Episode 8 - Pain, suffering and awakening with Laura Poole and Dylan Smith.

Our founder, Laura Poole opens up about her journey with physical pain and suffering, and how meditation helped her to understand that she did not have to be bound by her bodily experiences, and that maybe there was actually a deeper purpose to it all along.

Introduction to the episode.

This episode is a little more of a personal one that was recorded back in 2018 with our dear friend and Ayurveda practitioner Dylan Smith from Vital Veda. Dylan wanted to chat to Laura about pain, suffering, healing and consciousness, knowing that her journey over the years has been full of all of these things.

As an Ayurveda practitioner Dylan sees many patients with chronic illness, so called ‘incurable’ conditions, pains in the body and mind, and they are ask him for guidance, for knowledge, for solutions. And in this episode, we wanted to explore the multi-faceted realm of healing the body through the means of consciousness, and that it may not be what we were expecting and yet, what we were truly desiring.

Show notes.

• Connect with Dylan and Laura on social media.

• Learn Vedic meditation with Mahasoma. Or to find a Vedic meditation teacher near you email hello@mahasoma.com.

• 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 dylan@vitalveda.com.au.

• 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.

• 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 Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine.

• Read Explain Pain by David Butler & Lorimer Moseley.

• Watch the Heal documentary on Netflix.