In This Issue: 

Author Highlight

Ritucharya + Herbal

Vadati with Dr. Kamut

Team Spotlight

Service Highlight

Events

Sunday Satsang

Group Yoga Therapy Schedule

The Earth, its soil and other components, are terrific at capturing many things, including radiation from natural and man-made sources. This is why ‘earthing’ or ‘grounding’ is becoming so popular among healers – it’s cheap, fast, and always available if you live in an environment that has dirt that isn’t electrified!

I grew up on a corn farm in SW Michigan, spending my summers barefoot, in the fields, creeks and trees all around our 20-acre home. If I wasn’t laying in the grass staring into the sky, I was fishing, swimming, or climbing. Many children don’t have the luxury of being so connected to the Earth every day, but are now face-to-face with monitors, sleeping next to smart meters, or sitting in classrooms with cell phone messages coursing through their soft tissue many times each minute.

A teacher in Colorado asked her class of 23 students to mark on the board every time they received a text or notification. In 30 minutes the students received a total of 268 wifi messages, mostly from social media. Not only does the experiment illustrate the amount of distractions students are dealing with, it also demonstrated to the class how much radiation they swim in daily.

Soft, developing tissue is not capable of being resilient to this attack….not without a sanctuary at home to return to. I’m bringing this topic to you this month because in the colder months, the Earth freezes, making absorption of damaging radiation much slower. There are things we need to do to prevent radiation overload in the winter. Our author highlight this month will explain it all in her booklet ‘Creating a Radiation Free Sanctuary.’ I hope you’ll find it edifying and encouraging, inspiring and action-focused, for you and your family.

Om Shanti, Shreejan Sita

Lynne VandeBunte is our resident radiation specialist, advising on topics such as exposure sicknesses and repairing damaged tissues. She is Harvard educated in science, focusing on the dangers of radiation in the US since she became sensitive in 1995. She practices safe-home scanning in SW Michigan. Read her booklet online ‘Creating a Radiation Free Sanctuary.’ Pass the link on to a friend! 

Our appetite is very different during the colder months than in the summer. By now, you’ve noticed it is either screaming for comfort food, or too lazy to growl on time for brunch. Liquorice is a traditional Indian Ayurvedic herb used to pacify irregular digestive flame during the Autum. It is known in Sanskrit as ‘sweet stick’. It is an ancient, rejuvenative herb with amazing medicinal properties for health, well-being, and long life. It is used in many cultures the world over, including Egypt, China, and India. In the roots of this rhizomes is found large amounts of active ingredients glycyrrhizin, enoxolone, and anethole, which are also common components of anise, fennel, and dill.  Glycyrrhizin is 30-50 times sweeter than sugar! So If you find your appetite waning, heightened, or just irregular during this season, try liquorice tea and don’t add any sugar!

Dr. Vaishali Kamut

Dr. Vaishali Kamut says we should eat foods which are bitter, sweet and astringent in taste during Autumn to keep our metabolism stabilized during the transition to colder seasons. Here are some examples (check your dosha for compatibility):

Bitter – kale, spinach, aubergine, spices (turmeric, fenugreek, dandelion), coffee, tea, grapefruit, olives, bitter melon

Sweet – milk, rice, wheat, figs, peaches, pears, apples, and berries

Astringent – green banana, pomegranate, chickpeas, lentils, okra, turmeric, alfalfa sprouts

Ayurvedic cooking considers appropriate season, time of day, specific body constitution, food combinations, and reliance on herbs and spices for nutrition and mineral requirements. Finding a way to satisfy the need for comfort and warmth during the Fall season becomes a challenge, especially if we reach for highly caloric foods that tend to be low on the nutrition scale. Here is a simple pudding that can be taken as a breakfast or dessert.

Sweet Astringent Pudding

Ingredients:

1/2 cup cooked quinoa or chia seeds (both are astringent and high in protein)

1/4 cup coconut milk (for creaminess)

1/4 tsp cinnamon (pungent, bitter, & sweet!)

