Come to Your Senses

How to Create Ease in Nervous System

Explore the five senses and discover how the ancient Ayurvedic holistic treatment- Tanmatra Chikitsa, helps you create more ease in your nervous system. Return home to your five senses and appreciate beauty in simple, daily things like lavender blooms, herbal tea, sunsets, rose water spritzes, and chickadee morning reveille.

The five sensory organs – nose, tongue, eyes, skin, and ears are the physical thresholds into the subtle nervous systems. The five senses of smell, taste, sight, touch, and hearing are the subtle doorways and pathways through which we perceive and receive information and beauty from the world around us.

Take a summer Ayurvedic adventure, by learning how to balance your body and mind through these doorways of perception. In today’s fast paced, technologically driven world, the senses are often overused or misused. This stresses the nervous system. Each week, Kellen Brugman will explore one of the five senses.

This sensory exploration series will help you become more aware of beauty in everyday simple things. It provides easy, effective, and enjoyable self-care tips to create ease in your nervous system.

Tanmatra Chikitsa, by utilizing the five senses and sensory pathways in nervous system, helps awaken the inner pharmacy and create therapeutic influences in the body and mind. Learn how impressions such as sound, touch, images, food, and aromas either stress the five senses and nervous system; or how they restore balance to body, mind, and nervous system. Harmony between the external world and ourselves is maintained by becoming more aware of what we are allowing in through our doorways of perception.

Five Week Series Begins Wednesday August 3

• #1.Wed, August 03, 2022, 5:45 PM 7:00 PM (EDT)

• #2.Wed, August 10, 2022, 5:45 PM 7:00 PM (EDT)

• #3.Wed, August 17, 2022, 5:45 PM 7:00 PM (EDT)

• #4.Wed, August 24, 2022, 5:45 PM 7:00 PM (EDT)

• #5.Wed, August 31, 2022, 5:45 PM 7:00 PM (EDT)

• LocationNCMC Borra Learning Center Room 49A (downstairs)

Enjoy More Mental Clarity & Ease Through Doorways of Perception.

You will learn and understand:

• The function of the five senses, as they relate to Ayurveda’s five elements and three body-mind types (Vata, Pitta, Kapha).

• The relationship between the mind, nervous system and five senses. And why healthy sensory perception contributes to overall health.

• Ayurvedic self-care techniques and treatments for the sensory organs, so that they perform at optimal health throughout one’s life.

• How the five sensory organs provide both protection and pleasure, and bridge our relationship with external world.

• How the five senses get out of balance through poor lifestyle and food choices. Classroom use of music, colors, tea, native plants, and essential oils.

• Easy, effective, and enjoyable Ayurvedic methods to restore balance to the five senses. We will explore foods, essential oils, color therapy, sound therapy, acupressure points, and breathing practices.

Assignment Adventures:

• Students keep a “Five Senses Journal”- notebook to explore cause and effects of foods, sounds, colors, etc.. with the five senses, and effects on nervous system.

• A meal experiment at home, preparing a meal consisting of the six tastes and eating with awareness.

• Do an Ayurvedic hand and neck self-massage at home, in order to experience the healing benefits of touch and aromatherapy.

By End of Course, You Will:

• Recognize when a sensory organ(s) is stressed; then know how to restore balance by using 1-2 easy, effective Ayurvedic self-care techniques.

• Perform a breathing practice to calm nervous system.

• Know how to use an Ayurvedic acupressure point for each sensory organ.

• Be able to use foods, colors, sound therapy, essential oils, and Ayurvedic acupressure points to reduce stress levels in body and mind.

• Have greater appreciation for beauty in life’s simple things and in nature’s healing magic.

Class fee includes an essential oil and Ayurvedic tea for each student.

Cancellations are non-refundable within 24 hours of this event.

Investment $140. Includes 5 classes and an essential oil and Ayurvedic tea for each student.