Ayurveda, the timeless and time-proven “science of life”, provides a natural, proactive approach to health that both:

• Restores the unhealthy to health
• And helps maintain (and even improve!) the health of the healthy

One of the main ways to do this is through taking time at the change of seasons - especially spring and autumn - to harmonize the mind-body system. 

Spring and autumn are the optimum yearly junctions to cleanse accumulated toxins and restore balance to the body and mind for the next phase of the year, improving quality of life and decreasing the chance of developing illness and disease.

Over time, through the nature of how we live our lives today - busy, running from one thing to the next, over-indulging, eating processed and chemical-containing food, and stress, the health of the mind and body decline.

Along with the impacts of summer heat and summer adventures, we experience symptoms like:

• Acne, skin irritation and inflammation
• Low immunity, migraine, headaches, and fatigue
• Diarrhea, constipation, or irregular bowel movements
• Sleep and weight issues
• Digestive complaints, including gas and bloating
• Lack of mental clarity, fogginess, and depression
• Stress, overwhelm, and anxiety
• Poor quality, dull, or dry skin, hair and nails
• Stiff body, dry and cracking joints
• And just not feeling like you’re at your full potential in your body and mind

The 5-Day Autumn Mind-Body Reset weaves the wisdom of Ayurveda (the “science of life”) and Yoga together so you can thrive physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. 

Seasonal resets are checkpoints to care for yourself no matter how busy you get. 

You will:

• Gently and naturally eliminate accumulated toxins and improve the quality of your body tissues through a digestive reset
• Improve your presence, clarity, calm and vital-energy through grounding and centering yoga practices
• Establish healthier diet and lifestyle patterns suited to the autumn season that will reorient you to a path of amazing health

• Bolster your immunity so you’re not catching every cold and flu that comes around
• Improve your digestive function so you’re not subject to gas, bloating, heaviness, or acidity every time you eat
• Improve your sleep quality so that you wake up feeling rested and refreshed
• Begin to restore your natural energy levels and balanced weight so you’re not continually fighting fatigue and discomfort
• Improve your mental clarity, and reduce stress, overwhelm, and the tendency for winter blues and depression
• Enhance nutrient absorption so your body can produce better quality tissues including hair, skin and nails
• Reduce body pain and stiffness to feel more free in your body
• Improve positivity and mental and emotional ease
• Ground in the present and set intentions for the next season
• Enhance your ability to connect more deeply to your inner answers and Truth

The Autumn Mind-Body reset includes:

• Digestive reset: Food is medicine, and the condition of agni (your digestive fire) lays the foundation for either health or disease. You’ll nurture and nourish the flame of your agni through fresh, whole, sattvic meals. With improved digestive function you’ll naturally detox and fuel a clear mind and abundant energy. Your vitality will build and you’ll begin to ‘glow’
• Yoga practices: The root cause of disease and suffering in both Ayurveda and Yoga is the imbalanced mind. In addition to helping restore your agni, the yoga practices will clear your pranic channels, awaken your higher consciousness, and connect you to your innermost essence and deepest truth. This brings the level of change you can experience during the rest much deeper than the digestive reset alone.
• Seasonal reorientation: One of the main causes of disease identified in Ayurveda is lack of seasonal alignment. Learning to intentionally approach your diet and lifestyle for the upcoming season is essential for taking a proactive approach to your mind-body health long term.

The Seasonal Mind-Body Reset has three phases:

Phase one: The Preparation 

Phase two: The Program 

Phase three: The Post Program rejuvenation and seasonal alignment

Phase one: The Preparation

The Preparation phase includes a workshop with Kelsey (yoga and Ayurveda teacher, Ayurveda health counselor, and Ayurveda chef) two weeks before the reset begins. You’ll learn:

• About the Ayurveda approach to health and seasonal resets
• How to prepare and what you’ll need
• What to expect
• How to achieve your optimum results
• Cooking tips
• A simple daily practice of breathing, meditation, and poses to facilitate movement of the spine in all directions, balance of your doshas, and health of your agni (digestive fire) for the week leading up to the mind-body reset

We’ll review the recipes for the 5-days and clear up any questions that you may have. 

