About Ayurvedic Coaching
12 August 2024
Ayurvedic Coaching generally starts with the client taking action by filling in an extensive Intake form. The questions range from their daily routines to their hunger patterns, to sleep, sexuality, their family story, etc.
This gets the client thinking and brings them into connection with their own story, history and current state of being.
This document is the basis for the first session. Healing happens by the meeting of the client and the practitioner, holding the story of the client and the simmering of this story in both client and practitioner in the mind and the body – which is feminine form medicine in action.
Ayurvedic Lifestyle coaches/counsellors generally take time (often between 1 – 2 hours) to unravel the presenting issues and underlying causes for many body and mind issues – which is the biggest advantage and difference between seeing an Ayurvedic Coach versus a Doctor (where visits often take 15 minutes, with the doctor only addressing the symptoms).
An Ayurvedic Health Practitioner takes the entire person into account. If, for example, digestive issues are presenting… the question then may be, ‘what is going on in your life right now?’ (rather than the more masculine approach of ‘let’s fix it, what medication would be suitable?’).
Ayurveda is holistic and believes that everyone is completely unique – thus the approach to health and wellbeing is a unique one for each person. Especially currently, when we are bombarded with health advice, it is crucial that the client knows him/herself and their needs well – so they can discern what could- or would be relevant for them.
As Ayurvedic Practitioners, we will try more than anything to bring our client closer to him/herself. We establish ways to nurture deep listening into one-selves and our needs.
Our bodies and minds are in constant conversation with us, but often times we simply don’t hear the cues, have lost the relationship with our intuition and are thus constantly swayed by the outside noise.
Ayurveda is a preventative medicine and philosophy, through knowing ourselves and our unique blueprint/constitution we can feel if we are in balance or not.
The human journey is like riding waves of ups and downs. Like a pendulum we swing in and out of balance.
Perfect health is just an occasional glimpse, but being close to that state, we can achieve through finding balance through seeing our place within nature and living as closely as possible to nature’s cues and seasons.
Ayurveda treats the body based on the five elements of Nature: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether
- (Space). Each element has an associated set of qualities. For example:
- Earth is heavy, cool, static, and dense.
- Water is cool, liquid, and heavy.
- Fire is hot, sharp, and light. Air is mobile, cold, rough, and dry.
- Ether is subtle, clear, and light.
Ayurveda is being in communion with our bodies, our hearts, our emotions, nature, energy, plants, food, lifestyle, rituals, lineage and our questions around identity.
WHAT MAKES AYURVEDA UNIQUE
- Addresses the root cause of dis-ease.
- Takes a holistic approach – mind, body, and spirit.
- Customised treatment protocol & health blueprint
- Empowers you to take charge of your health and well-being
- Uses preventive medicine – there is nothing quite like it!
- Recognises that health is a state of balance, radiance, joy, vitality and peaceful wellbeing, not just the absence of disease.
Ayurvedic Health Coaching is good for:
- Gut issues
- More clarity on what – and how – to eat
- Chronic diseases
- Autoimune conditions
- Menopausal issues
- Fertility issues
- To recover from cancer treatment
- People who want to participate in their own health journey and be in the driver seat of their life.
- People who want to have maximum energy and live life in their best version
- People who want to connect with themselves on a deeper level
– submitted by Claudia Batschari