John Douillard – Advanced Ayurvedic Practices for a Long, Healthy & Happy Life 2023

As you deepen onto this path for cultivating harmony within, you’ll:

• Comprehend immunity in more detail, so you can fine tune your immune system support in the best way possible for your dosha (body type) — vāta (air), pitta (fire), or kapha (earth-water)
• Take the Body Type Quiz to discover your personal dosha and learn how nature intended to keep you in balance
• Explore your various doshic profiles across different factors besides the physical body, including the emotional and mental bodies
• Learn not to bubble-wrap your diet but instead strengthen your ability to digest food, opening up the link between good digestive health, detoxification, and longevity
• Work on your Ayurvedic psychology with the Emotional Body Type Quiz, where you’ll determine your giving (sattvic), needing (rajasic), and hiding (tamasic) natures and define your action steps
• Understand the ca use of epidemics and how to prevent the next one — as stated 2,500 years ago
• Find and fix any nutritional deficiencies that compromise immunity, exploring superfoods and essential herbs for a strong immune system
• Discover the science of Sattva to cultivate a quality of purity and peacefulness that replaces stress with happiness
• Cultivate making seasonal eating easy and enjoyable, according to your body type and the harvest, to protect your DNA, lengthen telomeres, and protect against unnecessary aging
• Be guided through the 4-day LifeSpa Short Home Cleanse for good health and longevity
• And much more…

According to Ayurveda, knowing your body type (which you can learn from our dosha quiz), is like having access to the owner’s manual for your car. It will give you the right information about how to prevent sickness, maintain your health, and enhance your longevity. It will provide insight into your strengths, weaknesses, health predispositions, likes, and dislikes. It will also help you identify your longevity imbalances and what action steps you can take to resolve them.

In this first module, you’ll review the concept of a dosha. The “three-dosha theory” describes how the quantities and qualities of three fundamental types of substances called wind/air (vāta), bile/fire (pitta), and phlegm/earth-water (kapha) fluctuate in the body according to the seasons, time of day, process of digestion, and several other factors — and thereby determine changing conditions of growth, aging, health, and disease. These doshas make up your physical body type and provide answers regarding the health concerns linked to them based on your Ayurvedic Lifecycle.

In this module, you’ll:

• Explore the “three-dosha theory” of the three types of substances that are believed to be present in a person’s body and mind: wind/air (vāta), bile/fire (pitta), and phlegm/earth-water (kapha)
• Take the Body Type Quiz to discover your personal dosha and learn how nature intended to keep you in balance
• Learn how to eat according to your dosha in order to achieve health and inner balance
• Work on your Ayurvedic psychology with the Emotional Body Type Quiz where you will determine your giving (sattvic), needing (rajasic) and hiding (tamasic) nature — which will help define your action steps
• Learn about the Ayurvedic Lifecycle and prepare yourself for your health predispositions according to your body type

In this module, you’ll learn immune boosting strategies that focus on repairing the lining of the gut, lungs, and stomach — your first defense in an immune event. We’ll discuss how diet, lifestyle, breathing, and herbal medicines can boost your mood, energy, digestion, and immunity.

A strong immune system is essential — and we’re only just learning how essential it is! The immune system is carried by the lymphatic system, which starts in the digestive system. Here we find gut immunity, which makes up some 70% of our immunity. New studies have found that respiratory immunity is directly linked to gut immunity, tying our immune strength to how well we digest.

The key to immunity is found in the inner skin of the body, the epithelium — the linings of the digestive and respiratory tracts, where immunity starts. When stress, poor digestion, poor sleep, bad food, and a hectic lifestyle are present, this inner skin lining the digestive and respiratory tracts can be affected and make us more vulnerable to the next cold, flu, allergy, or vaccine reaction.

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn the cause of epidemics and how to prevent the next one, as stated 2,500 years ago
• Explore an ancient pranayama breathing technique that has been found to boost immunity 15-fold while activating gamma brain waves linked to increased subtle perception and spirituality
• Discover why it is so important to train yourself to breathe through the nose at night with mouth tape
• Find and fix any nutritional deficiencies that compromise immunity
• Learn the superfoods and essential herbs to support a strong immune system

In the West, we have taken tools like yoga, breathing, and meditation and turned them into stress reduction techniques, for which they have proven extremely effective. Traditionally, these techniques were a natural part of a daily and seasonal routine, geared toward enhancing self-awareness and tapping into an inner joy and bliss that allowed stress to be readily released.

