Ayurvedic Ways to Create Resilience Against Physical Stress, Sugar Addictions and Other Imbalances with Vaidya Jay [Episode 933]

This week’s topic: Ayurvedic Ways to Create Resilience Against Physical Stress, Sugar Addictions and Other Imbalances. 

 

Episode Summary 

In this enlightening conversation, Kimberly speaks with Vaidya Jayagopal as they delve into the principles of Ayurveda, focusing on seasonal resilience, the transformative power of sugar, and the importance of intention in herbal medicine. They explore practical Ayurvedic practices for heart awakening and resilience, emphasizing the role of divine feminine energy and the significance of herbs and foods in maintaining balance during seasonal changes. Vaidya Jay shares insights on specific herbs, spices, and practices that can support emotional and physical well-being, making this a valuable resource for anyone interested in holistic health.

About Vaidya Jayagopal Parla (Jay) BAMS, Masters in Ayurveda, CMT, MAOM

Vaidya Jayagopal Parla (Jay) is a world-renowned speaker. professor of Ayurvedic medicine and a NAMA registered practitioner. Jay has more than 23 years of experience in Ayurvedic practice and teaching. He is a professor of Ayurvedic medicine at American University of Complementary Medicine. Beverly Hills. California. He is also a visiting faculty member at Southern California University of Health Sciences, Whittier. California and Japan School of Ayurveda, Tokyo. Japan. His area of expertise includes pain management, chronic health conditions. healthy weight management. musculo-skeletal conditions, skin care, digestive imbaLances, women’s health and anti-aging therapies.

Jayagopal Parla (Jay) holds an Masters in Ayurvedic Medicine from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences. Bangalore. India. He also holds a Masters in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Southern California University of Health Sciences and is a certified Yoga teacher.

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• Vaidya Jay Website : https://www.athreyaayurveda.com/

Episode Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Ayurveda and Vaidya Jay’s Expertise
02:53 Seasonal Changes and Ayurvedic Resilience
06:01 The Role of Divine Feminine Energy
09:09 Sugar: A Double-Edged Sword
11:59 Herbs and Foods for Heart Awakening
15:01 Practical Ayurvedic Practices for Resilience
17:57 The Importance of Intention in Herbal Medicine
21:01 Building Resilience Through Herbal Teas
23:51 Ginger and Other Spices for Seasonal Health
27:10 Conclusion and Resources for Further Learning

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Transcript:

Kimberly Snyder (00:00.807)
Namaste everyone. Welcome back to our Monday interview show. I am so excited to have Vaidya J back on our show. He is a repeat guest. He is my beloved Ayurvedic teacher. I have worked in the clinic with Vaidya J for some years. I’ve studied with him. He is our community go-to expert in all things Ayurvedic. He is an incredible Ayurvedic doctor and practitioner. And he also is the owner and formulator

of the organic Ayurvedic herb brand Atreia Herbs. So, Vajajay, thank you so much for being back here with us.

Vaidya Jay (00:39.008)
Thank you. I’m so excited, Kimberly. I feel like every season you connect with me and then we roll out these wisdom tips to all of our listeners. I really look forward to these talks with you. Thank you for having me again.

Kimberly Snyder (00:57.909)
Vajit Jay, it’s, you the pleasure is mine. Speaking of cycles, speaking of periods, I started working with you before I was a mother. And then I really, you know, took your advice through my pregnancies, through my postpartum period, when I had my juice shop, Globio, which then later went to the Four Seasons on Doheny. You came in and you taught an incredible fertility pregnancy postpartum course.

Vaidya Jay (01:26.506)
Yes.

Kimberly Snyder (01:27.965)
and you’ve also, you know, we interviewed you for our upcoming Holistic Mama Pregnancy Course, which we will launch in the next little while. We’ve been, there’s been so many launches, Vaita J, including this last book, which came out some weeks ago called The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts, which is about the heart and the brain, this inner harmony and connection, which is really echoed throughout our Uvedic teachings. And you know, Vaita J,

Vaidya Jay (01:45.094)
Mm-hmm.

