Medicine for All People with Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark

Yeah, spanda was something that, you know, I wanted to make sure I included because when I learned about it as a younger girl studying the Vedas, it resonated with me even at a time in my life where I didn't have a lot of experience with flow state or experience with really authenticity.

You know, I was kind of growing into myself and Spanda is a Sanskrit term, a word that is translated, best translated, I suppose, in English as a vibration or a pulse or a throb.

And I even, I call it a tremor in the book.

That's the sacred pulse of life.

And it's that subtle vibration that moves through the body, through the breath, through the earth, through all living things.

So we know it when we feel it.

I mean, I think it's not something that's spoken about for a reason.

And it's so beautiful that it even has a term in the Vedic theology and in Sanskrit, which is such a sophisticated language.

But it's this tremble of aliveness that reminds us that life is not static, that we are always becoming, that we are always responding and returning to rhythm.

And that if we know that this is actually something that is real and felt and that we recognize when we feel it, we can pay attention to it, be mindful of it when it happens and know that we can return to it.

when we create the circumstances to do so.

And that felt so deeply important to me when I think about what is medicinal and when we speak in this world of health and wellness, you know, to really hearken this ancient sense of what feels connected in our bodies.

I think it's such a critical part that a lot of our patients have lost.

And I often see people coming in sick and, you know, we're looking for biological causes.

And sometimes, you know, just pause there, give enough presence to the situation, you'll immediately pick up that they're lost this sense of their natural rhythm.

And I love how you basically just start with like, you know, sleep and go out in the woods, you know, like all this basic concept that there's nothing magical about any of them, but yet brought together, I think that's where real healing begins.

Right, right.

And that, I appreciate that you felt the simplicity in this, because that's really what I hoped to share was that, you know, as you create a medicine pouch for yourself in the book and gather the medicines that speak to you, that you find actually the most ease, you know, that health does not have to be a struggle.

Our highest health does not always have to be a struggle.

There may be work involved, but there should be ease in our lives.

And many of us have lost touch with that.

I love how you put that, your own medicine