Preparation workshop date and time: 

Friday September 23th, 6-8pm at Aurora studio

You’ll also receive a PDF booklet of supportive information including:

• Food shopping list, to be sure you have everything you need
• Recipes for three meals per day for the 5-day program, as well as supportive teas that will encourage digestive health, toxin release, and dosha balance (the calming of residual heat you may have accumulated in summer, and grounding the more light, dry, and airy nature of the autumn!)
• Support practices and simple yet effective lifestyle tips that help the body and mind shift more easily into their natural state of balance. If you don’t already scrape your tongue daily, this is a great time to start! Tongue scrapers, either stainless steel or copper, can be found at local Ayurveda herb supply companies and often at health food stores. They are also easily accessible on amazon.ca (examples are here and here) or on etsy.com (examples here).

Phase two: The Program

The program is based on 5-days of intentional and restorative diet, lifestyle, and practices.

5-DAY DIET

You’ll be cooking fresh, whole food meals three times a day. If you can’t cook three times, once or twice a day will work!  

You’ll be provided with daily, varied recipes of:

• Kunyi: a simple yet delicious rice porridge breakfast
• Kitchari: One of Ayurveda’s most healing, digestive-system balancing meals that you’ll enjoy for lunch and dinner. Kitchari is classically rice and mung beans with some spices, and you’ll explore several variations of this classical dish that will also include adzuki beans, barley, and various vegetables and spices
• Digestive and mind-body balancing teas

You’ll also have healthy snack options if only 3-meals a day feels out of reach for you right now, and dairy and gluten free diets can be accommodated.

5-DAY LIFESTYLE

Plan for plenty of good sleep, a regular schedule as best you can, and to start incorporating simple yet powerful self-care essentials that will help your body-mind system find its natural space of harmony

TWO YOGA AND AYURVEDA WORKSHOPS

You’ll have two yoga and Ayurveda workshops during the 5-day program: one the night before you begin, and one on day 4 of the program.

Opening workshop date and time: 

Friday September 30th, 6-8pm at Aurora studio

• Opening, centering mantras and mudras, intention setting
• Grounding and nurturing asana (poses), pranayama, and guided healing meditation
• A simple practice that you can do at home through the duration of the reset

Closing workshop date and time: 

Tuesday October 4th, 6 -8pm at Aurora studio

• Planning for the upcoming seasons, autumn: Diet and lifestyle for fall
• Review 6 autumn recipes
• Shifting from the 5-day reset meals into heavier, more typical meals
• Grounding and nurturing asana (poses), pranayama, and meditation
• Centering mantras and mudras, intention setting, and closing

Phase three: The Post Program Rejuvenation and Seasonal Alignment

The closing workshop on Tuesday October 4th will introduce Autumn Alignment, including diet, lifestyle, and self-care tips that will keep your health on an uplifting trajectory.

You’ll receive a summary of the Autumn Alignment suggestions in a PDF booklet, as well as tips to ease into a heavier, more typical diet after the 5-days, and 6 delicious Ayurveda recipes that will keep you feeling well and in harmony with the vata nature of autumn.

INVESTMENT

Join our group led Seasonal Mind-Body Reset where you’ll ground into your best state of health with a community of like-minded health-seekers

Investment: $188

To register contact Kelsey at info@illumineayurveda.com or 780-267-7419

UPGRADE OPTION

Personalize your program with an Ayurveda health consultation that will provide you with specialized diet and lifestyle guidance unique to your health challenges and goals

Investment including upgrade: $388

To register contact Kelsey at info@illumineayurveda.com or 780-267-7419

• An orientation workshop and class on Friday September 23 from 6 - 8pm
• An opening workshop on Friday September 30 from 6 - 8pm
• A closing workshop on Tuesday October 4 from 6 - 8pm
• Open invitation to contact Kelsey throughout the program as needed, to clear up any confusion and keep you moving forward!

Reason 1

You’ll reset your digestive system while providing good nutrition so that the cleansing happens naturally, with less side effects and sustainable results

Reason 2

Build balanced habits and schedule that you can carry with you through the rest of autumn to continue enhancing your overall health

Reason 3

Release stored, stuck, and stagnant energy that you’ve accumulated from the act of moving through your diverse life and all its diverse expressions

Reason 4

Tend to your entire body, mind and spirit system by including yoga practices. Mantra, mudra, intention setting, meditation, pranayama, and seasonally appropriate asana will deepen your healing, health, and connectedness 

Reason 5

Have motivation, inspiration, and guidance throughout the 5-days to help you stick it out so that you can experience the benefits!