Kimberly Snyder (01:54.177)
The Five Hearts comes from Vedic teachings. comes from Swami Sri Yukteswar’s, how he wrote about these five stages. It corresponds with the science, which is also what I love about Ayurveda. There’s really this incredible Western science now is starting to study Ayurveda. And then also the spiritual teachings of Ayurveda, the energetic teachings, which I love. So all of that being said, today, here we are October-ish for some of you listening to this.

Vaidya Jay (02:03.372)
Hmm.

Kimberly Snyder (02:24.129)
And we’re getting into the real fall going into winter. So I wanted to talk about our you Vedic ways to create resilience against physical stress, sugar addictions and other imbalances. This is a time as you know, if I JJ where there’s a little bit more busy-ness hurry energy, getting things done. The kids are back in school. There’s projects to get done. I know it’s the Luna. We’re getting ready already for Black Friday sales. So we want to keep our bodies

Vaidya Jay (02:51.468)
and

Kimberly Snyder (02:53.793)
resilient and of course, as you teach this, you know, echoes into mental, emotional resilience. This is part of the heart work that I’ve been working on so much in myself with the heart coherence by DJ. But I’d love to talk about this from an Ayurvedic perspective, which is so much to say about rejuvenation and resilience and vitality.

Vaidya Jay (03:14.294)
Yeah, so first of all, Kimberly, congratulations. The hidden power of five hearts. Your heart is so big that you want to give out to greater good all the time. That’s what I really appreciate in you. I really is that part of the intention of the consciousness is to bring in transformation among people

Kimberly Snyder (03:20.703)
Thank you.

Vaidya Jay (03:43.948)
to evolve themselves and make their heart full of love for others. And then, of course, live a long, healthy life in this meaningful way. So I’m glad that you came up with this wonderful book. This season, as you said, is also a wonderful season for the energy. I say this because

Kimberly Snyder (03:49.952)
Mmm.

Kimberly Snyder (03:56.267)
beautiful.

Vaidya Jay (04:13.268)
It’s not me, but the Vedic calendar reflects the nine days of the goddess, the celebration of the goddess. Right. Each day, yeah, Navratis, right, the nine nights of the goddess winning over the negative forces of the universe. Right. Now, as the day becomes shorter,

Kimberly Snyder (04:24.351)
Yes, Navratri.

Vaidya Jay (04:43.744)
The nights become longer, so the dark becomes more abundant. So it’s only the energy of the goddess and her creativity that brings us through this darkness, but not in terms of seclusion, but celebration. So yeah, that every day is going.

Kimberly Snyder (05:01.129)
Mmm.

Kimberly Snyder (05:06.281)
And this inward time, this inward time, Vagya J, is a time where we can reflect, we can create more awareness, because otherwise we’re still stuck in the same patterns, we’re still sort of hurrying through, we’re still stressed out. What I love about the goddess energy as well, and we have had some questions, I did a Q &A show on the divine feminine, I feel like the masculine in imbalance, right?

Vaidya Jay (05:06.464)
You’re saying something.

Kimberly Snyder (05:32.033)
pushing my way, my opinion has to be right, has to get as much done as possible, really is a root in so much disconnection, closing off the heart, creating stress, and this energy of, to your point, creativity, nurturing, care, quality, nature. This is so needed in today’s world, and we can learn about it and also implement it in some of these really practical

Ayurvedic practices as well.

Vaidya Jay (06:03.594)
Yeah, the divine feminine. And there is no doubt, Kimberly, it’s not just us speaking. But if you look from historical point of view, women are the longest living people on the Earth.

Kimberly Snyder (06:21.383)
Right? Right? It’s true.

Vaidya Jay (06:22.336)
Yeah, so that says a lot about why the musculine tries to push its way because there’s always lacking, there’s a lacuna in the masculine. And that’s where we are trying to gain what we are lacking by egoistically protest. Sometimes it can be egoistic.

That’s what is this constant struggle. That’s why in the Vedic system, they said, when you’re in dark, think about the Divine Mother. Yeah, so the creativity comes in. So that’s what you’re saying. In this season, all that is happening is pushing through, moving rapidly. Everything is coming to a folding.

