The latest research clearly demonstrates the powerful impact emotional experiences have on our health and longevity. While we know this to be true, we don’t always know how to be emotionally well.
During this weekend, we’ll open the door to greater emotional intelligence and perception. With a combination of lectures, interactive exercises, live music, breathwork, movement (yoga and dance), and meditation, we’ll practice understanding our feelings — and how to respond to them.
We’ll explore emotional wellness through the lens of Ayurveda, customizing our healing based on what we are experiencing in real time. This, in turn, increases our depth of connection with ourselves and others.
In this experiential workshop, we’ll be invited to learn Ayurvedic approaches to:
There will be movement in this program. Guest faculty QVLN + Sunshine Zerda will lead us in a transformational dance experience with guided somatic release. Everyone, from beginners to advanced students of Ayurveda, is welcome.
Recommended Reading: Ayurveda for Yoga Teachers and Students by Dr. Siva Mohan (Chapter on Emotional Wellness)
With an MD and background in neuroscience and behavior change, Siva Mohan presents a unique East-West Mind-Body version of Ayurveda. She guides her audience to individualized wellness lifestyles with tools and approaches from Ayurveda, emotional wellness, and functional medicine.
Sunshine Zerda holds numerous RYT certifications, and she has created multiple integrative offerings that combine vinyasa, pilates, high-intensity interval training, bodyweight movements, and sound healing practices.
Multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer Quetzal Guerrero, or QVLN, is at the forefront of music genre evolution and exploration. He is a prodigious genre-hopping artist whose trademark electric blue violin reflects his Mexican, Brazilian, and Native American roots.
Esalen Institute
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Big Sur, CA 93920
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