Reason 6

You’ll receive six delicious autumn recipes!

Kelsey Brusnyk - Teacher of Ayurveda and Yoga,  Ayurveda Director and Faculty at Bindu Institute of Learning, Ayurveda Health Counselor, Student of Vedic astrology, and student of life.

Kelsey, founder of Illumine Ayurveda and Yoga, has been devotedly sharing the wisdom of the Vedas for over a decade. Her professional Ayurveda and yoga journey includes having developed, conducted, and taught at innumerable trainings including yoga teacher trainings, Ayurvedic chef trainings, and Ayurvedic treatment trainings, introductory to advanced Ayurveda programs and yoga and Ayurveda retreats in Hawaii, India, New Zealand, and Canada.

She has mentored many students through their professional Ayurveda studies and provides ongoing mentorship for counselors, teachers and practitioners. She currently teaches (in-person and online) Ayurveda and yoga programs, classes, and trainings, offers healing Ayurveda bodywork, and works privately and in groups to assist clients to live well, age well, and thrive - achieving their optimal state of health and wellness in body, mind and heart - through balanced living. She continues to provide the teachings of Ayurveda and yoga at yoga teacher trainings worldwide, is Ayurveda Director and faculty member at Bindu Institute of Learning, and offers yoga classes, Ayurveda workshops, and healing marma therapy at Aurora Wellness Centre.

Kelsey is a perpetual student of life, and brings compassion, inspiration and ease to her teaching and consulting. Her authenticity, openness, enthusiasm and love of Ayurveda, Yoga and natural healing has inspired many to start, continue or deepen their paths to health, vitality, and living their inner truth. Find her on instagram @yogini.kelsey

Kelsey completed her first yoga teacher training in 2009 and has been teaching ever since - including having co-taught 200 and 300-hour Yoga teacher trainings for over a decade. Ayurveda followed very soon after, as well as Jyotisha - Vedic astrology, and Kelsey continues to dive deeply into the wisdom of the Vedas through her personal and professional pursuits. 

I’m vegan, vegetarian, or have intolerance to gluten. Can I still participate?

Yes! The meals through the 5-days of the program are vegetarian and gluten and dairy free alternatives will be provided where needed

I’m new to yoga. Will the practices be too advanced for me? 

The practices you will be taught will be powerful, deep, and accessible to all experience and ability levels. All levels are welcome.

What is the time commitment required each day?

You’ll be cooking fresh food at least once per day, three times if you can make it work! In addition to that, there are suggested self-care practices that can take from 15 - 30 minutes each day depending on how much time you have available, plus the 3 workshop sessions and optional additional journaling to process your experience as you feel inspired. 

NEW DATE COMING SOON**

Looking for a reset this month come join us!

As radiant beings, we are made of energy. We glow with light,  emitting a subtle frequency. We often go about our day to day unaware of  our energy, unknowingly picking up the vibrations and projections of  the world around us. When disconnected from our source energy, feelings  of uneasiness can arise. 

Breathwork is an active meditation used to move stagnant energy and release blockages which allows us to connect deeply with our own soul vibration.

Breathing is one of our most basic and truly essential activities. The practice of deep, conscious breathing can  assist in cleansing the mind and body of toxic build-up, allowing us to tap into our intuitive being. 

By accessing the subconscious, the breath opens the channel to our higher self, enriching our true spiritual  nature while promoting feelings of joy, creativity, self love and overall well-being.

DETAILS

DATES: October date to be announced
TIME:  7:00pm -9:00 pm
INVESTMENT: $45 

Payment Options:

You have 3 ways to pay for this event:

1. DEBIT: If you choose to pay by e-transfer, please send payment to louise@aurorawellnesscentre.com (all lower case is fine) and make the password "drum". 
2. CREDIT/DEBIT with Square
3. CASH/CHEQUE: If you sign up at Aurora Wellness, you can pay a $25 CASH deposit to hold your spot to Louise. If choosing this option, please arrange a time with Louise to drop by the wellness centre by calling ahead: 250-927-0876.

We recommend you wear comfortable clothing and just simply bring yourself, your questions and your curiosity. :). 

We truly cannot wait to serve you and help and enjoy our healing community drum circle

Warmly,

Jill, Elemental Healing  & Louise, Aurora Wellness Centre and Lori Frederickson

Come find out what breathing can do for you !