Kimberly Snyder (06:53.525)
Yeah.

Kimberly Snyder (07:01.216)
Mmm.

Vaidya Jay (07:17.9)
The nature is going to be dormant. So move forward who do things. That’s the energy that we are looking for in this season And and more than that it is to gather ourselves in terms of our sensory organs mind intellect and free them from any kind of

Kimberly Snyder (07:26.88)
Yes.

Vaidya Jay (07:46.102)
hindrances that are going to happen during this season.

Kimberly Snyder (07:50.177)
Mm.

Vaidya Jay (07:51.286)
What I mean by this is the reflection of the fall is to be seen as, yes, the stimulation that’s going on in my eyes, in my tongue, in my nose, in my ears and skin, it’s now going to become lesser and lesser as the season becomes more of

fall and winter. So how do I de- you know, accelerate or decrease the sensory stimulation? That is the energy that we are dealing with. We have so much of outgoing energy, now we need to bring it in.

Kimberly Snyder (08:23.957)
Yes.

Kimberly Snyder (08:36.629)
Yes.

Yes. And I’d also like to add to that, Vajay Jay, when we’re talking about prescriptive practices, we have thousands of people in the community right now that are also going through this heart journey. We’re teaching the four week heart reset. There’s people that are reading the book. And so I’m starting to see a lot of questions about when there’s an internal shift, let’s say we’re starting to awaken our hearts, we’re starting to create this coherence, this lining up with heart and brain. It’s happening on different levels. So we’re starting to learn tools. We’re starting to look at our patterns.

What are herbs and foods? It’s almost like, and I feel it in myself, Vajay Jay, I’ve been on this hard journey for a few years and there’s moments where there’s these quantum leaps where it’s like, whoa, I see this old pattern and now I feel expansive and I’m letting go of limitations. So it’s almost like rejuvenating, but there also feels like a different type of detox. You know, Vajay Jay, let’s say we’re moving through layers emotionally and mentally, we’re ready to let go of patterns.

What are some of the herbs as being such a profound herbal expert or foods, you always say, know, herbs are foods and foods are herbs and medicines that we can use, especially now and particularly for those of us that are on this heart awakening journey.

Vaidya Jay (09:54.934)
Yeah, yeah. So you’re right when you said the question of the sugar. It is at the core of this nine days of celebration. Yeah, sugar is a powerful transformer, right? Yes, it has got impact on our physical body.

Kimberly Snyder (10:10.411)
Vaidya Jay (10:20.726)
But Ayurveda and Vedic sciences look at it from a energetic, emotional, and psychological, even spiritual, know, transformer. Right? Yeah, Sugar is so important. That’s the best substance.

Kimberly Snyder (10:34.186)
Really?

Kimberly Snyder (10:39.199)
It gets such a bad rap in the West. It’s like no sugar, sugar-free, sugar addictions, sugar imbalance, inflammation. So this is so interesting to hear a balance or a different perspective in balance used judiciously intentionally.

Vaidya Jay (10:55.53)
Yeah, yeah. So sugar is a transformer. It is like a double-edged sword. If you are using it in a state of positivity, it enhances your positives. If you use it on the contrary towards a negativity, then it will bring you really deep into your negative forces or negative states. Right?

Kimberly Snyder (11:08.767)
Really?

Vaidya Jay (11:19.882)
That’s the reason why sugar has to be, let’s say, any celebration in the cultures, the world cultures, it always starts with something that’s sweet. So that means a transformation and bringing people together, bringing the hearts together, bringing the consciousness together comes from sweet. Sweet is also.

Kimberly Snyder (11:33.185)
Mmm.

Kimberly Snyder (11:46.977)
Could it even come from fruit, IJJ? Like fruit, if someone’s listening to this and they’re like, well, I don’t want cookies or sugary treats. Could they also benefit from whole fruit?

Vaidya Jay (11:50.089)
Thank

Vaidya Jay (11:55.83)
Thank

Vaidya Jay (11:59.466)
Yeah, sweet is a big range. I call it as a sugar spectrum, right? A sugar spectrum, your rice is also a sweet substance.