Today, science has linked stress to a shorter life, accelerated aging, more frequent sickness, mental health concerns, and most importantly, poor quality of life. According to the longevity science of Ayurveda, doing and accomplishing less is not a solution for stress. Training the nervous system to be calm, centered, and at peace in the face of stress is offered as the key to health, longevity, and happiness.

The techniques in this module have been proven to reset our calm center and protect the body from stress-related DNA damage that directly accelerates aging.

In this module, you’ll:

• Become bulletproof to stress, going beyond stress reduction to create an inner calm with this module’s breathing practice
• Discover Effortless Exercise, getting into the zone with a 3-phase nasal breathing workout
• Draw upon a nurturing self-massage called an Abhyanga to insulate you from stress and powerfully boost your body’s longevity hormone
• Learn how to reverse the impact of stress on your brain with a special brain-cleansing nasya technique
• Explore adaptogens, the herbs and vitamins are essential for immunity
• Discover the science of Sattva to cultivate a quality of purity and peacefulness that replaces stress with happiness

Study after study reinforces the importance of a good night’s sleep. For many, getting those eight hours a night is a challenge. While it is common to think insomnia is caused by having too much energy to settle down and sleep, the actual cause is too little energy — being in a deep state of chronic depletion, burnout, or exhaustion.

Most sleep aids offer sedation to arrest the symptoms of a sleep-deprived, overactive mind, further sedating an already exhausted system and rarely addressing the underlying cause of insomnia. Stress and exhaustion disrupt the delicate balance between nature’s circadian rhythms and the body’s biological clocks.

In this module, you’ll:

• Synchronize your biological clocks for sleep, balancing and resetting your biological clocks to prepare for sleep and implementing rejuvenation therapies for the most common sleep imbalances, such as blood sugar, worry, and exhaustion
• Get a 69% reset of your circadian rhythms in one easy weekend practice
• Discover how to drop into deep sleep faster with a bedtime breathing and meditation technique
• Learn quick pre-sleep insomnia techniques
• Explore why microdosing melatonin is the only way to go

Studies link meditation techniques to better health, increased longevity, decreased DNA damage, improved mood, enhanced cognitive function, fewer visits to the doctor, and much more. The research was so impressive, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn focused her research on the effects of meditation. She found that certain practices slowed aging by 30% in one study and by 43% in another.

The science mapping the health benefits of breathing, meditation, and intention is cutting edge. According to Ayurveda, what we put our attention on becomes our reality. Science is now suggesting that when we still our minds, balance our respiratory gases (breathing), and then subtly introduce an intention of healing during meditation, the results can be quite significant.

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn new exercises for a healthy diaphragm and why it is so critical for health and longevity
• Experience a breathing practice to boost stem cells and anti-aging factors
• Discover how the most subtle breath, posture, and intention can be the most powerful tool for healing and spirituality
• Recognize the mechanisms and meditations for healing prayer and distance healing
• Practice intention-based healing meditations using Vedic sutras for cravings, strength, immunity, spirituality, and more

Since the introduction of processed foods, pesticides, and preservatives, our ability to digest well has been severely compromised. According to Ayurveda, 85% of all disease begins with a digestive imbalance and more than 75% of the population complains of some digestive issue. The ability to digest well is directly linked to our ability to detoxify, and with 70 million tons of pollutants dumped into the atmosphere each year, even organic food and spring water are contaminated.

Instead of fixing the root problem, we have been told that taking digestive enzymes or removing hard-to-digest foods such as wheat, grains, dairy, nuts, beans, lectins, tomatoes, and others from our diets are solutions. The reality is that these hard-to-digest foods have a hormetic effect that challenges our digestion system, stimulating digestive strength and gut immunity. In this module, Dr. John troubleshoots each aspect of the digestive system and offers lifestyle, food, and herb options to reset the function and immunity of your digestive system.

