Did you know that your stress level, the amount of sleep you get, the food you eat, what kind of exercise you do, and your perception of life influence your health and how much you enjoy life? What if you could have a vivacious physical body, abundance of energy, clear mind, balanced emotions, and abounding joy? How would you feel? What would you do?
Ayurvedic wisdom and chronobiology (circadian cycles) teach us that we are designed to flow with nature. Live to your greatest potential with peak health through properly timed diet, exercise, stress management, and sleep. Learn how to align with nature’s wisdom through practical daily routines and simple life hacks for the life you have always wanted. Equip yourself with the tools to help in areas of sleep, diet, exercise, and stress management. Learn how habits such as overworking, skipping meals, trying to catch up on sleep, and perception of life and stress cause weight gain and dissatisfaction.
So, what does this program include? You may attend live talks via Zoom on the date they are offered. The sessions are posted afterward so you can listen to them anytime. Each is about 10-30 minutes long, pending the topic. See our calendar for dates and times for live events.
Attend what you can! It will all be recorded to watch if you miss a session!
Pre-Program Q& A
- See our calendar for dates and times for each live event.
Thank you for joining us; the links for the live sessions are below! Enjoy!
Building a Foundation: Stress Management and Optimal Wellness
Week #1:
- Weekly Checkin and Q & A: Mondays 6:00 PM-6:30 PM
- Weekly COMMUNITY BUILDING Q&A with Kamie and Jenna
- September 21 @ 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm: WEEKLY ZOOM LINK
- Why Having Tools to Manage Stress Matters with Kamie
- What is Immunity and What are Building Practices with Kamie
- Meditation Talk with Jenna
- The Importance of Journaling with Kamie (PRE-Recorded)
Week #2:
- Weekly Checkin and Q & A: Mondays 6:00 PM-6:30 PM
- Weekly COMMUNITY BUILDING Q&A with Kamie and Jenna
- September 28 @ 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm: WEEKLY ZOOM LINK
- Why We Need to follow the Day/Night Cycle for Optimal Wellness with Kamie
- Catching Zzzzzz’s with Kamie
Week #3:
- Weekly Checkin and Q & A: Mondays 6:00 PM-6:30 PM
- Weekly COMMUNITY BUILDING Q&A with Kamie and Jenna
- October 5th @ 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm: WEEKLY ZOOM LINK
- Move Your Body! with Kamie
Week #4:
- Weekly Checkin and Q & A: Mondays 6:00 PM-6:30 PM
- Weekly COMMUNITY BUILDING Q&A with Kamie and Jenna
- October 12 @ 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm: WEEKLY ZOOM LINK
- Mindful Eating Talk with Jenna
- Meal Timing Over What You Eat with Kamie
Bonus Material:
- Weekly Checkin and Q & A: Mondays 6:00 PM-6:30 PM
- 8 min Workout with Kamie
- Yoga Nidra with Kamie
- A.M. and P.M. Yoga – (15 min each)
- A.M. and P.M. Meditation – (8-10 min each)
- And more!
Welcome Teachers and Staff!
Welcome! Welcome! Jenna and I are excited to be apart of your wellness journey.
Week#1
Why Having Tools to Manage Stress Matters with Kamie
LIVE LINK: Wednesday, September 16th, 6:00 PM-6:30 PM
Society places a badge of honor on those who are over-committed and upholding a busy life. With continual outside pressure, the adrenal glands have to work overtime to make enough stress hormones to sustain the habitual cycle.
Throughout a stressful day, our body struggles to balance the increased levels of adrenaline and cortisol in the bloodstream due to the activation of the sympathetic nervous system. Our body’s natural response is to increase the production of balancing hormones that have opposing energies (ie. estrogen, progesterone, testosterone). In turn, this puts a strain on our adrenal glands and hormonal systems. Eventually, our bodies can’t keep up with the demand.