Kimberly Snyder (12:04.234)
Right.

Kimberly Snyder (12:13.386)
Right.

Vaidya Jay (12:14.624)
Honey is also sweet. Molasses or jaggery is also sweet. White crystalline sugar is also sweet. But they all have different layers of shift or change in our mind emotional states.

Kimberly Snyder (12:34.219)
So let’s say we are going through a big shift, like you’re awakening your heart. How would you, can you describe to us exactly how you would use the sweet taste, not in excess, not where it’s gonna imbalance your gut microbiome, but where you can support into getting to a new level physically.

Vaidya Jay (12:50.86)
So, yeah, the best examples of good sugars or good sweets that we use as offering, you know, let’s see, this has been offered for thousands and thousands of years, are honey, raw honey, right? Sometimes people are like, let’s say our big population here is vegan, we don’t want to do much of the honey, right? So,

Kimberly Snyder (13:05.695)
Yo, yes, love it.

Kimberly Snyder (13:17.567)
Well, I would say I’m a vegan. I’ll have to say this, Vaidya Jai, we have our own bees in Hawaii. We treat them ethically. So I will say as someone who’s otherwise plant-based, I do consume raw honey. It’s everyone’s personal choice, but bees aren’t harmed in the way that… There’s certain ways to ethically source the honey is what I’m saying as well.

Vaidya Jay (13:37.664)
Yeah, absolutely. So honey is being used for so many, know, like millennia we’ve been using honey, right? So honey, if you look at honey, the quantity that you need for satisfying your sweetness is probably a teaspoon. If you take a teaspoon of honey, it just hits you at the place where you feel unsatisfied. One, two.

Kimberly Snyder (13:58.218)
Right?

Vaidya Jay (14:05.3)
I’m also uplifted. Honey has that ability to uplift you. Second thing, after honey comes something like fruit-based. But all these fruit-based sugars are seasonal. So when we offer fruits to the divine mother in this season, we choose

Kimberly Snyder (14:11.755)
you

Vaidya Jay (14:32.694)
fruits that are growing in this season. Like we have now pomegranates that are great in the season. We have got some persimmons that are in season. Jujubes are in this season. Like basically, I, this Saturday when I went to farmers markets, I do have some flower fruiting trees, but when I went to farmers market, I looked at what is in season. So I picked those fruits.

Kimberly Snyder (14:51.05)
Yeah.

Vaidya Jay (15:02.016)
that are best suited for me and they are sweet but not sugar driving high but just enough to satisfy my sugar balance to make my mind, emotions and spirit to come in alignment. When that happens, your heart fills with gratification and that heart is the one which makes you grow spiritually and consciously.

Kimberly Snyder (15:32.091)
So beautiful, Vajay Jay. So as a practice, we can say for this period, for the next few weeks, I know Navratri is nine nights, but if we’re in a period which is individual, of course, it could be a month, two months, a few weeks to intentionally choose quality sweets, whether it’s an elixir or an herbal tea, mixing a little bit of honey, which is something I do every evening with my older son, by the way. And when we’re doing homework together,

Vaidya Jay (15:58.156)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Kimberly Snyder (16:00.641)
And also having fruit, maybe changing up the fruit that you put in your glowing green smoothie as a practice. But this is an important energy because sometimes we think of fruit mainly in the summer for some. And unfortunately there’s factions of our culture, my DJs you know, which don’t have any fruit at all because they are trying to avoid all sugars. And you see imbalances, you see some, you know.

I just sort of emotional imbalances that can happen because we’re not getting the six argumentic tastes in. It’s another conversation.

Vaidya Jay (16:28.267)
Yeah.

Vaidya Jay (16:32.8)
Yeah, yeah, no, you’re right. People are fearful of consuming sugar because it’s not not only disturbing their digestion, it brings in a intense fear, know, a sense of fear in them. So the sense of fear when I say it’s the what happens if I take sugar and they have created a story for themselves.

That if I take sugar or sweet or carbs, it’ll make me feel foggy or somewhat not in my own element Right. So that’s why people are afraid of taking any of the you know carbs or sugars but What we need to recognize is you know, we have abused the sugar Let me let me tell you when I say abuse the sugar

Kimberly Snyder (17:15.402)
Right.

