Abhyanga

and how mindfulness, relaxation.

See, if you actually do your oil application, which is called Abhyanga, have a nice warm shower, and due to your breathing and all these vagal nerve regulating practices of Ayurveda, and you sit there with total attention to your food, appreciate the colors, eat mindfully, the impact of that on your gut microbiome is going to be hugely different.

Even if you are in a very hurried way eating the best foods like, okay, avocados and sourdough bread and scrambled eggs and the best Scottish smoked salmon.

If you are not using mindfulness, if you're not using practices, like I'm actually going to have a nice stretch, a nice oil application, have a good shower and do my breathing and then eat.

it was beautiful so

I just share that because that whereas I've been practicing Abhyanga for many years and I would still have that dialogue oh I kind of wish that bit wasn't there and so again over time and I recently completed my first experience my first Panchakarma where I had that really embodied experience of what it is to just be loved on by the sneha and the oil and i was like i remember you teaching this so that's you know the word is is both love and oil fat and i was like oh the nourishment that soaked in so deeply to the core of my being of just receiving that that has really like six weeks post-puncture karma now that has like seeped into my being in a very subtle and most powerful way um which I've kind of gone off topic but I just

wanted to show you that

that's how I roll yeah

There's so much to learn there, but all of it is so helpful for birth and for parenting as well because you are, as a mother, as a father, you are co-regulating with your child.

So knowing how to do that inside yourself and starting to discover how not just I'd say safety, but I imagine if we're looking from sympathetic to parasympathetic, from fight or fight to rest and digest or play and stay, do we want to bring more pleasure into our day and connection with our body in more beautiful ways, do you think, as well, with that enhanced fertility, like Abhyanga, doing self-massage and things like that?

I love that you said this because I think, you know, there's so many ways to regulate, but as adults, and this is one of the recommendations I put on most of my treatment plans, is more play, more fun.

You know, I think we are so, we're all guilty of it because there's a never-ending list of things to do and all the things, but more play.