I am very happy to announce my new cellulite course. An in-depth study of the why and the how to get rid of cellulite course with SVA understanding, tools, and formulations. You can join me and my team of SVA experts from anywhere in the world via live global streaming. Read the course description and the detailed course outline below. A total of 9 Chapters plus one for all practical tools, in addition to videos and live calls. Registration is now open with a super-early bird discount – expires September 15, 2016!
Cellulite Management Transdermally and from the Inside-Out: an SV Ayurveda Course – from Sutra to Science
With Vaidya R K Mishra, and a team of SVA experts
Start Date: November 5, 2016
• 12 videos totalling 2 hrs each posted on the electronic forum
• Printed study materials posted on the forum – 9 Chapters Plus In-depth Chapter on Practical Tools and Protocols
• Six Full Sessions of Live 1 hour Video Global Webstream – plus Q&A
• Ongoing Q&A on the forum – interact with Vaidya, SVA experts, and peers
• Sampler Kit with SVA Cellulite Formulations – a Gift Sampler for Practicum includes a total of 9 products
* Additional separate in-person attendance practicum and light panchakarma treatment at the Prana Center (based and organized on sign-up and attendance – fees and charges are separate from this current course). Date TBA.
Live Call Schedule
Saturday November 5, 2016
Saturday December 3, 2016
Saturday January 14, 2017
Saturday January 28, 2017
Saturday February 11, 2017
Saturday February 25, 2017
Total Cost of the course: $900.
Early Bird: 25% off, the whole course, sign up by September 15, 2016 – only $675
After September 15, 2016, sign up by October 1, 2016, and get 20% off – only $720
After October 1, 2016, $900.
Who Should Take this Course? This course is for anyone (health professionals or laypeople) who want to understand and address cellulite in a thorough SVA sutra to science approach. Here is what you can expect to come away with from this course:
1) What is cellulite; why and how cellulite happens; its differnt stages of development
2) What can you do to help reduce or eliminate it;
3) Practical massaging and marma techniques;
4) Research-based dietary guidelines: what to eat and what not to eat for celluliteprone physiologies.
If you are a health professional (Ayurvedic Practitioner, licensed medical doctor, Marma Specialist, Massage Therapist, Naturopath, etc.), this course will offer you additional supplemental SVA training and tools to help your clients reduce/eliminate cellulite.
Why this course now?
In my ayurvedic practice of 40 plus years countless clients, exasperated with no-result hype products available on the market, have sought me out for ayurvedic remedies to eliminate their unsightly cellulite. I began to research this condition to get a fuller understanding; however, putting together herbal formula(s) for cellulite and educational materials for its management sat on the back-burner while I remained busy with other projects. A few months ago, well-known health and ayurvedic wellness author, Lissa Coffey, inspired me to revisit my interrupted work, and put together a full cellulite-reduction educational program for health practitioners as well as individuals looking to eliminate their own cellulite conditions. I reviewed my past work but went even deeper researching the role played by ethnic/ cultural background; diet; age; gender; exercise and lifestyle trends; with special focus on the key role of hormones and related imbalances. All these factors play a major role individually or collectively in forming cellulite. I then began to research ayurvedic herbs to isolate internal and external (transdermal) actions for addressing cellulite. In total, I have narrowed down my list to 16 Ayurvedic as well as Western herbs. Most of these herbs have been tested in clinical trials with success. This inspired me even more to confirm the different categories of “hetu” (etiological/cause factor) and to build a SVA approach based program for addressing cellulite.
I have yet to locate the ayurvedic name for cellulite in any of the ancient texts. Despite this, we can confidently say that Ayurveda clearly discusses five key factors that correlate with cellulite formation, in the sense of a condition associated with unhealthy fat accumulation and hardening. I have isolated and identified these five factors after researching modern findings in light of my ayurvedic know-how. Based on this, I was able to create a hetu-based management program, and put together a samprapti chakra of cellulite. A Samprapti chakra is represented in a diagram as a circle that identifies the different pathogenic steps that create, literally, a vicious cycle for a condition. It’s a powerful way to understand the emergence of a condition, how it forms in the first place, and what are the factors that keep the cycle going, and therefore, what needs and can be done to break the cycle and arrest the perpetuation of a condition.