Kimberly Snyder (17:28.606)
Yes.

Vaidya Jay (17:32.084)
My son grew up here. And if I compare my childhood days to his childhood days, in my school, where I grew up, I grew up in very rural parts of India, there was never a bowl of chocolate or cookies or anything at the front of the school. Nobody, no parent,

Kimberly Snyder (17:41.408)
Yeah.

Kimberly Snyder (17:54.174)
Right.

Vaidya Jay (17:57.8)
And second thing is no parent was bringing chocolates to the school for its birthday celebration. It was just not possible for me to eat every day one candy or one cookie. It was impossible because one, people could not afford it.

Kimberly Snyder (18:16.713)
Yeah. Low quality sugars. Yeah.

Vaidya Jay (18:22.058)
People could not afford it. Second, people would think it’s inappropriate to bring chocolates and sugar to the school. What I look at my son on the contrary, every day you complete a homework, you have a chocolate. If he goes to, know, like, what are we doing? Our body is now saying the relation to that sweetness

Kimberly Snyder (18:32.63)
right?

Kimberly Snyder (18:41.094)
my god.

Vaidya Jay (18:51.186)
is not a peaceful, loving and satisfying, but it is like needy, excessive and somewhat addictive. Right. So every time I’m happy, I relate to having some sugar. I get good grade. My teacher gives me candy and I eat it. OK, that means if I’m feeling good, I should have sugar in my body. That’s where the relation changes.

Kimberly Snyder (19:09.088)
Great.

Kimberly Snyder (19:20.0)
Yes.

Vaidya Jay (19:21.44)
Right? you know, there is no, people should not feel, okay, my gosh, I brought myself to this place now. How do I, there is hope. The hope is this. You have to redefine your relation to anything that is sugar or carbohydrate or even anything that is like a fruit. You know, if you are afraid of it, then you need to work in reteaching your body. It’s like unlearning what you have learned.

Kimberly Snyder (19:23.007)
Yes.

Kimberly Snyder (19:48.937)
Yes.

Vaidya Jay (19:49.802)
and then coming back to resetting it. I’ll give you a very simple example, Kimberly. If anybody who is having this kind of relation issues to the carbs or sugars, you take brown rice and then you cook it soft and you need just a small bowl full of it. And then you add cinnamon, cinnamon and rice.

Kimberly Snyder (19:53.812)
Yes.

Kimberly Snyder (20:15.553)
Mmm.

Vaidya Jay (20:17.43)
two tablespoons of cinnamon rice. rest of the food is whatever you’re eating. You can eat your vegetables, your lentils, your squashes, know, quinoa, doesn’t matter. The first two tablespoons of your meal needs to be this brown rice, freshly cooked brown rice, and a little bit of cinnamon on it. Try that out because cinnamon is one of the best spices to open the metabolic pathways for sugar metabolism.

Kimberly Snyder (20:46.983)
Mmm, beautiful.

Vaidya Jay (20:48.256)
and end with a little bit of something that is sweet again. Maybe you can take a small teaspoon of honey, end your meal with honey. Start with, yeah. So these two processes will start shifting the mind and body relation to the sugar because the number of studies now that have come out, even in the scientific journals which say,

Kimberly Snyder (21:01.941)
Beautiful.

Kimberly Snyder (21:11.465)
beautiful

Vaidya Jay (21:17.312)
There is very close response in the brain neurochemistry to that of substances that are addictive to that of sugar. Sugar does exactly the same shift in the brain because we have trained our brain to do it. I’m happy. I need to eat something sweet. I’m sad. I need to eat something sweet. So we tie up our emotions with the sugar. That’s the mistake.

Kimberly Snyder (21:28.852)
Yeah.

Kimberly Snyder (21:47.467)
Beautiful, Vajay Jay. I love that very practical way of resetting and then using the sugar to support us through heart awakening, through these shifts in the fall. Can we talk about some other herbs or foods that people can also use in this context to feel that resilience growing, right? When you get steady in your heart, as you know, Vajay Jay, you just become more resilient.

against things having to be a certain way, life having to work out exactly, hurry energy. And so how can we fortify this resilience with some of your amazing herbal recommendations, food recommendations?

