as the osteoblasts build up the bone out of balance with what nature intended causing brittle bones which tend to snap and break easily, even the larger bones in the body, such as the femur, and has also been found to cause necrosis (death of the bone cells) in the jaw bone.
In Ayurveda we give herbal remedies and formulations which help the body make its own estrogen and progesterone and don’t have the serious side effects of the synthetically made hormone replacement therapy.
The first thing most people think when they hear they have osteoporosis is to take a calcium supplement. Even without microscopes the ancient doctors knew that the calcium molecule was very large and couldn’t be absorbed into the bones. So they recommended burning the calcium (usually from coral, snail shells and pearls) repeatedly for several weeks, causing the calcium molecule to become smaller and smaller with each incineration. The end product is called a bhasma of the calcium and is actually a very tiny nanoparticle which can be absorbed easily into the bone. Research has shown that most of the calcium products on the market are in fact too large for absorption, never reaching the bone tissue and instead getting stuck in the arteries, causing hardening of the arteries and plaque formation. That’s why taking calcium supplements never seems to help bone formation.
I remember when my teacher Vaidya Mishra used to take the pulses of people who were taking standard calcium supplements he would turn to me and say: “In every patient who takes calcium supplements I can feel the calcium stuck in the arteries, clogging them, and not getting to where they are needed in the bone.” And sure enough research has now demonstrated this.
Many people are deficient in magnesium since it gets depleted when you are under stress, and all pharmaceuticals flush magnesium out of our bodies. In my practice we give transdermal magnesium therapies through the use of transdermal magnesium creams and abhyanga oils made with magnesium which are used for full body oil massage. The skin absorbs the exact amount of magnesium which is needed. Many times when you take magnesium orally it goes through the digestive tract too quickly and can cause diarrhea, preventing its absorption.
We also recommend getting Vitamin D mainly through sunshine and also through transdermal use topically on the skin. Keep in mind that the darker the skin, the more sunlight you need to make Vitamin D, as the pigment in the skin acts like a sunscreen. So a fair-skinned person might get by with about 15 minutes of sunlight a day, while a dark-skinned person might need about a half hour.
We have a special herb from India known as Asthi Shrinkala (asthi in Sanskrit means “bone”) and the best news of all is that we have herbs and foods which can clean the bone marrow, allowing normal formation of osteoblasts and osteoclasts. One common mistake is when we take these powerful herbs on their own in tea/hot water. Vaidya Mishra always taught us to create herbal synergies: herbs work together to support each others’ energy so you actually receive the benefit you are seeking. Asthi Shrinkala – Bone Herb – is a very heating herb. When consumed alone, it can aggravate pita and can thus have counter results. Here is a gentle yet powerful recipe from Vaidya Mishra.
We recommend use of good quality grass-fed non-homogenized whole milk, taken in the correct way, which means boiled for best absorption into the cells and taken either with grains or by itself. Goat’s milk can be taken if someone is allergic to cow’s milk and home-made almond or macadamia nut milk and oat milk are also good substitutes.
Toasted and ground sesame seeds are also very nourishing to the bones and can be sprinkled on foods.
Vitamin K2 keeps calcium away from the arteries and joints and directs it into the teeth and bones. Vitamin K2 is extremely rare in the diet, but it is found in ghee, or clarified butter, so don’t be afraid to use it in your diet as it won’t clog your arteries and it is a very high quality fat which will in turn creates high quality bone tissue. We don’t want to take the synthetically made Vitamin K2 as it may cause side effects. 
And, as usual, the ancient doctors were correct when they stated that any disease process could be traced back to faulty digestion. This is definitely the case with osteoporosis. The inflammation and infection we see nowadays is caused a lot by problems with the two most important areas in the body responsible for good digestion and assimilation of nutrients: the friendly bacteria in the gut and the liver.
By regrowing the friendly bacteria, cleaning and cooling the liver the chronic inflammation and infection stemming from the digestive system go down, allowing for better bone formation.
Try to exercise for at least a half hour 4 days a week to increase your bone density.
And of course, try giving up your bad habits of going to bed late, drinking alcohol, and smoking cigarettes. Limiting your intake of acidic coffee and sodas will dramatically help your bone health as you turn more towards good mineral-rich alkaline spring water taken directly from the earth. 
I hope you learned some important information about your bone health so that you don’t have to suffer the consequences of bone loss that are so prevalent in our society today.
Thank you,
Marianne Teitelbaum (D.C)
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