WISDOM NOW

Reclaiming our relationship with food using Ayurveda with Myra Lewin from Hale Pule

Myra Lewin is an Ayurveda practitioner and Master Yogini with more than 100,000 hours of Yoga teaching experience spanning 30+ years of practice. In 1999 Myra founded Hale Pule Ayurveda and Yoga, a center for education and healing. Today Myra guides thousands of students blossoming into Ayurveda counselors and advisors and guides clients 1:1 through health consultations and energy healings. Myra oversees Agni Therapy, Hale Pule’s foundational program that instills balance and vitality into modern life with the principles of Ayurveda and Yoga. In this episode we discuss our lost connection to our food sources and how we can heal our bodies, minds and lives by repairing this relationship, utilising the wisdom of Ayurveda. Show Notes: ✨Myra spoke about her personal experience with finding Ayurveda and how it transformed her life. ✨How the Industrial Revolution transformed our eating habits and our relationship to food ✨How food is our primary relationship that sets the foundation for all other relationships ✨ How what we eat is in a very practical sense who we become ✨ How bringing consciousness into our relationship with food is a form of spiritual practice ✨How our modern relationship to food has resulted in a general loss of connection to who we are and how to look after ourselves. ✨ How being connected to our food sources brings us closer to nature herself. ✨ Food as a form of ritual or spiritual practice that offers us an opportunity to deepen our connection to our true Self.

Meditation - Wisdom with Mitch Hunter

In this episode Ritual's founder, Rose Lamont, talks with Mitch Hunter, a physiotherapist, lecturer at Griffith University, and yoga and meditation teacher about his personal journey into meditation and its profound effect on his work and life. Key Conversation Points: - How meditation techniques help with physiotherapy - Developing an internal stability - The mind-body connection  - Seeking out a genuine, ethical teacher - Being present in the moment Mitch is a university lecturer and yoga and meditation teacher. He has witnessed a profound self development over his 20 years of practice and is passionate about sharing the gifts of self enquiry with others. He focuses on somatosensory retraining in order to explore the cognitive and emotional links between the brain and the body, identify miscommunications, and restore a healthy relationship between the two.

Embracing Change - Wisdom with Jonathan MacDonald

In this episode Ritual's founder, Rose Lamont, talks with Jonathan MacDonald, an award-winning, bestselling author and keynote speaker on the topics of change, digital transformation, and mindset. Key Conversation Points: - Jonathan’s books: Powered By Change and The Rise of Advanced Thought - The paradox of constant change - Finding a safe haven in public speaking - Physics, shifting paradigms, neurology - SELF: personal, ethical, AI Jonathan MacDonald is one of the world's most in-demand and internationally renowned strategic change-makers, unlocking success for individuals and businesses who are shaping the future. He is an entrepreneur, investor, though-leader, author, and black belt martial artist.

Health & Beauty Beyond Capitalism - Ayurvedic Wisdom with Chasca Summerville Part 2

In this episode Chasca and I spoke about the daily rituals of Ayurveda (Dinacharya) and how to get the most of your day and life using Ayurvedic rituals and routines. Chasca shares some tips for transforming your daily life from her book Ayurvedic Rituals.  We also spoke about the different kinds of pressures women face with respect to beauty standards and how we can learn to approach beauty beyond the framework of capitalism and through the lens of Ayurveda.Chasca also touched on some of her own struggles with self-acceptance and how she uses Ayurveda to thrive in her body.

Daily life through the lens of Ayurveda - Wisdom with Chasca Summerville

In this interview Rose Lamont chats with Chasca Summerville about her new book - Ayurvedic Daily Rituals and how she discovered Ayurveda.  Chasca goes on to share how we can all begin to utilise some of the fundamental principles of Ayurveda to support and nourish our daily life through the transformation of some of our usual habits around our sleep, food and use of energy.