Episode 4 - Coming back to our nature through Ayurveda, Yoga and Vedic farming practices with Myra Lewin.
Welcome to our next episode where Laura Poole interviews Myra Lewin on the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda and Yoga, to help us realign with nature’s intelligence.
Introduction to the episode.
In this next episode our founder Laura Poole speaks with Myra Lewin from Hale Pule on coming back to our nature through Ayurveda, Yoga and Vedic farming practices.
As you see in her eyes and will hear in her voice, Myra is a vibrant and radiating Ayurveda Practitioner, Ayurveda Yoga Therapist, healer and teacher, who over the last 30 years has spent more than 50,000 hours studying and teaching the art and science of Yoga and Ayurveda. Her teachers include Betty Eiler, Pattabhi Jois, David Frawley, Maya Tiwari and Vasant Lad to name just a few.
Myra is also a trained classical pianist, an auto mechanic and before her life in yoga and Ayurveda, was high up in the corporate world. After being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at 30, a debilitating condition deemed “incurable” by doctors, rather than accepting the diagnosis as unchangeable, she resolved to reclaim her health. This is when she found Yoga and Ayurveda… transforming her corporate life into becoming a master yogini, organic farmer, and alchemist with a deep calling to support the growth of others.
In 1999 Myra founded Hale Pule Ayurveda & Yoga - a home-based holistic educational and healing centre where people gather to connect to their true selves and to the power of nature. Over 20 years, Myra and the Hale Pule team have guided thousands of people to live a more balanced and bountiful life through the practices of Ayurveda and Yoga.
There is a lot that get’s covered in this one! So make sure you check out the show notes below after you listen where we have put in links to all the resources and practices we share.
Show notes.
Yagya is an ancient fire ceremony that is performed so that we can commune with natures intelligence. Find out more here
Laura is sharing her journey of reinvigorating their land ‘Devaloka Noosa Homestead’ in Noosa. Follow on Instagram here!
What are the doshas? From the Ayurvedic perspective, everything on the planet (including us) is made up of different combinations of five elements: earth, water, fire, air and ethers. The three doshas – vata, pitta and kapha – each represent two elements and are responsible for various functions in the body and mind.. To learn more about how to understand the doshas, have a read of this blog by Hale Pule.
PRAKRITI is a Sanskrit word which means ‘first state or creation’. In this context we are talking about the state of health in which are all first born in to.
TAMAS, along with RAJAS and SATTVA is one of the three qualities that are present in everything around us, including within our own bodies as well as the foods that we eat. Ayurveda teaches that we need all 3 of these qualities, also known as the MAHA GUNAS, in order to live but we should take care to balance these qualities. Read here for more on what each of these qualities represent and how to balance them.
Listen to the MAHAMRITYUNJAYA MANTRA here.
To follow up on Laura and Myra’s recommendations for how to learn more about Agni Hotra, the purifying Vedic fire ceremony, have a look at the Hale Pule website. To purchase your own Agni Hotra kit or supplies, and to get a timetable of sunrise and sunset times visit Homa Therapy Australia’s website.
Laura’s online introduction to permaculture course is through Australian-based business Milkwood.
Connect with Myra.
See all upcoming events for Hale Pule here
Follow Myra through the Hale Pule Instagram account