In this module, you’ll:

• Explore the seasonal foods that protect your DNA, lengthen telomeres, and protect against unnecessary aging
• Discern how to evaluate your liver and gallbladder, the kingpins of digestion, and how to perform a Safe Liver Cleanse
• Learn Ayurvedic weight balancing and time restricted eating
• Discover the benefits of walking after each meal
• Understand how to reboot digestion with foods and herbal medicines

A circadian rhythm, or circadian cycle, is a natural, internal process that regulates the sleep/wake cycle and repeats roughly every 24 hours. It can refer to any process that originates within an organism and responds to the environment. Circadian rhythm sleep disorders are a group of sleep disorders that share the common feature of a disruption in the timing of sleep. Circadian in Latin means “around or approximately” (circa) “a day” (diem). Circadian rhythm is the name given to your body’s 24-hour internal clock that controls your body’s sleep-wake cycle.

Circadian rhythms also affect the turning on and off of our biological clocks that determine the best time to eat, sleep, exercise and even take your herbs and medicines. The average American spends 90% of their time indoors that has created a sunlight and infrared light deficiency that is linked to accelerated and unnecessary aging. Ayurveda tells us that properly transitioning from one season to the next with seasonal foods is the key to preventing disease.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover how and why to use red and infrared light therapy naturally to ward off age-related degeneration
• Learn Dr. Douillard’s personal Ayurvedic 24-hour daily and seasonal routine
• Understand how each of the sun’s rays change throughout the day, how they affect you, and how they turn your biological clocks off and on
• Explore how to make seasonal eating easy and enjoyable, according to your body type and the harvest
• Discern which pranayama breathing techniques are best for each season

Today, more than 90% of the world’s population are breathing polluted air that is above the safe levels set by the WHO. In this module, Dr. Douillard will guide you through an Ayurvedic detoxification process called LifeSpa’s Short Home Cleanse that is proven to detox pesticides and environmental pollutants by over 50%. It is a 4-day kitchari and ghee cleanse that has been well studied.

Women’s World magazine conducted a focus group with 40 people who performed this cleanse — the average cleanser lost 11 pounds and it became the magazine’s next cover story. The Short Home Cleanse is not just a detox — it addresses the reason why we become toxic in the first place. It is a digestive reset — a liver, lymph, and tissue cleanse that helps heal the intestinal environment and restore a healthy microbiome.

This home Ayurvedic cleanse aims to restore digestive and detoxification function first, before the cleanse. The Short Home Cleanse is not just an intestinal cleanse, but an ancient detox technique now backed by modern science. Studies show this cleanses toxins from deep tissues in the brain, muscles, fat, and joints. The Short Home Cleanse can be done while working or resting, and will be adjusted to your individual sensitivity.

In this module, you’ll:

• Realize how and why it is so important to cleanse seasonally
• Be guided through the LifeSpa Short Home Cleanse
• Learn that ghee is a superfood with over 1,000 health benefits, including pulling chemicals out of our deep tissues
• Understand why the Ayurvedic superfood kitchari heals and repairs an inflamed intestinal lining and restores a healthy microbiome
• Explore the best herbs and diet for cleansing in each season

Ayurveda understands that the old emotional patterns of behavior we carry are primary causes of aging, stress, and degeneration. According to Ayurveda, the result of poor digestion is something called ama, Sanskrit for “raw, undigested, or uncooked.” Mental ama is what Ayurveda calls the emotional toxins stored in both fat and muscle that are responsible for the habit of repeating old, unwanted patterns of emotional behavior.

Studies suggest that up to 95% of our thoughts, actions, and behaviors come from impressions made in the first six years of life. Most of us are locked into repetitive patterns of behavior that unconsciously make us perform the same unproductive or unhealthy behaviors, again and again. Ayurveda recognized this and created tools to help us become conscious. Many of those tools are taught in this course.

Only by becoming aware of when we engage in patterns of behavior that do not serve us, can we change them. In this module, Dr. Douillard will share his Ayurvedic self-inquiry guide and take you step by step through how to free yourself from old, unwanted emotions.

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn how to use Ayurveda’s critical self-analysis and Dr. Douillard’s self-inquiry guide
• Explore how to free yourself from old, unwanted emotions using time-tested Ayurvedic psychology techniques
• Discover how to change rajasic and tamasic behaviors into sattvic behaviors
• Practice an Ayurvedic emotional healing meditation and breathing technique