At first, our endocrine system gives us signals that something is off but eventually more serious health concerns show up such as weakened immunity, digestive issues, anxiety, depression, hormonal imbalances, and more.
Join Kamie as she explains what the hormones in our body do and simple practices to activate the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest)to stop the sympathetic (stress response) from activating
What is Immunity and What are Building Practices with Kamie
LIVE LINK: Wednesday, September 16th, 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM
When our immune system is compromised, we need to ask ourselves why? And are we willing to change the course we are on and correct the underlying problems—whatever they maybe? ~Kamie Slegers
According to Ayurveda, strong immunity is a product of good digestion, quality liver functioning, and appropriately balanced hormones.
We’ve all experienced our body crashing and our health deteriorates as we fall to the inconvenience of a cold, the flu, allergies, or COVID. Most of us would rather not get sick at all and given the choice, who would refuse a strong immune system? We all want to be healthy and would rather avoid illness and disease. So, how do we support our immunity?
Ayurveda teaches us that Ojas (vitality) and immunity are the natural outcomes of optimal health, which depends on strong digestive fire (Agni), a healthy diet, a supportive lifestyle, and a balanced nervous system. With this knowledge, supporting our immune system is often more about basic self-care than anything else. Our bodies thrive with proper nutrition and adequate sleep; they do even better when we commit to stress management, cultivate healthy relationships, embrace joy and purpose, and living in alignment with our own authentic self.
We will cover a few basics to give you a foundation for building your immunity.
The research that I have studied comes from eastern and western perspectives. I am fortunate to live in a time that western medicine is proving guidelines and practices that eastern medicine has been implementing for thousands of years.
Meditation Talk with Jenna
LIVE LINK: Monday, September 14th, 7:00 – 7:30 PM and Monday, September 28th, 7:00 – 7:30 PM
Many things in life are beyond our control. We only have control of our thoughts and in turn how we react. Meditation is defined as the transformation of your mind. The practices are techniques that encourage and develop concentration, clarity, and emotional positivity. Adding meditation into your day can lead to a new perspective of your life.
The Importance of Journaling with Kamie
Coming Soon!
Week#2
Why We Need to Follow the Day/Night Cycle for Optimal Wellness with Kamie
LIVE LINK: Wednesday, September 23rd, 6:00 PM-6:30 PM
What is does it mean to have vibrant health, live life with meaning, and have a deep sense of peace, contentment, and purpose? Ayurveda means knowledge of life, and it originated in India more than 5,000 years ago. It is the oldest continuously practiced health care system in the world, coming from an understanding of nature’s natural rhythms and laws and working with the imbalances that show up as signs of disease in the mind and body.
Today, we are applauded for being over-worked, stressed, and exhausted. We are taught that stress, anxiety, and chronic disease are a normal part of life and aging. However, this could not be further from the truth. Ayurveda teaches us that there is always a choice, providing us with effective and intuitive tools that can be used to evaluate the degree of disharmony, whether slight or severe, to determine its cause and give us the practices to reclaim optimal health.
Catching Zzzzz’s with Kamie
LIVE LINK: Wednesday, September 23rd, 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM
How well do you sleep? Do you have difficulty falling asleep? Do you wake up in the middle of the night? Do you stay up too late and get up too early?
We spend approximately one-third of our lives asleep. This leads to the essential question: why do we need sleep? What is clear is that quality sleep is a staple of optimal health. But even though we know this, many of us are not making time for quality sleep. Because of busy lifestyles, we do not truly receive the health benefits of sleep.
As we drift off to sleep, our bodies begin their night-shift work. This is the time when it detoxifies and clears itself of physical toxins and processes daily emotions.
Learn why sleep is the most important life change you can make for recovery, stress management, immunity, detoxification, weight loss, and more.
Week#3
Move Your Body! with Kamie
LIVE LINK: Wednesday, September 30th, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Exercise has been an important part of the Ayurvedic routine for thousands of years but it is looked very different. Today exercise focuses on rigorous routines, with exhausting results. It has become a modern fad, not suitable for optimal wellness. According to Ayurveda, exercise gets rid of heaviness and stiffness of the body, because it burns digestive impurities and toxins (ama) this creates more flexibility, lightness, smoothness, and ease of life.