Vaidya Jay (22:29.002)
Yeah, so when we talk about the sweets or sugar, we also definitely, you will agree with this, the gut biome and the microbiome, right? Ayurveda says that if the sugar is taken in excess, then you do not break down, but will ferment. There’s a big difference between metabolizing sugar to that of fermenting the sugar. When things ferment in the gut,

Kimberly Snyder (22:53.109)
Yes.

Kimberly Snyder (22:58.07)
Yes.

Vaidya Jay (22:59.264)
the signaling, the gut signaling, what we call as gut-brain axis is shifted. That’s where people are afraid of eating sugar because once they eat it, there’s wrong signaling that goes into the body.

Kimberly Snyder (24:14.215)
Okay. Besides the sugar though, Vyjay, can we just switch completely to herbs and foods for resilience? Right? Like we’re talking about just helping the body fortify, feel strong, support and heart awakening.

Vaidya Jay (24:24.502)
Okay.

Vaidya Jay (24:31.37)
Amalaki in your greens. Amalaki, yes, is a thing, a herb that is seen in Ayurveda as something that balances the gut, heart, Gut, heart, which is the seed of mind according to Ayurveda, brain, the seed of

Kimberly Snyder (24:40.873)
Yes, love it.

Kimberly Snyder (24:52.673)
Mmm.

Kimberly Snyder (24:58.101)
Beautiful.

Vaidya Jay (24:59.666)
intellect and memory and willpower. So all three are connected by amalaki. So either you take trifla or you take amalaki. Second thing in terms of spices we are talking about, would say fenugreek is another wonderful spice that is good for balancing out the response of the gut to the sugar metabolism or sweet metabolism. Third,

Kimberly Snyder (25:10.453)
Beautiful.

Vaidya Jay (25:29.056)
To bring in resilience, the spices that are very commonly used will be the tea that is made from cumin, cardamom, fennel, turmeric, and then your coriander. So we call it as CCCFT. So cumin, coriander, fennel, cardamom, turmeric. So if our.

Kimberly Snyder (25:48.47)
Wow.

Kimberly Snyder (25:54.611)
Is that something you recommend drinking in the evening or in the morning?

Vaidya Jay (25:58.848)
Doesn’t matter, either morning and the evening is fine. Sometimes it can be with the meals. Like if I know I’m not going to be really working well with this type of a meal, then I would bring this mixture, have it in a thermos, and I’m done with eating. I want to drink this down so that my gut is completely settled and it will not react abnormally. And then it releases enormous amount of energy because the metabolic process increases significantly.

Kimberly Snyder (26:28.597)
Wow, is this something that you would recommend, Vida J, maybe adding the honey to, to get this? For some, it may feel a little earthy if we’re not used to ingesting some of these herbs in a tea form.

Vaidya Jay (26:35.254)
You.

Vaidya Jay (26:40.65)
Yeah, you can do that. Absolutely. Honey is a good agent to add. And these spices are aromatic. They can be consumed as is. Sometimes even people add a sweetener that is not sugary like licorice. Licorice is not sweet based, but it’s still sweet. So that can be used. So all of these can be good agents for helping the sugar metabolism and energy release.

Kimberly Snyder (27:10.271)
You know, Vajay Jay, I’ve just been called to a practice to support. so much energetic awakening and expansion in my heart. As you’re describing this tea, it almost feels like these practices and rituals we can create for ourselves, nine days, 10 days, two weeks, drinking this every evening. What do you think about doing that type of practice with a tea like this? If you’re moving through something.

Vaidya Jay (27:34.536)
Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. So maybe three week program of drinking these five spices can be tremendously transforming not only for seasonal change that’s happening, but also for the process of opening the heart or shifting the mind, shifting the emotions. Each of these spices, if you look at their studies,

each of these spices have significant impact on circulation, respiration, cellular rejuvenation, so inflammation, all these. Now, going back to a point when people are also afraid if they eat too much of anything that is sweet, their inflammation is going to go up. So that’s not true because if you…

Kimberly Snyder (28:18.113)
Yes.

