As part of Axis Yoga’s teacher training program, students are taught basic ayurvedic principles as they apply to their lifestyle, diet and yoga practice. As a component of this exercise students also take on a personal experiment to begin to implement these teachings. One of Axis Yoga’s guiding principals is that students need to embody […]
My experiment began in early-November when I began learning about Ayurveda. While I was perplexed by some of the seemingly disparate instructions, I did notice that many of the ideas presented appealed to me and that there were pieces of this philosophy I was hungering for. For my Ayurvedic experiment I added the practice of […]
Day 1 – I ate nothing but gluten-free foods. Did not have a headache. Day 2 – Only gluten-free foods until arriving home at 5pm. Had a minor headache. Ate leftover-pasta. Headache became very intense within five minutes of beginning to eat pasta. Headache was so painful I could not look at the computer or […]
The data shows that my hypothesis was accurate, eliminating gluten from my diet did in fact correlate positively with a decrease in headaches. Given that this was the only change I made during this time, it is safe to conclude that this relationship is causal. Further review seems to indicate that pasta was the worst […]
This has definitely been a bittersweet journey. I am so relieved to have figured out why my head was hurting almost all the time. Concurrently, it has been frustrating and sad. It is frustrating on several levels. There is almost no on-the-go, easy food that is gluten-free and vegetarian (I am a lacto-ovo vegetarian). I […]
As part of Axis Yoga’s teacher training program, students are taught basic ayurvedic principals as they apply to their lifestyle, diet and yoga practice. As a component of this exercise students also take on a personal experiment to begin to implement these teachings. One of Axis Yoga’s guiding principals is that students need to embody […]
It just so happened that fall started settling in about the time that our Ayurveda unit fired up in YTT. As the wind came up and the temperatures went down, I noticed my low back tightening up more than usual. I’ve been experiencing chronic low pain from 2 torn discs and a genetic disorder of […]
Here are the items (mostly from Dr. Lad’s book) that I incorporated into my experiment, along with a few notes on the experience: – Herbal Remedies – Valerian (muscle relaxant) – took in the form of a capsule each evening for one week before bed; slept noticeably better and woke feeling more rested, although I was […]
In hindsight, beginning to do all these things at once makes it difficult to break down exactly what’s helping and how much, but with only a few weeks to conduct the experiment and with the hope of relieving pain, I was willing to forego some of the scientific approach for the trade-off of feeling better. […]
As part of Denver’s Axis Yoga teacher training program, students choose a yama (yogic principle) to apply to their daily lives. They are asked to design experiments that challenge them while deepening their understanding of the yama’s application. This student chose to experiment with Brahmacharya to re-direct his sexual energy into his spiritual practice. He finds that […]