Healthy Hormones with Kamie
LIVE LINK: Wednesday, September 30th, 6:30 PM-7:00 PM
Society places a badge of honor on those who are over-committed and upholding a busy life. With continual outside pressure, the adrenal glands have to work overtime to make enough stress hormones to sustain the perpetual cycle.
Our bodies struggle to balance the increased levels of adrenaline and cortisol in the bloodstream. In return, the body responds by increasing the production of balancing hormones with opposing energies (ie. estrogen, progesterone, testosterone).
This strains our adrenal glands and hormonal system. Eventually, our bodies simply can’t keep up with the demand. The endocrine system then gives signals that something is off.
Week#4
Mindful Eating Talk with Jenna
LIVE LINK: Wednesday, October 7th, 6:00 PM-6:30 PM
Mindful Eating DescriptionMindful eating goes deeper than what we put in our body; it changes your relationship with your body and inner self. You learn how to listen to your inner voice telling you when to eat when to stop eating and what to eat.
We eat food to fuel our bodies, satisfy, and as a distraction. When we stop noticing what is happening in our bodies, outward distractions take hold and keep us from listening to our bodies’ needs.
Mindful eating happens in four steps:
- In our Body: Creating acceptance and showing gratitude to our body and the food we put in it.
- In Our Brain: Change lifelong behaviors to tune into your inner self fully.
- At Your Table: Mindful eating starts from placing the food on the table from picking your plate back up.
- Mindful Lifestyle: Bring mindfulness and awareness into your daily life to enrich every experience!
Meal Timing Over What You Eat with Kamie
LIVE LINK: Wednesday, October 7th, 6:30 PM-7:00 PM
Along with digestion, unhealthy or irregular dietary habits, unmanaged and accumulated stress, unsupportive relationships, inactive lifestyles, and environmental toxins can challenge your body’s ability to digest food properly. A weak digestive system results in the accumulation of ama, or toxins, that cause imbalance, disease, and premature aging. Your digestion is a true reflection of your mental-emotional-physical state of balance or imbalance. A few signs of a stressed digestive system and accumulation of toxins are fatigue and lack of motivation, mental fogginess and forgetfulness, recurring infections and illnesses, and weight gain.
Bonus Material!
Yoga Classes:A.M. and P.M. – (15 min each)
Yoga for Relaxation
Meditation Classes A.M. and P.M. – (8-10 min each)
Morning Meditation
Evening Meditation
8 min Workout with Kamie
Description.
PRE-Video: What you will need and demo how to do each movement.
The workout!
Yoga Nidra with Kamie
Yoga Nidra is a form of guided meditation or yogic sleep. It is one of the easiest styles of yoga to practice and is the state before sleep. There are numerous mental and physical benefits that come from the practice of this ancient method of meditation. We all have stresses in our lives and we need tools to learn how to release tension and truly relax. Yoga Nidra is a simple practice to prevent both the mental and physical damage that can come due to stress.
Some of the benefits of yoga Nidra.
- Heals Trauma: tension release and relaxation in a safe space.
- Delta and Theta brain waves: helps us to reach a deeper state of sleep, creativity, inspiration, and spiritual connection.
- Reduces Stress: help us to release stress and anxiety.
- Reduce Chronic Pain: gives our body time to rest, recover and restore, decreasing inflammation, and improves immune function.
- PMS Symptoms: improve wellbeing, anxiety, and depression by learning tools to apply and practices based on intervention.
- Better Sleep: insomnia and sleep deprivation contribute to mental disorders, stress, and immune health.
We will begin class with some basic movements and breathing and then settle into our yoga Nidra. We will practice in a reclined position. No experience necessary.
What is My Next Step? Q & A with Kamie