Vaidya Jay (28:32.332)
have your metabolic pathways correct, then you do not feed them in inflammation, it will feed your metabolism. So that’s where the shift is. And I think you should, yeah.

Kimberly Snyder (28:40.393)
Yes.

Is that a tea blend that you offer at a tray of herbs by JJ?

Vaidya Jay (28:47.594)
Yes, yes we do have that it’s called CCCFT Korean recum and cardamom phenol. Yeah, you can definitely get that from Atria or you can make it yourself.

Kimberly Snyder (28:53.781)
Beautiful.

So is the right ratios. Beautiful by DJ. Well, I’ll be sure to get some as well. It feels like something I’m really drawn to. I like these, you know, these elixir moments, just these periods where sometimes there’s something that you drink with intention. You know, maybe you say a prayer first or you know you’re going through something. You know, the nine days of the goddess, just there’s, I love these rituals that is really

Big part of Ayurveda and these practices, the morning practice, the repetition, it builds an energetic resilience not alone in the body.

Vaidya Jay (29:31.948)
Yes, Yeah, there are practices that, know, if you ask my wife, she knows what goddess is this day. Yes, today is the goddess of prosperity. So the goddess of prosperity is becoming, you know, manifested and you need to make a special kind of a dish for it. And then every person, every member of the family eats it.

with a blessing. So that’s how it is done. Now, if you also want to add, you know, people who are curious, okay, I don’t have a real spiritual practice. What should I do in terms of increasing my spiritual energy at this time of the year? I would say Tulsi is holy basil is very commonly available. This is a good season to take some Tulsi tea. They can also do, you know, teas that are made from flowers.

Kimberly Snyder (30:21.279)
Hmm

Vaidya Jay (30:30.804)
like chrysanthemum or chamomile, rose petal tea, honeysuckle tea. These teas are also very, you heart opening. That’s what we call them. They used to drink lotus tea, but it’s hard to get lotus tea nowadays, but other flowering teas are good. Yeah.

Kimberly Snyder (30:53.941)
Would you say all flowering teas are great for heart awakening? Sometimes we hear a lot about rose extracts, rose teas, but other ones as well.

Vaidya Jay (31:03.498)
Yeah, yeah all flowers that’s why flower is offered to an altar because it it represents our open heart Ready to open and and spread the fragrance of goodness and love to others That’s what the flower represents. So you offer it. So same thing when you drink it it opens your

Kimberly Snyder (31:15.168)
Yes.

Kimberly Snyder (31:26.505)
Wow. Does Ayurveda also believe in edible flowers or is that not so common?

Vaidya Jay (31:32.554)
Yes, there are edible flowers. Yes, we believe in edible flowers, but edible flowers were done in near around spring season. So now that they are dried flowers, they come in the fall season.

Kimberly Snyder (31:43.041)
Kimberly Snyder (31:47.975)
Okay. What about ginger right now, Vyjayjay, either dry ginger or fresh ginger, which is something I also feel called to. Yeah. There’s immunity and also just movement. Yeah.

Vaidya Jay (31:54.998)
Both are great.

Yeah, both are great in the season.

Yeah, so the cold which is now going to surround us is going to make our peripheral circulation to go down. So everybody feels a little cold in their hands and feet, especially if you’re anxious and nervous, then it becomes even more cold. So ginger is a perfect spice that has the ability to open the peripheral blood flow. And that makes when the peripheral flow increases,

Anxiety comes down because your blood is not gushing towards your organs, but rather spreading evenly to all parts of your body. So ginger is a spice that can be combined with the cinnamon. And cinnamon and ginger will do exactly the same. Now, you said about dry and wet. So dry is a little heating compared to the wet one. can look at, do I need really something that’s making me

Kimberly Snyder (32:36.161)
Mmm.

Vaidya Jay (33:01.941)
feel more hotter, more warmer, then you can go for dry ginger. The way I use it is when I make my oatmeal, I’ll use ginger powder on it when I’m cooking. the ginger helps to make the oatmeal flavorful, but also it spreads the heat all over the body even.