1 tbsp maple syrup or agave nectar (sweet)

1/2 tsp vanilla extract (sweet)

1/4 cup diced peaches or figs (sweet)

1/4 cup pomegranate seeds (astringent)

Instructions:

In a small saucepan, combine the quinoa (or chia seeds) with coconut milk, cinnamon, maple syrup, and vanilla extract.

Simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the mixture thickens (about 5-7 minutes).

Once the pudding has reached a creamy consistency, stir in the diced peaches or figs and pomegranate seeds.

Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly before serving.

Asmit’s nutritional counseling involves discovery of your goal, development of nutritional standards that satisfy the goal, learning about your abilities in the kitchen, and providing sample menus that are easy, go-to standards. Empowerment comes from education, training, experimentation, and good food sourcing! Make your nutrition counseling appointment today.

Pudding Nutritional Breakdown (Approximate)

Calories: 200

Protein: 5g

Carbs: 35g

Fat: 8g

Fiber: 6g

Wendy’s work with Sita Wellness ties her “before yoga” career in writing and fund raising with her quest for a healthier, pain-free life helping others find relief through yoga. She discovered yoga as a way to relieve the intense pain from debilitating migraines, completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training, and has continued to learn more to help others with their pain.

“Through Thai yoga massage, I have found that my experience with pain helps me find the right pressure and movement to bring more flexibility and relaxation to others. I’m still kind of shocked by how I can tune into another person and help them feel easier in their own body.”

Because of my writing experience and wanting others to learn about alternative and healthier healing methods, helping Sita Wellness and Rajasthan Hatha Yoga Institute with their newsletters and other writing needs has been a good thing.

“I learn so much from every project and program that I feel very blessed and thankful that our paths crossed. I’m looking forward to my path crossing with you soon…maybe with a Thai yoga massage?” 

Wendy Sinicki

Typically, Thai Yoga Massage is performed on the floor lying on a mat. The therapist yoga therapist guides you through poses and stretches, the same as the asanas performed while standing. Usually, it starts with focusing on the feet and ends with the face and head. After a few sessions, the body has created sufficient muscle memory to be confident standing in the postures, in any beginner yoga class. Several clients at Sita Wellness combine Thai Yoga Massage with Medical massage, to address several layers of tissue – joints, ligaments, muscles, lymph, and fat.

Benefits include:

Eye yoga can be beneficial for people who work at a desk or computer, use a smartphone a lot, or have vision problems (myopia or hyperopia). No matter your age, you can incorporate a simple routine to your morning routine to improve the tone of the optic nerve. The guidance you’ll receive in one short workshop will help you focus on keeping the collagen fibers of the cornea and sclera youthful. The goal = NO GLASSES! Take the exercises home to your children and grandchildren. Seats are limited.

Join Kaitlyn online for group yoga therapy meetings online. Each group runs 8-12 weeks, which gives you enough time to learn the protocol and take it to your home mat. Groups are created by a common wellness goal. Donations for each 90-minute group meeting range from $10.50-14:

You’ll find complete descriptions of these groups on the Sita Wellness website and how to join information.

Hatha for Hips & Shoulders

Thursdays

8-9:30 a.m. 

9:30-11:00 a.m. (seated)

Hatha for Hips & Shoulders:

Two challenging areas for anyone who sits in chairs too much, are the hips & shoulders. Eventually they become stiff and lose mobility. You can increase your range of movement and prevent damage by practicing a set of postures that strengthen and lengthen your ligaments.

This therapy group will be focused on movement and breathwork that will lubricate the joints, flush the synovial fluid, tone the tissues that surround each juncture. 50/50 standing/sitting movements; ending with 30 minutes breathwork techniques. No experience necessary.

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November satsang is given by Adyashanti, focusing on the Art of Meditation. Lectures, meditation sessions and exercises will start you at ground zero answering questions such as, why should we meditate? How is it we are all right now meditating but without know it?

Adyashanti

5248 Green Meadow Rd | Kalamazoo, MI 49009

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