This should be required reading for everyone. You hit the nail on the head on so many aspects. Thanks for finding me over at the Women's Health 365 Collective. I'm glad we're connected. I write about perimenopause on my primary publication, but it's all very scientific, very Western. I like to learn about ancient and Eastern practices because sometimes (a lot of times) science doesn't have all of the answers. Going to subscribe from my personal account so I can keep up.
Brava! My personal experiences pre Ayurveda training tracks with everything you've written about how the allopathic community gaslights women into thinking our perimenopausal symptoms are "perfectly normal" (an actual quote from my then primary care doctor after she tested me only for estrogen, which WAS normal, but failed to test any other hormones like I'd requested). I was actually so severely estrogen dominant I felt like I was dying.
Hormone replacement therapy helped me recover enough to survive surgery to remove multiple uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts that were bursting and causing severe persistent pain, and endometriosis which had gone undiagnosed for decades probably due to my long standing prescription for birth control to manage period pain (as well as to prevent pregnancy, absolutely did not want children).
I found greater relief via acupuncture but once I began going to Kripalu School of Ayurveda I was able to learn more about the ROOT of my issues. "Dr. Rosy" prescribed ashwagandha, ashwaganda bala oil massage, and shilajit for what she'd found in my pulse (now that I'm more in balance I find those too heating, though I might still use the oil for my daily massage). Probably the MOST effective changes I made was to my diet and lifestyle.
We can always continue to make these changes as WE are always changing (like the hours, the seasons, our stage of life) and we'll have "good" days and "not so good" days because that's the way life works but if we have faith in our foundation we can age more gracefully.
Much gratitude for your beautiful and insightful writing!
Sandra. Exactly! You did what was needed to help relieve your symptoms. Acupuncture is amazing and I wish Ayurveda would teach their version of it again, yes they have a parallel therapy. Here's what I think happens when acupuncture is utilized it opens subtle channels allowing for energy to flow which opens to larger less subtle channels and eventually allowing those things no longer needed to be removed from the body. Estrogens have an energetic component.
thanks! I knew Ayurveda had an acupuncture version, most likely because both cultures influenced each other (Kalaripayyatu became Shaolin Kung Fu) it would not surprise me at all that the two systems are related. I also learned decades ago that the Hopi people have a "chakra" system similar to the Yogic system, saw how the Hawaiian kings' hats looked remarkably like the Tibetan Lama's hats... As the Native Americans have said, "Mitakuye Oyasin", All My Relations or we are all connected....
This should be required reading for everyone. You hit the nail on the head on so many aspects. Thanks for finding me over at the Women's Health 365 Collective. I'm glad we're connected. I write about perimenopause on my primary publication, but it's all very scientific, very Western. I like to learn about ancient and Eastern practices because sometimes (a lot of times) science doesn't have all of the answers. Going to subscribe from my personal account so I can keep up.
Thanks! I'm so glad you enjoyed reading this. I'm going to head over to your substack and check it out.
Brava! My personal experiences pre Ayurveda training tracks with everything you've written about how the allopathic community gaslights women into thinking our perimenopausal symptoms are "perfectly normal" (an actual quote from my then primary care doctor after she tested me only for estrogen, which WAS normal, but failed to test any other hormones like I'd requested). I was actually so severely estrogen dominant I felt like I was dying.
Hormone replacement therapy helped me recover enough to survive surgery to remove multiple uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts that were bursting and causing severe persistent pain, and endometriosis which had gone undiagnosed for decades probably due to my long standing prescription for birth control to manage period pain (as well as to prevent pregnancy, absolutely did not want children).
I found greater relief via acupuncture but once I began going to Kripalu School of Ayurveda I was able to learn more about the ROOT of my issues. "Dr. Rosy" prescribed ashwagandha, ashwaganda bala oil massage, and shilajit for what she'd found in my pulse (now that I'm more in balance I find those too heating, though I might still use the oil for my daily massage). Probably the MOST effective changes I made was to my diet and lifestyle.
We can always continue to make these changes as WE are always changing (like the hours, the seasons, our stage of life) and we'll have "good" days and "not so good" days because that's the way life works but if we have faith in our foundation we can age more gracefully.
Much gratitude for your beautiful and insightful writing!
We are so biased in thinking that our era is the only one in which all people of earth can communicate and travel to meet. What hubris!
Sandra. Exactly! You did what was needed to help relieve your symptoms. Acupuncture is amazing and I wish Ayurveda would teach their version of it again, yes they have a parallel therapy. Here's what I think happens when acupuncture is utilized it opens subtle channels allowing for energy to flow which opens to larger less subtle channels and eventually allowing those things no longer needed to be removed from the body. Estrogens have an energetic component.
Thank you for sharing I really appreciate you.
thanks! I knew Ayurveda had an acupuncture version, most likely because both cultures influenced each other (Kalaripayyatu became Shaolin Kung Fu) it would not surprise me at all that the two systems are related. I also learned decades ago that the Hopi people have a "chakra" system similar to the Yogic system, saw how the Hawaiian kings' hats looked remarkably like the Tibetan Lama's hats... As the Native Americans have said, "Mitakuye Oyasin", All My Relations or we are all connected....