Five SVA Factors making up the Samprapti Chakra of Cellulite and Sroto Abhisanga
– clogging of circulatory channels through hardening:
1) Processed/synthetic/rancid “dumb” fats in the daily diet
2) Processed/aged/improperly prepared protein intake in addition to slow protein metabolism
3) Lack of proper exercise – based on one’s constitutional needs
4) Hormonal imbalances in women
5) Lack of intelligence in the liver
Once you study and understand these five factors, you will learn how to break the samprapti cycle in order to reduce or eliminate cellulite formation and keep it at bay. In this course, we will also cover a detailed understanding of the skin layers from the perspective of Ayurvedic physiology and anatomy, and see how the layers need to maintain intelligence communication at each level. In addition, you will learn how the role free-radicals (amavisha) and how they can accumulate and pollute the adipose tissue. The term for this condition is sroto abhisanga – rigidity and immobility in the body’s fat and muscle channels.
Therapeutic Test for Sroto Abhisanga: To counter sroto abhisanga, you will learn two simple tests to determine what kind of toxins and how much rigidity are in the srotas (channels) of fat and muscle, and therefore how to address them.
• Pinch Test
• Pressure (tapping) Test
SVA Cellulite Management Techniques and Products for this Course
• Mild PK (panchakarma) detox protocols for the whole body
• Detoxifying cellulite with topical detox herbs
• Transdermal creams for cellulite management
• Marma Point activation to break the samprapti chakra
• SVA Herbal Clay Wraps to breakdown local cellulite
• Lymphatic massage reduction on local areas of cellulite
• Herbal-Memory Nectars specific for cellulite management
• Herbal Teas to complement the entire program
• Raw silk Garshana glove massage to support lymphatic flow*
*Raw-silk gloves are used traditionally in Ayurveda for skin brushing. SVA Raw Silk gloves will be available on www.chandika.com shorlty. In this course you will learn how to use these gloves after the appropriate marma point activation techniques.
Hand Massage-induced Cellulite Reduction vs Machine-induced Cellulite
Reduction:
Several tools exist on the market to help eliminate cellulite. Some come with sideeffects (specially when they have an electric current flowing through them); others have no long-term studies showing their effecitivity. In SVA, we always work to assist, never force, our body. You will learn to use your fingers with transdermal creams, lymphatic massage, and marma therapy to do the job of these machines, but safely and with respect for your body.
Course Forum: All sessions of this course will be recorded and posted on an electronic forum for you to watch and review at your leisure. Also, all course presentation notes and other materials will be available for you to peruse during and for a limited period after the end of the course. You will also be able to ask questions on the forum and stay in touch with other course participants to exchange observations and share your experiences.
Course Practicum: This course also carries a practicum portion for those willing and able to travel to my Prana Center in Southern California. The practicum for the course will cover the following aspects:
• how to allocate and activate marmas,
• how to use/apply the transdermal creams,
• how to use/apply the herbal wraps and clays
The practicum will be offered in a small intimate setting in small groups, in order to allow each student a more individualized attention and learning experience. Also, students will have not one but a number of weekends to choose from for their practicum. These will be announced shortly.
SVA Instructors: I will personally teach the theory and basic and advanced principles of cellulite management. In addition, I am very happy to announce that several SVA experts, from different backgrounds, will be joining and assisting me in various aspects of this course: Lissa Coffey will join me in facilitating different aspects of this course; Dr. Mark Vinick is an expert in marma allocation and will teach hands-on marma therapy for cellulite – in person-practicums will also be video-taped and made available for those who can’t attend; Bonita Carol, trained in SV Ayurveda and panchakarma, will instruct the PK (panchakarma) hands-on training; Dr. Milena Takvorian-Mishra will be covering the portions on the relationship between sadhak pitta and the mind, in conjunction with the role played by the hormones in cellulite formation.
