Ayurveda is a 5,000-year-old practice that began in India and has since spread across the world, refining and improving many lives. Ananta Ripa Ajmera helps us understand how to intuitively attune to our body’s natural rhythms, eat seasonally, create harmony between our body mind and spirit. Tune in to understand how this approach to healing can balance the five great elements in your body: space, air, fire, water, and earth. Some other topics we cover include:
How Ayurveda originated and came to be a popular holistic approach to healing today
The science affiliated with Ayurvedic modalities
The definition of Ayurveda
What the 3 main Doshas are, the characteristics, habits and recommended lifestyles are for each
The importantance of understanding your Dosha
Where to start with Ayurveda
How Ayurveda is different from other wellness practices
Who is the best candidate to practice Ayurveda
Ayurveda is a 5,000-year-old practice that began in India and has since spread across the world, refining and improving many lives. Ananta Ripa Ajmera helps us understand how to intuitively attune to our body’s natural rhythms, eat seasonally, create harmony between our body mind and spirit. Tune in to understand how this approach to healing can balance the five great elements in your body: space, air, fire, water, and earth. Some other topics we cover include:
How Ayurveda originated and came to be a popular holistic approach to healing today
The science affiliated with Ayurvedic modalities
The definition of Ayurveda
What the 3 main Doshas are, the characteristics, habits and recommended lifestyles are for each
The importantance of understanding your Dosha
Where to start with Ayurveda
How Ayurveda is different from other wellness practices
Who is the best candidate to practice Ayurveda
Jack Hazan is a Licensed Mental Health Coach and therapist at Bryant Park Therapy in New York City who’s here to modernize and normalize therapy today.
Jack’s specialties lie in helping those work through the difficulties around feeling a sense of fulfillment within themselves and/or their relationships. Together, he creates a plan with his patients with personalized coping skills and tools to lead them toward creating deeper, more meaningful connections with others and themselves.
His style of therapy is more direct and solution-focused as compared to let’s say, the ordinary and outdated talk therapy. He takes an active role during his sessions while utilizing more modern and progressive therapeutic techniques proven to bring forth effective results.
At its simplest form, his therapy approach offers an inviting space needed to work through the many challenges a patient faces in life. Together, he focuses on integrating the various dimensions of his patient’s personal identity and brings forth insight to help them lead a more authentic and fulfilled life. In this episode, he compares finding a therapist to finding the right partner, teaches us how to walk around with a healthy sense of entitlement, but not to be an asshole at the same time and talks about his approach to therapy as he claims himself to be the Mother Theresa meets Jeff Bezos kind of therapist. Some topics we cover include:
The different types of therapy
Why our society has a stigma around therapy
How therapy supports our mental health
How the physical act of talking about something helps us heal
Why people hesitate asking for help
What someone can expect in a therapy session
How to find the right therapist for you
How therapy helps us strengthen the relationship we have with ourselves