Kimberly Snyder (33:14.366)
Hmm

Kimberly Snyder (33:26.625)
Amazing, Vaidya J. You always have so much knowledge and wisdom and such a deep connection with the plants, with the herbs, with all the practices. I could talk to you always, and I really appreciate you coming on repeatedly. And there’s always a new inspiration. I feel really inspired for the CCCFT. Am I saying it right? It’s cumin, coriander.

Vaidya Jay (33:51.36)
Yes, CCCFT.

Kimberly Snyder (33:54.675)
It’s wait, say it one more time by today. Cumin, coriander, cinnamon, fennel, cardamom, fennel, turmeric.

Vaidya Jay (33:54.828)
cardamom, I’m sorry, cumin coriander cardamom.

Vaidya Jay (34:05.525)
Alright.

Kimberly Snyder (34:08.385)
Beautiful. Well, I also want to say that one of the things I learned from you and taking your classes, there’s so many, you know, there’s all these ways that people can trendy things, people can combine things and do whatever they want. And this is, you know, the ethos of saluna as well, care, intention, knowledge, how you combine things. Like you said, our glowing greens powder, our seven plants combined with so much love and care and quality. And I know you also practice that at Atreia Herbs.

One of the things that I always remember when you talked about sourcing herbs, the potency and how traditionally these Ayurvedic doctors would go into the mountains and into the forest and with intention and care, not just in a commercial way or just a heartless way, but really connecting with the plants. And there’s a different energy that comes through in these formulas and in the ways in which any sort of formulation is combined and how it interacts in your body.

The energy is definitely felt and received differently.

Vaidya Jay (35:11.824)
That’s true because every intention, intention is what manifests in the herb. So herbs are beings and you can tell, you can infuse or intend them to carry your intention. So when somebody is taking a fruit or a bark, you had to ask the permission of the tree or the plant saying, you know, help this person to become healthy or

Kimberly Snyder (35:20.49)
Yes.

Vaidya Jay (35:40.692)
regain their state of health from the sickness by being part of my intention. That’s very vital to every Ayurvedic practice. And as you said, yeah, definitely one has to have that ability to communicate and be very aware, unconscious of what they are doing with these plants.

Kimberly Snyder (35:51.681)
It’s so beautiful.

Kimberly Snyder (36:06.123)
So beautiful, Vajay Jay. Thank you again so much as being a constant source of wisdom and inspiration in our community. And I’m sure we’ll do another show in some time to come. In the meantime, and we will link to all of this in the show notes, of course, but tell us where we can find out more about you, where we can connect with your work.

Vaidya Jay (36:27.436)
Thank you, Kimberly. So I practice in Long Beach. My practice is called Atreia Ayurvedic Integrity Health Center. And my herbal company is called Atreia Herbs. And you can find us online atreiaherbs.com. And my Insta handle is 100 years J. So anybody who wants to link on to the Insta, can do that too. I do post some small things about herbs and diet and

So I hope that can be some benefit to people who are listening.

Kimberly Snyder (37:03.679)
So beautiful. And if anybody is in the LA area, I’ve sent so many friends for so many different conditions and goals to Vydeje’s clinic, which he mentioned is now in Long Beach. So I highly recommend, which can be worked in with, you can work with Vydeje in conjunction with more Western traditional treatments as well. find that Vydeje’s protocols are incredible.

So thank you again, Vidya J so much. Thank you everyone for tuning in and being with us as always. Thursday, we will have our next Q &A show. A little reminder on our website, mysaluna.com. You’ll get the transcripts, the show notes for today’s show, the links, and also you can ask questions there for our Thursday shows. Reminder that if you haven’t yet checked out the new book, The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts, it’s available now wherever books are sold.

Vaidya Jay (37:33.292)
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Kimberly Snyder (38:03.149)
And while you’re on the website, please also check out our new Glow in Greens powder with the Amalaki that by DJ mentioned. So sending you much love from our hearts to yours and we’ll see you back here in just a few days.

Vaidya Jay (38:16.022)
Thank you. Namaste to all of you.