With this course, you can expect to gain indepth understanding as well as advanced practical skills to address and manage cellulite. I am confident that those students who have and run health practices will immediately acquire and be able to apply practical ayurvedic wisdom and know-how, as per the scope of their practice(s), to help their clients, or themselves, to help prevent, reduce cellulite, eliminate, and overall, break the cycle of unhealthy adipose formation.
Vaidya R K Mishra
Disclaimer
This product and statements have not been evaluated by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and is not intended to be used to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. All of the information above is intended for educational purposes only and may not be used to replace or complement medical advice.
As of yet however, I had not formulated products for cellulite or developed management protocols. First, I wanted complete confidence that my products and protocols would work, at least in the 1st and 2nd stages of manifestation.
Cellulite Management Transdermally and from the Inside-Out: an SV Ayurveda Course – from Sutra to Science
Course Outline and Chapter Details:
Introduction:
-Why an Ayurvedic approach is your best solution. How Ayurveda is a holistic protocol that addresses body, mind, emotions, spirit.
– Tackling the problem by understanding the individual’s make-up: metabolic type, ethnic/cultural background, age, mental, emotional parameters
Chapter 1: What is Cellulite? – from Sutra to Science
-The contemporary/scientific understanding vs the Ayurvedic: how do we define cellulite ayurvedically when it is not cited as a “condition” in the ayurvedic texts?
-How/why does one get cellulite formations?
-Why does it mostly affect women?
-Why has cellulite become a prevalent modern condition affecting so many women?
– Cellulite in men: clarifications and explanations
-Cultural differences – is cellulite more prevalent in the West (US/Europe) than in other countries?
-Our “perception” of cellulite. Why it’s never too late to start the routine.
-Evidence/sourcec of knowledge:
-Charak Samhita helps decipher the functioning of the layers of the skin, but the Sutra Samhita gives more wisdom about the deeper layers of the skin and how how the accumulation of fat results and impedes circulation.
-Body has 2 kinds of fat (1 fat is tissue that transforms to bone, 1 fat is “vasa” – like lard, not a part of tissue). Cellulite is not a fat tissue problem, it is vasa that forms cellulite. “Bad” fat gets into the muscles and gets stuck and polluted
-When we know how/why this fat forms then we know how to disperse it.
– Developmental Stages of Cellulite: early, in-progress, and advanced
– Where/when to draw the line
Chapter 2: The Emotional Component
– Times/circumstances in life when cellulite is prone to appear: early hormonal phases of puberty; childbirth; menopause.
– Other factors tied to emotions and hormones: why/how pent up emotions, or emotions that we hold onto, can lead to cellulite. What to do about it. Finding bliss – Ananda. Also: issues of self-esteem tied in with hormonal shifts.
– Ayurvedic Psychology: Ayurveda has a unique way of evaluating the emotional spectrum. It offers us insights and the workings of the emotions beyong the categorization of the doshas. In SVA, we pay particular attention to Sattva types. These help us determine how much endurance we are naturally endowed with to handle emotional stressors. The Sattva is also repressed or supported by environmental factors such as diet, lifestyle, and social behavior. Three primary categories of Sattva
• Heen Sattva, low emotional endurance. This weakens more in negative environment, when not eating in time, eating spicy foods, drinking alcohol, etc aggravates this. Doubting, unsure, cranky, grumpy. Low Self Esteem. Can be boosted to Medium
• Madhya Sattva, medium self-esteem. Sometimes negative, sometimes positive. Can be boosted to High.
• Pravar Sattva, high self-esteem. Positive, confident, spiritual, even in the face of the greatest challenges.
In this section we will be discussing other key concepts that involve Sattva and its workings in relation to the brain and heart, with special focus on the “heart lotus” and the quality of the aura of the lotus.
-Emotional strength/weakness impacts the mind. The mind governs metabolism, it regulates the secretions of enzymes in the stomach, and the workings of the pancreas, it also communicates with the neurotransmitters. When the mind gets stressed, the body produces cortisol to buffer the stress effects, the body thinks it needs protection, to hold onto fat, so toxins accumulate, cellulite forms. This is one of the common reasons.
