A Place of Wholeness

Ayurveda and Yoga are sister sciences thousands of years old and provide us with gentle practices and lifestyle suggestions to stay balanced.  Learning to nurture and support ourselves and establishing harmony within and without, helps us to remember our true nature. Ayurveda is designed for those ready to take responsibility for themselves. Yoga gives us inner and outer strength so that our minds and bodies can become calm, strong and flexible as we go through the seasons of our lives.  

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A Place of Wholeness strives to teach practices geared towards a person’s unique constitution- your dosha.

As you learn yoga and become comfortable with different poses, a light sheen of sweat, a moist mouth and keeping control of your breath are indications that you are working according to your nature in general, but more specifically, one would use cooling practices for those of a hot (pitta) nature, more gentle warming practices for those of the air/ether (vata) constitution and warming more intense practices for those of earth and water nature. (kapha) The same goes for nutritional suggestions from an Ayurvedic perspective. In general, more cooling foods are for those of a hot, spicy pitta nature, warm oily foods for vata constitutions and warm dry foods for the earthy kapha. Like increases like.  Wholeness students learn how to apply Ayurveda and Yoga concepts to their particular constitution, their age and the seasons.

 

How do we maintain peace in the midst of life?  A Place of Wholeness provides a sacred space for Soul work through healing arts; marma point chikitsa, massage using Ayurvedic oils, pranic healing, education about lifestyle with foods that heal, adapting to seasonal and life changes, movement that decreases pain and stiffness and increases flexibility and strength and mindful meditative practices that help us access the stillness already inside each one of us.

 

Balancing the mind, body and Spirit is a constantly evolving process as individuals grow and change. Living mindfully helps bring peace to every single cell and every cell’s consciousness to improve quality of life. We can benefit from learning gentle yet powerful techniques and lifestyle adjustments that can reawaken that place of wholeness and well being inside. 

 

-Cindy Baker

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CINDY BAKER, E-RYT 500

Cindy studied Ayurveda and Yoga for 32 years and has been teaching for 22 years. She graduated from the Rocky Mountain Institute of Yoga and Ayurveda in Boulder, Colorado with a 750-hour certification as a Yoga Therapist and Ayurvedic Counselor and Pancha Karma Therapist. Cindy took additional training through the Center for Mind Body Medicine in Washington D.C., focusing on the CancerGuide curriculum and the Professional Skills program for leading groups in meditation and guided imagery and completed the “Return to Wholeness” cancer program at the Deepak Chopra Center.
 

AMANDA BAKER, BA, CMT, CYT-300

Amanda has a deep interest and love of Ayurveda and Yoga and uses their healing practices in her work and in her daily life. She completed her yoga certification through Aura Wellness Center in 2015. Teaching multiple yoga classes a week, Amanda offers Gentle Yoga, Mindful Vinyasa, Family Yoga and more. Amanda received her Massage Therapist Certification from Sheridan College in 2018. She specializes in Swedish and neuromuscular massage using Ayurvedic oils. She also offers cupping therapy.

MARMA POINT CHIKITSA (therapy) is a gentle touch therapy using pranic healing for balancing, relaxing and rejuvenating.

There are 107 marma points on the body. Marmas are part of the body’s physiology that relate to subtle energy currents and power points.

AYURVEDA is a holistic medical system founded in India. Its focus is lifestyle changes, daily and seasonal routines, nutrition specific for the individual’s body type, Ayurvedic body work and massage, exercise in the form of yoga postures and stress management through breathing techniques, gentle movements and meditation.

YOGA NIDRA is a systematic guided relaxation through the body that activates the cerebral cortex of the brain and encourages a deep state of peace, tranquility and quiet.

MEDITATION is relaxed, focused awareness. By learning gentle breathing techniques (pranayama) that help take us beyond the busy mind, awareness is drawn inside and the place of stillness, already inside each of us, is uncovered.