Art of Holistic...

TYPICAL CONTENTS OF THREE DAYS WORKSHOP ON
"THE ART OF HOLISTIC WELL BEING"

Session 1 - Life and Holism

• Introduction and general guidelines to the workshop curriculum.
• Karma and the afflictions that provoke living beings into Karma. The basic instincts for Survival, Maintenance and Sustenance. Definitions of Holism, Healing and Awareness. Healing at all planes of existence - Physical, Mental and Spiritual. The cause of disease and suffering.
• Question and Answer session.
• Guided Meditation for Physical and Mental relaxation.

Session 2 - Mind, happiness and holistic Well Being

• As a perpetually happy state of mind is an essential ingredient for sound physical health, we must learn to control our mind in order to stay physically fit.
• Understanding the process of perception and working of the mind. The four distinct and compartmentalized functions of Mind. The right brain, the left brain and their relationship. Formation of Positive and Negative traits directly leading to the happy or unhappy states of mind.
• Question and Answer session.
• Guided Meditation for balancing the left and right brain functions.

Session 3 - Meditation and health.

• Process of meditation. Visualisation - The complimentary function of meditation.
• The four modes of speech. The language of internal communication. Visualisation, the finest mode of speech and its function in restoration of good health. Techniques on controlling Blood Pressure, Diabetes, common Cough and Cold, getting rid of Fever and Infection through Visualisation and Affirmations. Self help techniques like Sleep control, Morning alarm and Awake control.
• Question and Answer session.
• Guided Meditation with accent on visualisation techniques.

Session 4 - Get free from disease.

• Nature and life support system. Myth of death and disease. Provisions of nature for keeping every living being healthy and fit. The cause of disease and suffering.
• Maha Mrutyunjay Mantra and its effects.
• Warming up exercises - Ankle twist, Knee twist, Shaithilyasan, Kagasan, Marjariasan. Vajrasan, Padmasan and Siddhasan. Emergency exercises during attacks of Spondilitis, Backaches, Slipdisk and Sciatica.
• Question and Answer session.
• Guided Meditation for Physical and Enhanced Mental relaxation.

Session 5 - Good Health through Breath Control

• How to breath correctly. The technique of controlled Breathing. The techniques of Nadi Shodhan Pranayam, Anulome, Vilome and Pran Shuddhi. The techniques of Bhasrika and Kapal Bhati.
• Techniques of Moolabandha, Udiyan Bandh, Jalandhar Bandh and Mahat Pranayam. The technique of Agnisar Kriya.
• Question and Answer session.
• Guided Meditation on breath observation and Ajapajapa.(The effortless chanting).

Session 6 - Action Control and Peace

• Understanding the Prana energies, their locations and functions in the physical body. Techniques of staying cool in hostile circumstances. Anger, Anxiety, Nervousness and Pain control. Headache and Migraine control.
• Question and Answer session.
• Guided Meditation on Pranashanti (Quietening of Prana energy).

Session 7 - 'The Universe' within 'The Universe'

• Individual world and Collective world. The Part, the Whole and their interrelation.
• The Country and the Citizen. The human body and forty trillion cells within. Understanding the relationship between the Inside World and the Outside World. The common minimum program for universal harmony within and without.
• Question and Answer session.
• Guided Meditation for being in harmony with the universe.

Session 8 - Meet Mr. Chitragupta, the divine record keeper.

• Discussion and Practice : Records of good and bad deeds - DNA the locked storehouse of genetic information - RNA the open record of current activities - DHEA the executioner. Cleansing the mind of Guilt, setting the records straight and achieving perfect health and longevity.
• Question and answer session.
• Exercises for Hypertension, Blood Pressure, Heart Ailments, Gas and Trimming exercises.
• Guided Meditation for internal cleansing.

Session 9 - Respiratory and Digestive Tracts

• Pranayam practice.
• Jal Neti and Sutra Neti to maintain free flow of Prana.
• The technique of Agnisar Kriya and Ashwini Mudra.
• Correction exercises for displaced navel, Gas, Diabetes and Thyroid.
• Question and Answer session.
• Guided Meditation on breathing and digestive process.

Session 10 - Physical Exercises

• Exercises for Backaches, Lumbago, Slip Disk and Sciatica.
• Exercises for the improvement of Eyesight.
• More exercises for trimming and fitness.
• Exercises and visualisation techniques for specific ailments of participants.
• Question and Answer session.
• Guided Meditation.

Session 11 - The Food Habits

• Triguna - The three attributes responsible for the entire creation. Omnipresence of Triguna in the animate and inanimate world. Triguna in food. Effect of food on physical as well as mental well being.
• Food habits and identification of food for good health. Adjusting the life style to natural physical cycles of elimination, appropriation and assimilation.
• Question, Answers Guided Meditation with accent on health and happiness.

Session 12 - Positive Attitude

• Positive and Negative expectations.
• Art of Positive Thinking - Understanding the natural motivating factors behind human action. Understanding human tendency to convert these motivating factors into negative expectations. Controlling such negative expectations in order to bring happiness in one's Life and Job by adhering to Seven Golden Rules.
• Question, Answers and Guided Meditation for Positive Thinking.