Chapter 3: The Cellulite-Cancer Connection.
-Why it is important health-wise, not just beauty-wise, to get rid of cellulite.
-Findings on the connection between cellulite and cancer
Chapter 4: Ayurvedic Anatomy of the Skin.
– The physiology of the skin as seen by modern and ancient perspectives.
– the Sutra to Science
-Psychophysiology of the skin (how the psyche impacts the skin in cellulite formations; other skin imbalances in relation to the mind/heart conjunction, such as eczema, acne, etc.)
-Pathophysiology in perspective of cellulite
-Formation of cellulite – the Samprapti Chakra of Cellulite
Chapter 5: Tools that don’t work – and those that will!
-Looking at various approaches to cellulite and understanding why each of them do not give the expected results: ground coffee beans and caffeine, endermologie, etc… Cellulite “myths” – (funny examples, old wives’ tales)
– not looking at whole person, big picture, all the factors (food, skin layers, emotions)
-Why SVAyurveda’s program works:
1) Physically looking at the structure of the skin and what disturbs that healthy structure
2) Functional Considerations
3) Intelligence – the skin-mind communication
Chapter 6: From the Inside-Out
– Starting with what we eat. The relationship between the process of digestion and tissue metabolism. How food can turn into fatty deposits/cellulite. Why it goes where it goes. Areas of body prone to cellulite and why they are targets.
-What to avoid eating to prevent cellulite. Dietary guidelines.
-What to eat so you don’t get cellulite: specific herbs and why they work – and herbal tea to help with cellulite elimination.
– What to eat to get rid of cellulite – select spices and ingredients, such as Garcinia cambogia
Chapter 7: From the Outside-In – the Transdermal Strategy
-Treating cellulite transdermally – how/why SVA transdermal protocols work
-Transdermal detox and Transdermal rejuvenation
-How to, when and why to use: Understanding absorption, transdermal application, ritual
-Garshana Massage – dry, lymphatic massage
-Herbalized Lotions – firming creams, transdermal Magnesium, Boswellia, Guggulu, Zinc)
-SVA Herbalized Soaps
-Marma points
Chapter 8: Movement and Marma to Release and Circulate
-The role of exercise. The best exercises to do. Exercises that don’t work or that one shouldn’t do.
– Yoga and Marma-Yoga to reduce cellulite
Chapter 9: Total Dietary, Herbal, Transdermal Tools and Protocols
SVA transdermal creams, herbal clay wraps, and herbal oils using 16 wellresearched herbs – new formulations and their usage
-Daily Routine and products to add to your dinacharya
-Chemical and Toxin-Free Living: Soap Nuts, Oral Care, Hair Care, Makeup, Skin Care
-Diet: Targeted diet(s) to remove free-radicals, open and soften the channels, purify muscles, purify and soften the skin, and break-up the micro-crystals in cellulite areas: Kulthi bean and Barley help reduce fat and purify the muscles.
– SVA Vegan Protein Powder Recipes
-SVA Formulations: Firming lotions, Flex’n Flow – firming and toning of the skin go side-by-side to avoid saggy skin at any point of cellulite elimination.
-Bath: Bath Pouches for fat & water soluble toxins
-Cellulite Massage Oil
-Garshana – in-house made SVA gloves for dry skin brushing
– Daily Treatments: Quick self-treatments on daily basis
-Weekends: Specific, long treatments for weekends, i.e. Cellulite clay packs to mobilize the toxins
– Practicum training for allocating the marmas related to anatomical areas of cellulite
-Finding balance and maintaining it: how to travel well and what to do while away from home
-Home Panchakarma (PK) – specifics for Cellulite
Additional Practical Ayurvedic Protocols and Tools for the Health Professional: A more powerful program for cellulite management performed under professional supervision
-A 7-week PK program and Diet requiring your supervision
-Swedena (steam bath) herb specific for cellulite
-Professional clay wraps
-Specific virechana (mild purging protocols)
-Shirodhara (oil streamed on head) for relaxation
-Strong herbal baths
– Marma PK massage with Professional Oils
-Special Detox Oils with greater detox power
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