This episode is a little more personal, recorded in 2018 with our dear friend and Ayurveda practitioner Dylan Smith from Vital Veda. Dylan wanted to chat to Vedic meditation teacher Laura Poole about pain, suffering, healing and consciousness, knowing that her journey over the years has been full of these things. As an Ayurveda practitioner, Dylan sees many patients with chronic illness, so called ‘incurable’ conditions, pains in the body & mind, and they are ask him for guidance, knowledge and solutions. In this episode we explore the multi-faceted realm of healing the body through consciousness, and that it may not be what we were expecting and yet, what we are truly desiring.

Check out our journal post for the full interview

Connect with Laura and Dylan

• Connect with Dylan and Laura on social media
• Learn Vedic meditation with Mahasoma. Or to find a Vedic meditation teacher near you email [email protected]

Resources

• Find out more about Ayurveda and ways to align yourself with nature at the Vital Veda Journal
• Panchakarma Ayurvedic detox and rejuvenation programs - these programs are a powerful way to detox, release years of stress, replenish and move back into greater health and vitality. They are also the foundation for healing chronic illness in the body. In India, we go to the Raju Family for treatments. They have two places you can visit - the larger  Raju Family Clinic just outside of Hyderabad city with Dr Krishna Raju and Dr Padma Raju, or the smaller clinic Raju’s Ayurveda right in Hyderabad city with J.R. Raju, Harsha Raju and Pavani Raju. If you need more information on panchakarma please get in contact with the Raju’s or with [email protected]
• Download the Curable App - the science behind pain and practices to dissolve it
• Explore Nicole Sachs' The Cure For Chronic Pain website for online courses and a podcast that explores the mind/body connection to pain
• Watch this free 4-part series with Nicole Sachs on healing chronic pain
• Download an easy yet powerful spinal yoga sequence by master teacher Simon-Borg Olivier that will change the way you think about and practice yoga, while liberating energy in the spine to help your body naturally heal itself
• Read Healing Back Pain by Dr John Sarno
• Read The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
• Read The Body Keeps Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
• Read

Learn to meditate with us at Mahasoma --- follow us @mahasoma --- [email protected]